Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group"

[R!TTER]

Gotta love the moral outrage steeped in nationalism. He conveniently leaves out the part where BCCI bullied the ICC and CSA in 2001 which led to the third test being 'unofficial' and the end of Mike Denness' career, and of course all that is nothing compared to 'Monkeygate 2007'

You do know the reason why Mike Denness had to step aside, apart from SRT? He fined many Indian players for overappealing, Sehwag was banned. Of course you wouldn't remember the overzealous appeals from Pollock but this should do - Mike Denness 2001 - YouTube

As for Monkeygate - it's basically he said she said & I wouldn't take the words of an Aussie at face value, just like many of you won't admit SRT's testimony. Though I will add that Harbhajan should've copped a lot more, than he eventually did, even if he abused Symonds' mother.

 

[ankitj]

Yeah, I like how everyone in cw pretends to know what exactly happened in "Monkeygate". Truth by repetition.

 

[GIMH]

I know an in my day post is a frequent occurrence round these parts but I’ve never known an issue to divide CW like monkeygate did back in the day. Good to see it still has mileage a decade on.

 

[Larwood's_boots]

Just waking up and seeing ICC sanctions now, idiotically lax. Hope CA can intervene and hand down something harsher.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Great way to pad up my 'like' stats

 

[OverratedSanity]

I know an in my day post is a frequent occurrence round these parts but I’ve never known an issue to divide CW like monkeygate did back in the day. Good to see it still has mileage a decade on.

The KP axing was pretty bad too

 

[ImpatientLime]

the KP axe was just memeing to wind up soft english posters tbh

 

[R!TTER]

I know an in my day post is a frequent occurrence round these parts but I’ve never known an issue to divide CW like monkeygate did back in the day. Good to see it still has mileage a decade on.

There's some things best left untouched, there's monkeygate (in cricket) & then the Partition of India as far as I'm concerned.

 

[fredfertang]

Why is Henry Blofeld still a thing

His brother was a judge, and the most deeply unpleasant and flawed human being I have ever seen trying to dispense justice

 

[fredfertang]

Burgey's favourite cricketer chipping in with his 2 cents

An object lesson in how to bear a grudge

 

[OverratedSanity]

An object lesson in how to bear a grudge

Righteous indignation imo

 

[Andy1867]

The whole game is tainted by it..Every cricket playing nation is involved one way or another....The scrabble for the moral high ground is quite frankly laughable

 

[andruid]

Figured that the seemingly light nature of the punishment would draw reactions. How bad did earlier ball tampering players get it?

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Can someone shed some light on the desperation thing that Smith said. Series was 1-1 and Aussies were not even down and out in the test. I know there is the mentality that you got to be the best all the time but this does not bode well

 

[fredfertang]

Figured that the seemingly light nature of the punishment would draw reactions. How bad did earlier ball tampering players get it?

It's all the regulations permit - the real whining will follow CA's actions

 

[shifty_eyes]

Can someone shed some light on the desperation thing that Smith said. Series was 1-1 and Aussies were not even down and out in the test. I know there is the mentality that you got to be the best all the time but this does not bode well

His bowlers were struggling to get wickets.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Can someone shed some light on the desperation thing that Smith said. Series was 1-1 and Aussies were not even down and out in the test. I know there is the mentality that you got to be the best all the time but this does not bode well

An excuse to deflect things. As Broad said, they had the ball swinging in ashes so why change tactics now?

 

[Larwood's_boots]

Can someone shed some light on the desperation thing that Smith said. Series was 1-1 and Aussies were not even down and out in the test. I know there is the mentality that you got to be the best all the time but this does not bode well

I think they were probably 'desperate' to win at all costs given how horrible the series has been behavior wise the whole way through.

 

[Bolo]

It's all the regulations permit - the real whining will follow CA's actions

It's not all the regulations permit. They could have charged half the team with bringing the game into ill repute and handed out some pretty hefty bans. That would have been a worse result than this one IMO, but I think they should have gone a little harder

 

[Larwood's_boots]

Figured that the seemingly light nature of the punishment would draw reactions. How bad did earlier ball tampering players get it?

Tendulkar got a one match ban that was overturned, Afridi missed a couple of t20s after getting peckish

Most of the rest (Athers, Faf etc) managed to escape without bans but got heavy fines and conceded penalty runs on the field. But, and we went through this yesterday, this one just feels a lot worse.