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Cricket stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

StephenZA

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Mid 90s sniffer dogs where not common at all airports and not normally seen by passengers, more with the import/export of packages and maybe baggage? I don't know Australia specifically, but not common until maybe mid 2000s around the world? Those dogs are expensive and difficult to train. But I do stand to correction.

Not that I think this was in anyway a thing directed towards SL players by Aus cricket (or government etc)...
 
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RossTaylorsBox

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I think Australia and NZ started it early because biosecurity is critically important there. Anyway it leads to funny situations like Harby getting mad because he was asked to show his cricket shoes.
 
Burgey

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RossTaylorsBox said:
I think Australia and NZ started it early because biosecurity is critically important there. Anyway it leads to funny situations like Harby getting mad because he was asked to show his cricket shoes.
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Which tbf would not have happened to a white man
 
Spark

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Quarantine sniffer dogs started in Australia at the beginning of the 90s. They're one of the most recognisable aspects of arriving in Australian airports now, it is genuinely mind boggling that it's being treated as evidence of a conspiracy or that AQIS gives the slightest **** about sports. They do care about port of entry but SL wouldn't be high on their list of concerns. I can only assume the author has literally never been to Australia because I really don't know how you arrive in Australia without knowing this because everyone gets shown this very intimidating looking video where "don't try to bring food through customs because the sniffer dogs will catch you" is one of the main messages.
 
Spark

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RossTaylorsBox said:
I think Australia and NZ started it early because biosecurity is critically important there. Anyway it leads to funny situations like Harby getting mad because he was asked to show his cricket shoes.
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Or Barnaby Joyce threatening to shoot Johnny Depp's dogs

And yeah they're mostly there to check for food and animal products. Not drugs.
 
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Daemon

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I’ve seen those good bois at the Sydney airport. It’s evident how seriously Australians take customs, they even have a TV show about it lol.

Honestly Asians (especially back then) did tend to travel with tons of foodstuff all the time because as an immigrant you just didn’t get certain stuff in other countries. I know my own family did.

Customs will target them more often as a result. I don’t necessarily feel like it’s motivated by racism tbh, though sometimes it can feel that way when you constantly get picked for random checks. Aunties also need to stop packing theplas and mithais to feed entire towns tbf.
 
Spark

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Yeah we tended to do that too, and it ended up always taking us like two hours to get through customs as a result. They're actually not too bad about letting dried, packaged food in particular through so long as you declare but it takes so long that we eventually learned our lesson - just don't bother packing food.
 
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With the WTC finals hanging on India beating England 4-0 all these injuries are really coming at the wrong time. we should have Ishant and Kohli back tho, and both Shaw and Agarwal are different batters on home turf. Hopefully Ashwin will be back to 100%, and Kuldeep should be fine in Indian...
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CricAddict

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honestbharani said:

4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

With the WTC finals hanging on India beating England 4-0 all these injuries are really coming at the wrong time. we should have Ishant and Kohli back tho, and both Shaw and Agarwal are different batters on home turf. Hopefully Ashwin will be back to 100%, and Kuldeep should be fine in Indian...
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