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Wisden - Editor's comment

Richard

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Funny, they showed the Afridi-Gambhir incident on Sky News when I was at the gym earlier today, then Scyld (pronounced Shild) Berry (who I've never actually seen before - he's a good 10 years younger than I'd always imagined) speaking to someone. My first thought was "eh? Why on Earth are they showing something from a year ago then interviewing Wisden's stand-in editor?" Then it occurred to me that it was around Wisden publishing time. For the last 3 years I've ordered the book before it was on retail sale.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
You're lucky you weren't around in the so-called Wave Of Repression. Things like "poo" and "BS" were filtered.
 

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Anyway.......

I reckon Scyld is suffering from Henny Penny-ism as far as physical confrontation on the field. I've said many times before, the potential for it to occur has been greater in the past and, apart from a DKL fairy tap, it's failed to materialise. It's not as if shoulder taps like the aforementioned Gambhir/Afridi confrontation hasn't happened in a Test or ODI before. Even when Roshan Mahanama deliberately dropped his shoulder against Darren Gough in a ODI in Adelaide, as blatant an incident as I've ever seen against a pretty firey quick bowler, nothing more happened. Not saying it'll never happen but the idea that we're steadily building to a punch-up on the field, like some global cricket thermometer is gradually rising, is alarmist.
 

Richard

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The Afridi-Gambhir thing was a bit more than a "tap" TBH. And while obviously worse happened in that game (not just Mahanama attacking Gough - Stewart decided to return the favour not long after, remember) with every new case it becomes more likely that we'll get a full-on brawl. If nothing of that nature ever happened before it's no bar on it ever happening.

Whether Scyld is right in suggesting it's more common now than ever is a moot-point, but if you keep pushing the boundaries (and allowing them to be pushed) they'll break sometime.
 

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