Re: Far to much made of all this against Australian team
- From: SportsFan <Cricket220@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:31:31 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 7, 6:28 pm, "Kane" <wwes...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From players all over the world claiming catches that they knew weren't, to
getting a runner to come out because your a big fatty so you have a better
chance of winning, to bringing out two right gloves to waist time so you can
draw a match, teams using rules to have a specialist fielder named as 12th
man so they can have a better chance in the match, the list goes on and on
and all countries are to blame.
To me this is just another case of a team being a sore loser as all they had
to do was last a few overs and couldn't so now they stomp their feet like
little children.
The game isn't run by Australia and decisions aren't made by players or
countries so lets grow a brain and grow up, I really do laugh at and pity
the people coming down so hard on one country when all countries have done
something to be named unsporting and that includes India in the very same
game.
Why is it that it's always the Subcontinent teams threaten to drop out of
tours if they don't get there own way?
The saddest part of all this is that people and teams can't just move on,
Australia didn't give Harbhajan a 3 match ban as they don't have the power
to do so, maybe India rather than throwing stones should look at themselves
and think maybe he deserved it and we won't do it again and play on like
REAL MEN and not CHILDREN.
The umpiring is a problem that's for sure but again that has nothing to do
with the teams on the field.
Firstly the umpiring was atrocious and significantly influenced by
some dubious claims by the Australian captain and some of the other
team members.
Secondly if you constantly provoke the opposition it is just a matter
of time you get a response. Now maybe that is where some of the
Australian players need to handle this like real men and not children.
Bottom-line is that you have to be ready to handle the consequences of
your actions - something that seems to escape some Aussie cricketers.
The reactions of McGrath on the retort from Sarwan (however untimely)
are well documented - but the person who was responsible for starting
this was McGrath. Spitting at opponents, constantly swearing ... guess
what you are bound to get some response that you don't like at some
point of time. If you cannot handle whatever comes - then just shut up
and stick to bowling, batting and fielding. Let me give you another
example of the double standards practiced by the team members - 2001
tour of India ... the Australians got so upset because of the way some
fringe Indian player (W.D.Balaji Rao) took on Steve Waugh - the
rationale given that Waugh deserved respect blah blah.
Over the last few decades the Aussie teams have got away with this.
Now every team is more than ready to retort to the provocation.
Ponting and co. seem to have a problem handling that situation.
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