Wahab-Trott Altercation

[Sachinism]

There are reports emerging that Jonathan Trott had Wahab Riaz by the throat during the "altercation" in the nets :omg: Trotty gonna be in trouble

[EnterTheVoid]

Go Trott Go :cheerleader:

[Roshanrocks]

he was giving him massage :idunno:

[IKnowU]

He was trying to help Wahab get the cricket ball out he was choking on after he saw his Captain Afridi do it. Non Issue.:regular_smile:

[ina_jawaan]

bit ott by trotty though that riaz does seem like a bit of a scumbag (judging by the tabloid reports and the pictures of him handling that bag of cash....)

[EnterTheVoid]

"A reality check is needed. Why would anyone conspire against Pakistan? To bring them down from the giddy heights of sixth in the Test and seventh in the ODI rankings? " --- :hysterical:

[Clarke]

"A reality check is needed. Why would anyone conspire against Pakistan? To bring them down from the giddy heights of sixth in the Test and seventh in the ODI rankings? " --- :hysterical:

belongs to another thread (butt vs ecb) :hysterical::hysterical:

[achilles]

Idiotic thing to do. Sachin Tendulkar wouldn't have done this. Andrew Strauss wouldn't have done this.

[punjabi_khota]

Idiotic thing to do. Sachin Tendulkar wouldn't have done this. Andrew Strauss wouldn't have done this.

The man in your avatar has done this (or worse). To his own teammate. :two_thumbs_up:

[Sachinism]

The pair grabbed each other by the throat and hurled four-letter abuse after batsman Trott taunted fast bowler Riaz as the two teams warmed up for the fourth one-day international. Trott yelled: "How much money are you going to make from the bookies?" Witnesses said Riaz made an offensive comment about a member of Trott's family. Cricket equipment was hurled as the pair lunged at each other. Stunned cricket fan Will Gubbins said: "Gooch stepped in to calm things down and urged Riaz to back off. "The rest of the Pakistanis came to support Riaz and there was a lot of swearing. Trott was clearly upset, shaking his head and muttering expletives."

[saneindian]

So Riaz got offended as Trott called him a fixer? Ye to abhi shuruaat hai, ab to fixers aur cheats jahn jayenge usi naam se bulaye jaayenge

[Shakthi]

Sahi kahaa ji akhir kutta ko kutta he bulate hain

[Zap_Brannigan]

Next up, Umar gul will have a go at Broad when Broad calls Gul a "pakistani"

[DomainK]

This was coming. They should have cancelled the series once the investigations started. There is plenty of hostility among the players.

[Fontaine]

Let me get this straight. A guy who played for South Africa under 15/19s and pissed off to then play for England is upset because Wahab Riaz is a possible fixer and get's in a arguement/fight with him? This sounds like a plot for a bollywood remake of Dumb and Dumber.

[Fontaine]

If this is true then both players should be heavily fined/banned under the ICC's code of conduct as the incident occurred around an ODI match. I mean, WTF, Trott of all people who wasn't born in England, played for South Africa junior teams is getting all upset about this? I'm baffled at this. Especially since Strauss showed such patience and restraint in front of pakistan's buffoonery. If I was Wahab Riaz (thankfully not) I would just turn around and reply to Trott: "Go ask Hanse Cronje you south african reject ****!"

[achilles]

^ Dude, he is a Saffie Pom. He will get away with it coz ICC has no guts to go after the Pommies. What a stupid thing to say by Trott. I'm sure if Trott have been in Wahab's place, Wahab would have been banned for the entire series and heavily reprimanded by the ICC. Bunch of morons! And thats a wonderful sledge, btw, Fontaine.

[achilles]

"The rest of the Pakistanis came to support Riaz and there was a lot of swearing. Trott was clearly upset' date=' shaking his head and muttering expletives."[/quote'] What the hell should Trott be "upset" about? He tried to act smart, he got pwned. I've lost respect for this Saffer!

[Clarke]

Trott had no business making fun of Riaz, i hope the ECB punishes him for this. After all they have some standards to adhere to unlike their opponents.

[achilles]

Pakistan considered police action against Trott

Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's one-day captain, said that his team had considered filing a police complaint against Jonathan Trott after his altercation with fast bowler Wahab Riaz in the nets before Monday's fourth ODI at Lord's. In a visible sign of the tensions existing between the two teams in the wake of Ijaz Butt's allegations against the England team, Trott and Wahab squared up on the nursery ground before the start of play, with the two players eventually being separated by the England batting coach, Graham Gooch. Although the details of the incident were sketchy at the time, Afridi later gave his version of events to the Pakistan news channel, Geo TV. "When Riaz was returning after warming up Trott called him a 'match-fixer' and that he [Riaz] was up to harming Test cricket and hit his face with the pad," Afridi was quoted as saying. "It could have been a police case because it is a crime to hit someone. But we showed a big heart and did not press for it." Afridi also confirmed that Pakistan had considered a making a protest in the wake of the confrontation. "There was talk of not going in for the toss because of the incident," he said. "But better sense prevailed because we wanted to play the match and we want this series to end properly. "The match referee [Jeff Crowe] called both players and Trott apologised for his remarks and the matter ended there as far as we are concerned." Riaz is one of four Pakistan players, along with Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, to have been interviewed by police following the allegations of spot-fixing that arose during the Lord's Test last month. The ECB chief executive, David Collier, described the incident as "regrettable" but "fairly minor in nature". Source - Cricinfo

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think they should've gone ahead with it. Had this incident been the other way round, we all know what would've happened. It would have boiled up into something extraordinary and the Pakistani player would have been banned, sanctioned, censured and sent back home, had he insulted and thrown stuff at a Pom.