Timbo said:
A bit of funny stuff by the cric-info scorer though, it read:
43.1 Edmondson to Maher, OUT: bit of cross slog straight to the brown nosed gnome standing at mid on
a few seconds later it refreshed and was replaced by:
43.1 Edmondson to Maher, OUT: bit of cross slog straight to Langer at mid on
I wonder who the scorer goes for?????
Langer outraged by online comments
By Len Findlay
JUSTIN LANGER spoke at length last night with Cricket Australia officials and his manager, Rob Joske, about possible action after an internet slur was directed at him during Friday night's ING Cup match in Brisbane.
And Western Warriors coach Wayne Clark is demanding that Cricket Australia take action over the insult which was made online as the Warriors were thrashed by Queensland at the Gabba.
Cricinfo, an online service run by Wisden and licensed to Cricket Australia, recorded Queensland batsman Jimmy Maher's dismissal: "Edmondson to Maher, OUT: bit of a cross slog straight to the brown nose gnome at mid-on".
The Warriors captain was fielding in that position and took the catch to dismiss Maher, who had made a one-day record score of 187 in his team's 4-405.
"Pretty ignorant," was the WA captain's comment. "I don't know who did it, but we want to get to the bottom of this."
Langer, who was out for a duck in WA's reply of 198, did not know about the comment until informed by the media the next day.
"I'm pretty ignorant about what can be done about this," Langer said. "But it was verydisappointing."
He has not decided what action to take, but the WA camp will not let the matter rest.
Clark was as angry as Langer, and made his feelings known. "We will make sure something is done," he fumed. "This is unacceptable."
Yesterday, as WA began a four-day Pura Cup match against Queensland, Clark said: "We will be taking this to the nth degree to make sure it is fixed up."
Cricket Australia has ordered an investigation and the website scorer who keyed in the remark was not on duty yesterday.
Attempts to contact the ruling body yesterday were unsuccessful.
It is believed Cricket Australia has already spoken to officials of baggygreen.com, which carries the Cricinfo live scoring service, and that Wisden regional general manager Adrian Motherway has apologised "unequivocally" to Langer.
Langer's weekend did not get a lot better yesterday.
After Queensland had made 362 in its first innings, Langer elected to send in a nightwatchman to open the innings with him.
But Ben Edmondson, who had bowled 21 overs in the Queensland innings, was out second ball, lbw to Andy Bichel, leaving WA on 1-0.
Captain Maher described as staggering the decision to open the batting with a bowler who had sent down most overs on the day.
February 16, 2004
-WITH AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
© 2004 West Australian Newspapers Limited
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