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Sunday 14 December 2014

Cricket and Attitude

Sport alone doesn't look good on the field. What does the crowd come for and what attracts them? They want entertainment. They want things to happen on the field. Long time ago when in cricket only test matches were played, in start people used to come to watch the match but as time passed by and the game became a bit older then not many people used to come to witness the match because the match used to last for 5 days and at times even after 5 days, no result was achieved. This led to invention of one-day games and later T20 (20-over game). Now there is something more that has gained importance from crowd. Let us have a look at this video first.



The expectation has risen since sledging became common  on the field. The fight is also dependent on the nature of the match. If it is Pakistan against India or Australia taking on England, you can expect a lot sledging and fights on the field and many people try to get to the ground with such things to happen. There are many incidents of sledging and fight in term of swearing in past which made ICC to intervene in order to draft rules and regulation in which includes of imposing of fines and bans on players involved but despite the laws, still this issue is growing and we get to see sledging and swearing by many players during the match and we can say that the law seems to not effect the players nature, their temper is out of their control and even rules and regulation seems not to leave a positive impact on players. In IPL (Indian Premier League) Fair Play Award was introduced in order to get make the game and free from any sort of fight but even that could not stop Mitchell Starc and Keiron Pollard from fighting. In past we have seen a massive fight between Afridi and Gambhir, Yuvraj and Flintoff, Samuels and Shane Warne and many other players were involved in different fights. In short, we can say that ethically it looks bad but this has something become depending which is supported by cheers from crowd and it add to the entertainment of the game.

-Muhammad Nauman Akbani

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