Let's get it right!
With the onset of the Cricket World Cup season 2011, the sports channels are all abuzz with talk shows and flashbacks to encapsulate the spirit of the occasion. So, yesterday I was watching the semi-final of ICC World Cup 2003 between Australia and Sri Lanka on Neo Cricket. Australia was batting first. Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden were hitting all over the park until a ball went up and was caught in the slips. The bowler went up with a “Howzzat” and so did the other fielders. However, the umpire remained unfazed and signalled a 'Not Out' for Gilchrist. And then to the utter amazement of the commentators, the opposition team, his own teammates and the whole audience present in the stadium, Adam Gilchrist walked out of the crease and started his way back to the pavilion. The case was such that even technology could not have detected that Gilchrist was out and he would have easily got a 'Benefit of Doubt.” But Gilchrist showed the courage to stick to what is right in the face of all kinds of temptations. We all might as well take a note of this on the backdrop of the nation striding through rampant corruption prevailing literally everywhere possible.
Let's all make a move to curb corruption and a handy example would be not to hope for WC tickets from the black market this season.
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