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  1. Slow Love™

    Soth Africa ball tampered in 1997

    LOL. That was disparaging. But I did say I read back through the thread afterwards, to be sure. :) It just didn't make sense largely because if he'd read the actual articles, he'd have seen that while he was rabbiting on about it having a subcontinental bias (because of where it was from)...
  2. Slow Love™

    Soth Africa ball tampered in 1997

    Reading back through the thread - nah, I honestly don't think I did.
  3. Slow Love™

    Greatest Asian Cricketer Ever

    I'll vote for Kapil Dev. Seems not to get much love in these kinds of polls, but an extraordinary player, excellent leader, and he possessed amazing stamina. Played largely in conditions not friendly to his brand of fast-medium, and never shirked from the toughest of opposition. Plus there's...
  4. Slow Love™

    Should Australian and English umpires be allowed to umpire the Ashes?

    No.
  5. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Well, to be honest, I had a similar perspective, in that I believed much of the incident came down to Hair's desire to teach Pakistan a lesson for actions/slights in the past either real or imagined. In fact, a similar concept exists both ways, with so many keen to sink the boot into Hair over...
  6. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Well, that's pretty much exactly what I thought, HB, until I found that Doctrove had a precedent, twice, for this exact situation - where the condition of the ball preceded a charge that the team had tampered the ball, without any particular player being seen (or accused) tampering with it and a...
  7. Slow Love™

    Soth Africa ball tampered in 1997

    You should perhaps just apologize and leave the thread, because you have gotten all this completely wrong, and Sanz and Dasa are wiping the floor with you. To be honest I can't even understand what you're arguing, because you were on a definite loser as soon as the article was identified as...
  8. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Did you make absolutely nothing from the content involving Doctrove in the report, though, HB?
  9. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    It's actually feasible that Hair was set up, you know. Not saying it definitely happened, but it's far from beyond the realms of possibility.
  10. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Well, it's obvious that the ICC have decided to hung Hair out to dry - he of course gave them the perfect opportunity with his letter. Tony Cozier basically agrees that the ICC have their part to play in this incident, and advocates that ball tampering allegations ought to be forwarded to match...
  11. Slow Love™

    CW awards for 14-28 August

    Wow, what is this? (I've been away...) Great idea - although wouldn't SJS pick up the Sir Geoffrey award every fortnight? ;) Congrats to the winners.
  12. Slow Love™

    Best Coach in world cricket?

    Many of the comments in this thread are true - it's hard to assess the true value of a coach, particularly when so much of it in the press is represented as mind-games and over-analysis. Also, everybody clamors to give as much credit as possible to coaches who have improved lesser-performing...
  13. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    I've got your coat here, Anil. :)
  14. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    Wasim Akram ;)
  15. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    Well, the Zimbabwe players were furious that Speed didn't bother to meet with them when he visited on an apparent "fact-finding" mission. And the nature of the dispute meant that meeting with a Zimbabwean delegate (isn't that still Chingoka, who insists the ZCU is doing a "fabulous job"???)...
  16. Slow Love™

    Dean Jones sacked for racist remark

    The question we'd have to ask would be - were they both acknowledged mistakes? And did both come with similar intent? I believe therein lies the answer. As to the humor being mitigating, I get your point. You can have somebody who does that frequently, and the intent can be quite malicious...
  17. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Yep. I don't know for certain either, but that is just about exactly what I suspect, too.
  18. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    In a way, after all the chips have fallen (actually there's probably still a few left to fall), I feel sympathy for Hair. I don't really believe there's a strong case for him being a racist, and though I don't think he comes off that pleasant a guy, the absolute b0llocking he's got in the...
  19. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Hair was umpiring for a few years before the days of neutral umpires - I think the first series he presided over was between Australia and India.
  20. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    Shut up. :p

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