Nothing wrong with bringing in the lawyer. We are dealing with ICC laws after all. The spirit of cricket went out the window when teams deliberately tried to provoke players with a view to getting them banned.
Good to see common sense has prevailed. Test cricket should be about the best players playing. If Australia want a series win without an asterisk beside it they will want to beat a south Africa team with Rabada in the line up.
Rabada needs to look at this as a second chance and ignore the baiting that comes his way.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/ ... t-reactivePrior to the South Africa series, the Australian team was reported as saying they might bait Rabada. At the time he was close to the required number of demerit points for suspension, and Australia's comments should have immediately raised the antennae of the match officials. Why the captains and coaches of both sides weren't immediately warned against that course of action is beyond belief.
Then South Africa reacted in a similar vein when David Warner reached a critical point on the demerit scale after his altercation with Quinton de Kock. On that occasion the riot act was read to both teams, but why aren't the officials proactive instead of reactive?
Nobody has a stance quite like the mighty Shivnarine....
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