It has been called the Ovalgate where last month ICC's empire Darrel Hair charged that Pakistan had tempered with the ball, an allegation Pakistan challenged by refusing to take the field after tea. For the first time in test cricket's history a match was forfeited and England was declared the winner.
The rumblings of this incident was felt immediately all across Pakistan with front page news and street protests.
Pakistan team felt that Hair has accused them unfairly and their caption Inzamam-ul-Haq said it was a slur against his country's integrity.
A Code of Conduct hearing held at The Oval cleared Inzamam of ball tempering charge. ICC hearing concluded that the marks on the ball were consistent with normal wear and tear as would be the case of a ball used over 52 overs. Inzamam was. however, banned for 4 ODI matches for bringing the game to disrepute.
Inzamam-ul-Haq is happy with the outcome of the hearing and said he would not seek legal action against Darrell Hair after being cleared of ball tampering charges by the ICC. "Our religion Islam teaches us to forgive and forget, so I forgive Hair and will not take any action against him," Inzamam told AFP on his return.
This seems to be a victory for reason and common sense.
Geoffrey Boycott, former England cricketer and now a commentator was one the experts who examined the condition of the ball at the ICC hearing at Oval. After ICC verdict was given out overuling Hair's ball tempering charge, he had a scathing attack on Hair for refusing to show any contrition.
In the Daily Telegraph Boycott wrote, "Hair is the first man to apply the five-run penalty for ball-tampering and he got it wrong. He is also the first man to call a Test match forfeited, and I believe he got that wrong too."
Now it remains to be seen what the future holds for Hair's career with ICC who is responsible to cause this incident in the first place.
Sabtu, 30 September 2006
The fallout from South Africa's apartheid
According to the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and winner of the Nobel Peace award in 1984, South Africa's annual crime statistics have shown a sharp rise in some areas of violent crime. This is the unhappy position of this country after the end of apartheid.
This is the country whose famous prisoner through his 27-year imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben Island, Mr. Nelson Mandela became the most widely-known figure in the struggle against South African apartheid.
After Mandela's release from prison, he became the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections.
South Africa's democracy is now 12 years old, still young and somewhat fragile. Apartheid is history, and Nelson Mandela, has overseen one of the most remarkable periods of political transition anywhere in the world.
The former president and master of reconciliation is now 88 years old and enjoying a happy retirement.
Despite the end of apartheid, millions of South Africans, mostly black, continue to live in poverty. The legacy of apartheid is still affecting this country, with deep rooted communal suspicions and unresolved hatred of the past several generations of segregation policies.
The Rainbow Nation of South Africa, as described by Desmond Tutu will host the FIFA world in 2010. It will be the first time the tournament is held in Africa.
This is the country whose famous prisoner through his 27-year imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben Island, Mr. Nelson Mandela became the most widely-known figure in the struggle against South African apartheid.
After Mandela's release from prison, he became the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections.
South Africa's democracy is now 12 years old, still young and somewhat fragile. Apartheid is history, and Nelson Mandela, has overseen one of the most remarkable periods of political transition anywhere in the world.
The former president and master of reconciliation is now 88 years old and enjoying a happy retirement.
Despite the end of apartheid, millions of South Africans, mostly black, continue to live in poverty. The legacy of apartheid is still affecting this country, with deep rooted communal suspicions and unresolved hatred of the past several generations of segregation policies.
The Rainbow Nation of South Africa, as described by Desmond Tutu will host the FIFA world in 2010. It will be the first time the tournament is held in Africa.
Pepsico to cultivate seaweed in coastal Gujarat, India
Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Ltd, makers of the Pepsi-range of soft-drinks and snacks products, would soon start cultivating seaweed along the coastal areas of Gujarat and set up a plant next year to extract its by-products like jelly and some organic growth nutrients to increase the growth of crops in rain-fed farms in India.
This is going to be the second such plant in India, the first one being at Mandapam in Tamil Nadu.
As in Tamil Nadu, the Gujarat project would also be a woman-dominated activity. They would get jobs in their local habitat with flexible working hours and may earn Rs 4,000 to Rs 6,000 a month.
Seaweeds are used in many maritime countries for industrial applications and as a fertiliser. The major utilisation of these plants as food is in Asia, where seaweed cultivation has become a major industry.
Seaweeds are found throughout the world's oceans and seas and none is known to be poisonous.
This is a case of Pepsico making money while discharging a social responsibility to the community in which it operates.
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