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GornikDaze
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Big drop that lol
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Matthew Wade - hats off to him. Great dig at the end.
Some final coming up.
Some final coming up.
Will be fun. Hoping that Australia bat first and get 185 plus. Then we'll have a great game.
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This bunch of cheats shouldn't even be in the tournament. Utter disgrace. Some get banned for life for spot fixing, but fixing tests and series gets you two years because your Australian!
It’s not enough for Root to acknowledge it happened and say changes need to be made (of course and sensible).
Azeem Rafiq 'incredibly hurt' by Joe Root saying he cannot recall racism at Yorkshire
Azeem Rafiq says he is "incredibly hurt" that England captain Joe Root said he could not recall ever witnessing racism at Yorkshire.www.bbc.co.uk
i see root is under pressure from the Yorkshire CCC racism of Azeem Rafiq by saying he does not recall ever witnessing racism at Yorkshire ? clearly they are after his blood next and i think he's a dead man walking as england captain
will they (ECB) jump before the ashes or after we lose in the first 3 test. but his time as captain is up and not just for the racism of Azeem Rafiq at Yorkshire. but a very poor summer and last winters tours
The fact he didn’t witness it makes him guilty now.
This is the bizarre world we live in.
I never witnessed racism in the workplace, guess I am guilty too?
Anyway, fair fucks to Aus there, great chase and the end and Wade did awesome.
Azeem Rafiq 'incredibly hurt' by Joe Root saying he cannot recall racism at Yorkshire
Azeem Rafiq says he is "incredibly hurt" that England captain Joe Root said he could not recall ever witnessing racism at Yorkshire.www.bbc.co.uk
i see root is under pressure from the Yorkshire CCC racism of Azeem Rafiq by saying he does not recall ever witnessing racism at Yorkshire ? clearly they are after his blood next and i think he's a dead man walking as england captain
will they (ECB) jump before the ashes or after we lose in the first 3 test. but his time as captain is up and not just for the racism of Azeem Rafiq at Yorkshire. but a very poor summer and last winters tours
Root's been really shit through this entire thing.
When it happened, he didn't back his friend or support him when people were casting aspersions, he just said it's sad to see Rafiq upset and I hope it's over quickly.
Then he stayed silent when the report was leaked. When the sponsors left. When the parliamentary commission was announced. When half the board resigned. When Lord Patel was brought in. When his best mate Gary Ballance got named and shamed. When the captain was suspended. When more former players came out and made accusations.
All the while, people were asking where was Yorkshire's captain in all this. No real support for Rafiq and say he believed him, nothing to suggest he'd use his status at the club to help sort things out. Nothing to even reassure the Yorskhire fans.
Root's made a target for his own back with this incredibly conspicuous silence, and then when he finally said something and was asked if he heard any racist stuff while at the club, he couldn't have sounded more guilty.
The one thing that was protecting him was Rafiq saying a few times that Root was a very good friend, so him now expressing shock and disappointment with Root's public answers has removed that shield an put him in the trouble he probably should have been in sooner.
After all, who is more responsible for dressing room culture than the captain?
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Perhaps he hasn't heard any racism?
Seems unlikely, given he didn't say he'd heard no racism, he very unconvincingly said he couldn't recall if he'd heard any, and then his friend Rafiq has basically called that out.
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