Cricket, the quintessential Gentleman\u2019s Game, has been in the news off late for all the wrong reason. Infact over the last decade and half, from time to time, the game has been plagued with some or the other match fixing allegations. Frankly, cricket has never been the same for me since the day the news broke that Hansie Cronje was guilty of match fixing. When I first heard the news I dismissed it as some journo creating some sensation to get attention. But when Hansie Cronje, who for me was a genuinely upright gentleman, himself confessed, it just killed the passion that I had for the sport. Ever since, I doubt if I have watched any match completely. I just can\u2019t. A far cry of my childhood days when me and my cousins \/ classmates set up alarms to get up at 4 odd am to watch matches in Australia. <\/p>\n
Today, I just about manage to keep a check on the results of matches so that I don\u2019t feel like a complete outsider in tea time banter in office. These last few days, the spot fixing scandal has once again bitterly bruised the game. Nowadays there can be no discussion on the game without someone bringing up the topic of fixing. Just yesterday, I saw this clip<\/a> of Kohli being hit on the helmet by a brilliant delivery, and than there was a tweet I saw that read like this<\/p>\n Kohli just used a helmet to hit the ball. Super shady.<\/p>\n — Apropos of Nothing (@sidin) June 6, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n