Comments on: How far can cricket cheating go?

By: davido

davido — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:21:27 +0000

Please provide more details of when it happened in Australia that the training pitches were watered just before the visting team were going to use them.

As to miscommunication – there was no miscommunication, the media were there and they even laughed and questioned the groundsman when they were watering the pitches.

Re the hotel, I saw it on DDTV. My friend also said he saw it on Zee news. This is a common thing India. For the recent test series here it took me less than an hour to find out where both teams were staying (the same hotel by the way) in Bangalore.

As to the Fanatics, they never did a thing. The fire alarm was a malfunction. When asked if they did it by a british reporter if they did it, they claimed – toungue in cheek – that they did, knowing how gullible the british press are.

By: marees

marees — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:17:44 +0000

Brad, I think you need to cool down. There was a mis-communication involved. the ground -staff were under the impression that australia would come later in the day (afternoon) for the nets.

However, this was very unprofessional by the BCCI and considering the fact that India-Aus are supposed to play once every year, this is no way to treat the visitors

By: Homer

Homer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:58:08 +0000

Not as rare as you would think Davido…It happened when India toured Australia in 2007/08.. As to levels, that is the crux of my argument really – when your guys do it, it is not as blatant, when my guys do it, it is the worst thing ever in the world.. And so on and so forth..Great for a pissing contest, but hardly further the debate.

Also, an unfortunate choice of examples about the TV channels.. The words “Headingley”, “Ashes” and “Fanatics” immediately spring to mind.

And while you are at it, could you tell me the TV channel and the program where they “invited people to come down and make some noise the night before”.. Just wondering how I missed that.

Cheers,

By: davido

davido — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:08:29 +0000

Actually that is incorrect. There never was an order to not have any bowlers. The WI never asked for any and so never got any. Get your facts right.

By: davido

davido — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:07:09 +0000

It is cheating and whoever does it is a cheat.

But it is rare to have such blatant cheating. Not providing spinners is not the same as not providing the ability to actually train. At a different level all togethor really.

You might note that Indian TV displayed the Australian team hotel on several channels and invited people to come down and make some noise the night before. Cheating pure and simple. Or is that gamesmanship?

By: Fly on the Wall

Fly on the Wall — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:28:02 +0000

I remember being in Brisbane for the first Test v the West Indies in 1996-97 and a member of the Australian team management ordered that no local leg spinners be recruited as net bowlers for the Windies so they wouldn’t have any practise against Warne-type deliveries.

And being in India for the 1996 World Cup and every Indian net bowler for the Aussies was a chucker.

By: Sam C

Sam C — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:20:14 +0000

Well Said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s regrettable that this still happens (lack of sportive spirit / gamesmanship / cheating ) all the time but people will comment only when this goes against their own team. It’s high time sports lovers speak up against this sort of things regardless of which side does it!!

By: Homer

Homer — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:40:32 +0000

If that is cheating, what do you make of providing nets for the opposing team but no net bowlers. Or enough balls for practice? Oh wait.. that’s gamesmanship, this is cheating and hypocrisy is universal!