Can you imagine Botham's dossier?
All this Pieterson shit, is very undignified.
Cricket has been like this since the year dot, but somehow the mess was dealt with in a more dignified way....suppose it's the the tone lowering impact of social media.
My particular hero in the genre was John Snow....a great fast bowler of the 60's 70's who rarely gets much of a mention.
Could be because, he was the sort of fella, who didn't like anybody much, particularly England/MCC management, administrators....Australian batsmen...diminutive Indian batsmen who got in his way.
The successful 70/71 Ashes down under was marked by Snow's spat with the outrageously biased Aussie umpire Lou Rowan, who tried to stop Snow using his occasional well directed bouncer. There were 7 tests that series, as an extra one was tacked on as the 3rd was abandoned without a ball bowled....England didn't get a single lbw decision
Snow ended up having an altercation with a fan at long leg, after he hit Terry Jenner on the head with with a bouncer, the Convict crowd reaction, made Ray Illingworth lead England off the pitch, almost provoking a bodyline 2 incident.
No doubt, all this made the establishment realise that the Convicts were not quite grown up yet, forcing HM Governor General, Sir John Kerr, to remove the government of Gough Whitlam in 74....although of course being a democratically elected leftish Labour administration may have had something to do with it.
Bob Willis made his debut in the series....a man who shared many similar traits to Snow, but somehow managed to keep his nose largely clean in the eyes of the MCC/ECB