The Spirit of the Cricket

There is more needle than I think England realised. They have this kind of betrayal myth. And they also had a bit of fun with Stokes this morning. It might actually help them because going two-nil down and getting rolled up at 200, that's kind of a damn squib of a series. Now there's even though they're two- nil down, there's a little needle to it. The Spirit of the Game thing tends to happen when there's not much riding on the game. We get so angry about these issues in cricket, because for some reason we think cricket operates on a higher moral plane from every other sport. As we've just seen, it does not.