Ponting & Aus team got fined for slow over rate against NZ in the first test of the series. This is the fifth time Aus and Ponting have been penalized this year but the penalty that he has been getting is miniscule fine. For same offence, Sourav Ganguly and Collingwood have been handed match-bans by ICC match refrees but when it comes to Aus and Ponting, same person takes a different view altogether and ignores previous breaches.
Chris Broad was the referee during Ind-Aus series and also during Aus-NZ series and in two consecutive matches he handed out penalty to Ponting but forgot that if same offence is repeated within twelve months, the level of penalty increases though he applied the same rule while penalizing Sourav Ganguly. In case of ponting, this is the "five-peat" of the same offence this year but he still gets away with a light rap on his knuckles.
ICC - Wake up. You cannot fool the biggest market like this and more people realize the double game that you are playing, more irrelevant you become in cricket affairs and more legitimized BCCI's attempts to control Internation cricket become.
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