Who reprimands the media?
When journalists are in breach of ethical behaviour who reprimands them, asks cricket historian Boria Majumdar in the weekly magazine Outlook
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
When journalists are in breach of ethical behaviour who reprimands them, asks cricket historian Boria Majumdar in the weekly magazine Outlook.
Having read cricket history for a doctoral dissertation, I have read reportage on the game spanning more than a century. It is impossible to remember one comparable series where the journalists have acted with such lack of grace.
In the Guardian Lawrence Booth writes that an appeal to cricketers' humanity might work better than pious pleas on behalf of a spirit of cricket that has never really existed.
We - the fans and the pundits - will go on demanding complete commitment, we will go on criticising batsmen for getting out (it happens from time to time) and bowlers for sending down half-volleys. We will call them disgraces to their respective nations and we will make sure damn sure they do not want to fail .... We will, in other words, continue to get the game we deserve.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo