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aussie_beater
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No you did not say that explicitly, but that's what I thought you implied when you were saying it was "understandable" when it was the home side setting the schedules and "unfair" when the ICC did the job.
No its not undestandable and its unfair.
Yes.
aussie_beater
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Why would it be stupid to do it any other way ? Schedules can be pretty even handed and to muck around with them to mess up the guests while keeping the hosts in good cheer is the most unfair thing to do and something that should be criticized from all quarters.Why is it not based on a lucky draw kind of thing ? The scheduling and the spacing between matches should be based on a template agreed upon at the ICC level and all the member nations should adhere to it including the ICC
aussie_beater
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They help their own by making helpful wickets etc. which is justifiable because a touring side is visiting the host's home and the home is as it is.But to put bugs in the tourists beds so that they cannot sleep can be hardly called a hospitable act ? That is the reason why home countries can be blamed and should be taken to task for messing around with schedules.And the most recent memory of such an improper act was displayed by the English board for the Natwest trophy.And yes others have been guilty too on this count over the years.
[Edited on 9/18/02 by aussie_beater]
Neil Pickup
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This only happened twice in the NatWest, once each to India and Sri Lanka, and both teams won their second match in the back-to-back games...
And to fit the Tournament into that time period two back-to-back games were necessary.
And to fit the Tournament into that time period two back-to-back games were necessary.
aussie_beater
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Who won the matches is beside the point.
But none could involve England...eh ??
aussie_beater
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And why do you think the home team should get this most unfair advantage ? If schedules favouring somebody is wrong...its wrong.Period.Otherwise why bitch about it at all.
aussie_beater
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No they are not.It should be based on a lucky draw.
I don't give a damn how many times you say it.Its unfair, plain and simple.
[Edited on 9/18/02 by aussie_beater]
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
However, every nation organising such Tournaments do the same so it all evens itself out in the end.
Personally I just think it's fair game as they are the home side.
I'm sick of England pandering to tourists every need (prime example being playing Sri Lanka in a one off Test at The Oval in late August!)
Personally I just think it's fair game as they are the home side.
I'm sick of England pandering to tourists every need (prime example being playing Sri Lanka in a one off Test at The Oval in late August!)
aussie_beater
State Vice-Captain
Now that you really called it being fair, which I thought you were alluding to in the first place, although you denied.....I don't have anything else to say.Speaks volumes about your idea of fairness.