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>OK, we have had allegations casted or proved in Pakistan, India, Australia,
>England, South Africa. Now some one has to come up in West Indies and Sri
>Lanka to complete the web. Of course, I'm not counting Zimbabwe, New Zealand
>and Bangladesh for obvious reasons :-).

>Let's start from 99' WC and 5-0 in RSA, respectively :-).

>The truth is out there.

> OK, we have had allegations casted or proved in Pakistan, India, Australia,
> England, South Africa. Now some one has to come up in West Indies and Sri
> Lanka to complete the web.

> Of course, I'm not counting Zimbabwe, New Zealand
> and Bangladesh for obvious reasons :-).

> Let's start from 99' WC and 5-0 in RSA, respectively :-).

> The truth is out there.

> I'm perversely glad that it's not a matter of sub-continent only anymore.

> Siddiq

> I sort of wish that it was dishonesty, but Im pretty sure that
> it was boneheaded incompetence. After all. year before we lost 3-
> 0 to Pakis-hmmm, There maybe something there!. After all, the WI
> could not be THAT bad-could they?
> Unfortunately, before we put on our *** hats, there are
> two things we know-
> 1.There is absolutly no proof that WI player has even approached.
> and
> 2. The WI can and have been that bad, without any financial
> incentive whatsover.
> I remember the 5-1 pasting in Australia in 1975-6,not to mention
> the 51 vs Aus last year.Im sure that I can think of other horror
> stories, but frankly i dont want to.

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> It's surprising too, considering how poor (or "brokes" as we say here)
the
> Caribbean people are.  You'd have thought they'd be the first to jump
at
> money.  But I think the pride of the 15 year unbeaten streak was
enough to
> tell all the bookies where to stick it if they came calling.  After
all,
> there aren't many major achievements other than cricket that the West
Indies
> as a whole can be proud of.

> V.

> > I sort of wish that it was dishonesty, but Im pretty sure that
> > it was boneheaded incompetence. After all. year before we lost 3-
> > 0 to Pakis-hmmm, There maybe something there!. After all, the WI
> > could not be THAT bad-could they?
> > Unfortunately, before we put on our *** hats, there are
> > two things we know-
> > 1.There is absolutly no proof that WI player has even approached.
> > and
> > 2. The WI can and have been that bad, without any financial
> > incentive whatsover.
> > I remember the 5-1 pasting in Australia in 1975-6,not to mention
> > the 51 vs Aus last year.Im sure that I can think of other horror
> > stories, but frankly i dont want to.

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