Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Not cricket
Nemo judex in causa sua is a Latin tag meaning that no-one can both make an accusation and be the person to decide whether it's true or not. And yet, this appears to be precisely what has happened in the final test between England and Pakistan. One of the umpires has (a) suspected that the ball may have been tampered with, and then that same umpire has (b) decided that the ball HAS been tampered with. Whatever in fact happened, this is a blatant denial of natural justice, and if, as has been suggested, the umpire was simply applying the laws of the game, then those laws need changing.
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Well, there's also Res Ipsa Loquitor, which translates as "a thing speaks for itself". So if the ball looks like it's been tampered with, it probably has.
Although, it should be said that I don't know anything about the incident in question. Latin just gets me going
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