E R RAMACHANDRAN asks: Is ICC Playing a double game?
When it comes to dealing with Asian countries, it appears the ICC is really tough, whereas when they deal with countries like Australia it appears to be really lenient and deals with ‘kid gloves’.
Sample this:
With regard to matchfixing, ICC didn’t do anything for Shane Warne, Mark Waugh, Hershelle Gibbs. The Cricket Associations like Cricket Australia, South Australian Cricket Board just banned them for a couple of games, fined them a paltry sum and the matter was over. They were back on the field smelling like lilies.
Whereas, India, went hammer and tongs on the issue: Banned Azharuddin for Life, Jadeja is out of cricket and BCCI once didn’t allow him to play a local tournament in Delhi! Pakistan banned Salim Mallik. ICC should have insisted same punishment for all the ‘accused’.
Now when BCCI , finally feels , enough is enough, and wants to rehabilitate Azhar, ICC is against it!
Gibbs, despite, confessing his involvement to the Delhi Police and probably giving a false affidavit to the King Commission, is playing in the ICC Champions Trophy!! Why are our Press and Electronic media keeping quiet?
Time and again, Asian countries are hauled up for incessant appealing and even banned from matches. Sehwag and Co. was banned for a couple of matches and fined part of their match fees on this account. Whereas we see Shane Warne – appealing- that’s not the word – ‘Threatening’ the umpire repeatedly till the batsman is given out.
Should the umpire decide otherwise, there is churlish behaviour from Aussies starting from their captain – Ricky Pointing. Glenn McGrath gets vocal, especially with Sachin Tendulkar , deliberately disturbing his concentration, but so far no umpire has dared to curb him, nor the match referee, nor ICC.
Is something other than cricket at work here? Even when Darell Hair was proved wrong after the ICC Hearings, Ricky Pointing still wants Hair back. Soon we will have Australian Prime Minister jumping in to the fray and rooting for Hair!
What’s happening, ICC??
churumuri 
The solution for this: Indian team should become the best test cricket team in the world., just as the West Indians were in 1970s and 80s and Australians
since then. Indian test team rarely wins a test series outside India in playing recognised cricket teams. All its prowess seems to be in India/Asia. Hence moaning about various treatments of Indian players and attributing malice to ICC is not the way forward. Politics must be combined with strength – In this case a consistently winning test team outside India. We can compare this with China getting away with almost anything in international politics because of its permanent mebersship in the security council backed by emerging economic strength. India on the otherhand is left with a moaning prime minister, blaming other nations for his own dismal and pathetic effort in securing support for i) a permanent seat in the security council ii) Mr Tharoor for the secretary generalship of the UN. (Tharoor was a wrong candidate and perceived as a crony of Kofi Annan).
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The match between Australia and India gives the clearest answer why India is not taken seriously by the ICC.
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