Cricket has never been a gentleman's game, but at the same
time, cricket never glorified ugliness. It's a pity the way some of the fans
and media personnel are glorifying the ugly behaviour shown by the Bangladeshi
cricketers on march 16. They are terming this as "Bangladesh Brand of
Cricket".
Are you kidding me?
Ugliness can never be the brand of any cricket team.
Bangladesh's brand is playing fearless cricket and not ugliness.
I found ICC - International Cricket Council punishment
pretty funny. The behaviour of Shakib and Sohan deserved bans and not demerit
points. This demerit point system allows to repeat the mistakes.I really feel
sorry for Kagiso Rabada and others who were the victims of ICC's funny rules.
I am a die hard of Shakib Al Hasan, but being a student of
the game, I am not ready to justify and glorify his behaviour. The situation
demanded steadiness, but he made it complex with his unnecessary behaviour. The
umpire was wrong, but requesting the players to come off the ground was not the
way. Shakib forgot, with Mahmudullah around, Bangladesh were always in a chance
of pulling it off.
On the other hand, cricketers like Sohan need to understand
what aggression is. He is in the early days of his career and such attitudes
won't help him to progress.
And don't compare Shakib's incident with Sunil Gavaskar and
Arjuna Ranatunga - the situations were different. Even in 1986, while touring
Sri Lanka, Imran Khan was disgusted by the Sri Lankan umpires and protested in
a controlled aggression rather than making things ugly.
If you justify and glorify the wrong today, tomorrow it will
haunt you. Karma is a bitch my dear Bangladeshi fans and media.
Bangladesh win matches, but at the cost of losing fans,
friends and well wishers.
Thank You
Faisal Caesar
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