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SPORTSMANSHIP AND ETHICS IN CRICKETBY: Suchet | Category: Sports | Post Date: 2009-11-17
In any sport the structure of its game is based on its balance, equity and equilibrium. The game structure constitutes of matching between players to player, offense to defense and task to task in order to insure that neither team has at least initially a one sided advantage over the opposition. Rules act to insure that outcome is based on skill and mastery rather than on deceit and unfair manipulation. Although the outcome is to be one of disequilibrium - one winner, but on Sportsman spirit is considered as ethos of sport. It expresses an aspiration or ethos that activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect and a sense of fellowship with ones competitors. Sportsmanship typically is regarded as a component of morality in sport comprised of three concepts fair play, sportsmanship and character. Sportsmanship can be conceptualized as an enduring and relatively stable characteristic or disposition such that individuals differ in the way they are generally expected to behave in sports situation. The virtues of fairness, self control, courage and persistence while treating the opposition team and showing respect for both authority and opponents define Sportsmanship. Cricket which has been called as gentleman's game from the time of its origin today is nowhere associated to such sobriquet. In past cricketers believed in courtesy, fairplay and sportsmanship and sought to imbibe these values in the conducts of the game. Cricket icons such as Garis Sobers, Clive Lyod, Richards who once being part of the ‘invincible' unbeatable West Indian in mid 80's of what Australia is today. Apart from being best in game they had set high set of moral and ethical standards in the game. Their victories apart from being based on game's brilliance also reflected high ethical standards on cricketing field which never were coupled with any anecdotes of verbal abuse , physical taunts , doping or sledging. Despite their fifteen consecutive test victories and two ODI world cups, they didn't emphasized ‘ victory' too much so as to compromise with the sportsmanship or spirit of the game. Basically, the spirit of cricket calls for honesty and good Sportsmanship. It isn't cricket is a term that is normally wrong and is not good behaviour. In every game of cricket there will be situations when it is expected that the cricketers concerned will be honest and a good sport. E.g. a catch might have taken in the slips on the first bounce and both the umpires might have been unsighted. In such a situation, the fielders catching the ball is expected to indicate that it has bounced and not to make an appeal. If a bowler inadvertently obstructs the batsman resulting in his fail and ending short of the crease, the spirit of the game expects you not to try and run him out, but help him back to his feet. But in modern day cricket, the importance is attached to winning at any cost and such values are slowly dying out especially in the international arena. There should be a basic respect for your opponent even if one is matching his skills with his own. In such situations play has to be played aggressively with the will to win, but in a spirit of harmony and camaraderie. Therefore the objective so as to out beat your rivals should be based on honest straightforward manner. There have been many instances when captains have recalled batsman whom the umpire had given out, but which he knew was not really out. Many bowlers have stopped in their delivery stride and asked the non-striker to get back into the crease, even as he tried to leave it before the ball was bowled. But the main issue raised by Sports researchers and Sociologists is that there is a very thin boundary which demarcates between what might be considered fair play and what might be considered deceit, cheating or deviant behaviour. The intricating question is of drawing a boundary between sportsmanlike and unsportsmanlike behaviour, or what the sports order accepts 'part of the game or strategy' and which is labeled as unfair and unethical behaviour. The cricketing laws of ICC therefore have not developed mentioning the code of ethics which define fair play, character and sportsmanship of the cricket players. In order to stop such conflicts in cricket matches which put inquestion the sportsman spirit, character and moral ethics of teams, there is need of such laws to be developed by ICC. Under such non existent laws the responsibility lies on coaches all over the world is to teach young cricketers the conventions under which the game is played along with the laws. Veteran cricketers should be involved so as to capture their reality, their conception of morality and allowing them to define for us the code of sportsmanship and fair play which guides behaviour in the cricketing sport world. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * The Devil's joke - Do you believe in Ghosts * Girls in Software Industry: Changing face of Indian IT Industry * Are women only emotional and sensitive human beings? * Google Android - the new mobile Operating system (OS) * Child-proofing your home Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. 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