When I read about Sulieman Benn, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson getting into a shoving match I wet myself in at least two different ways.
Then I saw it.
The play by play.
Haddin hits a ball into the ball short on the leg side; Benn and Johnson get in a tangle. Not that it is hard to get tangled with Benn. They collided fairly naturally; Johnson tried to push him away, Benn seemed to grab him and tried to get his leg in his way, and eventually they unentwined and the run was completed.
Haddin got pissed that Benn was grabbing at Johnson; I doubt he would have seen Johnson’s push from his position. He then had a go at Benn, with a bit of bat waving nonsense thrown in.
Then Benn got angry, mostly about the bat waving, as Haddin and Gayle had a fairly unaggressive chat. Benn then kept abusing Haddin (who seemed bored of it and walked away) about the bat waving and kept calling him big man. From what I could hear I believe he said, “Watch yourself, big man, don’t fucken point your bat at me, man.” Gayle didn’t try to do much so Billy came over, eventually.
Then later when Benn was bowling to Haddin he hit one straight back to Benn who feigned that he was going to throw the ball at Haddin/thestumps, probably the equivalent of the bat waving. It was a terrible feign, and obvious he was not going to throw, so much so that you couldn’t even say he was going to throw it at Haddin, as he never really cocked his arm correctly. It was more a wild swing of the arms from a 2 year old.
That was the end of the over and Haddin walked down mouthing off to Benn (Benn could have been mouthing back but that angle wasn’t shown). Benn did a big like point at Haddin, but Johnson got in the way, and Benn’s arm struck Johnson ever so lightly, and Johnson tried to swat it away like someone had poured ice down his top and Benn slapped his arm away.
Then Billy finally got sort of involved and Benn left.
The history.
Haddin and Benn have history, last tour they kept chirping at each other, and at one stage Benn thrust out his leg to try and trip Haddin. Not sure if that had anything to do wit this, but they clearly don’t like each other.
Perhaps Neil Broom and Benn are friends?
In this tour Benn has been yapping non stop to the aussies, and the funniest moment had to be when Watson was marking his guard to start the last innings at Adelaide and Benn was craned over him talking and talking.
Haddin has also been chirping a lot when Benn has been into bat.
The verdict.
What a load of shit. It wasn’t a shoving match; it was an accidental tap and some heated words. Haddin probably rented a high horse he has no moral reason to get on, and Benn overreacted and then dragged it out until it was almost painful to watch.
Perhaps if the ICC want to clean cricket of any sort of human emotion Haddin and Benn should be given a level one fine for the bat waving, feigned throw and swearing, but it still seems pretty piss poor to me. I can’t see how Johnson can even be charged.
But what about Billy, he could have stopped this at any time. What the hell was he doing? First he stood behind the stumps as Benn got angrier and angrier, then he took way too long to get down to where Benn and Haddin were clearly going to meet. Will he get fined for failing to act, will he get warned that he needs to get involved in these things and try and diffuse them. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen Billy stand around and so nothing while teams are getting heated.
My vow.
If any player gets suspended, and from the original charges it seems only Benn can, I will start a petition to get him freed.
Cricket is a passionate game, people get fired up. Things are said, glares are exchanged, bats are waived, and fingers are pointed. That is all good. Passion is why we love this game.
We want to see players who are out there to win, not collect endorsements. Benn is a fiery bugger, and I love that about him. If the ICC wants to take people like him out of the game then they have to get by this site first.
There are no fingers pointed or bats waived in my Ashes book, but there should be.
Lets see, A possible revenge would be to appoint Sunil Gavaskar as Guest referee in the every match Australia and England play in the Sub-continent. I am doubtful though, that he will be able to ‘mask’ his bias as well as Chris Broad in the name of ‘strictness’.
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Aussie media normally gang up on people who they think that is not favourable to them. I think indian media should take unified front against chris broad “color biased” judgement even if it is not include indian team..
I doubt indian media worry about West indies team though. Indian media only obsessed with sachin the accumulator.
Revenge is a childish play , instead try to find a way to appoint people who has shown no record of any untruly behaviour and disagreement with umpires..
Appointment of chris broad as Match referee is a joke….it is like putting a thief as security guard in a bank
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Forget everything – Aussie media, Indian media, racism, favouritism, everything. Just answer this question of mine. Haddin points a bat and Benn feigns throwing the ball. Bowler at least has the excuse of throwing it to the ‘keeper. What was Haddin’s excuse? Was he throwing the damn thing to the non striker like we do in gully cricket when there is only bat to play.
There was shoving, there was pushing. Both the parties were equally into it. So why suspension to one party and fine to the other? Am not accusing anyone of being racist and all.
Will just say this. Chris Broad has a very distinctly slanted record when it comes to punishment. Ponting in the first testshowed a bit too much dissent with respect tothe referring and there were some pretty offensive looks he gave to umpire. He even has gone on record blasting the UDRS. Do not see any fines stipulated against him.
If Broad’s record was this slanted against Australia/England, there would have been some holy shit written by messrs. Conn, Simon Briggs, etc. with accusations of BCCI presssure on him.
For those who call us whingeing Indians:
http://prempanicker.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/broad-redux/
Lest you diss Prem Panicker, do a google on his writing and then make a decision.
.-= Dhananjay Mhatre´s last blog ..Dhaanu: @acorn The joke is on us mate. Also, if this crap is the invention of his lawyer, he should be tried for treason. =-.
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Dhananjay – How bout I answer your question with another question; how many abo-digitals do you see modelling? And also what the fark is Alex talking about above?
How about we got of this ridiculous no-win topic and discuss the comedic stylings of Ian Bell?
is anyone else finding it difficult to comprehend what alex is actually trying to say?
how come india always crops up?
I thought WI and Aus were playing.
Alex, Broad fining Indians or Pakis in an Indo-Pak match does not qualify as bias.
Racism, yes, but I doubt that even the aussie cunts responding on this site will challenge that charge. In fact, they all seem to celebrate his racism as manifest destiny.
@poopsie
Agree with you. By the way, even I would find it impossible to get out the way Bell got out. Hilarious!! What was he thinking? Harris spinning the ball that much??
Poopsie, post that clip will you please. The fag commentators on cricinfo going on and on about it …
Pete, re your “pleading not guilty” statement, try this:
http://prempanicker.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/broad-redux/
Thanks Dhananjay for the link.
Oh, and Gambhir got what he deserved, but Watson din’t (he deserved one on the face).
SUjan rao u r the reason y indians are taking a beating in australia, pls spot ur nonsense
this ALEX has his name changed on this forum, he must be some ismail or mohammad
its not white or black, its because aus is a strong fighting team and everyone hates that. everyone wants to be like them but cant, agression is a new game plan of every team who play against AUS or wants to be like them but they cannot match it up with hardwork, talent and sheer will power.
Gaz Man – What is an abo-digital (pardon my ignorance about slang terms)
Again I am in no way insinuating any racism here. Just inconsistency on part of Broad for whatever reasons.
Alex, my friend,say what you want but please in coherent English.
.-= Dhananjay Mhatre´s last blog ..Dhaanu: Match referees going ban happy. First Benn, now Dhoni for separate reasons of course. Cue the racism accusations. #cricket. =-.
DM – it is a joke from the movie Zoolander. Disregard it. Just trying to relieve the tension in this post. Couldn’t agree more with poopsie. Lets discuss the pathetic wretch that is Ian Bell
Mahek, the differences between feigning to throw and pointing a bat are firstly that outside play, one is threatening and the other isn’t, but secondly that one is disguisable as part of play and the other one isn’t. They’re not the same, but if ‘rude’ is all we’re talking about, then they’re on the same level.
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Gaz Man – I stayed awake till 2 AM in the night to watch Bell’s dismissal. I was not disappointed. It was funny and sad at the same time.
.-= Dhananjay Mhatre´s last blog ..Dhaanu: @bigfatphoenix Yes Yes. Much better seeing 3 rpo on a sporting track than 8 rpo on flat deck. =-.