bigfluffylemon wrote:Have to agree with wasteolad. It's illegal, it brings him and the game into disrepute, and it's not as if he hasn't had multiple warnings
Having a gram of cocaine in your pocket is pretty trivial, and the police wouldnt bother filling the paperwork. If you are dogmatically insistent that the law is the law, then why is Hales the only person to get pulled up on this?
Graeme Swann.... Drunk behind a wheel, went to the 2011 World Cup and never missed a match due to it
Jimmy Anderson.... pushes and swears in another players face, no punishment, thats common assault/battery
Jonny Bairstow headbutts someone in a bar, no punishment
Steve Finn was asleep outside on the floor when Warner headbutted Root.... Drunk and Disorderly, not punished.
Ben Stokes smashing a locker.... criminal damage
Andrew Strauss dropping the c-bomb before the watershed on national TV..... Indeceny Act. Got promoted.
Of course, Hales has disrupted the squad, so has to go..... but Bairstow is on record saying the headbutt had a negative effect on the dressing room, and all the team paid for that with a curfew. Anderson states his pathetic performance at the 2015 WC was because of that incident, adn the team played with no aggression because he was under the radar. And Stokes was straight back for the India tests when his presence would no doubt probably not have been helpful with a court case shadowing the team.
One rule for one, another for others?