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On-field behaviour

Cricket players in general, and Australian players in particular, have been behaving badly in recent times. This is mainly due to a change in the attitude towards the game.

The on-field behaviour of players leaves much to be desired. In the past, we never saw fielders dancing in the field or hugging one another when a batsman got out. They used to maintain decorum. Great players and gentlemen like Bill Lawry and Wally Grout were also from Australia. Perhaps Ponting's men must learn from them.

A.P.P. Kasipati,

Hyderabad

But Indian skipper G.R. Viswanath consulted Kirmani who admitted that it was not an edge. Viswanath withdrew the appeal. Taylor continued to bat and England won the match. Contrast this with what happened at SCG last week.

S. Suryanarayanan,

Tiruchi

In the 40 years that I have followed international cricket, I have not come across a more acrimonious test match in which the run of the dice by way of bad umpiring decisions was so heavily loaded against one side

The minimum fair result in the Sydney Test would have been a draw or a win for India. Instead, India lost by 122 runs and it will be recorded that way for posterity. "The law allows it and the court awards it," Shakespeare would say.

N. Parthasarathy,

Chennai

In the match between Pakistan and West Indies in 1987, Courtney Walsh was bowling the last over. Pakistan needed only one run to win the match and had only one wicket in hand.

As Walsh ran to deliver the ball, he saw Saleem Jaffer at the bowler's end had backed up far and was out of the crease. He asked Jaffer to return to the crease when he could have had him run out and won the match. That's called sportsman spirit. Interestingly, Pakistan went on to win that match.

T.A. Karthik Abiram,

Erode

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