So it seems they must be sore loosers. 😳
In this match England was trailing and Pakistan would have won even after the 5-run penalty. But they preferred not to play further and I support that. How could Umpires without any proof penalize a team on another team's appeal? Would the immediate penalizing would have come to the effect if England team was accused?
Even when players from Australia and England were found guilty of ball tampering there cases are called as the 'alleged' incident. It is only players of Indian Subcontinent who get severe punishments. Few years back even Sachin Tendulkar was accused of ball tampering.
As per the ICC's rulebook, Law 5 governing Test-Playing Conditions reads, in relevant part, thus: "The umpires shall retain possession of the match balls throughout the duration of the match when play is not actually taking place. During play umpires shall periodically and irregularly inspect the condition of the ball and shall retain possession of it at the fall of a wicket, a drinks interval, at the end of every over, or any other disruption in play."
Do umpires do that? If they do then did they ever find any of these accused tampering or shining the ball?
More often I see Cricketers from Indian subcontinent are warned for being offensive on the field without much proof. I remember Allan Donald (South African Cricketer) hurling abuses at Rahul Dravid during a match. Allan Donald was not even reprimanded. If it was someone from the subcontinent then he would have been fined and banned (from some matches).
Originally posted by: abhijit shuklaFrom what I read on Cricket.org, they just changed a ball that looked suspicious without actually charging any one bowler. So where do the 'charges' come from?
They gave a 5-run penalty to Pak team and that's when Pakistan refused to play further. That is not the only case. As I mentioned in my last post this is not the first time.
What about Mike Denness-Tendulkar ball tampering controversy? Tendulkar was handed down a suspended one-match ban and a fine by Denness and later ICC cleared him as they found out that Tendulkar was just remving grass from the ball. Why was Denness so hasty?
Our players are unnecessarily penalized for being aggressive like when Virender Sehwag was fined for excessive appealing but Lara was not even warned for his offensive behavior which disrupted the match for 10-15 mins. This is double standard. More 60-70% revenue is generated by South Asian teams.
Originally posted by: NKSUDHIRI do agree that Umpires are getting more partial towards Asian Cricket teams which should not be accepted at all. Its not fair with the CRICKET Lovers who make an extra effort to take out time and money to watch the game and come back dissappointed.These issues should be either addressed before or after the game.
If Pakistani Team think England is bringing the Terrorism or racial issues in the SPORTS, IT SHOULD BE STOPPED BEFORE IT GETS SERIOUS. Sport should have no color, cast, region or religion difference.
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well i also think that the ball-tampering(bt) case is just discrimination and nothing else. i mean the umpires and the english players knew well that the pak. team did not tamper the ball and still gave the english 5 runs for no reason. i think that what bluepink said about the asian teams coming up with a case and presenting it to ICC is the right thing cuz if we dont then ICC will ignore this case and many others of this sort of cases will happen in the future. this case will prove benefitial for us in the future. the bt case is just a way to show discrimination for us. inzy did the right thing when he forfited..anyone of us would have done the same thing.. if we don't act now then we will never get a chance to erase this discrimination.
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