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[howfen blue]

i don't know the full inns and out of this but root being questioned about it so he must have been involved in some part of the setup at yorkshire. for him to come out and say he heard nothing is a joke and wrong ?

No need to know the ins and outs if it allows a free pop at Root eh..

 

[Postman Pep]

Can’t have, it’s impossible, the mob have already made their mind up.

It would seem the witch hunt is well and truly on.

Culture war tropes infest the cricket forum is there no safe haven:)

All that has happened here is that Rafeeq has ridiculed Joe's piss weak statement where, unless I'm missing the full transcript, he doesn't even refer to him by name. They came through the Yorkshire system together along with a certain Gary Ballance who just last week admitted to, and apologised for routinely referring to Rafeeq by the p word. The idea that he had no idea is ludicrous and if he had reflected that in his statement I doubt there would be an issue.
This is a sideshow and should be moved to the relevant thread IMO. Root is not up before the DCMS and by my reckoning is not in the dock until the January post-Ashes spanking root and branch reform hearing.

This is worth a read

Azeem Rafiq, the most stubborn man in Yorkshire, achieves his vindication

Fall-out at county is bound to be painful, but necessary, after seismic few weeks for cricket

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[andyhinch]

England have been really unlucky with injuries, losing Roy and Mills was a blow, but not as big as Stokes or Archer unavailable to be in the squad. I still think England are the best white ball outfit with a full squad. The one thing I couldn't fathom was Livingstone down to bat at 6 or 7 every game, he can be absolutely destructive if given a chance to build an innings, he should have batted 3 or at worst 4. Good luck NZ in the final.

The two best teams lost the toss on lost the match, sadly that’s no great surprise.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

He should have opened instead of Bairstow but only my opinion.

I was talking about the entire tournament mate. To have Liam Livingstone batting 6 or 7 in a T20 tournament, makes absolutely no sense to me. Faced under 30 balls in the whole tournament, like I said before, I can't fathom it.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

The two best teams lost the toss on lost the match, sadly that’s no great surprise.

Fingers crossed the aussies lose the toss in the final then.

England and Pakistan were both in decent positions though, just bowled poorly at the death, and some top batting. If that Pakistan fielder holds the catch they are big favourites, wade then takes 18 from 3, a new batsman isnt doing that.

 

[Octavian]

Culture war tropes infest the cricket forum is there no safe haven:)

All that has happened here is that Rafeeq has ridiculed Joe's piss weak statement where, unless I'm missing the full transcript, he doesn't even refer to him by name. They came through the Yorkshire system together along with a certain Gary Ballance who just last week admitted to, and apologised for routinely referring to Rafeeq by the p word. The idea that he had no idea is ludicrous and if he had reflected that in his statement I doubt there would be an issue.
This is a sideshow and should be moved to the relevant thread IMO. Root is not up before the DCMS and by my reckoning is not in the dock until the January post-Ashes spanking root and branch reform hearing.

This is worth a read

Azeem Rafiq, the most stubborn man in Yorkshire, achieves his vindication

Fall-out at county is bound to be painful, but necessary, after seismic few weeks for cricket

www.espncricinfo.com

Culture wars?

I couldn’t give a fuck about politics, I’m defending Joe Root who isn’t guilty and there’s no evidence he did hear anything.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Culture wars?

I couldn’t give a fuck about politics, I’m defending Joe Root who isn’t guilty and there’s no evidence he did hear anything.

We don’t know whether Root is guilty of anything or not. He says he isn’t.

Arsene Wenger didn’t see most of the decisions that went for him on the field according to him. It doesn’t make it truthful.

I think Root knows that it went on. Whether he has physically heard it or not doesn’t change the fact he is potentially implicit or not.

 

[Octavian]

We don’t know whether Root is guilty of anything or not. He says he isn’t.

Arsene Wenger didn’t see most of the decisions that went for him on the field according to him. It doesn’t make it truthful.

I think Root knows that it went on. Whether he has physically heard it or not doesn’t change the fact he is potentially implicit or not.

The problem we’ve got here is people pointing fingers and talking about stuff they don’t know about.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The problem we’ve got here is people pointing fingers and talking about stuff they don’t know about.

What makes you an authority on what has happened?

 

[Octavian]

What makes you an authority on what has happened?

Absolutely nothing but the burden of proof is on those pointing the finger, is it not?