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Mitch is a professional sports journo now. Sports journos rise to the top of their pile by being both outrageous and outraged. Mitch is doing his job for his employer and for his employment prospects
‘Quite disgusting, childish, condescending’: Johnson blasts Bailey over mental health comment as Warner feud gets nastier
Fair point. I may have been a bit unfair there
Winning a World Cup takes more than just good form: Was India a victim of its own success heading into the final?
Lisa Sthalekar’s mortal sin was apportioning blame to the umpire for attempting to stop a player blatantly breaking the rules and potentially damaging the pitch by running on it with his spikes. Think of the precedent that sets. Is the umpire’s word no longer law and players are free to ignore it or dispute it if they don’t like it? Are young cricketers’ parents now free to run on the field and argue with and physically intimidate umpires if they don’t like the LBW decision that has gone against their kid? Words have consequences. Just like actions do. Speaking of actions – various pundits have claimed a four week suspension for Curran was excessive because “sandpaper gate” also led to only four week suspensions. That was just the initial penalty. Smith and Warner were banned for a year and Bancroft for nine months. Also Smith was sacked as national captain and Warner was banned from leadership positions for life. So for anyone to say Curran received the same penalty is either disingenuous or just plain BS.
COMMENT: BBL Pom's disgraceful ump incident deserves bigger ban - and shame on Aussie icon for 'both-sidesing' it