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  1. Slow Love™

    Should the Ball Tampering Law be Scrapped ?

    I vote no. Well, sort of. I don't think the law is exactly fine as it stands today, given recent events. Don't allow tampering of the ball, and penalize a player if they're caught doing it (on the field in that sense is fine by me, as long as it's been seen, or there is an explainable reason...
  2. Slow Love™

    Inzamam Ul Haq - Should he be sacked ?

    I don't really know whether Inzy should be sacked or not. I don't think you could say he was blameless, as surely, being the captain, he had to have had some control as to how things eventuated that day. I guess it's mostly a political consideration. He probably deserves some credit for not...
  3. Slow Love™

    ICC-Asia Split - Would you really care?

    Cheers, Sanz. Good to see you too, mate. I actually couldn't get here much in Jan and Feb because of connectivity issues, and I eventually got annoyed and stopped trying (it all seems fixed now and I see that James has mentioned something about changing providers). I was following the game on...
  4. Slow Love™

    Is it time for Malcolm Speed to go ?

    Speed should have copped the axe after being humiliated by the ZCU back during the player crisis led by Heath Streak, where he couldn't be bothered to meet with the players involved in the dispute, and where, hilariously, the ZCU officials refused to meet with him. He then went back to ICC...
  5. Slow Love™

    ICC-Asia Split - Would you really care?

    I could not agree more. I've occasionally flirted with the idea of a two-tier system (with movement within the tiers) to lessen the hectic itinerary, but having a situation where the competition is literally split over irreconcilable differences between geographical regions would be both a...
  6. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Yeah, my only point was that it'd be better to argue this as a better process (with some ability for discourse, evidence, etc) rather than it being a matter of respecting cultural differences - ie that to Pakistan, it's a greater slur than to other countries (incidentally, I'm not sure that's so...
  7. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Ouch! Although the example with the dying wife is hyperbolic, it does get the point across. There also seems to be a false dichotomy suggested by some between "the letter of the law" and "common sense". You can actually apply common sense without necessarily compromising the letter of the...
  8. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    That's actually an excellent bit of deduction, and may well be what happened. I'm surprised nobody's suggested this so far.
  9. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    A few comments I'll add in response to some of the issues raised in the thread lately (so I don't do a Marc and post five or more times in a row): 1. How new is the playing condition agreed to between the sides before the test that says the ball will be changed and five runs awarded if ball...
  10. Slow Love™

    Cheat - cheat - CHEAT

    Well, aside from the fact that number 2 is fairly debated whether it's cheating or not, I think it's mainly due to the way the press can beat up altering the condition of the ball. Rather than having to cite specific decisions, it can be used as a catch-all for why a side won a game - in the...
  11. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Very true, but much of the anger on one side of the debate probably revolves around the suspicion that, even if no further evidence is presented to support Hair's claim, one side (the Pakistanis) is likely to be disciplined in isolation. Which is a likely outcome, let's be honest.
  12. Slow Love™

    How good - or bad - an umpire is Darryl Hair?

    Sure, but this is waffle, and doesn't address what I said. I'm not making the charge that Hair is a racist, based on the occasional incident against subcontinental teams. I'm addressing a statement you made. Your premise was that: Even if Hair WAS UNIVERSALLY biased against ALL subcontinental...
  13. Slow Love™

    How good - or bad - an umpire is Darryl Hair?

    I reckon you're straining a little too hard there, Faaip. It'd be pretty likely, and under those circumstances, a quite defendable accusation. Unless the only way you could possibly believe somebody can be a racist is if they publicly self-identify as one.
  14. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    To be fair, they've had that power for around a century.
  15. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    LOL, I think that basketball is more Prince's game - if you've watched Charlie Murphy's reminiscings on Dave Chapelle you'll know what I mean. :) (And there's no underscore, dammit!)
  16. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Pretty much. And if the umpires had already called the forfeiture it would have been a really messy precedent for the ICC to override the decision.
  17. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Which one, "Black Sweat"? Maybe not, but off the new album he'd probably give "Fury" and "Get on the Boat" a spin. :)
  18. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Hair is probably furiously throwing back a few bottles of scotch back at his hotel right now, with Bonnie Tyler pumping out at high volume, so he can't hear the phone ringing.
  19. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Well, that's the whole event though. The transition from "where are the Pakistan team" to "the Pakistan team is out, but the umpires aren't coming" all seemed to happen fairly quickly to me, but I was only following it on cricinfo. Funnily enough, it's not like I'd put it above Pakistan...
  20. Slow Love™

    ***Official*** Pakistan in England

    Yo man, how's it going? And hello also to Jono, sorry mate, I missed your post earlier. Long time no see. :)

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