Monday, January 7, 2008

Start of Body line........

Cricket.. to talk about has lots of controversies involved it happens to any game which rises to a particular level, even soccer has seen lots of problems relating to match fixing and betting. But a game is still a game, there must be nothing important than to keep up the spirit of the game. But the recently concluded test match between India and Australia does not convey this meaning and reminds me the famous body-line series.
A lot is talked about when a series between India and Australia is on, including racism.But this spoils the spirit of the game. Especially Australians must focus on how to play a fair game, rather than focusing on winning a series by wrong means or by employing a 14 member team(11 players + 2 ground empires + TV empire + match referee). And Ricky Ponting himself turning to be a fifth umpire to rule a batsmen out, is very strange. I hope Australians learn a lesson from this, they can win a series or score records but it must keep up with the spirit of the game. This type of negative attitude will ruin the game, and these records which they score would be a worthless babble.

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