By The Crowd
January 31st 2008 @ 1:48pm
RIP Cricket: 18 June 1774 — 29 Jan 2008
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Multiple wrongs definitely don’t make a single right. We have just witnessed the demise of the game of cricket.
India has the won its day with the most brazen display of financial muscle flexing, and in the process cricket Australia has sold its soul in succumbing to the threat of litigation and the possibility of a multi-million dollar liability.
Undoubtedly both cricket teams have been at fault and this kafuffle should have been sorted out on the field or in the sheds amongst the players. In this instance, Australia needed to be a gracious winner and India a gracious loser. Kumble’s post match statement of “only one team was playing the spirit of the game” is now an absolute and total nonsense.
The spirit of the game, founded on sportsmanship and doing the right thing has been sold out by a bunch of soulless lickspittlers!
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johnno said | January 31st 2008 @ 1:53pm | Report comment
This is true. But cricket is not dead. The 29 of January was merely the first nail in the coffin of cricket.
STAND UP and be heard. STAND UP or cricket as we love it will die.
Phil Coorey said | January 31st 2008 @ 6:26pm | Report comment
I find your heading over the top, but maybe you are just trying to grab attention….
Sports that were meant to be dead…
1) Baseball after the strike in 94/95
2) Ice hockey after the lockout in 2005
3) Rugby League after the Super League war in the late 90’s
Compared to those 3 examples, I think it is a bit of a stretch to say cricket is dead. Hell the above 3 are still pretty much ok.
Australians in summer quite frankly don’t know any better. How could the sport ever die? People said they would never watch again after the Waugh/Warne fiasco with the Indian bookmakers. To expect the game to go through without incident is a bit much.
Stoffy said | January 31st 2008 @ 8:49pm | Report comment
Yes well said Phil.
I can see where you are coming from Andrew but dead, hardly is a word i would use, it’s if nothing more alive then ever.
Thats enough on this subject anyway, lets concentrate on farewelling Gilchrist not this pathetic debacle, common sense has gone right out the window.
Spiro Zavos said | January 31st 2008 @ 8:51pm | Report comment
In the 1900s one of the biggest sports in Sydney, if not the biggest in terms of spectator following, was single sculling along the Parramatta River by professionals from home and overseas. It’s hardly a huge spectator sport now. Sports do die. But not cricket in Australia, thank god.
Stoffy said | January 31st 2008 @ 8:52pm | Report comment
Well said Phil.
I can see where you are coming from Andrew but i would say the game is dead, if anything it’s more alive.
Thats enough on this subject, lets concentrate on farewelling Gilchrist, not this debarcle, common sence has gone right out the window
El Capitan said | February 1st 2008 @ 10:56am | Report comment
I agree with Phil. I’m sure people thought the same thing when Packer brought in WSC. Now look at it. Cricket has grown to a game played by all and pays its players well (even if they do those annoying ads for KFC).
Sports go through peaks and troughs. Come a next year with the Ashes, all of this will be forgotten, like Warnie’s “mum gave me a pill for weight loss”
martin said | February 1st 2008 @ 11:39am | Report comment
Well, Well, Well, i also agree on the point about andrew, BUT cricket DEAD!!!! There is more circket played knoew then there has ever been before, and don’t get me wrong if your DEAD you don’t do anything…….. We had a fall out similar to the bodyline series and no way cricket died then, i think it is time we all got over the saga with Harbhajan Singh and fearwell a cricketing icon Adam Gilchrist.