No ******!

I could never have put the 2 together!

You keep acting as if I'm not aware of these things.

Twice now you've mentioned the assumption that I'll deny things because it doesn't suit me to do so.

No proof at all but, hey, since I don't agree with your way of thinking, you might as well resort to insults.

You fail to understand that I do not care why this issue is now in the mix.

However, I do care that I wish to remove this scourge nicknamed "sledging" from the game.

It is of no concern to me who brings the motion.

Though, your track record (that phrase again) shows that who brings the motion is really important to you.

Yes and out of the very same ICC executive meeting the 2011 World Cup will probably become shorter in terms of games and days.

But I suggest some people actually AGREE with that.

So, if that actually comes to pass, will I be wilfully naive for believing maybe every board agreed with that decision?

Or is it only the "bad" decisions we have a problem with?

I take it you don't know that an ICC Executives meeting just took place in Malaysia.

ICC Chief Executives’ Committee makes recommendations to ICC Board | ICC Cricket News

But they are the BCCI so obviously must be lying

So much for there was no committee but I don't know why they are sending it to the ICC Board. Everybody knows BCCI get their own way

How spineless must your ECB representative be that he went into that Chief Executive meeting and had to agree with everything the BCCI wanted and without having a vote?

Your conclusion to make

Well they haven't taken authority from umpires (no matter how many times you choose to claim they have) and when did sledging become a jumble of words.

If its such a jumble how comes so many people are able to quote such wonderful retorts to all these sledges?

I thought you were one of the main people who want the umpires to be able to use their discretion.

Here's the ICC's full press release.

None of that falls under "meaningless banter"

Because there is this little thing called an ICC Chief Executive Committee where the individual members have had a vote on a motion.

Unless you believe there is leeway for abusive behaviour after all its always been in cricket!

No: Well what happened to Hair and Bucknor? - I would say umpires live in fear of the ICC in the event that they get a decision wrong, or their face does not fir with the ICC>
I did not say the sledges are a jumble of words - I said this:-
Perhaps I could have made myself more clear. Please read below for what I mean as "jumble".

Ninjaman look at your post #78, and read below.
I really do think that the umpires have an impossible task deciding where the "line is" - when the ICC have stated that they will take a "zero tolerance approach" on sledging.
How on Earth can an umpire interprete "zero tolerance" - which means just that.

No the ICC statement is so garbled that umpires sooner or later will fall foul of teams, and captains and administrators of teams - if they are to umpire to these ICC rules:-
That Ninjaman is trying to stretch common sense to far, do you really expect players to accept the above - rules need to be consistent.

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Ern

And off the BCCI go again -

"The whole thing is started by the Australian players."

Yes of course it is, the Indian players are complete angels and cherubs aren't they?

Source: BBC SPORT | Cricket | India act over Aussie 'sledging'

I don't want everyone to get carried away here, but read this:

Associates' World Cup plans scuppered - Beyond the Test World at Cricinfo

A perfectly reasonable WC format recognised by the ICC, so that the Associates get to play relatively strong opposition, but the WC proper isn't too full and clogged up by weak countries. And it ain't gonna happen, because the BCCI want their proposal to be selected- maybe out of spite, or maybe simply because they don't wan to recognise another upset. I don't know. But I hope that something similar can be put into place for the next edition.

And it does relate to the original question. What would I do? I'd put the Associates' proposal into practise.

What do you expect Aurelius? The BCCI, want and have virtually got control now of the ICC, as I've been saying on here for as long as I can remember. Look at this -

"The plan was well received by a few Full Members, but when it came to a vote the proposal was rejected. It is believed that the Indian representatives lobbied hard to have anything other than the 14-team plan put forward by the BCCI turned down."

You may also want to have a read of this -

BBC SPORT | Mihir Bose

So it seems it's only myself and Mihir Bose that thinks the ICC is now being run by the BCCI, and who's this special adviser they've appointed from the BCCI panel?

I wonder how they managed to get Hair voted off the Elite Panel - by the same tactics do you think, by lobbying all the full members countries?

And the South Africans covering up Zimbabwe's falsified accounts is nothing short of scandalous. I hope the British government sticks to it's guns and refuses Chingoka entry, I couldn't care less if England lose the T20 World Cup.

Why don't they just change the ICC letters to stand for Indian Cricket Club.

I fear for the future of International Cricket I really do.