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NEIL MANTHORP: Bet on questions if Ram Slam was a Pakistani affair
Nobody should be too cowed to ask or too precious to explain. Let’s keep the elephant out of the room
Asking questions of validity in sport is not only a good thing, it is an essential thing in cricket as we attempt to ensure good governance in all that we do. It is when events and decisions remain unquestioned that we have started on the road away from sporting democracy to oligarchy. Let me say immediately that I believe there will be a legitimate explanation for every one of the strange events that transpired during the final round of the Ram Slam T20 matches on Sunday. I have not investigated what they are because there is a need, occasionally, to hold up a mirror for those at the centre of the game. The tournament’s runaway leaders, the Titans, faced the Dolphins, who had an outside chance of hosting a lucrative home semifinal. The Cobras seemed all but assured of that home semifinal as they faced the Warriors, who were clinging on to fourth place. In order for the Cobras to lose out and the Dolphins to benefit, three events needed to happen. In increasing order of unlikelihood...
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