Re: Gibbs’ appeal date confirmed for 24 January
Rock_Express:
**Gibbs racist comment ban upheld **
Gibbs’ representatives had claimed the stump microphones should have been switched off as outlined in an ICC memo, and that invalidated the evidence.
However Benaud, one of the ICC’s most experienced appeals commissioners, did not feel that was valid grounds for an appeal.
“**With the benefit of some experience I am able to add that players, no matter where they may be, should always bear in mind that a microphone could be live,” he wrote in his verdict. **
"That does not just apply to stump microphones used by television networks, but it could be in a radio studio or in a press conference with the print media.
“There is no malice about it, but it could happen just because someone has not pushed a button or pulled a switch.”
So the fact that he said it is less important than it was recorded and heard live!
South Africa captain Graeme Smith said he was disappointed at losing Gibbs and hoped to discuss the issues with ICC general manager David Richardson and chief executive Malcolm Speed.
“We have one or two gripes with the ICC, I guess, and maybe this is not the forum to discuss it,” he said at a media conference before the third Test.
"Maybe we need to get on the phone with Dave Richardson and Malcolm Speed and discuss these things.
What are they going to talk about? How to get these animal terrorists under control… so bogus…
“We just want to see consistency in decision making around the world. We’ve experienced things that haven’t been dealt with.”
Smith was believed to be referring to incidents in Australia last season, when it was alleged racist remarks were made against the South African players by spectators.
You did not push the Aussie incident becuase they were like you…and you knew it was just basic drunken chanting from the crowd… not because it was a paki crowd member saying something to your high class gora players…
