After my blog of 29/8 where I was critical of CricInfo allowing Bob Woolmer a regular slot on their site the predicted salvo of words from Pakistan Cricket Board has started. If say the Law Gazette, for example, allowed one of the key witnesses to a crime become a regular LG commentator prior to a trial regarding the events surrounding the particular crime there would be a mighty backlash right up to the House of Lords. Unthinkable! So why has CricInfo allowed Bob to possibly influence the outcome of the meeting of 15th September? One can only surmise that Wisden is no longer impartial in these matters. The repurcussions for world cricket if and when the truth is outed is unthinkable. A break up between nations could be on the cards. The Australian cricket writers and pro and ex-pro Aussie cricketers have hung their baggies on Hair's peg whilst the liver coloured assassins in the UK have backed Inzie and that snake, Shaharyar.
It has been quite clear to me since the Sunday Oval debacle that the ICC is simply not working. Indeed the entire cricket machine on the admin side is not working. If it was working, and there are thousands who think the status quo is working perfectly, then this utter mess would have been cleaned up by now. The reason it hasn't is wholly due the ineffectiveness of the ICC itself and the Muppets who work there. The entire cricketing media focus has been, in order of target priority, Hair, Doctrove, Proctor, Rule 42.3 la di da! So it has become of absolutely no surprise to me to read today's report on CricInfo perpetrated by Inzie. Inzie is portrayed as a mild mannered Captain and by all accounts is a laid back figure by all those who know. Certainly his body language at times implies that he's often pretty disinterested in general cricket proceedings. His salutation towards Hair then, "big trouble" for Hair, is uncharacteristic. "Darrell is in big trouble. I don't know why he is doing these things". Now Inzie must have been in touch with what has been going on, what the Aussies and various blogs including this one are thinking and saying, be familiar with the Laws of cricket, understand the phrase "the Umpires word is law" and yet he astounds us all by suggesting that Hair "is doing these things" presumably to him and his team. Or does he refer to the Speed trap (aw!!! "Speed trap"...reckless speedster!) and the negotiated and subsequent withdrawn compensation figure. Because if this is the case then this is another example of how Inzie, our Bob, Zaheer and the snake have mishandled true public opinion. Granted most of us wish this mess hadn't happened but to constantly suggest that Hair is the guilty party is quite ridiculous unless of course one knew before publishing these articles on CricInfo that certain people in ICC are already in the pocket of PCB. Yes folks, incredible as it may seem this is the implication of what is really happening to the noble game. With $m's at stake worldwide and another Ashes series in the waiting room and 2007 being World Cup year what better way to grab the public's attention that to relax the rules a little, and allow certain swing bowlers a finger picking good time. Because this is what is happening here.
So that we are all certain of the situation. The issue of ball tampering is here and now! So why not let messrs whoever of pakistan get away with it and lamblast the umpires for bringing this to our attention.
Enough said!
A few more thoughts....."I'm sure 100% because I have done nothing" Inzie says relating to the hearing result. Fix I say! Nice one Mr Speed and by the way I should check your pillow case in case the cobra is laying in wait for you. Now I've never known of anyone knowing for certain, 100% certain, the outcome of a trial some 16 days before it has happened. Amazing stuff Inzie! And to further snafu the case what have the PCB done overnight? They have, surprise surprise, written to ICC DEMANDING (notice the word is demand, not ask, not request, demand, DEMAND)an enquiry into Hair's conduct in the Test and ensure it is held before 15th so as to influence Hair's enquiry. My god! There are more snakes in the Oval long grass than I first realised.
As the run in to the 15th enquiry gets ever closer no doubt there will be more surprises in store.
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