I think Bumrah and Kohli have earned their stripes but I don’t think that should excuse them for acting like clowns
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I think Bumrah and Kohli have earned their stripes but I don’t think that should excuse them for acting like clowns
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McGrath said to him ' What does Lara's **** taste like?'
Saewan said the usual retort for the time 'Go ask your wife' without knowing Jane McGraths condition.
While I understand McGrath going off, I don't blame Sarwan who was just retorting.
McGrath shouldn't really have kept his gob closed.
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Leigh Matthews?
Not many though.
There are incidents that do meet legal definitions of assault etc, but always unlikely a sportsman is going to pursue charges against another.
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I agree. Sarwan did nothing wrong. In the context of the times, Mcgrath didn't really either - that was how Australia played cricket - we weren't polite and homophobic slurs were standard.
Pretty pathetic whataboutism. It's a tough sport and sledging is part of it. All teams sledge or chirp or whatever you want to call it.
However purposely physically attacking a 19 y.o because he hit a few boundaries is absolutely out of order and shows the depths this once great player has fallen to.
Was gutless and cowardly.
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Former AFL diversity officer comes to mind.
Avoided conviction but absolutely should have been nailed.
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Absolutely.
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Physically attacking? Talk of assault laws - some of the comments around this are getting ridiculous. Kohli should have copped a game suspension, but it was far from a physical attack. It was a misdemeanour that he should have copped a whack for and had to say he did the wrong thing for, but that's it.
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Kohli DID make deliberate, unwanted and aggressive contact with Konstas.
No-one is saying he should be charged. Just pointing out that, by definition, he DID assault Konstas.
He should've been suspended, but as we know, the powers that be lack the cajones to do that out of fear of the BCCI.
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In a pub or out on the street Kohli would have a badly bruised mouth.
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You'd be hard-pressed to convince me it was "aggressive."
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And Kohli is such a frail looking little fella in his civvies ...
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He clearly went out of his way, literally, to initiate contact.
He did so with provocation.
That he wasn't suspended for such an act on a cricket field was gutless by officials.
Meantime Kohli hides behind the BCCI like a smug coward.
Anyhow, it's done and dusted.
We all see it differently.
Play on.
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He wouldn't have the balls to do it anywhere he didn't have the BCCI to protect him.
Egotistical narcissist.
You’re reaching here…Australia showed themselves to be calm and respectful even if Konstas was a bit chirpy…in response a couple of Indian ‘greats’ embarrassed themselves with their hysterical overreactions
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Oh geez
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In all of this discussion, I think the fact that Konstas is 19 is irrelevant to both sides of the conversation.
Kohli shouldered a 19yo… who cares, he shouldn’t do it to anybody*
A 19yo shouldn’t be so “cocky”, hasn’t earned his stripes, etc. He’s playing in an open age competition, he has every right to be there, act like any other player and be treated like any other.
* I do understand the POV that Kohli likely wouldn’t have done this to a more senior member of the team, I just think the age of the victim doesn’t make what Kohli did any more/less right or wrong.
Kohli shouldered a 19yo… who cares, he shouldn’t do it to anybody*
A 19yo shouldn’t be so “cocky”, hasn’t earned his stripes, etc. He’s playing in an open age competition, he has every right to be there, act like any other player and be treated like any other.
* I do understand the POV that Kohli likely wouldn’t have done this to a more senior member of the team, I just think the age of the victim doesn’t make what Kohli did any more/less right or wrong.
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This is a great summary. With the reaction you'd think he'd actually started smashing down the stumps with his cricket bat out on field or something - the only even slightly questionable thing he did was say 'he's not ready mate' to delay a couple seconds in a last over scenario. Anyone else does that everyone just jogs on - non issue.
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I think Jaiswal did too. He was batting beautifully and a kid he didn't like moved to silly mid off and said the same sort of stuff that gets said in every other game and was being said by two other Aussies and he started playing shit shots in an attempt to smash a cricket ball into the kid he didn't like. It was pretty poor.
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That happens every game from the batsmen’s perspective too. I have done that more times than I can count. Fielder gets in my eye line and I want him out of there, adds some annoying banter to boot, one sure way to potentially get rid of them: spank a couple of shots through that region. Becomes a bit of a ‘who blinks first’ battle
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