Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label boycott. Show all posts

Friday, November 30, 2007

Boycott calls for Day-Night Test Matches


ENGLAND legend
Geoff Boycott has urged administrators to consider the radical move to four-day
and day-night Tests to revitalize a format he feels has gone stale.

I think it is too early to contemplate a change. What the game needs now are more personalities like Sreesanth and Symonds and the Border-Gavaskar Cup will truly determine where Test cricket stands.

What do you say?

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Will a boycott work?

Australian newspapers are pushing for a boycott of future cricket tours to India.
Fortunately, Australia’s cricket supremo seems to have shot it down emphatically.

However a ban is a simplistic solution. It is not going to eradicate racism. Banning one country or the other is just handing over the game to these racists. They will become emboldened as they have the power to disrupt. Obviously, because of these goons cricket should not suffer.

There is one other aspect we will have to consider. How would the countries take it?
Will they be mature enough to put their house in order? Or, will it mean a tit for tat response?