Son Of Coco
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I'm not going to bother going sentence by sentence. It's not hypocritical to expect someone to do their job without being 'tipped'. Especially when it could be construed that that tip is payment for services rendered. It's not up to the captain to tip groundstaff, if the (extremely poor) BCCI want to give him a bonus at the end of the year then they can go for it. If Ricky Ponting paid the groundskeeper at any Australian ground for a job well done after a test I'm pretty sure there'd be an uproar.Thats fine with me.........but then you can't talk about the line drawn in sand business....and forget about racial insults as well because then you have to swallow the whole hog.
Never said that people do not succumb to temptation........obviously they do.........but it wont be for a petty $ 240..........even prostitutes get paid more than that here.
Maybe.........but one does not become an outcast in the West.........In India you're an outcast. And this is a place where your cast matters.
This is the very first match that he has captained........he wanted to revive the tipping tradition and was in a position to do so and so he did.
Why the hypocrisy? When it is OK to prepare a pitch to suit the home team, Why is not OK to be tipped if the home team liked your work? Its not as if he was expected to prepare a neutral pitch?
It happened in India right up till Kapil............then it died down under Azhar, Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid........now Dhoni wants to revive it, so its really up to him.
Temptation's relative. If you're getting paid a big enough wage to do your job you don't need tips, if you're not then $240 is quite a bit. As far as not becoming an outcast in the west goes, I think if you succumbed to bribery in most cases you'd be highly frowned upon.
This is basically why there'll never be an agreement between what's right and wrong when it comes to what goes on in cricket between most nations anyway. What's a big deal to some isn't to others and vice versa.