Mythologizing the ‘spirit of cricket’
The commentariat’s moral grandstanding over Deepti Sharma’s run-out of Charlie Dean seems to suggest that neither the existing laws, nor the umpires’ decision, nor the MCC’s imprimatur matter much.
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