By Omar Farooque, on March 7th, 2011 
The cricketing world was taken by surprise when the great Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne predicted a few hours before the crucial World Cup Group ‘A’ fixture between India and England that the match would result in a tie. Warne wrote on his Twitter page: “Looking forward to the game between India and England – should be a cracker, my prediction – a tie!”. To everyone’s surprise the match actually did turn out to be a nail biting tie when England equaled the Indian teams mammoth total of 338 runs, which at one point during the match seemed like an unachievable feat. During the press conference after the match Andrew Strauss, the England Captain jokingly shrugged off Warne’s prediction as a stroke of genius, but former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz said “Something is definitely up when you start predicting a tie instead of talking about who you think is going to win or lose a match. And especially when such a statement comes from someone as controversial as Shane Warne who, apart from his doping scandals and irresponsible statements in the media, has also been in trouble over being accused of taking money from an Indian bookmaker in return for pitch and weather information.” Continue reading The double standards of the International Cricket Council
The cricketing world was taken by surprise when the great Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne predicted a few hours before the crucial World Cup Group ‘A’ fixture between India and England that the match would result in a tie. Warne wrote on his Twitter page: “Looking forward to the game between India and England – should be a cracker, my prediction – a tie!”. To everyone’s surprise the match actually did turn out to be a nail biting tie when England equaled the Indian teams mammoth total of 338 runs, which at one point during the match seemed like an unachievable feat. During the press conference after the match Andrew Strauss, the England Captain jokingly shrugged off Warne’s prediction as a stroke of genius, but former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz said “Something is definitely up when you start predicting a tie instead of talking about who you think is going to win or lose a match. And especially when such a statement comes from someone as controversial as Shane Warne who, apart from his doping scandals and irresponsible statements in the media, has also been in trouble over being accused of taking money from an Indian bookmaker in return for pitch and weather information.” Continue reading The double standards of the International Cricket Council 
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