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Old 05-07-2023, 18:29   #17
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: The Sport, or otherwise, of Cricket

Taddy, you miss the point entirely.
Dottie already acknowledged that what happened was according to the rules…the rules were adhered to.
But it was not ‘sportsmanship’.
Sportsmanship has been killed off by money. When sport is governed by money it ceases to be sport, it becomes business….a transaction.

I KNOW the rules were followed, but it was just shabby of the Aussies to make mileage of an oversight by the batsman (who considered this to be the end of the over and as such a dead ball…one not able of being used to stump him).
Do umpires never make mistakes? If that is the case why do they use video equipment to corroborate the decisions?

Shabby, Shabby, Shabby….and just because you were a player of sports some fifty years ago does not influence me to change my opinion.
That was then, this is now.
Taddy I say this respectfully and as a person who thinks these sports are a waste of human effort.
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