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Test cricket is paid for by us, the Punters.
Not Cricket administracrats.
Not Russian mafia.
Not Indian television companies.
Not Pepsi.
By us.
If we didn’t love cricket, Pepsi wouldn’t put money in, TV wouldn’t pay for the rights, and Cricket Administracrats wouldn’t fly around the world saying phrases written by publicity robots.
I’m not sure why I mentioned the mafia.
As a paying public, we should have a say in how the game is played, and I say it is played too fu©ken slow.
I’m not talking about runs per over, I’m talking about lazy a$$ teams in the field.
Over rates are getting worse.
The ICC don’t care, they impose no real sanctions other than taking a few stray dollars of captains once in a blue moon.
How many captains have been suspended?
I can sort of remember one, and that’s it.
Not good enough.
The over rates at the SCG for this test are horrible, I’m talking John Travolta in Look Who’s talking horrible.
I think Ponting, Kumble and Graeme Smith should be suspended for at least 2 tests each.
Ponting and Kumble for their bad over rates, Smith cause he’s a sh1t bloke.
Who is with me?
i am 100% with you…here is a vague suggestion…there should be an automatic point system where at the end of day points get added or subtracted as per the over rate and there should be automatic suspension of atleast 2 test matches or 4 ODIs if points gets dropped below certain level…but a big but…do icc have the guts???
…and i have left smith out of it…coz he is still reeling under the shock WI handed him on his face ;-)
Malclm Speed thinks the captains will just magically start to push their players through, doesn’t look likely.
Count me in.
Geoffrey says teams should be fined in runs rather than cash for slow over rates.It’s okay to just call him ‘Geoffrey’ now, isn’t it?
I could not agree more..
Damn straight.Unfortunately match referees have been reluctant to punish captains for slow over rates since one of them did actually suspend Ganguly for this offence. Ganguly then took it to court and the suspension was overturned.
Bloody Ganguly, he was the one i was thinking of, he missed a one dayer or so didn’t he, before it was overturned.