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  1. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    Right. He makes damaging comments. As I said in my previous post: "An individual can certainly be held responsible for their public comments, and it's not as if Speed (or the now departed Mani (his "Asia is the ICC" being a comment that's done a lot of damage)) has been short of them over...
  2. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    You're being pretty generous. An individual can certainly be held responsible for their public comments, and it's not as if Speed (or the now departed Mani (his "Asia is the ICC" being a comment that's done a lot of damage)) has been short of them over time. And I think committees and the...
  3. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    I just googled the "buffoon" incident, and the guy's name was Asghar Ali. He apparently was writing a book about it all called "Buffoon: You or Me?". :laugh: (I wonder if this baby ever got published...) He said "I have talked to many international cricket captains including Hansie Cronje...
  4. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    LOL. Cleverly worded by the Have I Got News For You team, too.
  5. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    But suing for defamation because an umpire's decision implies you've done something against the rules of the game? Seems a very bad way to go, and would make the risks of making valid calls too great for any umpire. Particularly considering the huge difference in burden of proof.
  6. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    All the threats of legal action for defamation and such would. you'd think, not eventuate (it's a game, and let's think about the doors that would open), but it kinda reminded me of something hilarious that happened a few years ago. Does anybody remember when a Pakistani journo threatened to...
  7. Slow Love™

    Cronjegate or Hairgate? Which is biggest?

    Pretty easily Cronjegate, in spite of all the recent goings on (which are likely to die down within the next month or so). Once it came out that Cronje WAS guilty, and various allegations of other players (some might have been founded, some may have been sheer slander), the integrity of the...
  8. Slow Love™

    Who Will Win The Ashes

    Through injury and average performance since, England, as current Ashes champions, have probably slipped down to true underdog status. I expect Australia to win by a couple of tests. But I'm not sure we'll be seeing a true indication of the sides' relative strength with their best teams on the...
  9. Slow Love™

    Ashes head to head - 100 days to go

    Yeah, that was a brilliant innings, but because of who it was against, it'll be automatically given little value in 99% of the discussions on this forum and others, because people habitually rate only who the opposition was rather than the context of an innings and how it was played.
  10. Slow Love™

    Flintoff's ankle may never be pain free

    He seems a tough lad. It's almost becoming the lot of the fast bowler these days (at least with a fair amount of experience at top level).
  11. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Yeah, now and then the amount of a redudancy settlement can be confidential, but it's not very orthodox to actually conceal that one took place.
  12. Slow Love™

    Dean Jones sacked for racist remark

    Yes, they are similar in that they are both irresponsible and prejudicial, but that's not the point, because the comments are not similar in scale. We are way too fast to call people racists for sloppy prejudicial comments that they regret, and I maintain, we ALL make them (and if you think you...
  13. Slow Love™

    Dean Jones sacked for racist remark

    I've gotten a bit confused as to what SJS's argument is, but one point I would make is that it's wrong to treat what SJS's friend's wife said to him and Jones's remark about Amla the same way. In fact, there is a clear distinction between a sloppily prejudicial remark (which may have been made...
  14. Slow Love™

    BREAKING NEWS : Hair wrote to ICC offering to resign

    Ya know, this whole thing reflects on Speed (who is a fairly loathsome man, IMO) worse than it does on Hair. As others have mentioned, it's obvious from the correspondence that this matter had earlier been discussed (positively) between the two parties. The impression I get from Hair is that...
  15. Slow Love™

    Caption this: Freddie, Harmy, and Monty

    "Tell the rest of the team I'm sorry, Freddie. But the Avatar Meher Baba said he'd one day come for me, and now I must go and join him in a life of complete hopelessness, helplessness and aimlessness. Fortunately, you need only experience these trials for the duration of the Ashes."
  16. Slow Love™

    Caption this: Freddie, Harmy, and Monty

    LOL, I particularly love these two:
  17. Slow Love™

    Dean Jones sacked for racist remark

    Well, I think it's just another blame the victim anti-PC diatribe, IMO. He suggests that if you grow a long and flowing beard according to religious practice, you should be prepared to be identified as a terrorist. Nair doesn't really have the balls to stand behind what he says anyway, because...
  18. Slow Love™

    R.I.P Wasim Raja

    Yikes. RIP. A real loss to the cricket world.
  19. Slow Love™

    Inzamam Ul Haq - Should he be sacked ?

    Fair enough. My comment was regarding how harshly I'd judge Inzy on the basis that he's the first captain to forfeit a test match, given that it's a possibility that other captains may have been given longer by umpires more concerned with the game carrying on. Is it that Inzy refused to come...
  20. Slow Love™

    ICC-Asia Split - Would you really care?

    Yes, you are exactly right. And also, for all this talk of differences that can't be reconciled, in cricket terms the Asian bloc and the England, Australia, etc seem to have actually done pretty well for nearly 55 years. I can't help feeling that perhaps people are more influenced by events...

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