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Hasn't Yuvraj done his knee in again......they were making the injury sound like a bad one, bad enough even to be sent back home. Does anyone know how bad it really is??? -
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Will be watching your boys take on Zim.
Ours is a little more straightforward. We are rebuilding right now but hopefully within 2 or 3 years we will be right back up there. Some cracking young players on the fringes of the national team."Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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The fourth and final test has crept up on us.
India win the toss and elect to bat on an Adelaide pitch which traditionally leads to high scoring affairs.
Australia went in without Tait and India chose to play five bowlers with Pathan opening the innings with Sehwag.
A glorious century for Tendulkar who has historically struggled (by his standards) at this ground was brought up with a six and a four. Sehwag biffed his way to 63 off 90 and Laxman provided an invaluable 51. Stumps were drawn at 309/5 with Tendulkar and Dhoni still there to open the second days play.
Looks like there could be a lot of runs here, the Aussies normally make big scores here.Comment
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Harbhajan cleared of racical abuse. FACT!Comment
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Awaiting the arrival of conspiracy theorists...
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Conversation has been taped. Its all accusations towards Harbajan. No confounding evidence.
**** you Ponting:bird:Comment
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Must say I'm pleased with the outcome - who wants racists in sport?
I'm also pleased that mouthy little cunt Ponting has been defeated.
I'm no anti-Aussie - Aussies are top blokes and top sportsmen - but I can't ****ing stand that jumped up little prick Ponting.
And, based on those polls in the Aussie press the other week, it seems the majority of Australians agree.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Agree have no problems with Aussies - just that **** PontingOriginally posted by ShaggyAlonso View PostIn Rafa I Trust
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Teri Maa Di is what Bhajji said to Symonds. FLMAO
Quite damning report from the judge. Apparently Symonds took offence to Bhajji tapping his bat on Lee (with which Lee had no problem). Symonds thinks Test Cricket is not a place where international cricketers should be friends.
Also Symonds agreed that he started the fued with Bhajji and admitted that no racist comment was made. Oh and Clarke never heard anything else besides the apparent comment by Bhajji. The judge ripped him as he was surprised because the confrontation went on for a while and found it difficult to understand why he never heard anything else.
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Symonds - Don't give out stick unless you can take it. Tut tut...and don't make up being the victim of racism
Clarke - Get your hearing sorted out. Did your parents not teach you not to lie.
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'Pup' is a young Ponting when it comes to being a cuntOriginally posted by Sarb24 View Post
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TRANSCRIPT of audio picked up from the Channel Nine stump microphone of alleged incident between Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds at the SCG Test earlier this month.
Symonds walks up to Harbhajan at the end of an over.
Symonds: "Go and yell at your teammates .... You called me monkey again."
Matthew Hayden: "Twice. You've got a witness now champ."
Hayden approaches Harbhajan.
Hayden: "That's the last time."
Harbhajan: "No listen he started it."
Hayden: "Doesn't matter mate, it's racial vilification mate. It's a **** word and you know it."
Soon after, Michael Clarke approaches umpire Mark Benson.
Clarke: "It's not the first time. He done it in India and got into strife. That's the second time he's done it."
Captain Ricky Ponting walks up to Benson and gestures towards fellow umpire Steve Bucknor.
Ponting: "Go and tell him. Go and tell him straight away."Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’Comment
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Insufficient evidence against Harbhajan - Hansen
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in Adelaide
January 30, 2008
Lack of sufficient evidence, a more rigorous judicial process and an inexplicable botch-up on the part of the ICC allowed Harbhajan Singh to get away with a 50% fine, it emerged after Justice John Hansen read out the reasons for his verdict a day after the hearing in Adelaide.
Andrew Symonds' inability to conclusively say whether Harbhajan Singh had used the word monkey or a Hindi abuse, and his admission that the language did not fall under the requirements of a level 3.3 offence played a crucial part.
But Hansen also said Harbhajan had "reaped the benefit" of database and human errors, with his offence in November 2001 not being made available to the assisting counsel at the time of sentencing. He said he would have imposed a different penalty if he was aware of the serious transgression, when Harbhajan was fined 75% of his match fee and given a suspended sentence of one Test.
In a 22-page document that detailed the reasons for his decision, it emerged that Sachin Tendulkar's word could have had a big role to play too. Unlike Mike Procter, who thought Tendulkar was not in a position to hear what was uttered, Hansen said "extensive video footage" establishes that Tendulkar "was within earshot and could have heard the words".
Tendulkar said he heard Harbhajan "use a term in his native tongue "teri maa ki" which appears to be pronounced with an "n". He said this is a term that sounds like "monkey" and could be misrepresented for it."
Symonds couldn't recall if he had heard Harbhajan use that particular Hindi abuse and accepted that it was a possibility. He also didn't find favour with the judge with his explanation for abusing Harbhajan after he had patted Brett Lee on the back side. Symonds said he had objected because "a Test match is no place to be friendly with an opposition player" but Hansen dismissed that explanation ("If that is his view I hope it is not one shared by all international cricketers").
Michael Clarke's account was critical, considering that it did not coincide favourably with the rest. "It is not without significance that the Australian players maintain other than Mr Symonds that they did not hear any other words spoken, only the ones that are said to be of significance to this hearing," Hansen said.
"This is a little surprising in the context where there was a reasonably prolonged heated exchange. Indeed Mr Clarke went so far as to say that he did not hear Mr Symonds say anything. Given Mr Symonds' own acceptance that he initiated the exchange and was abusive towards Mr Singh, that is surprising. This failure to identify any other words could be because some of what they were hearing was not in English."
Hansen's report included the statement of agreed facts that contained the signatures of the seven players concerned. He also pointed out to the "agreement" between Symonds and Harbhajan in Mumbai last year, adding that it was Symonds who had breached it by "provocative abuse".
Towards the end of his statement, though, Hansen admitted that the ICC had advised his assistant counsel, John Jordan, with only one of Harbhajan's previous infractions, a Level 2.8 offence back in April 2003 when he made an abusive comment to an umpire. However, it was only after his verdict that Hansen was made aware of the three other cases which he had not been informed of earlier.
The first, a Level 1 offence back in 1998, was overlooked because offences under the old Code of Conduct were not included in the ICC database. The second, a Level 1 offence in November 2005, was not made available because of a "human error". Hansen said the extent of his punishment wouldn't have changed even if he knew about the first two but added that knowledge of the third, a Level 2 offence in November 2001, "could have led to a different penalty".
Hansen denied any deal had been struck between legal counsel for the Australian and Indian players to downgrade the charge. He was also critical of all parties involved in the confrontation in Sydney, saying "their actions do not reflect well on them or the game".
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is an assistant editor at Cricinfo
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****s the lot of them
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indeed, since when has Pontings word been gospel truth??Originally posted by Ben Tover View Post
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