Wow - I only just saw this - pretty hilarious, I am speechless, the ICC, the gift that keeps on giving... how many ways can they possibly make themselves look more incompetent...
Got to be a line in the sand sooner or later, Rabada had so much form he deserved to miss a test or two, to hand that punishment down and then reverse it is laughable.
Of course Jeff Crowe was an idiot before that by not suspending Warner too.
Seems a bit like if you're a star, or you play for one of the big 4 teams you can get away with pretty much anything
Not sure the Australian players would hold a grudge though, while they might agree he should have missed the test, no doubt if an Australian was 'suspended' everything possible would be done to get them off - and it seems they'd likely be successful too LOL
Is it just because it is the game of cricket that everybody is taking this a little too seriously?
Did anybody really have a problem with the shoulder exchange that happened? It was a bump at best.
Some of the best cricket is played when tempers are at their highest, India,saffas and England when playing the Aussies is the most entertaining cricket gets, and the only thing keeping it alive.
It’s not the greatest look when fast bowlers howl like animals when they take a wicket, but, running in for over after over, in the heat on a bowler friendly wicket takes it’s toll, and when that breakthrough occurs, it looks like it is a way to let out all the previous frustrations.
Bowlers have so much against them in all forms of cricket these days with shorter boundaries, huge bats, decisions being overturned by the DRS with some of them only being sent up on the hope that the technology saves them by millimeters.
A player shouldn’t miss a match due to playing it a bit too hard. Test cricket will die quicker if the fire is taken out of these rivalries.
