The exact judgment of Justice John Hansen

Please find below the exact judgment statement of Justice John Hansen on the Andrew Symonds-Harbhajan Singh racial abuse hearing. January 30, 2008 BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL APPOINTED APPEALS COMMISSIONER IN THE MATTER OF  an Appointment of an Appeals Commissioner to determine an appeal against the findings of ICC [Images] match referee Michael Procter Esq ("The Adjudicator"), dated 7 January 2008 AND IN THE MATTER OF          an adjudicated breach of the I...

Two wrongs make a right… the human googly

Peter Roebuck's article, "what price justice?" highlights some important points on the attitude of the BCCI with regard to this hearing. I couldn't help agreeing with some of his views and thought it deemed fit. The BCCI and the Indian team, fans felt that the earlier hearing was unfair and a farce and that was fair enough because there were too many hollow areas and practices which were unacceptable. However, like very other nation, there was a right to appeal and considering the outrage and...

Bad blood

It was strange when I wanted to write this post, I felt it was a long time since I listened to my good old metal collection and ended up hearing the soundtrack of the Matrix movie by Ministry... The song "bad blood", which ironically this series had its share of spills. And now with the all "mysterious microphone" that has appeared, the lyrics to this song sent me chuckling on the second come back series of "The bold and the beautiful 2 - The Andrew & Harbhajan affair", which should once ...

On India and racism

I wanted to write about this and then stumbled on this short but well written article from the Ducking Beamer's blog on India and racism. You can read about it here. However let's not confuse this to the actual incident that happened and focus on some of the statements from the boards, ex-players who truly believe that India is not a racist country. Are we sweeping things under the carpet ourselves? Of course!

Behold: The clash of two viewpoints

Rich in his blog cricket-blog.co.uk, had a track back to my post and has expressed his views on Indian bloggers over-reacting unnecessarily. I couldn't possibly post these in the comments section. Rich... Welcome to cricketfizz, a blog and forum where anyone can register and contribute. I appreciate your view points and in response to your thoughts, here are mine. I believe that you (England alright) and most Australian bloggers for the matter of fact have not understood clearly at all the...