Mon 20 May 2013

Warner Bothers

Posted by Yates under Australia, IPL
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Pretty much every cricket follower must now be familiar with David Warner’s recent Twitter meltdown where he let rip at journalists Robert “Crash” Craddock and Malcolm Conn.  Shakespeare it was not, although we might yet see it used in classrooms – alongside Kenwyn Williams’ Facebook meltdown as examples of how not to do social media.

This is another humiliating incident for the Aussies in the aftermath of the Homeworkgate affair.  We may not be sure if Warner can use a pen to write but he certainly can use a keyboard.  Even if his spelling leaves a bit to be desired.

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Thu 16 May 2013

Time To Class The IPL As Sports Entertainment

Posted by Yates under Cricket & The Law, ethics, Fixing, India, IPL
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Today’s revelations about 3 Indian cricketers being arrested over spot-fixing claims did not come as any surprise to Yates.  Equally the identity of one of the arrested cricketers (the one who played Test Cricket) did not surprise Yates, as he had always thought poorly of that particular person.  The usual denials and claims of conspiracy have come out, but the one thing that must be noted clearly is this:

These arrests have come as a result of work by the Delhi police, NOT by any cricketing Anti Corruption Unit. That sounds familiar…

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Sun 12 May 2013

Bullying BCCI At It Again

Posted by Yates under BCCI, ethics, Governance, ICC
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Yates has kept quiet about the ICC cricket committee vote rigging issue up to now because it’s pretty obvious that here at DCTWO the BCCI is regarded as a self serving, greedy, bullying and malign influence on the game of cricket.  As the head of the BCCI Numbnuts Srinivasan is the man who sets the tone for the way things are done in that organisation.

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Wed 24 Apr 2013

Aussie Ashes Squad – Big Fat Hairy Deal

Posted by Yates under Ashes, Australia, England, International Cricket
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In the aftermath of Homeworkgate and licking the window of stupidity, the Banana Bunch of Cricket Australia (with apologies to Deep Purple) have announced the names of those entrusted with trying to get the Ashes back from England:

Small CA Bananas

Michael Clarke (capt), Brad Haddin (vice-capt, wk), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Usman Khawaja, Chris Rogers, Matthew Wade (wk), James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird.

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Mon 22 Apr 2013

Mervyn Westfield – Angry Young…?

Posted by Yates under Cricket & The Law, Essex, Fixing
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While the investigations into and subsequent proceedings against Kaneria & Westfield were going on, Yates wondered what sort of advice Westfield in particular was receiving.  In particular Yates was wondering just how conciliatory towards the ECB Westfield had been.

An attitude of acceptance that wrong had been done and a desire to try and put some things right by helping to educate others would surely have been a sensible way to go.  While we do not know everything that was said in the ECB’s hearings over Westfield, we do know that he was banned from first-class cricket for five years and recreational cricket for three in addition to the time he had already served at Her Majesty’s pleasure.

It may have looked a harsh penalty, as if the ECB were making an example out of Westfield.  The player himself has let it be known that he feels hard done by but today’s statements at the Kaneria hearing may shed some welcome light on matters.

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Sat 23 Mar 2013

The Truth About DRS?

Posted by Yates under Governance, ICC, India, International Cricket, Thoughts
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ICC CEO David Richardson recently gave an interview to ESPNCricinfo.  It makes interesting reading, especially his comments about the BCCI and their dinosaur approach to the Decision Review System (DRS).  It does not reflect well on the senior Indian players.

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Thu 21 Mar 2013

The Class Creep

Posted by Yates under Australia, India, International Cricket, Thoughts
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Homeworkgate is like a badly written episode of Sunset Beach.  We’ve had lack of forethought from Arthur & Clarke, confidence shattering press conferences from Pat Howard, 4 players being excluded from test selection and Australia being deservedly handed their asses again (Sings “Three nil to the India! Three nil to the India!”).  Yesterday another revelation came to light.

Far from being an intellectual, which is no bad thing, Edward James McKenzie Cowan is nothing more than the class creep, the class grass.

That’s a shame because Yates was warming to him.  Not any more though.

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Mon 18 Mar 2013

Advance Australia Where?

Posted by Yates under Australia, Coaching, India, International Cricket
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Australia are now 3-0 down in India.  This is a serious headache for Arthur & Clarke but one of their own making because of their poor management.  Arthur & Clarke have nailed their colours to the mast and expect players to adhere to those standards.  But as Yates has already written, those same standards must apply to them as well.  So the news that Michael Clarke’s dodgy back has flared up again highlights injury management by both CA, Arthur and the player himself.

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Wed 13 Mar 2013

Lick The Window Of Stupidity

Posted by Yates under Australia, Coaching, International Cricket, Rants
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Inspired by a certain yogurt advertising campaign, this is a phrase Yates has had floating around his mind for a while.  It occasionally gets an airing as part of the phrase “Better to lick the lid of life than the Window Of Stupidity”.  The last couple of days has seen the Window Of Stupidity take one hell of a licking thanks to the antics and poor management in the Aussie cricket team.

Yates has no issue with desires for professionalism.  Maybe Arthur & Clarke have seen the error of their ways so far and said “enough is enough”.  As a result they have screwed consistency and a clear message without drama and made themselves and Cricket Australia a laughing stock.  Ijaz Butt, Justin Vaughan and Ernest Hilaire must be wetting themselves with laughter.

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Mon 11 Mar 2013

Mickey Arthur

Posted by Yates under Australia, Coaching, International Cricket
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Listening to some favourite music here in Yates’ towers, Yates suddenly found himself singing along to a song but with some different lyrics.  Who would have thought Ozzy Osbourne and the Aussie cricket team would be linked in a post here?

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