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By Will last year, at the end of December Leave a comment on this post
The frighteningly named Adolf emails with reference to Australia’s win over India:
I would like to highlight the over before lunch on 29th Dec 07.
Channel 9’s camera’s caught Stuart Clarke picking out the seam of the ball with his fingernail. Surrounded by Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds!(Hmm…interesting….wonder if that’s why he was so successful….)
There was a nervous murmur as the commentary team went dead at that moment for a few nervous seconds…..only then the stupid cameraman realised his folly and cut that frame out.
Guess Aussies are above the law, and don’t tamper balls and "there will be no investigation….."I saw, and 12 other people in the room saw this including the kids…..crying shame….they don’t need to do this to beat the Indians!!!
There’s only one suitable response to that:
Tags: australia, ball-tampering, india, india in australia, loser, stuart-clark |
Mate,
Being the owner of the website gives you the right to do publish whatever you wish.
I’m pleased to know that you acknowledged Clarke tampered with the ball. If you have an iota of investigative journalism in you….you will try decipher this.
It is one thing with winning fair, then……what we all saw.
Glad I managed to stir you up! Truth always hurts, and gets a response….from ..er the guilty shall I say?
It’s a bit difficult, your Fuhrerness, as I didn’t watch the Test and nor have I heard anything to back up your claims. There are so many cameras at Test grounds these days, if Clark tampered with the seam/ball then I’m sure he’d have been challenged by the match referee.
Anyway - thanks for the email. Keep up the stirring!
Dude,
Appreciate your furher comments, speaks of poor upbringing. Grow up it is 2008, stuck in the past are we?
Here more such reports below….sometimes Match referees miss a thing or two.
Anyhoo, your website guess it’s your rules.
Good luck.
What Will said. I must have been watching a different telecast (but I wasn’t), because I certainly missed this scandal. Do you really think that this would have gone completely unmentioned? I love these vast conspiracy theories, but really…
As you yourself acknowledged, ‘Adolf’, Oz don’t need to cheat to win matches.
Dear 13th Man,
I am trying to get hold of a channel 9 recording, that will prove my point. I was nowhere near my mobile else I would have recorded it as this is priceless footage!
It was after the fall of Dravid’s wicket….as Tendulkar was walking out.
Dunno if you’ve or your mates have got it recorded…..10 seconds of pure commentator silence upon viewing that. (Channel 9 commentators (Mark Niklaus/ Boycott/ Healy/ Slater/ Lawry….all channel 9 employees) will be signing their ‘career’ death warrants if they highlight it, as Cricket Australia will certainly hang them. Don’t tell me Aussie comentators are unbiased - one of these days Ian Healy will have a heart-attack talking up Australia)
Mate, if you got your eyes away for a bit you would have missed it too…..they say even 30 sec commericals are missed sometimes….remember there was silence and no chatter as the commentary team went dead….easy to take your eyes off for bit.
Hopefully If I do manage to get hold of footage, you can view it on this site/ u-tube.
Cherio!
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I saw the incident, but thought nothing of it since the commentator, contrary to Adolf’s claim, did, at the time, comment through Clark rubbing the ball with his finger. Didn’t see him picking at the seam, though. As Will said, if he was doing something wrong, I’m sure he would have been challenged by someone. I once saw Dravid done for ball-tampering by surreptitiously rubbing a lolly onto the ball. Clark certainly wasn’t surreptitious in his action, and it was full view of the camera, so its unlikely he was deliberately ball tampering.
So who doesn’t believe this?
Aussies are the real ’spin-masters’ they will cheat by picking the seam and if thats not enough, they will make the Benson miss his Mark.
If thats not enough, they will pass on a buck to Steve, who will miss a howler off Symonds bat.
With four decisions going against Indians, do you think a team stands a chance agaionst the seam-pickers?!
Dream on Aussies …..IF you resort to such means, you willl be teh champions forever, but still be forever HOLLOW!
Steve,
I saw it too. Looked like Clark was ‘ripping’ a tiny porting of the ball’s cover (but it was not ‘picking the seam). Could have been an innocent gesture but I remember Sachin Tendulkar being done for ball-tampering when he was removing dirt from the seam of the ball…
And of course, Ponting wasn’t showing dissent today, just dissapointment! Dissent is someone like Yuvraj doing the same thing!!!
Two of a kind, maybe? At least Ponting can shift ass and field.
Hey - if Yuvraj set a precedent, don’t whine. That was piss-weak on the part of both him and team management, and he should have been done. The man is an over-rated hack (he might one day be a good player, but not yet) who is being exposed here. Due to his performance in that shower 20-20 he was anointed a Test player? Bah!
And I don’t think many Aussies will dispute that the umpiring yesterday was appalling. Ordinarily, I’d hope that would even up over the course of the Test, but I suspect it was so bad that both (remember, Doctrove also cocked up) would have been given a dressing down last night and will now lift their game. Which will, of course, further play into the hands of all of you lunatic Indians and your vast racial conspiracy theories (on the assumption, I suppose, that Billy D is in permanent blackface).
I’m with Steve here - the way India have conducted themselves in the field is shocking. What a lazy, unfit and incompetent bunch of hacks. At least now you all have a ready-made excuse for any losses this summer. Aussies believe that we had very much the rough end of the pineapple with respect to umpiring in the 05 Ashes, but we still accept that we lost. Sure, we think the series was an aberration - look at England since - but what is done is done, and we aren’t sulking about it. Had we played better, the result may heve been different - a decisive team always seems to attract better umpiring. Blame the umpire, not yourselves - it’s the subcon way to blame everyone else, isn’t it?
I wonder: will the puppet ICC ‘lose faith’ in Benson? What about Doctrove? At least this time it’d be justified - unlike Hair - but what say we just let the panel police themselves, rather than India do it for them? Then again, acknowledging outright mistakes from the umpires would remove your ability to blame the white conspiracy for everything that doesn’t go your way, wouldn’t it?
Dear 13th Man,
Mate, if Jesus (the miracle man) and his apostles batted against Australia…guess what, they would still lose.
(Lord please forgive me for taking your name in vain, but this is disgusting stuff and I’m having no choice - PS: I’m catholic, hence this is a must)
You cannot win any thing when competing aginst 15 Aussies in every game (If you include Bucknor/Benson/ BNJ Oxenford (incidently a Queenslander, and a mate of Symonds) and MJ Procter). Smart guess which way the decisions are going…..
Steve, in all fairness in your support for Stuey Clark, it is still un-fair to scrape “anything”, I repeat “anything” off the ball.
Also the reason the commentary team didn’t not pounce on that was because…….here’s a quick pop-quiz for you:
1. Find the Asian (or Indian) in Channel 9 commentary team.
2. Guess who pays the salary of the commentary team.
3. Which team did the guy who was tampering the ball belong to.
If you take the above 3 answers into serious consideration: Here are my answers…
1. None.
The last time they had Sunny Gavaskar/ Ravi Shastri/ S Manjrekar there was some competitive opinions, Channel nine bucked down to pressure and never invited them this time around. Therefore you get to hear only Aussie related banter (so much for unbiased commentary) Like I said Ian Healy/ Bill Lawry/ Simon O’ Donnell are bound to have a heart-attack one of these days talking up the Aussies - remember I predicted this and you heard it here first!
2. Channel Nine (sic - Cricket Australia).
If I speak up at work at a brainstorming session contradicting my GM/ MD in a pulic meeting - consider my career history, even if what they said is inaccurate. They might listen in isolation, but not in public view. Apply that to old men in Channel nine’s commentary team - this is their only bread and butter. Also note the recent dictatorial censures to the media by Cricket Australia (and in a post modern era, it is my name causes causes such a stir) - Hey, I won’t be surprised if a clip of Stuey’s ball tampering appears in the Indian media - it might warrant the cameraman’s sacking.
3. Australian.
Nah mate, not possible is gut feel. They are a strong side that will do “anything” to win. I would recall the this incident…..it is why we have rules today to stop cheats.
It was the third final of the 1980/81 Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. Australia had scored a reasonable 4/235, but a patient century by Bruce Edgar allowed New Zealand to almost match the hosts. With one over left in the match, the Kiwis needed 15 runs for victory. After a couple of lusty blows by Richard Hadlee and Ian Smith, then a couple of quick wickets, New Zealand was left needing six runs to tie the match with one ball remaining. The final delivery was to be bowled by Trevor Chappell to Kiwi number 10 Brian McKechnie.
Australian skipper Greg Chappell (Trevor¦s older brother) ordered that he deliver the ball underarm, and informed umpire Don Weser of his intentions. At this point underarm bowling was not specifically prohibited by the laws of the game. To the disgust of McKechnie and the ‘obvious dismay’ of several Australian players, Trevor Chappell rolled the ball down the pitch carpet bowls-style. The batsman blocked the ball then threw his bat away. Edgar at the non-striker¦s end made a ‘two-fingered gesture’ to the bowler, and Kiwi skipper Geoff Howarth ran on to remonstrate with the umpires.
New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon called it, “the most disgusting incident I can recall in the history of cricket”, and “an act of cowardice”. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called it, “contrary to the traditions of the game”. Greg Chappell¦s decision was universally condemned. - (source The Melbourne Cricket Club History). I rest my case!
Hey, I have Portuguese heritage and I love soccer - I have been trying to get a grip on this game called cricket (I am researching it everyday and finding new flaws) ever since I moved here….and with all this “only Australia” banter I guess it is making me a bit sick of it already.
I love Hewitt and his spirited fight back, and I support the wallabies. But in true Aussie style (of support the underdog) as my Kiwi friend would say - In cricket I would support any team that plays Australia.
Cherio,
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PS: By inventing “Spirit of Cricket” gives Australia the technical right not to follow it. In other words “Above the Law” - this movie made 1988 was great - but what is your opinion of Steven Segal really….
Wow. Is that a record for longest post?
I’m sure that Indian ranter Alex easily matched Adolf in length, but even he appeared balanced and considered by comparison. Still, what can you expect of a guy called Adolf?
Stevo/ Chris,
Wow indeed!
Is that the best you can come up with you, stumped ya!
You will need to think better comebacks on the issue of cheats - than to have a go at my name…..but then again dirty sledging comes naturally to yous blokes (I don’t blame you, it just stems from poor upbringing).
Cherio,
@
Not stumped, just bored. I tend not to read posts that go for more than 3 paragraphs due to them usually being pretentious bullshit from self loving know it alls.
Pretentious eh?
Truth always hurts big time - no wonder a kiwi is more likely to stick a knife into an Aussie…..over that incident…
I can relate a few more dour and sour ones by Aussies - this one “cheat” attempt is timeless.
Ok now, I might say something in favour of the Aussies……but, then I’ll leave the stinkin’ a**kissing to Healy, Lawry, Slater, Benaud (the channel 9 commentary team) and of course Chris n’ his mate Steve!
Adolf. Grow up.
1. Only watching Channel 9 huh? Ever listen to ABC radio, SKY or any of the others? Besides, I’ll support any Commentary team that has Richie Benaud in it’s ranks. You want to talk about the wisest and fairest of them all? Let’s talk about Richie.
2. You used about 150 “educated” words to make a point that 10 would have done. You pompous prick.
3. Your beloved soccer has more than enough problems. Want to talk about murder? And then some more murder? Stampedes, riots, cheating, foul play, diving… shall I continue?
Michael,
Thanks for the generous abuses, very much in line with typical aussie sledging that you’all are famous for. I can tell tact and eloquence is cetainly not your strong points (reeks of yobbo-ism, sad but true).
1. It’s Ritchie, not Richie - gosh do you spell badly. Don’t blame you for bad education. Also yes let’s talk about Ritchie - he is way past his useby date 90+, what is cricket becoming an old man’s game? If I go by the colour of his hair it is silver, not fairer.
2. Hey you can’t count as well it’s not 150 words, it’s 78.
3. Soccer takes 90 minutes - its action packed from start to finish. I think 11 cows could get more action on the grass than 11 cricketers waiting for 5 whole days of sunshine, what a bore - I know a young bloke like me can do a lot more with my time.
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