The ICC appointed Appeals Commissioner, Justice Albie Sachs, upheld the one-test ban handed over to Gautam Gambhir by Chris Broad. This has however not gone down well with the BCCI. They have shot off a letter to the ICC protesting the decision.
According to the BCCI, "The order has been passed without affording the player an opportunity of personal hearing, legal representation and without acceding to his request for certain documents or recordings to be given to him and also denying him any extension of time."
This is bound to raise the hackles of other cricketing nations. Even the most rabid Indian fan will admit that Gambhir deliberately elbowed Watson on the way to completing a second run. In fact, Gambhir had pleaded guilty to the level 2 charge of not conducting himself "in the spirit of the game”, ICC rules clearly permit the appeals commissioner to decide the matter without conducting hearings and hence this manufactured anger is misplaced.
The BCCI is being short-sighted, by supporting Gambhir. Their intention appears to be to get ICC to reopen the case. This will provide the ‘gap’ for Gambhir to play in the Nagpur Test. Granted Gambhir is in prolific form and his absence at Nagpur may affect our teams chances but the BCCI by looking at this in isolation may unwittingly signal Indian players that they can get away with uncouth behaviour as long as they perform. One repugnant example of this misguided support is Harbhajan Singh. Surely, the BCCI do not want Gambhir to get the same reputation.
The BCCI should withdraw its appeal and let Gambhir and India to pay the price. If BCCI continues to encourage then they may as well face the same situation as the PCB, where political and legal wrangles between players and the board is the norm.
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4 comments:
i know what gg did was not right and condemned him too...
they should rap his knuckles at closet and warn him for severest measure......but at the same time they can not leave players at the mercy...
thanks for correcting commenting problem :)
Exactly Otts... you echo my sentiments... this is plain stupid... why manipulate the system? Why appeal for the sake of time alone? Let him sit out. Ridiculous.
And BTW, blogging is getting tougher by the day. I spent 6 hours yesterday to go through one half of the blog list yesterday and probably another 6 today for the rest.
How do you manage it... seriously? Some advice please.
There must be a gambit in this...otherwise it is stupid.
Once Gambhir accepted his mistake that means he was ready to face any action.
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