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Post by merse on Aug 30, 2010 10:29:11 GMT
Be careful here Merse or you will be accused of being racist when I know that is far from the truth. Far from the truth! Right, I'm off to Notting Hill Carnival with Olivia
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Post by stuartB on Aug 30, 2010 20:39:30 GMT
Be careful here Merse or you will be accused of being racist when I know that is far from the truth. Far from the truth! Right, I'm off to Notting Hill Carnival with Olivia Hope you all had a great time brother. Fantastic weather for it as well
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Post by merse on Aug 30, 2010 23:53:01 GMT
Right, I'm off to Notting Hill Carnival with Olivia Hope you all had a great time brother. Fantastic weather for it as well We had a great time. It was Oli's first ever Carnival and in typical style she took a while to take it all in and then warm to it. If you check my blog tonight, you'll see some great images from it.
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Post by aussie on Aug 31, 2010 17:50:52 GMT
Turns out that the first test had dodgy stuff going on as well, I recon if they dug deep enough they would find a lot more matches involving Pakistan doing dodgy things which would ultimately give the powers to be a good enough excuse to ban the country from international cricket for about a decade! Shame really because when their not assisting the spead betters or trying to cheat they are actually decent players!
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Post by keyberrygull on Aug 31, 2010 18:29:17 GMT
Turns out that the first test had dodgy stuff going on as well, I recon if they dug deep enough they would find a lot more matches involving Pakistan doing dodgy things which would ultimately give the powers to be a good enough excuse to ban the country from international cricket for about a decade! Shame really because when their not assisting the spead betters or trying to cheat they are actually decent players! This is not a poke at you Aussie but a reminder that they have the potential to beat anybody if they try. They've beaten England in one test this summer and lets not forget the other victory; news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8851348.stm Bowling an Australian team out for 88 in 30 odd overs and then chasing 180 to win in the last innings of a test match is much harder than bowling no balls to order. But if some players are prepared and lose to anyone for a few quid then the whole team must be punished. The ICC will probably sit on the fence and ban them from playing home test matches for the rest of the year
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Post by lambethgull on Aug 31, 2010 18:36:33 GMT
Sounds a good idea saying this kind of 'spot' betting should be banned, but that would be impossible and unenforcable. Anyone can open a book about anything - in a pub, in an online betting community, in a 'betting club' set up in the Far East or on the Indian subcontinent...all the laws and punishments in the world won't stop people doing that or, in consequence, attempting to rig the outcome accordingly.
What organisations such as the ICC need to be doing is asking why the cricket authorities in Pakistan appear to be so ineffective in preventing their players from becoming involved or implicated in this kind of thing.
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Post by loyalgull on Aug 31, 2010 19:49:32 GMT
sadly it isnt just cricket pakistan are turning a blind eye too
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Post by lambethgull on Aug 31, 2010 19:59:08 GMT
sadly it isnt just cricket pakistan are turning a blind eye too Before you start with that kind of thing, you might want to look at the figures for the number of people in Pakistan who have been a victim to 'other things they turn a blind eye to'. To be blunt, if I were a betting man, I'd bet that you know next to nothing about Pakistan.
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Post by loyalgull on Aug 31, 2010 20:08:10 GMT
you are amusing
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Post by Rags on Aug 31, 2010 20:32:02 GMT
Bowling an Australian team out for 88 in 30 odd overs and then chasing 180 to win in the last innings of a test match is much harder than bowling no balls to order. But if some players are prepared and lose to anyone for a few quid then the whole team must be punished. I was at Lord's for the final day of the first SoC test when Pakistan, needing a seemingly impossible 439 to win were 186-2 and looking very likely to get that total. Enter incredible batting collapse and Marcus North grabbing six wickets with a load of dobbers, including Boom-Boom Afridi who threw his bat at all four balls he faced. My friends and I thought it was a very bizarre way to lose a cricket match and put it down to naivety, immaturity and just plain rank bad batting. Now we are all e-mailing each other to ask if it could possibly have been a thrown Test match. Very unlikely, but now suspicion has been placed on the entire team every result is questioned; and it just seemed so unlikely for them to lose the wickets in the manner they did.
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Post by aussie on Sept 1, 2010 16:43:59 GMT
Turns out that the first test had dodgy stuff going on as well, I recon if they dug deep enough they would find a lot more matches involving Pakistan doing dodgy things which would ultimately give the powers to be a good enough excuse to ban the country from international cricket for about a decade! Shame really because when their not assisting the spead betters or trying to cheat they are actually decent players! This is not a poke at you Aussie but a reminder that they have the potential to beat anybody if they try. They've beaten England in one test this summer and lets not forget the other victory; news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8851348.stm Bowling an Australian team out for 88 in 30 odd overs and then chasing 180 to win in the last innings of a test match is much harder than bowling no balls to order. But if some players are prepared and lose to anyone for a few quid then the whole team must be punished. The ICC will probably sit on the fence and ban them from playing home test matches for the rest of the year Keyberry I did if you read my post thouroghly state that they have some decent players, I know their history and can acknowledge the fact that on their day they can turn anyone over (pun intended)! We have all had the odd cheat on our teams but never anything like as bad as them, I agree with you about the ICC as well, they are perenial bottlers!
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