Indian Cricket
Fire Procter and Revoke Harbhajan fine
By Anil
January 29 2008
Mike Procter, the South African with a long record of distrust of subcontinental sides in his judgments keeps his job as ICC match referee, while Harbhajan Singh is fined 50% of his earnings for abuse on the field, a tactic pioneered by the Aussies under the guise of "playing our cricket hard."
Mike Procter's decision to believe Symonds' accusation of Harbhajan Singh and to disbelieve both Harbhajan and Sachin Tendulkar that the sinful word "monkey" was not uttered, despite lack of any evidence supporting the accusation, was clearly biased and perhaps racist.
Procter has, in the recent past, shown a similar tendency of distrust against other subcontinental sides, most notably against Pakistan when he decided to agree with Daryl Hair, the Aussie umpire subsequently forced out of ICC, that the Pakistanis had tampered with the ball despite lack of any evidence that they had.
Then, as now, Procter's subjective judgments were overturned after independent review.
Procter is also famous for banning Rashid Latid for 5 matches for claiming a bump catch in a Test match, however the same official has ignored bump catches claimed by Clarke and Ponting in the current series, the former of which proved crucial in deciding the result of a Test.
He also has overlooked serious offenses by Aussie and English players while exercising the harshest penalties possible on subcontinental sides, as when he took no action on significant dissent and abuse on field by Glen McGrath against Ramnaresh Sarwan during a Test. While he has imposed heavy fines and threatened bans on Sourav Ganguly for over rates that were even slighly behind, he has ignored incredibly slow over rates by Ponting's pacemen in the series against India, which normally require multiple-match bans on Ponting per ICC rules.
Why is Procter, an old South African who grew up in an apartheid environment shunned by the world, and has repeatedly given biased judgments against non-white sides which have been overturned but brought disrepute and controversy into the game, allowed to continue as match referee?
Why has Harbhajan Singh been fined a full 50% of his earnings for abuse while full-time abusers like Symonds (who needlessly initiated the fracas that blew up into an international incident), Ponting and Hayden get away scot-free?
BCCI would be foolish if they allowed Procter to continue within ICC, and if they do not appeal against the fine imposed on Harbhajan in the absence of a similar penalty on Symonds and his abusive colleagues.
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I think not only Procter but even ICC President Morgan's impartiality needs to be questioned...
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ICL Ko Support Karo Yaro...
BCCI Ko Joote Chappal Maro....
The article clearly brings out a (White+non-subcontinental) cricket vs Subcontinental cricket bias issue to the forefront.
Now that Indian cricket has shown who puts the bacon on the table, its time for permanent change in the way ICC does business.
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ICL Ko Support Karo Yaro...
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Why does the man who is right have to defend himself?
Why isn't Procter the one to get all the focus and attention as one who was the real culprit here, even more so than the Aussies who cooked up false accusations against a guy who happened to be bowling and batting very well against them?
Harbhajan has every reason to take Procter to court for maligning him.
Secondly, the whole world knows now who is the actual racist. What did that a&&hiole proctor say? "Beyond all reasonable doubt...."
What a stupid, facking sob??? He should be kicked out from his current position as ICC match referee, immediately.
So far, only two people in Indian cricket have asked for action to be taken on Procter: Vengsarkar and Lele.
What about the rest of the cricket fraternity and ex-players?
What about comments from our damn media?
What about BCCI?
Procter is getting away with murder if he continues to keep his job. He's done this bias thing way too many times to get the benefit of the doubt.
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or this..
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It looks like this project was put underway by the old power bloc once SA sided with India and put Oz,Eng,NZ + WI into minority...
now there is no place to hide...
Though I must admit I never heard of the name Project Snow
In 1996 Dalmiya won an overwhelming majority of votes 25 to 13 for Gray..yet ICC did not declare him the winner...they argued that a 2/3 majority of the Test countries was needed to select the President...
Then the ACB (as Cricket Australia was known back then) approached I.S. Bindra and told him... if he was the Indian candidate instead of Dalmiya, a unanimous result could have been possible...
At this Dungarpur (Yes him...) warned the BCCI that the ACB was trying to divide and rule. He also praised the Indian delegation which included Scindia, Dalmiya, Bindra and Amrit Mathur, for taking the right decision and not falling prey to their bait...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:01:30:07:05:18 by Birbal.
Symonds started the whole thing with his "CHATTER" and Hoggy ADMITED he called Kumble and Dhoni @#$%&
That is evidence enough that in most of the English speaking world that is a offensive and obscene term...
But unfortunately the jokers running the BCCI have neither common sense nor pride in their team and players. They only care about money. So we cannot really expect much from them. However, this incident has created so much negative publicity that in future, ICC match referees will hopefully think long and hard before handing out any biased verdicts against certain teams.
India - World Cup winners 2011!!!
Champions Trophy winners 2013!!!
Congrats to Indian team and all Indian fans!
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Tendulkar is the greatest cricketer of all time
He gave a decision without articulating any justifiable reason for it...
This is violation of the ICC's regulations on how Refs. are supposed to come to decisions...
Will anybody bell the cat and Fire this at best INCOMPETENT and at worst RACIST Ref.?
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ICL Ko Support Karo Yaro...
BCCI Ko Joote Chappal Maro....
Even Wasim Akram and Arjuna Ranatunga have spoken up...
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