Bold Seagull
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Warner and Smith can start playing club cricket from the 22nd of this month, then available for international selection in March 2019. They'll both get centuries in the Ashes of course...
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[Cricket] "Take that Osama"
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Warner and Smith can start playing club cricket from the 22nd of this month, then available for international selection in March 2019. They'll both get centuries in the Ashes of course...
They probably will but they will also get absolute PELTERS from the England fans. Which will be fun.
Pinkie Brown
I'll look after the skirt
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
An Australian player had turned to me on the field and said, 'Take that, Osama'. I could not believe what I had heard.
"I remember going really red. I have never been so angry on a cricket field.
"I told a couple of the guys what the player had said to me and I think Trevor Bayliss [the England coach] must have raised it with Darren Lehmann, the Australians' coach.
"Lehmann asked the player, 'Did you call Moeen Osama'?" He denied it, saying, 'No, I said, 'Take that, you part-timer'."
It looks reading that excerpt from the article, that he did report it to the managers. As far as he was concerned, the managers then took it up with each other.
Getting the media involved, doesn't help when you have managers to deal with complaints. The public wouldn't sympathise, and quite probably, would accuse Moeen of grizzling.
He has written a book, and is entitled to recall the incident as he remembers it. I doubt if this is just to promote his book, even though the Times has chosen this incident to highlight it.
Bit more from the excerpt:
“I must say I was amused when I heard that for there is a world of difference between the words ‘Osama’ and ‘part-timer’,” Moeen writes. “Although I couldn’t have mistaken ‘part-timer’ for ‘Osama’, obviously I had to take the player’s word for it, though for the rest of the match I was angry.”
Ali says that after the series, during which he said the Australia team "refused to talk to or even acknowledge us", he spoke to the player.
Ali said: "He came up to me and said, 'I know what you thought I said, but I didn't say that. I've got Muslim friends and some of my best friends are Muslims'.
"I did not argue with him. But I was so clear that is what he said. Why should I invent it out of the blue? I've got nothing against him. I have never had any fights with him before. I did not even know the guy. And I thought his denial was a standard response."
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Got to whip some controversy to sell his book.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Thank you Papa, Appreciate the straight forward response unlike that "look down my nose" ********, self obsessed green tree hugging TLO.
I know what the problem is.Why? Ali isn't complaining about the player now, it's a book, he's recalling what happened during the game, which this did, that he reported it, that the player denied it. Not sure what the problem is?
Publius Ovidius
Well-known member
Non proven racist. Did you hear what he said? Only two people heard it and it is his word against bongs.
That is a very inflammatory remark mate.
The Large One
Who's Next?
I'll stick with the Daily Mail line here, ta.
You've confirmed you're after a trial by media, which helps no-one. He went through the correct procedure, and now you're criticising him for it?
Blimey, you are sensitive. Though I've no idea what 'self-obsessed green tree hugging' is.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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How is "escalating" the problem reporting it to the media ?
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