Sep 16, 2009

The ICC has a sense of humour.

They've nominated Australia for the 'Spirit Of Cricket Award'.
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12 comments:

  1. LeelaSeptember 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    Seriously??!!

    Wow!

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  2. Gaurav Sethi September 16, 2009 at 11:55 PM

    Black humour that

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  3. Bhaskar KhaundSeptember 17, 2009 at 1:06 AM

    Now ,now ,NC,... if an oz was heard saying that ,the monkey wudda never been off his back ..LOL ;-)...well , only one explantion i figure - just recognition for their recent results compared to the last 10-12 years ? :-)

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  4. MeghaSeptember 17, 2009 at 3:51 AM

    It's becoz of that guy Symonds...had enough "spirits" on him to be enough for a whole team...

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  5. straight pointSeptember 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    probably they wanted to see embarrassed look on ponting's face while accepting the award...?

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  6. adverbinSeptember 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM

    Didn't Punter lose a test trying to up the run rate? According to the ICC this constitutes the "spirit of the game". Things like sledging, blocking the batsman taking a run etc. do not violate the spirit of the game. Apparently we do not really know what this "spirit of the game" is and have to learn from the Ozzies. Wait didn't we try it and face Monkeygate?

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  7. Sujan RaoSeptember 17, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    Out of the 3 I should say Sri Lanka rightly deserves Spirit of Cricket, 3rd time in a row.

    BTW surprising India never even got nominated for this award..

    Maybe "TERI MAA KI" effect.. What say NC ? ;)

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  8. Gaurav Sethi September 18, 2009 at 1:21 AM

    BK, think it's for Ricky chasing the overrates over a win against India.

    Megha, don't say

    SP, he's beyond that now. Thru the Ashes he's become crowd savvy

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  9. Gaurav Sethi September 18, 2009 at 1:23 AM

    Adverbin, it's still only a nomination, and with such few teams soon they'll be nominating China, that will be the day.

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  10. Gaurav Sethi September 18, 2009 at 1:26 AM

    Sujan, It's a worthless award no diff from the one in the IPL.

    Do a Serena-US Open twist on teams that mess with this so-called spirit, then see how many teams lose it.

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  11. Sujan RaoSeptember 18, 2009 at 2:32 AM

    Agreed NC,

    ICC they needed 4 nominations. Surely they cant say India & SA,else the whole world would break loose.Also they can say West Indies for basically WI cricket has no spirit at all :D

    Remaining Pak have played so less cricket that they dont qualify either. So I guess they selected Aus over Bangla, which IMO is better since BD play even less then Ireland..

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  12. vmminervaSeptember 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM

    I like Sujan's reasoning. But that apart, this seriously is a joke!

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