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  • More On Oz Ball-tampering

    From alvey@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 17 08:25:31 2021
    Cam Bancroft hinted that more than the three 'official' culprits knew about
    the Cape Town ball-tampering in a recent Guardian interview.

    "Bancroft, one of the three players hit with lengthy bans for the Cape Town incident along with Steve Smith and David Warner, replied ´the awareness
    around that, probably, is self-explanatoryˇ when asked if some of the
    bowlers knew what was occurring."

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This
    would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface.
    More Poos would have been grilled.

    Btw, nice of Saker to throw Lehmann overboard.

    https://tinyurl.com/3rhnfasb


    alvey
    Imagining, "NSWs world class ball-tampering bowling"...

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  • From Ramapriya D@21:1/5 to alvey on Mon May 17 01:25:24 2021
    On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+4, alvey wrote:

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface. More Poos would have been grilled.


    Since even Michael Clarke, who you've consistently dissed in the past, has stated that he's sure that there are more than just those 3 who knew - and since he's a NSWman, what happened mightn't have any parochial undertones to it.

    Way too much has been made of that bit of 'tampering' in any case because it wasn't even serious enough for the umps to have taken a dekko at the ball at the time.

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  • From Mike Gooding@21:1/5 to ra...@samura.ai on Mon May 17 05:02:58 2021
    On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 09:25:26 UTC+1, ra...@samura.ai wrote:
    On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+4, alvey wrote:

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface. More Poos would have been grilled.

    Flintoff made that point as well, that bowlers would know that the ball's been fiddled with - they wouldn't think they'd suddenly turned into Wasim Akram. Would they say anything? I'm not sure I would.

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  • From Mike Holmans@21:1/5 to michaelgooding@yahoo.co.uk on Mon May 17 15:14:37 2021
    On Mon, 17 May 2021 05:02:58 -0700 (PDT), Mike Gooding <michaelgooding@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 09:25:26 UTC+1, ra...@samura.ai wrote:
    On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+4, alvey wrote:

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This >> > would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface. >> > More Poos would have been grilled.

    Flintoff made that point as well, that bowlers would know that the ball's been fiddled with - they wouldn't think they'd suddenly turned into Wasim Akram. Would they say anything? I'm not sure I would.

    Unless, of course, the fiddling was ineffective.

    Cheers,

    Mike

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  • From Mike Gooding@21:1/5 to Mike Holmans on Mon May 17 09:31:07 2021
    On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 15:14:42 UTC+1, Mike Holmans wrote:
    On Mon, 17 May 2021 05:02:58 -0700 (PDT), Mike Gooding <michael...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

    On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 09:25:26 UTC+1, ra...@samura.ai wrote:
    On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+4, alvey wrote:

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This >> > would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface.
    More Poos would have been grilled.

    Flintoff made that point as well, that bowlers would know that the ball's been fiddled with - they wouldn't think they'd suddenly turned into Wasim Akram. Would they say anything? I'm not sure I would.
    Unless, of course, the fiddling was ineffective.

    Good point. 'Look, if you're gonna f*ck with the ball, do it properly!'.

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  • From alvey@21:1/5 to Ramapriya D on Tue May 18 09:50:21 2021
    On Mon, 17 May 2021 01:25:24 -0700 (PDT), Ramapriya D wrote:

    On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 2:25:33 AM UTC+4, alvey wrote:

    Shirley Bancroft can only be referring to the frontline Oz bowlers? This
    would explain why CA instructed their enquiry to not dig past the surface. >> More Poos would have been grilled.

    Since even Michael Clarke, who you've consistently dissed in the past,
    has stated that he's sure that there are more than just those 3 who knew
    - and since he's a NSWman, what happened mightn't have any parochial undertones to it.

    You are perfectly entitled to your opinion. However naive it might be.

    Way too much has been made of that bit of 'tampering' in any case
    because it wasn't even serious enough for the umps to have taken a dekko
    at the ball at the time.

    Disagree again. Those dickheads forever destroyed Oz's "Hard but fair"
    mantra. I would have banned them for life. And their children. And their childrens children.

    But speaking of NSW bias... I read today that two players have been omitted from the WI T20 tour. Green & Marnus. Guess what they have in common.

    And speaking of NSW bias *and* Marnus... Even you must have noticed the
    huge NSW push for Smith & Cummins to succeed Paine as captain. Why isn't
    Marnus in consideration?


    alvey

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