you are a skunt and a blind one at that too!!
I saw and know that article for many years now. I tossed it in the garbage and never gave it a second thought, from the minute I read it!
1) who wrote that article, conducted that interview with Ram?
2) how credible is it! who verified it..Ramadin? when, where how?
3) why would Ramadin suddenly feel guilty and come clean, to sully his pristine career, to someone who refuses to sign their work?
Ramadin new Arlott, hob-knobbed with the best! if he had something to say to the cricket world, he could have spoken to any of a bevvy of great journalists, not least of all CLR James the great westindian writer and philosopher.
Ramadin was no county cricketing lout but one of the greatest cricket figures of the time. Ram had taken 158 test wickets and few had taken so many at that time. Ram supposedly spoke to whover it is behind that article! nonsense! Ramadin could have called any the big newspapers if he wanted to say something, and they would have sent one of their accredited people to speak with him.
4) guilt! is Ramadin christian..or Hindu? I ask becuase the only relevant sense of guilt I know of is the christian one! Ramadin may have felt christian guilt if he had occassion to feel it by being christian himself. but if he wasnt christian....?
also having lived in a christian world all his life and exposed to the awful behavior of christians in life generally, on all levels high and low, why would that experience not have disabused Ramadin of any sense of guilt for something as simple as shiing a ball in cricket?
5) what is hard for me to do, is to disabuse myself of the suspicion that Peter May and Colin Cowdrey, colluded with the english empires off the field to achieve a nutralisation of the effectiveness of Ramadin against english batting. they all had to have colluded on the interpretation of the then LBW rules, to protect english wickets and so neutralise Ramadin.
from the get go in the second innings the umpires refused to give the english batsmen out. and that continued for almost 3 days as may and Cowdrey batted to huge scores.
May and and Cowdrey put on what 411-or was it 511 for the fourth wicket, first test in 1957, second innings after Ram ran through them in the first innings. the english empires 'interpreted' the padwork of May and Cowdrey as legal and refused to give them out.
it all looks like colluision to me from all the literature I have read of that test match!
and what of the westindian captains role in that issue? John Goddard bowled Ramadin for 98 overs on a trot forever neutralisng Ram as an effective factor in international bowling from then on!
given all of this, again, why on earth would Ramadin 'feel guilty about shiiing a ball or 2' in test cricket, so much so he confessed to it in front of some skunt englishman/journalist who publishes it unattributed?
one would think that such a journalist, copping a coup by getting a Ram interview, would have been besides himself to put his name on the the results of his efforts
Ramadin was part of the 1951 tour of OL, the year after westindies had won its fist series in england. the Oz had their way with the westrindies then...absolutely. the oz did so much wickedness to the westindies in the setting up of that tour, the only thing they did not do ultimately is eff our bwoys actually
at that time too there was a white civil war going on in the westindies team between the TT's and bajans. led by Goddard and stollmeyer who apparently had little love for each other. that war contributed greatly to westindies failure during those years...1951 to 1957
that civil war was over who should lead between the two players listed. but there was also the racial war over the captaincy for the W's by 1951 were already clearly better leaders than any of the white players on the side..Worrell in particular
6) I list all this to clarify that cricketing life in Ramadins time was no bed of roses and players were no wilting flowers or damp personalities prone to feel guilty about simplicities like chucking, so much so to go confess their souls publicly.
and as far as I know there has never been another mention of any chucking by Ramadin ever since I saw that article some years ago.
if there was any creduibility to it others would have followed up on it. but just like I did no one took it seruiously at all. now to throw it up in our faces demonstrates how smart the poster involved is
the last tour Ramadin made with the westindies was 1961 to Oz under Worrell. that was a tour filled with a controversy over Oz pelters. at the time that was a real problem in Oz, which they blamed on baseball.... for the Oz fast bowlers, with the exception of Davidson, were all pelters.
the english in 1957 who defeted he westindies 3 games to nil, contained a great pelter in Peter Loader who tormented westindies batting, while May and Cowdrey 'neutralised' ramadin....
some do not know the history of the westindiangame so that they believe everything they come across on a printed page.
Ramadin never pelted! I never saw Ramadin pelt when I saw him bowl at the QPO. and I do not, and will never believe he ever chucked in any form at all..whether deliberate or as a consequence of natural action.
Sonny Ramadin was a perfect spin bowler of the higest class as player and person, who did not have to, and would never have confessed any such damm nonsense as alleged here....to some non-entity english journalist, when the best cricket journalists who ever lived, knew Ramadin personally, and who would only have been too glad to have interviewed him
googly is a blinkered skunt who cant think past his nose
the white countries get away with murder in international cricket! I go be concerned if in fact Ramm did pelt a ball or 2!
on the other had I saw Richards shiie a ball that cleaned-up Dean Jones who was giving westindies hard time back in 1984
