Wrong way to make a point

India's boycott of the ICC awards ceremony more closely resembled a student protest than the conduct of mature sportsmen enriched by the game and obliged to promote its interests, writes Peter Roebuck in the Hindu.

Numerous excuses can be offered, but the fact remains they did not turn up. Presumably it was a protest against the ridiculous demands put on them by their governing body. Certainly the fixture list is absurd, with series and T20 tournaments piled on top of each other. Players have been treated like automatons. But no-one needs to feel any sympathy for them. India's top players only have themselves to blame because they did not band together to put their points across. Instead they have remained as individuals and so ineffective

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