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Harbhajan Singh's dismissal issue
by Vimal Kumar on Jan 10, 2008 12:42 PM

History Repeats Itself
The cricketing society world over is witnessing a raw of the greatest magnitude of history. We are still in a world where cricketers from different origins are treated differently by the umpires and referees. Australian player5s have habitually been abusing and sledging their opponents on the ground for decades together. But match referees have been happily approving of the misbehavior for decades together. On the other hand whenever such abusive behavior has been protested by the players of Asian origin match referees have taken serious note of it and punished them. Excessive appealing by Asian players and not by players of other origins has been treated as offence against godly umpires. Ridiculously enough the gross misbehavior on field by Australian players has been termed as %u201Cmental disintegration%u201D and %u201Coffensive cricket%u201D. Cricket field should not be a play ground for mentally disintegrated (unbalanced) players and cricket. Whether offensive or defensive has to be played only with bat and ball and not in abusive words. As long as the so called %u201Cmind game%u201D is translated into the game of bat and ball it is cricketing skill and as soon as the so called %u201Cmind game%u201D is translated into verbal skills on the ground it is misbehavior and unbecoming as on international cricketer representing a nation. Players on the opposite side have been facing it and tolerating such misbehavior for decades together. But surprisin

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