The Spirit of Cricket

The spirit of the game is inherently indefinable. I don't think it will ever be accepted and understood by everybody. For me, I like a warning. If you were going to man-cad, you'd warn them first. How many test-metters Johnny Besso played? He's in the laws. But there was nothing sneaky about it. Well, it was an accident. When Kerry let loose that ball, Besso was actually standing in his crease. My feeling is that in some ways, the underarm was in the nature of a warning. Sometimes you do that just to remind the batsman that you're there as a keeper. And as