Furball
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India Cricket News: Sreesanth gets life ban for IPL fixing | ESPN Cricinfo
Good riddance to a complete dickhead.
Good riddance to a complete dickhead.
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Sreesanth gets life ban
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Prince EWS
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Sreesanth continuing a career-long tradition of making himself more valuable to the Indian Test side than Ishant Sharma by ensuring he's not eligible for selection.
Well done Sree; always putting the team first.
Well done Sree; always putting the team first.
MW1304
Cricketer Of The Year
Can you imagine what it must feel like for your hero to turn out a total and utter **** of the highest proportions? Oh right..
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
The Battlers Prince
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No place for that **** in cricket or any sport. Hate it, see ya late Sreesanth
fredfertang
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At least he'll be able to concentrate on his greatest talent now - I reckon his face is tailor made for a starring role in South Park
Arjun
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He's stopped being relevant since 2007. Face it, this bloke wasn't as talented or productive as some romantic writers say he was. He just got lucky every now and then, but that's all someone with limited ability and insufficient pace can manage. Plenty of better bowlers out there who can move the ball better, or bowl decently fast. No big loss.
What is questionable, however, is this mouse-squishing by the BCCI, while the snakes are still at play. Why can't the BCCI try to bust the gambling racket instead? They won't need to ruin more careers by banning players, which is counter-productive. Catch the scamming bookmakers and handlers, and that will clean up the system forever.
What is questionable, however, is this mouse-squishing by the BCCI, while the snakes are still at play. Why can't the BCCI try to bust the gambling racket instead? They won't need to ruin more careers by banning players, which is counter-productive. Catch the scamming bookmakers and handlers, and that will clean up the system forever.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Busting the gambling racket is a police, not a BCCI issue.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
this.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
This must be right. On the basis that it creates interest in the sport it must, surely, be in the BCCI's interest that there is gambling on cricket, so their interest is not in driving it further underground but in securing a clean system. If the Indian Police and government aren't, as they seem not to be, overly bothered with sorting it out, then why don't they just legalise it - in the way that governments do they can even make on it by licensing the bookies and trousering the fees - having a legalised and regulated system won't be an instant cure all, I'm not so naive as to think that, but it would certainly be more effective than closing down the odd dodgy bookie every now and again.
What adds to my confusion is why there is a ban in the first place - no doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that you can legally bet on the horses in India, in which case presumably there is presumably no taboo to gambling per se. The only thing I can think of is that the government doesn't much care when the victims of organised crime are ordinary citizens getting ripped off - what they don't want is the big players in the crime business turning their attention to other targets rather closer to home - similar to the reasons I'm convinced the infinitely sensible legalise controlled drugs debate never gets off the ground here.
flibbertyjibber
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Tip of a very large iceberg sadly. Hope this leads to more being done but I doubt it.
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India Cricket News: Sreesanth vows to return from 'biggest setback' | ESPN Cricinfo
Sree maintains his innocence, an unprecedented move by every crook ever.
Sree maintains his innocence, an unprecedented move by every crook ever.
Hooksey
Banned
Jails are full of innocent people. Just ask the inmates to put up their hands if they are guilty. You won't see one.