Well quite obviously (edit) I think you two John's are wrong....particularly ATM when very bad decisions have been made in India.
Was just wondering why you didn't want to "go there" again ............ some people here have a strange sense of right and wrong
They're playing on doctored wickets, the only bad decision they made was continuing to let India get away with it, they should have come home
I played grade in Sydney at the end of the amateur era with and against some current and former Shield and Test players. This sort of behaviour would never have crossed their minds - it was still a gentlemen's game. I raised this at the time and a number pointed to p@ssweak penalties handed out on the sub continent for similar. As I said, it goes to the character of the person. Is this someone you want your kids looking up to?
I agree. It's not as if they chose their own punishment. They copped it and time to move on. We're not all perfect and brain explosions happen to the best of us
They should be made to raise the standard of their wickets, nobody should have to play on shjt like that Even some of India's older RETIREED players were calling it cheating without using the "C" word
It's not about being perfect, it's about doing what is morally right or wrong. So they didn't pick their punishment, if you did let them choose what do you think they'd give themselves, 100 lashes of a lettuce leaf ? Here we had the Aussie cricket captain, held in higher esteem than the PM, and he deems to cheat, plain and simple, he cheated. Here's what happened when two guys cheated on the engineering exams we did in RAAFSTT, they were thrown out of the air force So we have higher standards of morality in Australia's defense forces than we do for a stupid cricket match ? Says a lot about Australia's love of sport, I love cricket but if I thought we were cheating I'd stop supporting them and stop watching ...... it'd be like watching Mercedes
Since when has this world ever been fair ..... I've got enough money to see my life out but there are plenty of people in the world who have worked far harder than mewho don't have that luxury
Well here is Smith's opportunity to redeem himself,what say you to if he wins this test after Cummins vain efforts?
Won't be celebrating, Cummins is one of the best bowlers Aussie has ever produced , along with Lillie, Lindwall, McGrath, etc Some people forget that Cummins destroyed South Africa when they could actually play when he burst onto the cricketing scene, I've enjoyed his adventure ever since