Archive for January, 2008
Missing words and missing scruples
Put yourself in these shoes. You run a television broadcast. Let’s say, just for argument, it’s Channel Nine’s cricket. You’re sitting on a crucial piece of audio, for instance audio that contains a certain potent word. For this exercise, we might call that word ‘monkey’. You know its very existence would close a racial abuse [...]
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Aussie players furious with Harbhajan let off
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Missing words and missing scruples
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Cricket Australia and BCCI joint statement
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Harbhajan wins appeal: ICC Statement
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Harbhajan appeal: What stump mic picked up
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Indian ODI squad surprise move to Adelaide
Australia’s players are reportedly furious with the quashing of Harbhajan Singh’s three Test ban for racial abuse.
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Harbhajan appeal: Cricket Australia and BCCI joint statement
Joint Statement released by Cricket Australia and BCCI following Harbhajan Singh’s successful appeal against at three-Test ban for racial abuse.
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Harbhajan wins appeal: ICC Statement
India’s tour of Australia will continue, with Harbhajan Singh absolved of his three-test ban for allegedly calling Andrew Symonds a ‘monkey’. Singh’s charge was downgraded from racial abuse to ‘general abuse’, resulting in a fine worth 50% of his match fee.
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Harbhajan appeal: What stump mic picked up
Here’s what the Channel Nine stump microphone picked up in the moments after Harbhajan Singh was accused of calling Andrew Symonds a ‘monkey’ during the second Test at the SCG. Harbhajan, Symonds, Matthew Hayden and Michael Clarke were captured by the microphone, with the transcripts used in evidence in Singh’s appeal against a three test [...]
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Waugh: Tait retirement is crazy
Shaun Tait’s shock decision to put his career on hold because of physical and mental exhaustion has been met with mixed reaction.
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Shaun Tait shock: Aussie quick quits cricket
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Waugh: Tait retirement is crazy
The career of Australian test fast bowler Shaun Tait has come to a sudden halt, with the 24 year old quitting all forms of the game indefinitely, citing the need for a physical and mental break.
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Gilly compares IPL to World Series Cricket
Indian Premier League-bound Adam Gilchrist has declared the new Twenty20 tournament the greatest revolution in the game since Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket rocked the establishment in 1977.
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Gilchrist: India 2004 triumph my favourite
Retiring Australian wicket-keeper has named the 2004 test series win in India, which he captained in the first three tests, as his happiest moment in cricket, just ahead of his record breaking century in the 2007 World Cup final.
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Wayne Carey dumped by 3AW for Nathan Buckley
Dual premiership AFL player Wayne Carey has been dropped from 3AW’s football team following his arrest at his Port Melbourne home.
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