KaZoH0lic said:
Prove it. Prove older players didn't sledge. Prove that since 30 years ago or even 20 we've become worse. On the contrary more people commentating on earlier era's are saying not much has changed. I'm baffled at this hopeless direction you tend to be running into.
It is YOU who must prove that the older players sledged with highly inflammatory and derogatory language as commonly as it is today.
And having talked to older players from the past, i know for a FACT that cussing out the opposition was a rare occurance for most non-australian teams since 1970, the last 10 or so years exempted.
It demonstrated one such example. An example of which will surely have backlash from the ICC if not the domestic government. So, what else is there to cry about?
As usual, you miss the point. My entire point is, if one can be threatened bodily harm with a ball as a mental breakdown tactic, one can also be threatened bodily harm with a non-cricketing object.
Nowhere in cricket does it say that it is okay to willfully cause harm to the batsman and that threatening harm to a batsman is okay.
As you can see with years of cricketing passed, it is what has always been, competitive. If the cricketers on the field grew into sides with truely virtuous beings why would they suddenly flip and become uncouth?
Because of people like you. The apologists who insist that abusing people( note - since you are so happy to toss around legalease, it is a legal offence to swear at people in a public setting in many nations) is fine and all hunky dory. The apologists like you give the impression that 'it is normal to go around behaving like sorry tossers and even making racist taunts gets you a proverbial slap on the wrist'. Each successive generation that grows up wanting to be crickters gradually grow up under this 'it is normal to be a moron' attitude that you and the apologists throw out and thus push the boundary as time passes.
If you assume the worst, then I do feel sorry for you. You must have lived an awful life.
I dont
assume
I know for a fact that this world is extremely screwed up and you are hopelessly naive if you think otherwise. It doesnt cause me any happiness nor does it cause me any unhappiness-for fact is fact whether you like it or not. My sense of happiness or unhappiness comes from within- not relying on external stimuli. I know it takes a bit of cojones to do that but i do believe that one needs experience to make comments about this world.
I also know, having taken psychology for a year at University, that it is a common human trait to say 'everything is fine' and lull themselves into a sense of righteousness and fill themselves with pride.