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> 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.

> 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

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> LONDON, May 15 (AFP) - Players found guilty of match-fixing will still
have
> their records maintained in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, the editor of the
> game's bible told AFP here Tuesday.

> A report in the Sunday Times suggested that Sir Paul Condon, the head of
the
> 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.

> But Wisden editor Graeme Wright said such a proposal was unworkable.
``From
> a Wisden point of view we are utterly opposed to retrospectively altering
> records.

> ``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?

> ``We are not going to be retrospective. About ten years ago ICC said that
> 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.

> ``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.

> ``Cricket statistics are a minefield for those who are well-versed in the
> game never mind those on the fringe.''

> Wright was also concerned that this retrospective action would not help
play
> 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.

> ``It would be better if ICC did something to keep them bolted in the
> stable.''