Cricket : Fiasco at the Oval

[Cort Haus]

So what do Poly cricket fans make of this?

Unless Darrel Hair comes up with some evidence, it's looking like he made a very bad call.

What I don't understand is this joint statement, supposedly including the PCB, that accepts that the forfeit was the correct decision.

"In accordance with the laws of cricket, it was noted that the umpires had correctly deemed that Pakistan had forfeited the match and awarded the Test to England"

I didn't think the PCB would accept the forfeit, on the grounds that they weren't refusing to play, just protesting.

[*End Is Forever*]

Um, sitting in the dressing room when you're supposed to be out on the pitch looks suspiciously like refusing to play to me!

[LordShiva]

Drama

The resulting major diplomatic incident if the result stands

Bombs going off in Sri Lanka, causing the cancellation of the series there

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
Um, sitting in the dressing room when you're supposed to be out on the pitch looks suspiciously like refusing to play to me!

Accusing a team of cheating without offering any explaination or evidence looks suspiciously like refusing to be reasonable to me.

[*End Is Forever*]

There won't be a "diplomatic incident", I don't think anyone is claiming that England had anything to do with this whatsoever...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by *End Is Forever*
There won't be a "diplomatic incident", I don't think anyone is claiming that England had anything to do with this whatsoever...

By "diplomatic" I mean in the world of cricket.

[Cort Haus]

Winner of the Oval debacle - Australia?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article//0,,426-2322931,00.html

[Terra Nullius]

Re: Cricket : Fiasco at the Oval

Originally posted by Cort Haus
So what do Poly cricket fans make of this?

Friggin disgusting!



1) England didn't lose.

2) We could have had: "Carnage at the Oval - Pakistani suicide bowlers";
or "How Antipodean Umpires Treat Their Muslim Brothers"

but NO!!!

It's got to be "Fiasco at the Oval." How very English.

No wonder everybody hates you.

[TheStinger]

Badly handled by the umpires and by the Pakistan team.

England blameless for once

[lightblue]

I don't see how it can be "the end of cricket" etc and the other hyperlatives being thrown around in the rpess though.

[Cort Haus]

Its escalating. There are murmours that Duncan Fletcher may have complained to the Umpires about possible ball-tampering, thus implicating England in the affair.

The other thing is that Pakistan are claiming that their whole nation stands accused, which seems an unreasonable and inflammatory extrapolation to me.

[TheStinger]

both england and the match referee have denied it.

[Havak]

Pakistan are defending a very weak corner on this one - that is why they are coming out swinging so to speak.

Refusing to take the field and demanding that certain officials are never appointed for their tests is pushing the ICC into a corner - they have to back their officials or chaos would ensue in future.

[Terra Nullius]

Yep.

Bacchus said it best: You take your five-run penalty and get on with winning the game.

Trust a man who set the record for most beer consumed on a Heathrow - Sydney flight to be the voice of reason.

[Terra Nullius]

Oh,.. that reminds me.

I'm willing to accept permanent retirement from refereeing the Football thread.

But I'll need an ex-gratia payment of $US500,000 to cover my loss of future trollings.