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It's how you play the game

Posted on June 26, 2008

Cartoon credit: Kipper Williams &the Guardian newspaperThere was an unfortunate episode in yesterday s one-day cricket match between New Zealand and England. England took advantage of a collision and injury to a New Zealand batsman to run him out. This is equivalent to scoring a goal whilst holding down the goalkeeper.England declined to recall the batsman. The umpires declined to take responsibility and declare a dead ball which would have cancelled the act. And so the destructive characteristic within man's will to win combined with officials' timidity to prevail over fairness.Gordon...

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