ESPNCRICINFO reports that Gary Ballance has retired from all cricket - does anybody know details, what happened ?

[jaybro]

You can smack two bottles of vodka but a line of coke is a mortal sin.

It’s now legal in Canberra to carry a gram of coke on your person now for personal use apparently.

[Bulawayo Boy]

A very involved thread.

Frankly, it's a disaster to lose Ballance. We all know that. He looked good really recently too, and has truckloads of experience.

Anyway he's totally finished for us, either due to drugs or being pussy whipped, so fuck him. He's dropped us in the shit.

Bring back Regis I say. I've always liked him. He's dedicated and has experience although he's not of the same quality. Maybe his guts will count in qualifying.

[jontym87]

The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended 'racist' Gary Ballance be fined £8,000 and suspended for eight weeks in the wake of the Yorkshire racism scandal.

The suspension appears to have little consequence given Ballance announced his retirement from playing last month.

[Train Driver]

The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended 'racist' Gary Ballance be fined £8,000 and suspended for eight weeks in the wake of the Yorkshire racism scandal.

And if I was Ballance I'd tell the ECB to go fuck themselves, they're nothing but a puffed up bunch of idiots, I'd also be asking them when they were going to announce the fine and ban for Rafiq for his clear anti semitic comments

[sloandog]

The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended 'racist' Gary Ballance be fined £8,000 and suspended for eight weeks in the wake of the Yorkshire racism scandal.

And if I was Ballance I'd tell the ECB to go fuck themselves, they're nothing but a puffed up bunch of idiots, I'd also be asking them when they were going to announce the fine and ban for Rafiq for his clear anti semitic comments

I've met Rafique and he's a class A knob. Very much a self indulged bloke who believed his own myth too much. Doesn't surprise me that he came out with some of those comments himself

[Bulawayo Boy]

The England and Wales Cricket Board has recommended 'racist' Gary Ballance be fined £8,000 and suspended for eight weeks in the wake of the Yorkshire racism scandal.

And if I was Ballance I'd tell the ECB to go fuck themselves, they're nothing but a puffed up bunch of idiots, I'd also be asking them when they were going to announce the fine and ban for Rafiq for his clear anti semitic comments

Yup. What's good for the goose.... But let's be realistic - the English have been letting us down and demonising us for almost 60 years now.

[andrea lanzoni]

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I've met Rafique and he's a class A knob. Very much a self indulged bloke who believed his own myth too much. Doesn't surprise me that he came out with some of those comments himself
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Rafique is a confessed racist himself. Only a supernaive could not suspect of his anti jew discriminating belief and hatred.
How is the sentence? "too many of your lot " or something like that.
I wonder if I were jew, maybe also Israeli national, and apply to play in a all Pakistani club.....
Would I be discriminated when applying or everyday until I abandon the club .....because not being of the same "race" of Mr. Rafique?
Would ECB ever listen to my case?

[jontym87]

Who needs Garry Ballance when we have Dion Myers. Like I said before Ballance isn’t and wasn’t a ‘messiah’ there was nothing special about him. What Zim cricket did with him borders on ‘criminality’ at best and ‘terrorism’ at worst. He should have proved his worth in domestic cricket first.


If players like AB and Faf could be told off that even though available they need to play domestic first, then what’s so special about Ballance? South Africa went on to the WC with a ‘weak’ side and hats off to their selection and management personnel for not compromising their integrity. If policy says you need to play domestic then that’s it there is no sacred cows.

[secretzimbo]

You are obsessed. One might also say deranged.

[mnelson68]

Who needs Garry Ballance when we have Dion Myers. Like I said before Ballance isn’t and wasn’t a ‘messiah’ there was nothing special about him. What Zim cricket did with him borders on ‘criminality’ at best and ‘terrorism’ at worst. He should have proved his worth in domestic cricket first.


If players like AB and Faf could be told off that even though available they need to play domestic first, then what’s so special about Ballance? South Africa went on to the WC with a ‘weak’ side and hats off to their selection and management personnel for not compromising their integrity. If policy says you need to play domestic then that’s it there is no sacred cows.