Since I was a small child growing up in India, like all of us, all of us been fed on heavy doses of the principles of Honesty, Integrity and values. All the school books that we read or were supposed to read but did not, countless hours of lectures that all of us received from the learned teachers and parents and all the religious, moral and historical literature that we grew up on stressed on these same principles.
The problem that I have with all that now is that nowhere in this vast reservoir of knowledge and experience that we drowned ourselves in, talked about selective Honesty. Nowhere did it mention that you can declare yourselves to be honest in one area of life but stand up and beat your chest with pride that I have already told I am not going to be Honest in another area. If anyone has come up with this kind of explanation of Honesty, Integrity and CREDIBILITY, I would be very seriously interested in learning from that text. To me Credibility is earned through overall conduct and character of a person, not SELECTIVE acts.
So is this article about cricket or moral values? Lets take this in context of the second India %u2013 Australia test about which so much has already been written and clear fences have been erected between Indian Media and Australian Media.
Should batsmen walk when they know they are out? To me, this is their personal prerogative. Umpires are there to do a job and if a batsman wants to wait for umpire to gi
