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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 10:31:32 GMT
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Post by Dai Gressing on Jul 29, 2014 15:01:12 GMT
I think you'll find it was the ICC (International Cricket Council) in the form of the match referee that stopped him, JJ, not the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) who seemed to think that he'd done nothing wrong according to press reports this morning.
Pedantry aside, I agree with you that there's no room for this sort of behaviour in sport and Moeen Ali was very much in the wrong. Not because he felt strongly enough to want to express support for a particular cause but because he chose to do so during a cricket match in clear contravention of ICC rules designed specifically to prevent such an occurrence.
I always find it difficult to understand why certain people seem to think that the rules don't apply to them, as Ali seems to have done here, but what I find totally incomprehensible is that the ECB - a national governing body - also seems to think they can disregard such rules if it suits them. I can't help wondering whether they would take the same view, though, if a cricketer wore, say, a "Giles Clarke must go" (for non-cricket fans, Giles Clarke is the chairman of the ECB) wristband during a test match - I somehow think not!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 15:11:09 GMT
Dai. Yes I stand corrected. I was in too much of a rush.
I think if Ali, or indeed anyone else wants to devote their spare time to any cause then subject to it being legal, not a problem. And being a 'personality' he might just have a bit more clout. That said I think 'personalities' who back various political parties tend to have a negative effect.
I also was upset when the American athletes adopted the black glove and black power salute. As far as I recall they were castigated and I think banned.
I was at the last game the Springboks played before the wall went up and all contact with S Africa was cut. I said then it was a mistake because they were not politicians and I think S African sportsmen of all types travelling the globe would have got some of the message of how disgusted the rest of the world were back when they went home.
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