equatorThis is the text I have used on the FREE SULIEMAN BENN petition.
Dear ICC,
Your decision to incarcerate Sulieman Benn is rubbish.
Rubbish.
Cricket is a game with passion; yesterday was a perfect example of it. Had Benn thrown the ball at Haddin’s face and started smacking Johnson around the head, bans would have been justified, but what was he actually banned for.
An ugly accidental incident?
Benn bumped into Johnson by accident, Johnson pushed at Benn because someone had bumped into him, and Benn pushed back because someone was pushing him.
Was it heated, yes.
Was it unnecessary, perhaps.
Was it badly officiated, absolutely.
Was it a confrontation between passionate test cricketers who were in the heat of battle trying to win a game for the country, oh yes.
So why penalize anyone?
No one got hurt, no one instigated contact, no one ruined cricket’s precious little image.
If anything, incidents like this prove that professional cricketers are not robots, that winning matters to them. They aren’t just billboards waiting for a beer company to put another stamp on.
Benn is a fiery guy, which is why I like him, and in the future he will get suspended again for doing something wrong, but this is not the time.
This is a miscarriage of justice, and Benn must be freed.
If the ICC believes that someone must be banned for all this “ugliness”, they can ban Chris “spirit of cricket” Broad or Billy “lover, not a fighter” Bowden, I doubt there will be many tears for them.
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Amen brother.
Nah fuck him, he got what he deserved.
so one australian mouths off and the other one starts shoving but its the (west) indian who gets suspended?!
It’s fucking amazing how 2 umpires and a match referee can see it one way and 1 billion prejudiced indians without knowing the full facts can see another.
LL,
Its fucking amazing how u consider yourself qualified enough to type here.
One way streets, one eyed fans, thank god for Jrod – he saves a nation!
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Absolutely Jrod. My man. You should be the judge!. Hahaha.
I don’t know what facts LL is talking about because this is the age of youtube and everyone with a broad band connection saw the incidents.
It is impossible to believe, from a fair observation of the incident, that Benn did anything that deserved such a disproportionate level of penalty whereas Johnson and Haddin can be so blameless as to be let off with a mere slap on the wrist.
Thankfully, sensible Aussies like Jrod have seen it for what it is: injustice.
Little Lund,
Nah, fuck you. I think we’ll sign.
Benn is cool, the decision licks balls, don’t see why he gets singled out for a fairly mild argument involving three players.
Haddin went up in my (low) estimation though. I wouldn’t get into a slanging match with big Sulieman.
I would have penalized all involved in same level offense or let them out with warning. Instead chris get picky with his ruling.
This is strange that in the world of TV and youtube , it is happening. Who is chris broad afraid off or who is his master?. who he is working for?. It is quiet apparent that some section of people do not see for what ever the reason…convoluted people.
Anyways…we need 1000s of Jrod to point out the facts in a cool funny way.
For me i am not into Justice , world is not perfect , every society is racist in some level. So you can’t expect “fair” ruling all the time. What i want though is Referee has to be consistent in the shoving in one match get suspension and anothe match let off with 10%.
Just do not make sense at all.
A good petition to have would be to kick Broad back into his broad wife’s arms!
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The reason benn was punished more is because he didn’t just push back as you put it he grabbed johnsons shirt and tryed to wrap his leg around him, which is quite against the laws of cricket
joey , Broad did not include the scuffle happened when mitchell johnson try to run and benn going for the ball. That is happen in every match.
Broad judgement is only on Mitchell johnson deliberate shove off Benn’s hand…it is just that Broad only see Benn mouthing off and conviniently ignore haddin mouthing off all day.
He has different rule book based on color. That is only thing i see.
If it is smart Referee , he would fined all same or leave all with warning. It is very simple.
But he decided to punish who he though at fault in his own colored world.
if you want to see dirty , ponting become umpire and try to shove off bravo and telling he get off the pitch…ponting should have fined for making deliberate shove. if the same thing indian dude did , he would have suspended for two games.
The whole ICC “White Match referees” see things in colored glasses. These things happen regularly in indian state cricket boards regularly…so i am not shocked by it , it is the way whole indian culture is.
Some consider themself elitists by skin color and castes.
One good example of TNCA (tamil nadu cricket board – state in india ) operate , Ganapathy Vignesh was chennai superstars in IPL and he was the da best in ICL opening batsman. By common logic , he should play instead of krish srikkanth son who gets the job because his dad is selector.
The thing is Ganapthy Vignesh is not brahmin , now he is going around rest of india to find a spot in different IPL clubs.
If we would have been Brahmin , chennai super kings picked him , it would be front page news.
Now no one know. I am not related to Ganapathy Vignesh, i watched him in ICL , he was daredevil like sehwag , so i was eagerly expect him to rock IPL.
we will see. he might be trying to get into Knight riders.
I may be supporting Knight riders in next IPL if he play there even though i do not like ganguly.
Hope umar akmal get selected in IPL , Based on what i saw , he is going for everything. We need players like that not run accumulators.
CORRECTED: Jrod – need edit option – i need to read what i write before post…too many grammatical mistake , i can’t even read what i write. hahaaha…
One good example of TNCA (tamil nadu cricket board – state in india ) operate , Ganapathy Vignesh was in chennai superstars in ICL.He was the best in ICL opening batsman. By common logic , he should play in Chennai Super Kings instead of krish srikkanth son who gets the job because his dad is selector. TNCA prefer brahmin or upper caste in the team. Chennai IPL is run by TNCA people.
The thing is Ganapthy Vignesh is not brahmin , now he is going around rest of india to find a spot in different IPL clubs.
If he would have been Brahmin , chennai super kings picked him , it would be front page news.
Now no one knows. I am not related to Ganapathy Vignesh, i watched him in ICL , he was daredevil like sehwag , so i was eagerly expect him to rock IPL.
We will see. he might be trying to get into Knight riders.
I may be supporting Knight riders in next IPL if he plays there even though i do not like ganguly. I like underdog story. That inspire people.
Hope umar akmal get selected in IPL , Based on what i saw , he is going for everything. We need players like that not run accumulators. We need to see greatness.
racist australians, cheating umpires, india is a victim.. *yawn*
I am not sure australia is racist, i am not sure umpire is cheat , Only thing i see is Chris broad interpretation is colored judgement in my eyes.
But again each one see things differently. if you ask some people here indian cricket board is castist , 90% of the people say no. It does not make it BCCI is not castist. It is how and who you sample for the voting process.
The people come here and babble are select groups…elitists. They only see others and do not have mirror to see all bad things in india.
I like to voice for underdogs and weak people whose voice to be heard. hahahaha.
India is victim of its own creation nothing else.
That said you can’t remove this completely , next one will also behave same way what you are going to do. It is fault of appoinment process when different cultures involved.
We need people who understand different cultures should be put as match referee. Otherwise people make judgement based on their “COMFORTABILITY” with color.
Alok you are incredibly naive if you think youtube gives you all the facts.
Jogi, mate i’ve read a lot of your poisonous comments… you seriously need a new hobby that hate you have inside will just build up and kill you one day.
Menwhopause, I went to the optometrist the other day and he confirmed i have two eyes which means i more than qualified to type here in cyclopsville. I suggest you go to the brain doctor to confirm you can write comments that actually make sense.
Most of you are so anti Aussie or colour blind you can’t actually judge the incident on its merit. If this was a game against England, fuck all of you Indians would be commenting.
I thought Benn was supposed to be a bit of an aggresive bastard anyway. He’s been getting up in everyones faces…so naturally when he skims the line of what is correct conduct, Benn is copping it.
As a bowler, walking into the middle when the batsmen are confering is not incredibly cool. Particularly if you are pointing arms that get in the way of peoples heads.
I don’t think that Benn is being punished just for this incident alone.
According to Chris broad that is the only case. So if there is any other issue which we do not know he has to tell us that then people understand his decision.
I do not think haddin point the bat at benn showing he beat him is not equal to benn pointing his finger.
Anyways this kind of issue will never go away. I think these things get magnified when you have below average aussie team. Aussies has fighting mentality always , they want to win , unfortunately the team is not good compared to mcgrath/warne time. So aussies look for other channels to infuriate opposition so they can win at any cost. When opposition team fight back , we get into explosive situations.
Everyone will forget this because it is West indies and Australia. It all depends on Gayle to see whether West Indies can win or not. It would be Great Story if Gayle score some runs to snatch victory from aussies. I didn’t expect aussies to fold down like this, so we do not know how west indies respond.
Reposting this on my blog – thanks Jrod.
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LL, thats why cunts like you exist, so that i may find release.
Your comments of course are typically white and fair.
Apologies if somebody mentioned this here before but I think the main reason why Benn got the suspension (which is ridiculous) is because his plea to the charges was NOT GUILTY where as the Aussies admitted guilt. Still think it’s silly, though.
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That is only for punishment. Benn got level 2 , Watson and mitchell johnson got level 1. Crazy.
Based on you tube video , i see the opposite. Yes benn is animated because he is more reacting to the abuse.
it is almost seems like Chris broad looking at Ben as low level life form larva. I can’t believe this Chris broad guy even allowed to be match referee. He will be a catalyst to create cricket world war III. hahahaha.
Msprint,
Dhananjay has already addressed that in the previous post.
Heres the relevant link:
http://prempanicker.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/broad-redux/
Is Watson going to get fined for acting like a fish monger?
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Dhoni got banned by jeff crowe for 2 ODI for slow over rate. Now i searched Google immediately see any precedence like this…
voila…
http://www.cricketworld.com/archive_series/archive_series_200910/australia_in_india_200910/article/?aid=22334
Aussie got only 20% fee punishment.
And here jeff crowe punish severly for the same issue. For me i don’t have an issue with that simply because there is a anti BCCI thing going on in ICC circles and they try to find a way to get at BCCI.
Cricinfo people may not like that and will start whining about it immediately…
Yes Yogi i am a cunt but can i suggest you ejaculate your bile on someone else as I will leave you unsatisfied.
Why the massive chip on your shoulder? Did your parents pick you an ugly wife?
Hmm every one fighting in CWB…it is like disease ,..it is spreading…who do you think going to win? 68/3…
I think aussie will win. Only guy who can win it for WI is Gayle and he is gone. Bravo may make some brisk 50-60 and get out. Nash probably get out under pressure. So there is slimmest of slim chance that WI can pull a win from here.
alex i really hope you are joking, especially claiming that indians are bedly discriminated against by the icc when the icc does whatever the bcci wants it too, benn got a higher punishment because he kept it goin long after it finished, and all that haddin did was have a few words to benn, as benn has being doing all series to the aussies which is perfectly normal in international cricket these days. Furthermore the aussies arnt the only ones who like to have a go at the opposition e.g. in adelaide benn standing all over watson when he is taking gaurd to start his innings. Im not saying that there is anything wrong with that but the aussies arnt alone in the sledging and dont go crying racist whenever a black player gets punished its bullshit and weak
JRod .. any frikkin way that you can stop guys like Alex from posting rubbish all the time ? He is like a monkey with a comp … just blabbers and types off all the time.
It would be wonderful if we were to limit ourselves to funny and intelligent comments, not that to read of nitwits like him !
Yes Little Lund brother-in-law, they sure did.
Oh no, your offspring will be ugly and stupid.
@ joey,
“all that haddin did was have a few words to benn”
who raised the bat at benn then?
I have to confess, I even slept with your mother many years ago.
Those who do not like Alex, just ignore. Alex, please write a little coherently.
I do not understand why me Aussie you India thing is happening. It is a West Indian who got shafted. And it is an Englishmen Broad who has given the shaft. Stick to individuals and do not include nationality.
About the scuffle, it happens. Hot blooded men with adrelain flowing are bound to have scuffles at one point. Shows that they so want to win in a Test which is applaudworthy in a twisted sense. The issue is about Broad and the manner in which he gives out punishment which is way lopsided.
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Daddy? Is that you?
Mum sends her best and says the syphillis has been cured!
Still got the leprosy though : (
This is brilliant. Jrod, you’ve done well to just sit back and let the insanity begin …
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DM, why spoil the fun? Let’s go further! LL has a point – the Englishman was helped by a NZer, another Englishman, a Pakistani and an Australian. Perhaps it’s the whole world except the Indians that is against the Windies?
It must be about nationality, not about whether mouthing off for minutes and physically butting in to a conversation between your opponents draws more sanctions than mouthing off and lifting your bat, or about whether a line should be drawn at physical contact, or whether Johnson is excused because he was surrounded by angry twerps. I’m not happy with the way it panned out, but let’s not keep painting one dimensional pictures.
ghurram,
What you want exclusive club for babbling in a blog?. Is it because i mentioned india is a castist state?. Does it prickled your brain?. Anyways learn to ignore things. That is safe way for your mental health. What is intelligent anyway. Everyone rants here. why do you want control ? so you can be cool in a bubble?.
For me everyone is biased. it is the way world works.
@ menwhopause, omg a had a bat pointed at me im so offended and threatend, have you ever played proper cricket
Look at all you guys trading fisticuffs – none of this would have happened if Big Benn had been a pacer like Curtly – No one messed with the Curtly
Except Iceman Waugh himself – and if CB had been the match referee, that series would have been stripped of all interest
hear hear
Someone write a protest song.
Benn is not guilty.
@LL and Jogesh: haha keep going….. man, we Indians are stereotyped
I’m with Benn!! Great work CWB for bringin’ this up
Cricket needs a John McEnroe (though I’m not suggesting Benn is). And ICC Code of Conduct sucks donkey dick
This isn’t fun anymore. Screeching racism at any time something doesn’t go your way is just boring and distracts from genuine racism. Is it that attack is the best form of defense? Pot and kettle syndrome? And why is misogyny considered perfectly OK?
The disingenuousness of it all is just puzzling.
Disappointed and out of here.
its always a bit rich when aussies accuse others of parochialism. for every equal opportunity bigot like jrod, there are a thousand reporters like malcolm cunt or posters such as little lund!
the takeaway point from here is that chris broad is a twat and as prem panicker has elegantly pointed out, he has been a twat for a while.
watching the entire action its clear that been was chatty (something the aussie cricketers condone) but the escalation was done by haddin and johnson’s shove was completely deliberate. yet they are merely fined while benn gets suspended. in broad’s words, aussies might only be pushing the limits of appropriate behaviour on the field but he himself is pushing the boundaries of common sense.
i wonder what the unbiased and saintly australian are now saying when the windies are only 50 odd runs away (while missing the lord megachief) from tying the series…a series remember these fine purveyors of misguided opinions were telling us would be utterly one-sided because a b-string side was visiting. maybe that was the reason for haddin’s frustrations — my team has fallen so far that we are struggling to save a match against the 8th ranked team of no-hopers in the world.
Well. Sunny, Australia will win today and watch out for the celebrations
. Would be revealing though – Mighty Australia going bonkers over narrowly beating West Indies!
As I said on another blog, don’t think this is necessarily racism. But it does suggest some form of bias with the disproportionate punishments handed out to players in this match and in Adelaide, and for me this bias seems very much in the favour of the more influential team in world cricket. Don’t want to upset the strong Aussie fanbase, do we? Thankfully, the more intelligent Australian fans can see the lack of equality. No need to shout racism, but I think it is time to get angry about the treatment of the less influential members. And as a proud Australian, I’m cheering on the WIndies for as long as they last today – since Ponting has been captain I haven’t had the stomach to support this country’s team.
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Oh Sunny your parents were a tad optimistic w.r.t. your disposition when they named you weren’t they.
What’s caused your chip on the shoulder? Is it because when you were lecturing in a white country the students laughed at you because your accent was unintelligible? Did it take you 6 years to finally get your PHD in history and not engineering? Did your beloved’s parents think you were too dark and thus blocked your wedding?
Go on work yourself up into a frenzy you donkey. Go burn some effigies.
Lower Lifeform
Oops, looks like that little romp in Sydney’s finest brothel went way out of control (you can always boast the pedigree though, unlike most of your countrymen).
But its now time to end it.
LL, my boy, see that lollipop lying on the other side of the freeway – fetch!
Wow not only did you lecture at university and drive a taxi, you also worked in a brothel. Where’s my child support you stingy of prick.
Pedigree? Hmm I’d rather be the offspring of criminals than slaves.
As for the lollipop, tsk tsk, you’d think after being put away for being a pedo you’d have learnt your lesson.
real class little lund. i don’t mind the insults but for fcuk sake atleast try to be a bit original?
jogesh99…thx for coming up with this nick…it suits him well.
This petition should be renamed – ” Free Sulieman Benn, or you’ll have a Jrod up your arse”
Yeah good one Sonny, calling someone a cunt like you and your Yogi did is totally original and classy eh?
yeah…malcolm (in)conn(tinent) would have been more clever.
Benn was wrong; punish LL. Peace.
>> you can always boast the pedigree though, unlike most of your countrymen
haha. little lund owned nice and proper. your comeback sucked our 3rd world ass. pls do go fetch the lolly for all our sakes.
- big butt.
Ok ok, in deference to your nation’s child-rearing traditions, i’ll rephrase that:
Little Lollipop, See that lund on the other side of the freeway – suck!
LL> Pedigree? Hmm I’d rather be the offspring of criminals than slaves.
Of course you would you whitey lund, and thats precisely what makes you so repulsive – that you celebrate your mass murdering ancestry, and denigrate the suffering of the victims.
And a little history for your little brain – Indians weren’t enslaved, Africans were. The two continents are separated by an ocean, like our intellects. (West Indies, India, oh so confusing!)
And, to overload the single-digit neurons in your caucasoid brain, the incredibly diverse and creative original inhabitants of the land you shit upon daily werent either of those – they were Indigenous Australians, or, as your kind refer to them, Aboriginis.
Dismissed.
Dismissed hardly you pompous asshat. When i referred to slaves i meant your country had been passed around like a common whore by whitey countries for the last 500 years. 3,000 years of culture but 50 of being masters of your own destiny eh.
You have to leave your intellectual epicentre to travel overseas to get a “real” education eh. Name a world top 50 university in your country – LOL.
Mass murder? Is there a neighbouring country you haven’t fought a war with? Tell us just how many people have died because you can’t get along with your neighbours. Tell us how well you treat the Adamanese you obnoxious twat .
Actually while of got you, you work in a call centre right, does it piss you off when we whiteys hang up on you when we realise who you are?
Walk into my parlour inbred.
Yeah, Australia is replete with world-class universities – The University of Dijeridoo leading the pack no doubt. Heard of IIT, IISc, JNU, St Stevens, AIIMS, Vellore Medical College, to just name some of them. Or just ask the next brown-skin driving by in his Mercedes which university he’s from, when you serve him burgers. And all this in, as you pointed out, just 60 years. No wonder talentless little shits like you are feeling insecure, the natives are getting restless white boy, and theres a billion of them.
As for whitey ranking, who gives a fuck. Even after this exchange you continue to labour under the delusion that we respect your opinion – fuck, you must be related to Ponting.
History again pricklet, India was never one country – nor was the land you desecrate today for that matter – but your homogenised white-trash mind cant assimilate any kind of diversity so we’ll let that pass. How many languages do you speak btw? No, and dingo barks dont count. I’ll tell you what, you count the different ACCENTS you have in whitey land ok, and we’ll count just our written languages, leaving aside the thousands of oral traditions.
>When i referred to slaves i meant your country had been passed around like a common >whore by whitey countries for the last 500 years. 3,000 years of culture but 50 of being >masters of your own destiny eh.
Agreed without exception. I joyfully concede that your kind is the best at grovelling, sucking up, and then double-crossing, killing and pillaging. Its a one-line description of colonialism dickhead – and you have every reason to be proud of that heritage.
Your parlour? Why have you finally got internal plumbing… but do you have a flushing toilet yet?
I’m sorry but I’ve been to all the MacD’s in Sydney CBD and have yet to see a “whitey” behind the counter. True story. But fuck you anyway there’s nothing wrong with serving burgers you prejudiced knob jockey.
Homogenised? You ignorant pus bucket. Australia has got more diversity in it’s populations origin than almost any country in the world. We’ll have our own Murali within a generation (with a fucking straight arm as well).
C’mon you know as an Indian, unless you have a degree from a whitey university your nothing in India. They are not my prejudices they’re yours. You might disagree but there is a 100,000 of your countrymen that agree with me here right now. Of all those community colleges you mentioned, how many have international student populations that match ours?
Speaking of languages dolt, what’s the most popular language in the world? C’mon type your reply in sanskrit, urdu or hindi, it’ll make more sense that your usual dribble.
So the crowning achievement of western civilisation is the toilet. It figures – you just couldnt get your ossified white bones to squat, like you just couldnt get your prognathous white jaws to pronounce any syllables except those in pidgin English.
Oh and try using water to clean your arse, it works better than paper. But that would require path-breaking multi-disciplinary research in a whitey university to establish, so i guess you’ll just have to continue to live in those spotty underwear till your greatest minds figure it out.
You’re finding it hard enough to keep up with my English my dear monolingual moron, must you beg for it in more refined languages. I’ll tell you what, I’ll get Symonds to call you maaki.
You couldnt have known this, since the Indians that come over there invariably excel, and given the local competition, how could they not , but they are the ones who couldnt get into any Indian university. Imagine what would happen to your lot if the real talent decided to come over.
Re the burgers, sorry if I touched a raw nerve – got laid off recently have we? But you can always seek redressal in the macho Aussie way – gather 25 of your loser brethren and beat up a solitary indian.
Yeah the toilet or sewerage systems aren’t important, you seem to be doing fine without them, I mean just look at the Ganges!
It’s funny all those “dumb” Indians that travel the world in search of higher education just don’t seem to want to go home, I can’t imagine why. Just how big is the Indian diaspora?
Dickwad you’ve got it arse about. It takes about 2 of our Lebanese descent blokes to about 50 Indian students. Even then thats not a fair fight.
Whats with the burger fixation? Don’t you have burgers in India?
LL,
You gotta be true Australian and living true to your culture and upbringing.
By the way, what’s up with “2 of our Lebanese descent blokes”? Aren’t you motherfuckers are doing everything that you can deport Middle Eastern immigranats from your conutry? HAHA
By the way, have you been able to clear highschool yet? hehehe
Folks,
Please don’t judge Australians based on the comments posted by LL. There are few unwanted nuisance in every country and Australia got LL. Poor fella can only think so much and he potrayed his stature in his comments loud and clear for every one to see..
He needs to know how desperate the country is for the foreign help, especially in medicines.. Why? cause such illiterate goons are causing havoc around the country and education is dying need in Australia..