The Anglo-Saxon dominated ICC

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It was the Imperial Cricket Conference. Australia and England had a veto. They ran Cricket in their own interests. India, Pakistan, New Zealand, West Indies were all minions to amuse them. What they said was law. What brought them benefit was right.

Nobody in England and australia then - players, commentators, journalists, writers, administrators - ever spoke out against their arrogance.

Then, things changed. Dalmia brought money to BCCI and ICC. And BCCI began putting the boot on the other foot. Now, these same imperialists who had no problem under England and Australia's dictatorial regime are shouting hoarse about BCCI domination.

But the even more amazing part of this is that - Does BCCI really dominate ICC?

Look at player punishments - it is well known that Asian players cop more punishments for the same, or even lesser offences that a White player or even any player playing for England or Australia, does.

There are hundreds of examples but still White man apologists continue to turn a blind eye and for reasons best known to themselves, deny that this happens, and pretend ignorance.
This thread is to demolish the ignorance of such people.

The recently concluded Nottingham test itself has two examples of English players getting away with awful behaviour and Indian players being punished more for far less.
Case 1 - Ian Bell

Ian Bell is a good batsman. Thats all he is. He is not an umpire. He is not a match referee. He is not the sole authority on the cricket field. At some point yesterday he decided he was all of these things. He assumed that the ball was dead. Him and him alone. His batting partner, Eoin Morgan didn't. The bowler didn't. The fielder who had thrown the ball in didn't. And the umpires didn't. Yet in a supreme display of arrogance, Bell trotted over to his batting partner, who looked most uncomfortable about the whole affair since he had just put his bat in the crease after attempting to warn Bell, and knew something unfortunate was about to occur.

Make no mistake, the error was Bell's and Bell's alone, nothing but sheer stupidity. But it gets worse from here. Ignore the indignation from the English, who almost drowned twitter out with calls for Dhoni's head for, well, doing the correct thing. As the umpires asked Dhoni if he wanted to uphold the appeal, they also turned to the English batsmen and asked them to wait on the field until a decision had been made. Bell's arrogance took to the fore again and he marched off, seemingly as oblivious to their request as he seemed to the entire run out fiasco. Note that even at that point the umpires had still not called Tea, it was Bell who took it upon himself to declare the session over. Bell was actually stopped just before he left the ground to his obvious disgust by the fourth umpire, who politely reminded him that the session had not in fact officially ended.

For such blatant disregard to an umpire's authority, a player has already been penalized in this test, too bad he isn't English though, because they are praised for this sort of behavior.

Case 2 - Graeme Swann

Already in this test we've seen Graeme Swann kick the stumps in disgust at his own performance, and despite being his second offence in under three months, escape with a reprimand. "Look here you jolly old fellow, we love your witty banter on twitter, but you can't go around kicking the stumps when you feel like it. Just quickly apologize for it and we'll sweep it under the carpet."

Case 3 = Stuart Broad

The most petulant and a serial offender in the English side, much like his father before him, and rewarded with T20 captaincy - this is the same bowler who is the only international cricketer to have conceded 6 sixes in an over in a T20 match - Stuart Broad, took it upon himself to step into his father's shoes and check if VVS Laxman had applied Vaseline to his bat. The English seem to think this sort of behavior is amusing, its a bit like throwing jelly beans on the pitch, its all in good fun when you're not at the receiving end. Insinuate that an Englishman might be a cheat and you'll get the response the Pakistani team received after their counter accusations during the spot fixing brouhaha.

Case 4 - Strauss and Flower

Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower chose to approach Dhoni during the Tea interval and ask him to reconsider his appeal. This has been described as "most unorthodox" but the more simple way of describing it is that it was way out of line. You cannot go to the opposition and ask them to play in a manner that suits your players after your very players are solely responsible for an incident because of their stupidity, and especially not after the mob you're leading onto the field has already acted so disgracefully. The trouble is, nobody seems to be telling England that they're behaving terribly. Oh no, quite the opposite.

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The umpires and the Indian Team deserve praise. Don't discount the role of the umpires here, they could have chosen to act as heavy handed as Daryl Hair did at the Oval during Inzimam's protest and taken the incident to a whole different level. Madugalle's lenient reprimand to Swann and his overlooking Broad's distasteful accusation, doesn't deserve credit. And England's conduct definitely does not either. The "Great Spirit of Cricket" shouldn't win any accolades today, it was in fact insulted because it asks players to play fair, within the rules and to respect umpires. But more so because it promotes equality and equal treatment to players, and by all indications from the ICC's statement, equality seems to be used rather judiciously, and certainly selectively.

All the above from Cricket blogger achettup who blogs here:
http://www.boredcricketcrazyindians.com/

[Plum]

Shame on ICC and England Cricket and Indian Apologists of England and White Man who turn a blind eye to such shenaignans from England Cricket Team,a nd innocently say "I dont remember the ICC being biased in favour of England"

[kid-glove]

"I dont remember the ICC being biased in favour of England"
- You will find no one says that here or elsewhere. Esp. in Twitter, it's full blown vitriol on ECB & England.

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There are people who say that and they know who they are

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Anyway, this thread will be the repository for such instances of bias in ICC. Because, someone needs to propogate the truth

[kid-glove]

AFAIK, P_R's stance (to support English cricket team) was more in cricketing terms.

[sathya_1979]

re-use repository? Koot Koot! Let me dig in more instances and record here

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Off my head, I can recall Gambhir being punished for elbowing Watson, but the same Watson being let off with milder punishment for doing the same to Suleiman Benn. Haddin and Johnson were also involved in unsavoury incidents in that match but didnt receive a rap. Sathya, if possible, google this and link here. It was the 2009 WI tour of Australia

2. Ricky Ponting elbowed Mohd Asif but Asif was warned for "violating Ponting's personal space" . The match referee, unsurprisingly, was BC Broad, father of the shameless offender, Stuart. I speculated at that time if Ricky cried out "bhagwan ke liye mujhe chhod do" to Asif. This was the Aus-Pak series in England in 2010

3. Countless instances of Ricky and Shane Warne intimidating umpires - what's more they are hailed has "hard but fair" play by even Indian fans of Warne. Ofcourse, Ponting doesnt get such favours from indian fans, needless to say.

[sathya_1979]

Samples:

1) 1999 India tour of Aus a.k.a disaster - Srinath hit Pricky's helmet with a bouncer and immediately apologized. Pricky gave a mouthful to him.
2) 2001 Mike Denness - enuf said
3) Sachin of all players was accused of ball tampering when he was cleaning the dirt in 2001. NZ's Craig Mcmillan did the same,on the same day in a match vs Aus. No punishment
4) When Imran, Wasim and Sarfraz invented and mastered reverse swing, Eng whined that they are tampering the ball. 2005 ashes???????? Ring any bell, now it is an ART (fart actually)
5) 2001-02 Eng Tour of India - Negative bowling by Giles vs Sachin - Spirit of cricket - My foot

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