Every Innings Is Like New Scar Tissue

Was Marlon Samuels once molested by cricket? Not by 'a cricket player', I mean by the sport of cricket itself. Did cricket touch Samuels inappropriately when he was a little boy growing up in Jamaica? Did cricket offer him some Jesus Juice and free candy to get in its van and "play confessional", as the Catholic priests might call it?

I ask this because only the trauma of abuse could possibly make a person prone to self-sabotaging his own career to the extent that Samuels has done. First he gets banned from bowling for regularly bending his arm more than a darts player, now he's been found guilty of giving away pitch information and other match details to an Indian bookmaker is 2007, and is said to be facing a minimum 2-year ban.

So now he's going to have two concurrent bans. Are there any other ways for his subconscious to lash out and get him into more trouble? Has anyone tested his urine yet? I bet you'll find it'd test positive for everything from human growth hormone to asbestos --  it's clear that the guy just wants out, even if he doesn't quite know it. Help him move on from his trauma and get on with his life, will you, ICC? Leniency will only make things worse. Just let him go...

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[Suave]

I do hope we never have to see him in the windies team again.
He's got that smug look that should have been knocked off his face, back in school.