NormAustralian Cricketers admit they drop catches on purpose to give India a chance of winning a match.
An image sent to Cricket Australia via mobile phone by India's Cricket Board.
After Australia thrashed India in the no-contest 20/20 cricket match on Friday night in front of 85,000 spectators, James Sutherland of Cricket Australia called the Australian cricket team into a twelve hour meeting, and finally convinced them to give India a chance of winning at least one match before they go home, so that spectators would turn up to the matches and sponsors would still pour millions of dollars into cricket. Ricky Ponting reluctantly agreed, and instructed Australia’s one day cricketers to drop at least three catches in the first twenty overs to give India a chance of competing. Michael Symonds confirmed that this morning’s fielding session at the Gabba was all about how to drop a catch and throw the ball at least five metres wide of the stumps, and that the Australians had spent hours watching the Indian side fielding to work out exactly how to go about fielding badly. Sutherland said that if Australia thrashed India today, he would work on bad running between the wickets, and racially abusing Indians so that our best players are banned.
