From: vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Oh.... Sorry Goochie.......
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:40:32 GMT
Reply-To: vaghela@laxatv.reo.dec.com (Umesh Vaghela)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1itrfqINNuv1@ford.ee.up.ac.za>, barnard@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Etienne Barnard) writes:
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|>>I my opinion, Goochie's century in the rebel tour of SA should not be counted
|>>towards his tally since the match was not approved by the ICC.
|>
|>This form of politicism ends up hurting all except the administrators
|>making the rules: if they for some reason do not like some person or
|>group, this approach gives them unlimited powers of destruction. Much
|>better to let logical criteria (rather than political fiats) determine
|>as many decisions as possible.

Exclusion os SA from International was a political decision. I fill sorry
for the sports temas of SA for exclusion but I fill that such political
actions are necessary in case of SA.

|>
|>In this case the logic of the matter is clear: first-class status
|>indicates whether (a) the laws of cricket [or a sufficient
|>approximation] are enforced and (b) the quality of the players
|>involved is high enough. On both accounts the "rebel" tours pass
|>handsomely. I think it foolish to let various non-cricketing criteria
|>override this logic.

Since ICC did not recognised the tour, It's more like a "friendly game"
then a firstclass game.

|>
|>>A lot of good players rejected the lucrative offers of going on a rebel
|>>tour of SA. I am sure they are regretting now since the ICC allows the
|>>rebels to come back to International cricket. They must feel bad lossing
|>>a good deal of money.
|>
|>I do not think that players who felt their refusals to be morally
|>justified regret the loss of a couple of thousand pounds; this loss is
|>in any case debatable, since it is hard to take into account all the
|>effects in drawing up a balance sheet of a cricketer's monetary value.

Well, All the players who went on the rebel tours knew the consequence of
going on such a tour. i.e The ban from International cricket and so on...

Tell me who would risk their International carrier despite being advised
not to go on rebel tours by TCCB and ICC??? I think the people who saw
a quick buck. and it was not a couple of thousand pounds... it was around
80,000 pounds .

|>
|>>What justifies the inclusion of Mike Gatting in the England squad? Gower
|>>supporters certainly have a strong argument.
|>
|>>Gatting lead a rebel tour making his fellow cricketers ashamed. 
|>
|>A rather selective definition of "cricketer" is required to make this
|>statement true.
|>
|>>Spoilt the name of English Cricketers etc...etc...
|>

Cricketers from which other countries went on a rebel tour?

|>Let us see whether this opinion is generally held in ten years' time ...

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