India cricket captain Saurav Ganguly’s six-match ban for slow-over rate is hardly the ony time cricketers have been penalised.
For throwing a Match away
Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik was banned for a Test and fined 75 per cent of his match fee for two odis for deliberately losing a Twenty-20 game.
For throwing instead of bowling
West Indies’ all-rounder Wavell Hinds paid his match fee for ‘intentional throwing and unacceptable behaviour’ in a recent Test against South Africa.
For partying too hard
South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs was penalised his entire match fee for staying out late during a Test match against England earlier this year.
For carrying dirty shoes
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was fined $100 by New Zealand’s ministry of agriculture for arriving with undeclared dirty footwear.
For writing in a newspaper
The Australian Cricket Board fined Don Bradman £50 in 1930 for breach of contract for writing articles entitled My Life Story during a tour of South Africa.
Culture Vulture
Deep Throat (1972)
What Highest grossing porn film ever made (Budget: $22,000; Gross: $600 million by 2002) about a woman who discovers her clitoris in her throat.
Also Code name for mysterious Watergate whistleblower.
Who The film starred Linda Lovelace. Last week, University of Illinois declared that, after a four-year investigation, it had uncovered that the Watergate insider was Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to Nixon.
So you thought you knew all about
Tony Blair
British PM Anthony Charles Lynton Blair aka Tony Blair, the first Labour Party leader to win the polls three times in a row, has had a checkered life. Spot the grey zone.
A. In his college years, he sang for a rock band called Ugly Rumours.
B. Leo, his third son, is the first child born to a sitting British PM in the last 150 years.
C. The term "Tony Bliar" is commonly used in anti-Iraq war demonstrations.
D. In ’04 a move was on to impeach him for his role in the Iraq war.
E. He was treated for a back problem.
Answer E. He received treatment for an irregular heartbeat. Before that, many thought his health would impede his political career.
What Is
Espadrille
A Spanish rope trick, which results in a pair of bright summer shoes with canvas uppers and a sole of woven rope or grass. The other name for these ballerina slip-ons that let your feet breathe is alpargatas alpargata. Sounds like a shoes species um?
