Red and yellow cards for cricket?

An editorial in the Indian Express criticises the recent generation of Indian cricketers for showing poor conduct in the field, especially after the punishments meted out to Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan. The papers suggests soccer-style reprimands to set the players right.

India are a team enamoured of aggression but don’t know how to express it any more. They should learn from the Australians, who keep it mean but seldom dirty. And when one of their performers loses the plot, as Andrew Symonds did, they sort him out. The Indians, in contrast, are too secure in the belief that were they to be reprimanded, a chatter of racism-in-cricket would protect them. The Indian board must wise up to this.