Players claiming catches

[Richard]

I know Fiery can act like a knob, but I reckon he was perfectly justified in being disgusted with Clarke's actions in this case.

What's annoying is when people make a fuss about cases like this one and the Murali one (when no-one else is) when they have no bearing on anything, really. If it'd affected the result then fair enough to kick-up a bit of a doo-blahdy. And posts like this are shockingly poor form, no other way of describing it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

What's annoying is when people make a fuss about cases like this one and the Murali one (when no-one else is) when they have no bearing on anything, really. If it'd affected the result then fair enough to kick-up a bit of a doo-blahdy.

That's a very cheesy bit of moral relativism.

You're basically suggesting cheating is mitigated if the team who cheats were winning anyway.

 

[Richard]

Not mitigated, obviously. But what's the point in kicking-up such a storm if it made no real difference?

In any case, what annoyed me more than anything about Fiery was that he saw cheating in anything and everything.

 

[Perm]

Because it is still cheating. The circumstances around it shouldn't affect whether people react do it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Not mitigated, obviously. But what's the point in kicking-up such a storm if it made no real difference?

The principle? You know, the one of fair play for which cricket was once synonymous.

 

[Richard]

Leaving aside the fact that it was probably never in reality synonomous (in reputation maybe), while obviously you want a game to be played fairly I honestly couldn't imagine it'd bother me if the piece of unfair play came after the result of the game it occurred in was already a foregone conclusion.

Unfair play of any kind is obviously always reprehensible and every effort should be made to cut it out. But I'm always baffled when people make such a fuss when it doesn't actually affect the result.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Leaving aside the fact that it was probably never in reality synonomous (in reputation maybe), while obviously you want a game to be played fairly I honestly couldn't imagine it'd bother me if the piece of unfair play came after the result of the game it occurred in was already a foregone conclusion.

Unfair play of any kind is obviously always reprehensible and every effort should be made to cut it out. But I'm always baffled when people make such a fuss when it doesn't actually affect the result.

You're a strange chap sometimes.

 

[Richard]

Sometimes?