God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

Looks like the BCCI has given up protecting the IPL players, they can just wait a week or so and renamed it the Infected Players League!

I'm sympathetic yet indifferent to the likes of Slater moaning, these guys chose to go there for very very good money, despite knowing the risk before they left, a risk they chose to ignore for cash!

If they can pay for charter flights to ferry them to resorts, why the feck can't they stump up for a repatriation flight and the related quarantine costs. Why does repatriation have to come at the tax payers cost when they chose to go for profit?

I'm afraid I'm very cynical, I doubt Slater fears for his wellbeing, he's might even have already been vaccinated, is it his wallet he is protecting?

Sorry but if you want the big bucks and you take the risk then you are on your own, its a private league and not a Aus government sanctioned tour so Slater and crew need to stop whinging, wear a mask and tough it out.

[dodge]

Sorry if this is in the wrong spot

There are still a heap of Aussies scattered around the world that want to come home that can't.  It's only taken 14+ months for the Feds to do nothing useful about quarantine, to then say essentially we have to protect those that are here, we can't allow our citizens to come in from O/S.

I don't think Slater or the cricketers are asking Gov to pay costs - but to give them an opportunity to get home.  The cricketers at least have a voice (although, agree that it is hard to give them sympathy), unlike some, say aid and relief workers, tourists in the wrong place at the wrong time, or those with ill relatives. (A friend of mine's father passed away in India in December (not Covid), really tough on him that he couldn't get there and then help his mum).

Having said that, I have heard reports that the infection & death rate (particularly in India) are under reported by a huge factor.

[capcom]

Not an ounce of sympathy for the cricketers or Slater and crew.  Cross hire / wet lease a plane yes.  Then give them hell when they land.

And for putting us to the trouble for turning your crap aircraft around and sending it back home?  $200,000.

[LP]

Nice article;

IPL shambles a result of putting greed above common sense.
This is what hubris looks like.

Spells it out in fairly plain terms. Fundamentally, India is a overpopulated country that socially and politically values human life very very lowly, and the lives of foreigners even less so!

The author probably won't get much argument from myself or others that have travelled there.

As for Slater's claim he had Federal Permission to work in the IPL, true, but the Feds didn't send him there and giving him permission to pursue his employment doesn't obfuscate his own responsibility in that decision chain! Claiming the Federal Government is now neglecting him is a big stretch, I dare say they actually probably warned him not to go if it can at all be avoided!

btw., As I understand it, for the Internationals, the IPL is no play no pay! The only players involved with guaranteed payments are BCCI contracted players.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Nice article;

IPL shambles a result of putting greed above common sense.
This is what hubris looks like.

Spells it out in fairly plain terms. Fundamentally, India is a overpopulated country that socially and politically values human life very very lowly, and the lives of foreigners even less so!

The author probably won't get much argument from myself or others that have travelled there.

As for Slater's claim he had Federal Permission to work in the IPL, true, but the Feds didn't send him there and giving him permission to pursue his employment doesn't obfuscate his own responsibility in that decision chain! Claiming the Federal Government is now neglecting him is a big stretch, I dare say they actually probably warned him not to go if it can at all be avoided!

btw., As I understand it, for the Internationals, the IPL is no play no pay! The only players involved with guaranteed payments are BCCI contracted players.

I watched the nine late news last night and they had a insight into the plight of the Indian public Hospital system and confronting stuff it was to watch. A mother surrounded by her kids in a hospital bed with no staff in sight and them trying to perform untrained CPR on her. A Doctor then casually walks in and very matter of fact checks her pulse and says dont bother anymore she is dead.
The Hospital was just jam packed with similar cases, no proper PPE gear, no oxygen and hardly any staff which given the circumstances isnt hard to fathom given the risks to their health.
The Directors of the hospital were at a clinic next door getting their CoVid jab and denying their was an issue, one Doctor was told what to say by a Director and just gave a heap of spin as a response.
Life is cheap in India but CoVid has made it a lot cheaper and its every man and women for themselves if you are the rank and file working class....

[DJC]

I watched the nine late news last night and they had a insight into the plight of the Indian public Hospital system and confronting stuff it was to watch. A mother surrounded by her kids in a hospital bed with no staff in sight and them trying to perform untrained CPR on her. A Doctor then casually walks in and very matter of fact checks her pulse and says dont bother anymore she is dead.
The Hospital was just jam packed with similar cases, no proper PPE gear, no oxygen and hardly any staff which given the circumstances isnt hard to fathom given the risks to their health.
The Directors of the hospital were at a clinic next door getting their CoVid jab and denying their was an issue, one Doctor was told what to say by a Director and just gave a heap of spin as a response.
Life is cheap in India but CoVid has made it a lot cheaper and its every man and women for themselves if you are the rank and file working class....

It's challenging vision EB.

I listened to a conversation on the wireless today where folk were arguing that such vision shouldn't be put to air because it shows India in a poor light.  What a crock of sh1t!

Yes, India is a developing nation but successive governments have spent billions on armaments and nuclear weapons development.  It doesn't help that their neighbours also possess nuclear weapons but their neglect of the health system and the majority of the population is criminal.

[LP]

Bancroft's mixed messaging is a best odd at worst malicious. Not sure why, perhaps his next MCC contract depends on knifing the backs he thought he was once a part of!

Was Bancroft ever a obvious choice for test selection, we know he had a power of runs, but I can't say he ever looked comfortable as a potential test batsmen even at Shield level. Is the current situation what you get when guys get rewarded test spots without the obvious skills to retain it, and then feel spurned when they are discarded?

Would Smith returning as captain make this situation better or worse?

[Professer E]

Bancroft is a naive kid who was chucked under the bus by the NSW cricket mafia. I don't think there was anything in what he said.  Any doubts as to who runs Aussie cricket and sets the cculture....not.

[LP]

Bancroft is a naive kid who was chucked under the bus by the NSW cricket mafia. I don't think there was anything in what he said.  Any doubts as to who runs Aussie cricket and sets the cculture....not.

Fwiw, I think in this case NSW Cricket and the MCC are one in the same.

( Note; To prevent confusion to some readers, in this context MCC is the Marylebone Cricket Club (Lords), not Melbourne. For years NSW Cricket and the MCC have monopolised placements in County Cricket, and used that leverage to shift the best of Australian young talent into the NSW Cricket system pretty much against their will. If you are a talented kid playing cricket around Australia and yet to make your name, either you're in to NSW or you're out of County Cricket without some exceptional efforts! )

[raven19]

Yar... when you get your baggy green, you also get your nsw blue cap.... or is that vice versa?  >