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April 01, 2008
The lone voices of dissent
Around a week ago, the ICC sent a note to match referees, umpires, board heads and team captains as part of an effort to clamp down on sledging.
To the best of my knowledge, the only ones to have raised concerns are all Australians: Cricket Australia, Mark Taylor, Stuart Clark, Rodney Hogg, Patrick Smith in 'The Australian' and Greg Baum in 'The Melbourne Age'.
This unanimity of opinion, even as no one else has commented adversely on the ICC's note, leads me to believe that the problem is Australia-centric. Merely having a 'Spirit of Cricket' document which gets enforced in an inconsistent manner does no good to the Australian cricket establishment's image. As the world-beaters and world-leaders, they need to provide the necessary leadership.
Labels: australia, clark, sledging
Thus spake Jagadish @ 12:47 am | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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February 23, 2007
Stuart Clark replaces Brett Lee
Brett Lee is the first big name to pull out of the World Cup, after doctors warned him against bowling for the next three months. Stuart Clark has been picked as his replacement.
Since the ICC has relaxed its rules to allow teams to replace players (and not bring them back when fit) even after the squads had been named, most teams have chosen to name players not entirely fit. Just sample some of these names. You could get a half-decent playing XI from them - Symonds, Ponting, Clarke, Hayden, Vaughan, Anderson, Lewis, Oram, Pathan, Agarkar, Yuvraj, Shoaib, Asif, Gul and Sarwan. Ignoring Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, it seems like Sri Lanka and South Africa are the only teams without any injury worries!
My World Cup currently-injured (and undecided) XI would be (in batting order): Hayden, Clarke, Ponting, Sarwan, Yuvraj, Symonds, Oram, Agarkar, Shoaib, Anderson, Asif. There's no wicket-keeper. The one I hate the most in that list is Hayden. So I'd pick him as the 'keeper.
Labels: 2007 world cup, australia, clark, lee, world cup, world cup squads
Thus spake Jagadish @ 3:22 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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