Some relevant quotes from Grame Wright:
1. ``The more you go into it, the more absurd it becomes. For example,
partnership records by definition involve more than one person, so what
would you do then?
2. ``My one worry in all this is that while Sir Paul Condon is undoubtedly a
competent investigator, I wonder quite how deep his knowledge of cricket is.
3. ``Unfortunately most ICC action tends to be retrospective. One of my
predecessors wrote that when it came to the ICC you could always hear the
sound of horses galloping over the horizon. It would be better if ICC did
something to keep them bolted in the stable.''
Wonder whether point 3 is somehow connected with point 2 because of the
first part of item 1 :-)
Hopefully the voice of sanity will prevail. It would seem in cricket
nowadays that the Wright way is the right way.
Cheers
Prakash
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- LONDON, May 15 (AFP) - Players found guilty of match-fixing will still have A report in the Sunday Times suggested that Sir Paul Condon, the head of the But Wisden editor Graeme Wright said such a proposal was unworkable. ``From ``The more you go into it, the more absurd it becomes. For example, ``We are not going to be retrospective. About ten years ago ICC said that ``My one worry in all this is that while Sir Paul Condon is undoubtedly a ``Cricket statistics are a minefield for those who are well-versed in the Wright was also concerned that this retrospective action would not help play ``It would be better if ICC did something to keep them bolted in the
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their records maintained in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, the editor of the
game's bible told AFP here Tuesday.
International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit, was putting
forward the expunging of records from the game's supreme statistical
authority as one of a number of reccommendations in his first report into
corruption into cricket, due to be made public on May 23.
a Wisden point of view we are utterly opposed to retrospectively altering
records.
partnership records by definition involve more than one person, so what
would you do then?
matches played on rebel tours in South Africa should no longer be regarded
as first-class. But they were considered so at the time and we did not
change our records. We did not alter our records for political reasons and
we are not going to change them as some kind of punishment for match-fixers.
competent investigator, I wonder quite how deep his knowledge of cricket is.
game never mind those on the fringe.''
a significant role in preventing match-fixing. ``Unfortunately most ICC
action tends to be retrospective. One of my predecessors wrote that when it
came to the ICC you could always hear the sound of horses galloping over the
horizon.
stable.''