Black test match at Sydney

[amish]

not just underarm but rolling on the ground rather than bouncing it, making sure that it cant be hit for six at any cost.smart move i must say that, today it might seem to us as cheating but those days rules might be saying that u can bowl anyway u want. and nobody chose underarm thinking that underarm ball wud be much slower than overarm ball and much more predictable.and chapell came with smartest idea that underarm ball can easily be hit for four but almost no chance to hit for a six.may be u think chapell cheated because there is already hatred in u for him and since today rule is to bowl overarm, u say he cheated and broke the rule but he didnt break the rule in those days.

 

[~Hami~]

yah he did not break the rules on those days, but it not a fair play by him.

 

[raviks74]

@asdfgfIf that is an unfair play, then bowling a slower ball with the same action is also an unfair play. I think Chappel had all the rights then to instruct his bowler to bowl underarm.-Ravi

 

[banda]

as per the rules he did not cheat but that incident proved what a big coward greg chappel was

 

[~Hami~]

ICC will not back down - Speed

January 10, 2008

Malcolm Speed has insisted the ICC will not bow to India's demands on the Harbhajan Singh issue and they will have to accept any ruling on his case. India have threatened to call off their Australia tour if the hearing does not clear Harbhajan, who has been banned for three Tests, of racial abuse. Harbhajan is allowed to play until his appeal is heard, although there is doubt whether it will be before the third Test in Perth next week, or even before the series finishes. The ICC has already brought in a new umpire, Billy Bowden, to replace the much-criticised Steve Bucknor, which has placated India for the time being.
"I am very pleased the tour is going ahead, there is a process in place for appeals and Harbhajan Singh has appealed," Speed, the ICC chief executive, told the Times. "India have signed off on the appeals process. They were there when all the discussions took place.
"We can't have one set of rules for the India team and another set for everyone else. We will follow the process and I hope whatever the outcome all parties will be able to say they have had a fair hearing."
Speed also rejected suggestions that the appeal may be postponed so the lucrative tour is not put in jeopardy. He said, instead, that the primary concern was the logistics of bringing together the necessary individuals at once.
However, Lalit Modi, the Board of Control for Cricket vice-president, said that the decision to continue with the tour was "interim" pending the result of the appeal against Harbhajan's ban.
"It was an interim decision of the ICC to ban Harbhajan, and, because of that, it is an interim decision by the BCCI to continue the tour," Modi told the Sydney Morning Herald. "The controversy continues until Harbhajan's name is cleared. We are not applying pressure to the ICC. They have simply reacted the way they should have. This isn't an issue about money or power, but what is right for the game. We will wait to see what the outcome of Harbhajan's appeal is and we will make a decision from there."
It has been well publicised that Harbhajan is alleged to have called Andrew Symonds a "monkey", but this was not, according to the Australian, for the first time. The newspaper reports the allegation that Harbhajan taunted Symonds with the same epithet during an ODI in Mumbai last October. It is understood that players at a team meeting wanted to report Harbhajan to the match referee, but Symonds insisted he sort it out on a personal basis with a one-on-one discussion.
The tape of the Sydney Test appears to back up the claims. It shows Ricky Ponting telling Harbhajan it was the second time he had crossed the line.

Cricinfo - ICC will not back down - Speed

 

[~Hami~]

BCCI president says tour not at risk


'No question of a pull-out' - Pawar:thumbsup::thumbsup:
January 12, 2008

There is no possibility India will pull out of their tour of Australia even if Harbhajan Singh's three-Test suspension is not lifted, according to the BCCI president Sharad Pawar. The board has given Pawar the sole authority to cancel the rest of the trip and earlier comments attributed to Pawar indicated he may use that power if he was not satisfied with the result of Harbhajan's appeal.
But Pawar now says the tour is not at risk. "There's no question of a pull-out," Pawar told the Hindustan Times :yahoo:. "The series will not be affected. We are focussed on fighting Harbhajan's case, but it all should be within the game.
"We have decided to give full support to Harbhajan, and we will provide all the legal help to fight it out. If that means we have to seek legal assistance from abroad, we will do that."
Pawar also confirmed that he had asked Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan's batting partner at the time of the incident with Andrew Symonds in the Sydney Test, to explain exactly what had happened between the pair. "Sachin reported there was tension and provocation, but there was no question of racist comment," Pawar said. "If Sachin or Sourav [Ganguly] or Rahul [Dravid] or Anil [Kumble] say anything, I believe it 100% and accept it."
Pawar's comments came as Australia's Daily Telegraph reported that India were now expected to argue that Harbhajan had not called Symonds a monkey, as was originally alleged, but instead used a similar-sounding Punjabi term that would be regarded as offensive but not racist. There are also questions over Brad Hogg's alleged use of the word "bastard" as his code-of-conduct case draws nearer.
The Age has reported that both teams submitted a list of racially offensive words prior to the series and "bastard" did not rate a mention. The list was intended to inform ground managers what terms should be prohibited in crowds. However, the paper said that "monkey" was on the list.

Cricinfo - 'No question of a pull-out' - Pawar