Brad Hogg Charged Under Level 3 CoC

Charged under Level 3 of ICC Code of Conduct.

Match referee Mike Proctor to hold hearing on Jan 14

Hogg charged on report by Indian team manager Chauhan

Brad Hogg accused of offensive remarks to Kumble, Dhoni

Won't it be funny if Hoggy gets suspended and Singh gets cleared.
Well not really,for Hoggy anyway.

It's hearsay I tell you, hearsay

Bhajji ~ Racist

Hogg ~ Offensive

If Brad Hogg is a Level 3 cock, then Punter must be about a Level 108.

Did you use the word bastard?

"Yes, hasn't everybody?"

Boes ANYBODY use the word 'bastard' any more? In its literal meaning or any other? I haven't heard it for years on end.

Deaf bastard

Adorable Bastard

Bastard boys ...

Part of the "defence" of Harby is that the Australians are the most abusive team ever ...so in response to Harby being charged and suspended the best that they can come up with in retaliation is that Brad Hogg ( a fringe player only in the team because of MacGill's injury and who has played only a handful of Tests for a handful of wickets in a decade ) said 'Bastard'....

Well that has certainly put Punter in his place for dobbing in Harby ....

"You are the bastard child of your whore mother"

That must be almost as rare a use of the word these days as is the use of monkey to imply admiration. Almost.

Nice. How about a boycott? A 20-man cry-in? Something about honour?

Yeah, what an unspeakable Bastard!

I can't believe that was the worst sledge uttered by any Austalian player in five days of cricket.

Maybe it was the only sledge they could understand. Or even spell.

This is what a level 3 offence is:

"The alleged offence has been reported under paragraph 3.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct which refers to players or team officials “using language or gestures that offends, insults, humiliates, intimidates, threatens, disparages or vilifies another person on the basis of that person’s race, religion, gender, colour, descent, or national or ethic origin”. "


Presumably calling Kumble a bastard is disparaging his "descent" but it seems a pretty long bow to draw. Hard to see how this offence could apply.

Unless bastards are known to be more common in India.

Hoggy thought Indians worshipped the god BASTARD.
Cultural misunderstanding.

Without a description ( Indian , Subi , Asian , Brown , Black etc ) I dont see how it applies...

Bloke gets the sack for calling his boss a moron. An IR hearing ensues, during which the flunky that dobbed him in is asked in cross-examination how he could be so sure it was the boss that was being addressed in that way.

'Because he was the only moron present, Your Honor.'

embee wrote:Without a description ( Indian , Subi , Asian , Brown , Black etc ) I dont see how it applies...

Exactly. On its own, it's just a backhanded compliment.

Why did I expect any different. The only real issues (Harby, Racism, Umpiring processes) in this Test are being swept away and we are either looking for convenient scapegoats (Bucknor, although he totally deserved to go after the series)) or descending into the ludicrous with the 'bastard' allegation.

Bastard can be a very offensive word in India, much much more so in Australia, while monkey isn't at all, not in the same sense. These are facts and Aussie forummers need to understand that.

But to stand on your high horse (Indian board) on a word like 'batsrad' and call it racism when one of your own players has recently used equally terrible words on a cricket fields is stupidity. At least BCCI could have thought of something better, is our board being run by Ponting clones? It isn't just the BCCI, all of it is descending into farce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8VmjDBymDI

Around the fifteenth second or so, Gambhir very clearly mouths the words 'Teri Maa Ko Ch**u" to Afridi, who (not in video) possibly started it and may have said something worse. So I'm not blaming Gambhir or Afridi

You can't hear it, but there are no two interpretations on what Gambhir is saying.

The point is $hite like this floats around all the time. For that matter what Gambhir was seen to say is as bad, if not worse, than calling someone a bastard (IMO).

The words, for those who do not know translate as "I'll eff your mother".

They should be making the evidence, the judgment, the ruling, the processes transparent. Or improving them. Instead they're all jockeying for position.

Docker looks like he would never harm a fly, all that grinning and turning he does. But this has shocked me, MacGill would never have done this....

MacGill looks more like the type of guy that would punch you at the very least.

Henry Nolonga wrote:MacGill looks more like the type of guy that would punch you at the very least.

Atleast he has the decency to stab you the front.