![]() The cricketing world is deeply divided with the Aussies insisting that they had played by the Laws of cricket while the English have been reminding them that same old Aussies are always cheating. This was during the height of the chucking controversy with umpire Darrel Hair amidst thick of things. He was invited by the Australian Foreign Minister to his hometown in Adelaide to watch a game involving Sri Lanka and Australia and Kadirgamar returned home by telling the diplomat that ‘Australia had won by a hair’. We had a brilliant Foreign Minister in Lakshman Kadirgamar whose ‘shopping is for sissies’ comment created quite a stir in Australia in 1995. Politicians joining cricket debates is nothing new. ![]() There was uproar after the incident as MCC members reacted angrily in the Long Room towards the Australian players and three of them had been suspended with MCC issuing an unreserved apology to the Australian team. The Prime Ministers of United Kingdom and Australia have been drawn into the debate of ‘Spirit of Cricket’ after England wicketkeeper Johnny Bairstow was stumped by his opposite number Alex Carey in the recent Lord’s Test.
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