What is wrong with doctoring of pitch ?

[Sunil1z]

@Burgey
What are you having in lunch?

 

[Burgey]

Having a tuna salad today. Pretty low key tbh. Trying not to stack on more kgs while I can't exercise. I have enough of them as it is

In fact, if anyone wants some, I have plenty to spare rn

 

[TheJediBrah]

I presume everyone else has also noticed it's always Indian fans asking "What's wrong with this or that morally reprehensible thing which the rest of the game finds abhorrent but which our team is on board with?"

Mankads, ball tampering, pitch doctoring, threatening to go home if they don't get their way. I'll add a few more once I've finished my lunch. The list is endless.

Very good points, except for ball tampering (I mean come on)

 

[Burgey]

It's not the act, it's the defending of it.

So we had Cape Town and the rational Aus supporters fell between laughing at how stupid it was and being pissed off about it. No one seriously justified it, because you can't.

By contrast, you have Tendulkar convicted of ball tampering. As soon as he was convicted, the match referee is accused of racism (standard accusation tbh, might be where HB gets his schtick of accusing anyone who disagrees with him of being a racist), and the BCCI demands he's removed from the third test of the series. The ICC refuses and the third test is reduced to unofficial status. Bloke cheated, there's an uproar defending it. Bizarro world where the offender is somehow a victim. Christ, they even tried to defend Dravid after there was footage of him literally shining a ball with a lozenge. Good on Clive Lloyd for standing firm in his decision there.

 

[Daemon]

waahhh

 

[TheJediBrah]

It's not the act, it's the defending of it.

So we had Cape Town and the rational Aus supporters fell between laughing at how stupid it was and being pissed off about it. No one seriously justified it, because you can't.

By contrast, you have Tendulkar convicted of ball tampering. As soon as he was convicted, the match referee is accused of racism (standard accusation tbh, might be where HB gets his schtick of accusing anyone who disagrees with him of being a racist), and the BCCI demands he's removed from the third test of the series. The ICC refuses and the third test is reduced to unofficial status. Bloke cheated, there's an uproar defending it. Bizarro world where the offender is somehow a victim. Christ, they even tried to defend Dravid after there was footage of him literally shining a ball with a lozenge. Good on Clive Lloyd for standing firm in his decision there.

Yeah it's weird

 

[OverratedSanity]

We defend it because we have conviction

 

[TheJediBrah]

Meanwhile Cricket Australia hangs its players out to dry with absurd punishments. ****ed Western society

 

[Burgey]

We defend it because we have conviction

I thought the conviction was what sparked the protests

 

[Senile Sentry]

I presume everyone else has also noticed it's always Indian fans asking "What's wrong with this or that morally reprehensible thing which the rest of the game finds abhorrent but which our team is on board with?"

Mankads, ball tampering, pitch doctoring, threatening to go home if they don't get their way. I'll add a few more once I've finished my lunch. The list is endless.

Coz their board own pretty much all other boards? Imagine NZ cricket trying to make such revolutionary things. The maximum reaction would be aww that's so sweet.

 

[Burgey]

Is that an admission the collective moral compass over there is no good?

 

[Shri]

We defend it because we have conviction

ball tampering should be legal

 

[Senile Sentry]

Is that an admission the collective moral compass over there is no good?

BCCI and moral compass. Hahaha.
Institutions just change garbs.

 

[Sunil1z]

Is that an admission the collective moral compass over there is no good?

After what is happening in the World , do you really believe there is moral compass anywhere ?

 

[Spark]

See @Shady Slim this is exactly why I keep saying that hypocrisy is massively overrated as a criticism.

 

[Burgey]

After what is happening in the World , do you really believe there is moral compass anywhere ?

These are questions above my pay grade mate.

But probably not

 

[JonoWalls]

it's not a game, it's an industry. a proxy war btwn nations. what India should have done to keep the profits happening is make the first game utterly fair, then they'd have a world wide audience in their hands. South Africa was bad but they were delinquent away players and they paid big for their crime..prima facie this looks very much like delinquent organisers

 

[JonoWalls]

..who's going to police them?

 

[Sunil1z]

..who's going to police them?

Why are you so hurt man ? It is just a sports . Don’t take it so seriously. What is your age ?

 

[Son Of Coco]

We defend it because we have conviction

I think Burgey's point is there was a distinct lack of a conviction.