Should the world cup be abandoned?

[unrepentant]

Given the appalling events of the past few days and especially now that the Police have confirmed that Bob Woolmer was murdered, should the cricket world cup be abandoned?

Should the ICC now act and say life is more important than a cricket tournament?

Or is it too much to expect an organisation that gives tacit and indeed tangible endorsement to the corrupt and barbarous regieme of Robert Mugabe to take any action on an ethical or moral basis?

[ewenm]

I doubt Woolmer would want to be remembered that way. He'd want the tournament to go on surely...?

[Size Nine Elm]

To remember Bob Woolmer, they could always play for the Ashes.

:coat: :gone:

[unrepentant]

AD thinks they should abandon it.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/crick

[308gt4]

unfortunately unrep, money talks and BS walks .... and that's all you'll get out of the ICC

although to be fair to the host countries they have put in a lot of effort for it to be cancelled at this stage

I've felt like strangling my coach a few times but this must have been motivated by a very sick and desperate person

[Podie]

unrepentant said:

AD thinks they should abandon it.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/crick

that article said:

But Donald added: "My personal opinion would have been to stop, but knowing Bob he would have wanted this to go ahead.

Play on. The man loved cricket - play in his honour (IMO)

Edited by Podie on Friday 23 March 10:38

[unrepentant]

I'm not advocating abandonment, merely asking the question.

It would seem from a lot of the comments flying around now that cricket is far more corrupt than possibly most people imagined, with the Cronje affair far from being an isolated case.

With the ICC prepared to play politics with cricketers lives (insisting England go to Zimbabwe against the wishes of the players and despite death threats) and allowing a team selected not on ability but by political interference to be in the tournament (Zimbabwe) can we look to them for leadership? Malcolm Speed does not fill me with confidence. (Nor David Morgan for that matter).

[jagdpanther]

It shouldnt be abandoned, but maybe postponed until everything is cleared up?

[fozzi]

Definitely play on.....

and if (as I suspect will prove to be the case) Bob Woolmer is 100% innocent of any involvement in match fixing, then maybe they should name either the CWC trophy or MOTM medal after him!!

[Nicholas Blair]

This one has me well and truly stumped.

[308gt4]

unrepentant said:

It would seem from a lot of the comments flying around now that cricket is far more corrupt than possibly most people imagined, with the Cronje affair far from being an isolated case.

I think we have all suspected sham results in some games for some time.

Cronje was nothing less than a crook, he would hide behind religion and profess to be a good man but at the end of the day he was a lowlife and disgrace to his country and I'll bet some SAers were none too pleased to know their CAPTAIN (the most influential player) was organising for them to lose!!

I have seen some games Oz have played against NZ where it was obvious the NZers were hopelessly outclassed on the day yet somehow the Aussies played badly enough to lose an unlosable game.... I'm not saying they threw the game but their arrogance sure as hell was out in full force some days and Warne and MWaugh took money from bookmakers for "pitch reports"

When you get to Pakistan you always have to check with the bookmakers before looking at the possibility of them winning and then ask who THEY had their money on. Pakistan have been a disgrace to world cricket for some time now, with the match fixing, players taking performance enhancing drugs and getting off, ball tampering and who knows what else.

I think Bob probably thought he could straighten them out but probably didn't realise how bad it had got and was going to blow the whistle and instead of walking away quietly and then telling the story probably told them he was going to whistleblow before he could get to safety.