A Line Under..
My opinion on the events of the Sydney test in my last post prompted Scorpicity of cricketfizz to write a lengthy reply to some of my observations and some of those elsewhere written about this subject. We’re both going to put a line under it after this probably as no-one wants to be going on about it for too long – lifes too short!
I was going to reply with some more thoughts on the difference of opinions on certain things to do with the umpires and match referees, but I’ve decided that without the hard evidence that only those people who were in the room heard when the Singh hearing took place that could be foolish. We would be going on hearsay and I don’t want to get that drawn into something that doesn’t involve my team and doesn’t get me that riled up.
Jonathan Agnew, a well-respected radio and print commenter he in the UK (and probably the world), has written a decent (although also long) piece on the bbc website. He has a lot of sense written in most of that post, and the short of it is saying the buck stops with the players in bring the game of cricket out of this, and I can see where he is coming from. I won’t re-hash what he says but I just urge you to read it, digest it and move on, I know I will be..
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Great response…. I initially had sympathy with India however the longer this saga has gone on for and the fact the ICC have not stood up to India’s “bully boy” tactics the far less sympathy I have for India. This episode is bad for the game and India’s response to a few situations going against them is CHILDISH!!!!! For umpires it will never be the same again.
Cheers Rich… Indeed most of us would be dropping this and moving on… not at all worth the time
To put it like this… the sport and spirit can be taken away by three sets of people… the cricketers, the umpires and the officials. All of them are humans… all of them can make mistakes… but cricket as it stands today, when mistakes are ones that cross the line of any moral acceptability that questions the spirit, it is only the players that get the stick!