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Old 28-09-2006, 05:07 PM in reply to Seamer's post starting "Not neccesarily. What it does prove is..."
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Originally Posted by Seamer
Be prepared for more and more legal action to take place against umpires in the future.
Two thoughts

1. It proves that Inzi was right to protest
2. But the guilty verdict on disrepute proves that he went about it in the wrong way

Also, no legal action has been taken out against the Umpire, so I am not sure where that comment came from.

The fact is that Doctrove was not convinced that they needed to act there and then. There has never been any evidence to back up the claim, so to award five penalty runs and penalise the Pakistani team seems a little unfair. Should they just have accepted the decision, one that because of historical circumstances, was particularly sensitive to the Pakistani team. Or should they have made a stance? If this has been an Aussie XI, would they have just said OK then, that's the rules? I doubt it.

The fact remains that Inzi did get it wrong in how he complained, and for that he got punished for, but he was certainly justified in making a complaint...
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