Navjot Singh Sidhu is being fired as the ICC threatens ESPN and Star Sports

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Navjot Singh Sidhu is being fired as the ICC threatens ESPN and Star Sports to be careful

http://www.sportpulse.net/content/n...threatens-espn-and-star-sports-be-careful-536

Reported by Faisal Caesar

Navjot Singh Sidhu’s commentary is as attacking and aggressive as his batting during his playing days. His commentary is tremendously irritating and while he gives his expert opinion on teams performances it tends to cross the limits of decency. And for which Mr. Sidhu had not been granted happily by many.

Sidhu is giving his expert opinions on Star Sports’ and ESPN’s show hosted by Harsha Bhogle during this year’s ICC World Cup before the start and end of matches. Also with Sidhu there are Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, Sourav Ganguly, Tom Moody, Patrick Symcox and many other ex-cricketers.

In that show, Sidhu gave some insulting opinion about the Bangladesh cricket team and for which Sidhu is the person to be hated by all the Bangladeshis. A Bangladeshi cricket fan named Dipon sent an email to the ICC stating Sidhu as a “racist”. According to Dipon the comments which Sidhu gave regarding the Bangladesh cricket team violates the ICC’s code of conduct.

The ICC’s CEO Mr. Haroon Lorgat took Dipon’s email with importance and went through those video footages in which Sidhu gave his insulting remarks towards Bangladesh. Mr. Lorgat assured Dipon that the ICC has told Star Sports and ESPN to be careful in future. Mr. Lorgatt also sent this email to the BCB chief Mostafa Kamal and ICC’s MD, David Richardson.

So what did Mr. Sidhu do? On investigation it was found that, before the match against the West Indies while giving an explanation to Ian Botham’s comments, Mr. Sidhu gave an insulting remark towards the Bangladesh cricket team. Botham said that the Tigers are a head of the West Indies in the race for the quarterfinals. But Sidhu while giving his explanations said that both the birds and cockroaches fly but the cockroaches are not birds and he compared the Bangladesh cricket team with the cockroaches.

Dipon in his email said that according to ICC’s code of conduct rules any person insulting a nation or religion during an international cricket match deserves to be punished.

And Lorgat in reply said that the ICC have taken the matter with great importance and have and after investigating they have really found the evidence of violation of the ICC’s code of conduct rules.

Perhaps the ESPN and Star Sports team too will take proper initiatives on the matter and will try to get rid of such persons who have no sense of respect and gentleness.

 

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Mr. Deepon's mail to ICC (I just found it on FB)

Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:08 PM

Subject: Anti-racial remarks and ICC Code of Conduct Article 2- RACIAL OFFENCE

To: Haroon Lorgat

Cc: enquiry@icc-cricket.com, president@bcb-cricket.com, nchowdhury@bcb-cricket.co...m, kmahmud@bcb-cricket.com, ......tom@bcb-cricket.com,

Attn: Mr. Haroon Lorgat, Chief Executive Officer, International Cricket Council (ICC)



Dear Sir,

It has been observed that ESPN-Star TV commentator Mr. Novjot Singh Sidhu has deliberately commenting against Bangladesh Cricket which is a clear violation of ICC ANTI-RACISM CODE FOR PLAYER SUPPORT PERSONNEL under Article 2- RACIAL OFFENCE that refers



"2.1 The following conduct, if committed by a Player or Player Support Personnel at any time during, or in relation to, an International Match,shall amount to an offence under the Anti-Racism Code:

2.1.1 Engaging in any conduct (whether through the use of language, gestures or otherwise) which is likely to offend, insult, humiliate, intimidate, threaten, disparage or vilify any reasonable person in the position of a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee or any other person (including a spectator) on the basis of their race, religion, culture, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin."



Mr. Navjot has no sense of manner and we are so offended by his comments like 'even cockroach is a king in his territory'....'when Ian botham said Bangladesh has better chance over WI of qualifying into Quarter Final...its pain"!" and so on and on and on...(REF: BD vs IRE Post match analysis on Star Cricket)



We strongly protest his offensive racial remarks against Bangladesh cricket. We do believe ICC has maintained zero-tolerance against racial remarks as it is considered to be a serious offence by ICC.



If a spectator is not above this Ant-Racism law then why a TV commentator should not be show-caused in this matter.



I look forward to your kind attention and action in this regard.



Thanks and Regards,



Deepon




Reply from ICC Chief Executive Officer "Haroon Lorgat"

From: Haroon Lorgat

Sent: Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM

To: dEEPON <deepon@gmail.com>

Cc: president@bcb-cricket.com; David Richardson;David Becker; Campbell Jamieson;

...

Dear Mr. Deepon



The issue that you have raised had caught into my attention and we are completely aware of the fact on this matter. ICC has strictly maintained zero- tolerance in any form of racism related to ICC Cricket. The initial video evidence of the alleged offence had been reviewed by ICC and it indicates the breach of anti-racism ICC&#8217;s code during this event.



ICC has cautioned ESS, officially appointed broadcasting partner for the event through IDI (ICC Development International Limited, the commercial arm of the ICC) to follow the code of conduct applicable to all.



We deeply regret on this issue.



Kind Regards



Haroon Lorgat

Chief Executive Officer

International Cricket Council

 

[fida jan]

a long awaited judgement.. he was fired for his mouth

its like PDF bannin some insane member for life

not only him there r many extremist indians out there who dont exhibit the level of decency in their commentary

the commentator must be impartial of their racial or national prejudice.. siddhu guy is a lunatic

i watched his commentary on pakistan vs canada, and i must say this guy is deeply prejudiced

but the question is why the tv channel involved didnt take any action??

 

[Gentle Typhoon]

LOL yeh to hona hi tha. But yea I do agree with him, Bangladesh was so over hyped blah blah before start of WC.

the commentator must be impartial of their racial or national prejudice.. siddhu guy is a lunatic

He is not racist, He has many frens in Pakistan cricket (Akram, Aqib and many more).

and he is very well educated guy, loud mouth yes, but patriotic citizen, he is controversy free M.P., elected 3 times.

 

[blackops]

Wgo cares for what he said abot bd nothing is going to happen to the GREAT MAN OF ethic's

 

[fida jan]

LOL yeh to hona hi tha. But yea I do agree with him, Bangladesh was so over hyped blah blah before start of WC.



He is not racist, He has many frens in Pakistan cricket (Akram, Aqib and many more).

and he is very well educated guy, loud mouth yes, but patriotic citizen, he is controversy free M.P., elected 3 times.

its not about patriotism, i heard him during the canada vs pakistan match and he was so biased towards pakistan and was being very pro indian canadians

he even said that the match would be an upset.. how can a person define a match when its not even finished he heavily under rated the bowling of pakistan just because he was being pro indian canadians in canadian team

 

[Roybot]

Navjot Singh Sidhu is being fired as the ICC threatens ESPN and Star Sports to be careful

Navjot Singh Sidhu is being fired as the ICC threatens ESPN and Star Sports to be careful | SportPulse.net

Reported by Faisal Caesar

Navjot Singh Sidhu&#8217;s commentary is as attacking and aggressive as his batting during his playing days. His commentary is tremendously irritating and while he gives his expert opinion on teams performances it tends to cross the limits of decency. And for which Mr. Sidhu had not been granted happily by many.

Sidhu is giving his expert opinions on Star Sports&#8217; and ESPN&#8217;s show hosted by Harsha Bhogle during this year&#8217;s ICC World Cup before the start and end of matches. Also with Sidhu there are Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, Sourav Ganguly, Tom Moody, Patrick Symcox and many other ex-cricketers.

In that show, Sidhu gave some insulting opinion about the Bangladesh cricket team and for which Sidhu is the person to be hated by all the Bangladeshis. A Bangladeshi cricket fan named Dipon sent an email to the ICC stating Sidhu as a &#8220;racist&#8221;. According to Dipon the comments which Sidhu gave regarding the Bangladesh cricket team violates the ICC&#8217;s code of conduct.

who wrote this article? Bangladesh should stop blaming the whole world for the mediocrity they have to offer in cricket. Improve your game instead of looking for a bogeyman over and over again. Or better yet stop playing cricket all together, and save yourself some embarrassment.

 

[desioptimist]

Sidhu is know for making outrageous statements. Sometimes it goes bit too far.
BD guys search for "sidhuism".
Like Mandira Bedi, he has got his own fan following, who mostly laugh at him, not at his jokes.
Anyway, great for tv channels.

 

[Evil Flare]

so indian fan boys are supporting Sidhu's racism instead of condemning it

 

[Mike2011]

There are so many channels if you don't like don't watch. It is his way of talking. He can't change for BD team failure.

 

[StingRoy]

self delete

 

[Hulk]

I read his comments, nothing wrong. Problem is with people who take analogy seriously.

 

[Roybot]

And what he said wasn't racist as such. I think he just translated,"apni gali main bhi sher hota hai", and since he didn't want to be disrespectful, so he used cockroach and bird, instead of dog and tiger.

He suffers from a chronic verbal diarrhea, its incurable, can't really blame him.

 

[StingRoy]

And what he said wasn't racist as such. I think he just translated,"apni gali main bhi sher hota hai", and since he didn't want to be disrespectful, so he used cockroach and bird, instead of dog and tiger.

He suffers from a chronic verbal diarrhea, its incurable, can't really blame him.

He does that with almost every dehati quotes ... and tries to translate into english... which of course give a bizzare meaning to some of his quotes.

 

[fida jan]

There are so many channels if you don't like don't watch. It is his way of talking. He can't change for BD team failure.

same stands for zaid hamid bashers

apply your standards every where not just with limited amount