Cricket Australia (CA) has given two very high profile Australian cricketers life bans to prove that they are serious about cleaning up the game of cricket.
The decision follows a breach of team rules and ICC regulations during an Ashes test match that Australia went on to lose.
CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh would be given life bans from playing cricket from Australia and would the ICC would be informed of this decision immediately.
Pending ICC approval, the players will be allowed to work in cricket, but their playing future is over.
Australia’s test against the English at Headingley in 1981 was the game where both men have now confirmed they did make a bet on England to win that game. Against all odds England came back to win after the follow on had been enforced. At the time the bet was seen as a harmless prank, but cricket has changed since then.
Mr Sutherland said the decision to suspend Lillee and Marsh was regrettable.
“The breach of team rules of itself was a major offence, but in the current circumstances we thought we needed to show World Cricket and the PCB that you have to take these issues seriously” Mr Sutherland said.
“I am disappointed in Dennis and Rod, but I am also disappointed for them after all the work they have done with Australian cricket’s support in the last 29 years – - and CA will be encouraging and supporting them in the future”.
The life ban decision was discussed by CA’s Board which met this evening prior to a scheduled full-day Board meeting in Melbourne tomorrow. A CA management recommendation to the board in turn followed a unanimous recommendation from the team’s leadership group.
Lillee and Marsh are keen to continue working in cricket but are obviously upset they will never play cricket for their country again.
In other news, the ECB have asked the great-granddaughter of WG Grace to Lord’s to answer questions on odd occurences from tests in the 1800s.
This was a press release given to cwb, and only cwb for some reason. Â Perhaps that means it’s fake, who knows.
Rod Marsh is the old Kamran Akmal
Dennis Lillee is the old……
you are a fuckin’ loon, jrod!
Poopsie,
if marsh dropped a catch, it must have been fixed, and if akmal took one, it had to be fixed …
Lillee is the old Paki 3 man pace attack…
With the pace at which boards actually respond to situation. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually “real” , which it’s not, but wish it was. It is always fun when Aussies get canned about anything.
I’m sick of this anti-Australian bias, what about the Indian and Pakistani matching fixing? No, it’s always the white Australians fault, you fucking hypocrites.
Rod Marsh and Dennis Lilee are both in the ICC Hal of Fame.. Bet the ICC does nothing, unlike the CA!
Fucking Indian Cricket Council!!!
Cheers,
Cricket Australia today overturned the bans on Lillee and Marsh after it was discovered that they had eaten at a dodgy Indian curry house only moments before deciding to wager on the match. “This clearly sheds new light on the situation,” said a sombre but relieved-looking CA head. “The combination of exotic, heady spices, alien to the DNA of the accused, overwhelmed and suffocated the common sense normally running through their veins. I think further investigation will show that Shane Warne and Mark Waugh were also victims of this digestive ailment, so prevalent in the subcontinent, where they are used to such potent parathas. At the time Messrs Warne and Waugh did report a loss of stiffness in their spinal columns. Mr. Warne has vowed to eat nothing but his mother’s baked beans on toast from now on and has dedicated his life to fighting this spice mafia by calling for life bans for anyone caught taking money from bookies.”
N.A, hey, it worked for Jack Russell.
It can’t possibly be true. It’s just not part of their culture.
also check this
http://cricket24hrs.blogspot.com/2010/09/natwest-t20-odi-series-dusty-atmosphere.html
Good one Jrod !
Jay, forgive my ignorance, but what worked for Jack Russell?
“Yes, it’s all India’s fault. Always. It’s Indian bookies, I tell you, working behind the scenes to set up poor, innocent, poverty-stricken Pakistani cricketers, and a poor hard-working Pakistani bookie, through an unsuspecting British newspaper whose reporter had obviously been brainwashed by India’s R.A.W. agents — or atleast, we believe he had eaten Indian food the very afternoon he dreamt up that sting.”
And if you think if I’m being clever, this is what Pakistan’s High Commissioner to London ‘thinks’. Not word for word, but close enough in the significant details.
N A – awesome. My issue is, Warne brought all those cans of beans with him, but did he take his shit back to Australia or not?
Alex – superb!
But heres the real scoop – Mazhar works for the paper that did the sting, it could just be the maaki of all set-ups:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/10/newsoftheworld-snooker
Is Alex back?
I say, stone these two (spare the donkeys).
A quick stroll through Paki online news sites will reveal a variety of conspiracy theories, all invariably blaming RAW. Did not know RAW was this influential.
These items makes an Indian like me reconsider his support for Pakis. I was earlier sympathetic of the state of Pakistani cricket and its fans. However considering their “love” for India and a stupid sense of denial, no more sympathies.
N.A, A strict diet of baked beans and weetabix in all foreign countrys.
Stop it Dhaanu, we must be united against the white beast.
I guess this scandal will have to keep us going till the Aussies arrive. Jrod, hows the Aussie bowling I say, can they take on the Indian batting? Because I dont see us taking 20 Aussie wickets unless they implode.
Pakistan High Commission will still deny they were not instigator for 1971. Pakistan is not free country nor does their Cricket, they should get freedom from their own people first. Then their Country will go places. Its the truth how much shitty that is. They all hate their govn’t. Forget Indians. They all hate each other who has “H” instead of “U”. But then why they are sitting quite, what are they waiting for. If its not democracy, then roll over. Bring the revolution. Country’s govn’t has lots of money, I tell you, but they have kept for buying weapons for rainy day. Hellooooo There won’t be rainy day if you don’t use it now !!!
Even their cricket is the same thing, Ian Chappell once said on cricinfo talk that their feelings of” we are treated like aliens on the planet can really damage opposition”. However, when opposition come on top they crash so hard. They start feeling everything is conspiracy against them.
Is it a coincidence that Dennis’ name rhymes (at least the spelling of it does) with penis, and Rod’s name is, well…….. and now both are shown to be such dicks. Maybe not a coincidence. I don;t think there are any coincidences in Cricket anymore.
@Shaitan – Almost everyone in Pak believes that if India’s RAW and Israeli Mossad ever got together Pakistan would be gone from the map within days, and the only reason this has not happened yet is because they are so secret they cannot locate each other’s offices to actually meet up. :-))
Jay, thanks. I looked up a bit more about Mr. Russell’s dietary habits and he apparently (if the story is true) once ate only cashew chicken, minus the cashews, every night at a Chinese restaurant in Perth. Go figure:)