After watching some of the games in the IPL, I have started to believe that there is nothing called Code of Conduct and the fair play points are the last in priority for the teams. McGrath has been great through out the tournament with some great exhibition of fast bowling, having said that he has not cooled off even after retirement on issues with umpiring decisions and following arguments with the batsmen. Last night McGrath's appeal for caught behind against Bangalore batsmen chipli was turned down and McGrath started abusing the batsmen for not walking and was saying all sorts of things against the youngster. It was total mistake by the umpire but the on field behavior of such great cricketer does not serve as a good example for the budding young cricketers watching the sport in millions.
Almost all the games had such instances of bowlers yelling at the batsmen when a boundary or six is hit or when he takes a wicket. The TV cameras are good enough to catch the foul language quite clearly and i am not sure what the match referees are doing. IPL has been a wonderful opportunity for the retired cricketers as officially enjoying payed holiday, ignoring the job on hand. Playing hard is good for the sport but playing foul is not good at all, IMHO specially the bowlers are the most who use abusive language.
Hope IPL will learn from this edition and take corrective measures in the future editions.
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Well said. But, i think nowadays, many bowlers glare at the batsman more for a show-off rather than real aggression. With the growing technology and the ease with which even the eye-lid movement of the players are carefully followed, some players tend to show off a fake aggression. Particularly the ones like Shreeshant, Harbhajan, Andre Nel etc.
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