Twitter off-limits for cricketers
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Cricketers at this year’s World Cup one-day tournament have been told to keep their fingers off the Tweet button by the International Cricket Council.
Concerned at the opportunity social media presents for match-fixing messages, the ICC has told players and team officials “no Twitter” during matches. Bookmakers will be forced to return to passing handfuls of used notes to match-fixers in front of hidden TV cameras.
No word has emerged as to whether the ban also includes players’ wives and girlfriends, groupies, friends-of-friends and unpaid hangers-on who just happened to be passing the dressing room while a bowler was ice-packing the hamstring strain officially denied by the team doctor.
ICC media manager James Fitzgerald has told the Associated Press the move is not aimed at particular players. It’s a precaution designed to make sure that no information is passed on that could be used for betting.
Punters will, instead, have to listen to match broadcasts and constrain their bets to those agencies getting free plugs from TV commentators. ®
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COMMENTS
Huh?
Why is Twitter banned specifically? Surely if you were trying to fix a game you would do so by private text message rather than "microblogging" it to the world anyway.
So...
... all that's needed is for the bookies to have a stooge in the crowd with a noticeable banner/ flag/ brightly coloured shirt which gets removed/ waved/ covered over when they want an "accidental" no ball...
Swanny
That's a shame as Graeme Swann is quite entertaining. Anyone know of a spoof Swanny a la TheBig_Sam?
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