Murali's run out and the spirit of the game.

[silentstriker]

That's exactly my Sentiments. From hereon I have no f****** sympathy for Kiwis who come whingeing about the Under Arm incident. That was within the rules of the game too. But certainly not in the spirit of the game.

Kiwis should never ever be mentioned in the same breathe as sportsmanship.

Looks like Macullum specialises in running people out in this manner when a 50 or 100 is celebrated -




The right thing was done in 2 previous instances where men of character and greater sportsmanship played Cricket in a by gone era , which unfortunately will never come back thanks to the likes of Yesterday's incident .

Point is, underarm bowling was legal and thus fair. This is legal, and thus fair.

100% of the blame goes on Murali right now.

 

[JASON]

I heard Mahela J 's comments regarding the incident . He made mention of an incident few years ago where Nathan Astle had walked out of the crease in an ODI where he could've been run out , but the Sri Lankans chose not to do it.
It really is poor Cricket to do such apalling things . Definitely not Cricket !!

 

[silentstriker]

Definitely not Cricket !!

It most certainly is.

 

[JASON]

Point is, underarm bowling was legal and thus fair. This is legal, and thus fair.

100% of the blame goes on Murali right now.

No disagreement there !

 

[silentstriker]

No disagreement there !

Then whats the issue? Murali is to blame, not NZ.

 

[JASON]

It most certainly is.

It is Cricket today as some choose to turn it to. Not Cricket as it was , and it seems sadly, never will be in the future !!

 

[silentstriker]

It is Cricket today as some choose to turn it to. Not Cricket as it was , and it seems sadly, never will be in the future !!

It hasn't been like that for a long time, mate. It was perfectly fine.

 

[Goughy]

The right thing was done in 2 previous instances where men of character and greater sportsmanship played Cricket in a by gone era , which unfortunately will never come back thanks to the likes of Yesterday's incident .

Funny to read that the Grieg incident held up as an example of character and sportsmanship. There was only 1 reason the decision was reversed and that was to avoid riots and to prevent the Test being destroyed by demonstrations and protect people. The umpires continued to acknowledge the decision was correct.

I hardly think decisions on the field being completely swayed by politics, crowds, public opinions and threats of violence hark to 'good old days'. In fact todays cricket is in a far better place now than then.

To me a decision being changed due to threats of violence is the opposite of sportsmanship and character. But hey, thats just me.

 

[JASON]

Good post, Jerling was walking in, then said murali should go back to his crease, awful decision in every way.

I hope the ICC or the Umpiring Reviewer , Studies Jerling's Role in giving mixed signals to the player concerned !!

Overall I think Jerling is not upto the standards required, particularly in view of his giving lives to Fleming and Vettori in the NZ first innings thus helping NZ build the lead as well.

 

[JASON]

Then whats the issue? Murali is to blame, not NZ.

The issue is Sportsmanship.... Not Cricket ...

 

[aussie]

Murali's fault. The spirit of the game is bunch of BS anyway. I mean do you hear what the players say to each other out in the middle?

ha, word out..

 

[JASON]

I heard Mahela J 's comments regarding the incident . He made mention of an incident few years ago where Nathan Astle had walked out of the crease in an ODI where he could've been run out , but the Sri Lankans chose not to do it.
It really is poor Cricket to do such apalling things . Definitely not Cricket !!

I am proud of the fact that Sri Lankans don't do this sort of thing !

 

[silentstriker]

The issue is Sportsmanship

There is no such thing mate.

 

[Goughy]

I hope the ICC or the Umpiring Reviewer , Studies Jerling's Role in giving mixed signals to the player concerned !!

Maybe they can give Murali "The Idiots Guide to Cricket" with the chapter on not walking out of your crease when the ball is being thrown in highlighted. Maybe have a 10yr old explain it.

Jeez, Jason. I started the day sympathising about the embarassing dismissal, but now all this whinging and lack of personal responsibility is just stupid.

It was out, it should have been out. Yes it was a rare occurance, yes it was embarrasing but that is the end of the story. Noone elses fault apart from Murali's.

As I said noone likes to be responsible for such an embarassing mistake but thats what it was. A hand should be put up and move on.

 

[nightprowler10]

I am proud of the fact that Sri Lankans don't do this sort of thing !

Good on them that they don't, but I still say Kiwis didn't do anything wrong.

 

[Anil]

the only spirit of the game is money, there is no other spirit....sportsmanship is just a fancy term which was replaced by oneupmanship long back....in this case, murali did something stupid and sri lanka suffered, simple as....

 

[LA ICE-E]

the only spirit of the game is money, there is no other spirit....sportsmanship is just a fancy term which was replaced by oneupmanship long back....in this case, murali did something stupid and sri lanka suffered, simple as....

disargee there's plenty of sportsmenship out there...sledgeing/trash talking is just being competitive to get into oponents heads and the end of the game they still shake hands which is sportsmenship and bonds even congratulates sangakkara after his hunderd ...

 

[nightprowler10]

There is no such thing mate.

Yes there is...

Just not enough of it around.

 

[silentstriker]

Yes there is...

Just not enough of it around.

I don't care if they have a big orgy after the game is over. During the game, there is no such thing, apart from the rare and inane occurrence.

 

[nightprowler10]

apart from the rare and inane occurrence.

Rare? Yes. Inane? Not necessarily. Either way, it does exist.