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by **Southpa** » Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:30:49

"I always tell match referees that whichever team starts it, the other team should have the right to give it back to them and then stop it. If you keep the individual from the other team quiet, then the team that starts it goes on with it and the individual bursts out in an ugly way and people get fined. I am happy the way it was handled."

Spot on - and exactly what has been mentioned on RSC before re. "retaliation." Also very valid point on making very sure both teams are treated equally, which has never been the case in the history of match-referees. Otherwise, the pampered team will go on and on, and the victimized team will explode.

-Samarth.

by **alve** » Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:58:37

Quote:

> "I always tell match referees that whichever team starts it, the other
> team should have the right to give it back to them and then stop it. If
> you keep the individual from the other team quiet, then the team that
> starts it goes on with it and the individual bursts out in an ugly way
> and people get fined. I am happy the way it was handled."

> Spot on - and exactly what has been mentioned on RSC before re.
> "retaliation." Also very valid point on making very sure both teams are
> treated equally, which has never been the case in the history of
> match-referees. Otherwise, the pampered team will go on and on, and the
> victimized team will explode.

So one day an umpire will explode and tell Dhoni that he's a whingeing,
bullying knobhead. Can't wait.

alvey

by **Jellor** » Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:18:36

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> "I always tell match referees that whichever team starts it, the other team should have the right to give it back to them and then stop it. If you keep the individual from the other team quiet, then the team that starts it goes on with it and the individual bursts out in an ugly way and people get fined. I am happy the way it was handled."

> Spot on - and exactly what has been mentioned on RSC before re. "retaliation." Also very valid point on making very sure both teams are treated equally, which has never been the case in the history of match-referees. Otherwise, the pampered team will go on and on, and the victimized team will explode.

> -Samarth.

Once again the Australians made to look like school boys.

by **Jellor** » Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:19:03

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> > "I always tell match referees that whichever team starts it, the other
> > team should have the right to give it back to them and then stop it. If
> > you keep the individual from the other team quiet, then the team that
> > starts it goes on with it and the individual bursts out in an ugly way
> > and people get fined. I am happy the way it was handled."

> > Spot on - and exactly what has been mentioned on RSC before re.
> > "retaliation." Also very valid point on making very sure both teams are
> > treated equally, which has never been the case in the history of
> > match-referees. Otherwise, the pampered team will go on and on, and the
> > victimized team will explode.

> So one day an umpire will explode and tell Dhoni that he's a whingeing,
> bullying knobhead. Can't wait.

> alvey

Might have to wait a tad longer big fella.

by **Gilly's Dand** » Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:46:54

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> So one day an umpire will explode and tell Dhoni that he's a whingeing,
> bullying knobhead. Can't wait.

Do you care to point to specific instances, or is your short sight getting the better of you in your dotage and are all Indians starting to look the same?

A

by **Gilly's Dand** » Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:56:22

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> > Go on keep frothing.

> So according to you; is it ok for the captain to verbally intimidate
> umpires on the field

It's not ok for anyone to do this. I'd query whether Harper's a little thin-skinned (is he from Queensland?) because I don't think***ie Bird or Simon Taufel ever felt intimidated by a captain making a joke about the pitch. But maybe he just doesn't like "backchat". (I hope Sutherland keeps him in mind when MArthur is iced. Let Australia go from utterly ***to totally shithouse. I'm looking forward to the Ashes: based on performance this last week, looks like a real bottom-of-the-table clash.)

I'd also note that the match went on despite Kumar being taken out of the attack. After all, India's not Pakistan. And finally, Harper was on his way out anyway. He'd been demoted from the Elite Panel - at Nasser Hussain's insistence, but Nasser Hussain's father was from Madras and, like Dhoni, Nasser also plays Cricket, so of course he'd hate him - so you can't really blame people for lacking confidence in him. (Or Harper, for lacking confidence in himself.)

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> *and* criticise them off it at post-match press
> conferences,

This I don't care if anyone does. If the ICC doesn't put a stop to people shooting off their mouths, it's hardly Dhoni's fault for expressing a view. Heck, Ponting whined like a little *** about something each time he lost a match. I thought he was a little ***; he seemed more bullied than a bully each time, though.

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> or is it just the Whingdian captain who's allowed to do this?

Nope. If the Australian coach wasn't their biggest bugbear, I'd be perfectly happy with them crying about the umpires. Anything to keep Johnson in the side: I hope New Zealand gets a chance to*** him, too.

A

by **jzfredrick** » Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:19:50

Heck, Ponting whined like a little *** about something each time he lost a match.

As much as I dislike Ponting, I'm going to call BullShit on this.
Ponting's post-match speeches were, I thought, extremely honest. When required he (almost) never failed to criticise his own team or congratulate the oppo. On this particular point I wish more captains were like him.

He was certainly a whiny little *** when he was run out in 2005 ;)

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