A delibrate mistake which is non-sporting shall be punished. If a fielder throws a bowl to boundry on the last bowl of an over to bring tailender on the strike, umpires penalised fielding team for 5 runs.If such intentional mistakes have been allowed then Murali would not have completed his 800 wickets as players would have thrown their wicket to other bowlers or as run out. Wasim would have ran himself out to prevent Kumble getting his perfect Ten. Srilanka has history of it as they have denied ganguly and sachin in past.Good that sehwag declared it to whole world.
i am wondering that why wasn't the runs scored off the sixer hit by sehwag counted? if it was then sehwag’s score would have read 105 not out. the argument given on all websites is that since the winning run was achieved by the virtue of no-ball bowled, the match had thus effectively ended. my question is that suppose if sehwag in the course of that shot for a six, had dislodged his bails with the foot or whatever, wouldn't he be given out hitwicket, even though it was a no-ball? According to the rules, batsman can be given out off a no-ball if he dislodges his bails by any part of his body or bat while playing the ball or the bails are dislodged by a fielder, bowler or the wicketkeeper and the batsman is found short off the crease.
if he would have been given out, then how was the ball dead? if his wicket can be claimed to have fallen because of hitwicket even though the no-ball would have credited india with the required one run to win and ended the match there and then; then why he cannot be credited with six more runs even though the no-ball had credited india with the required one run to win and thus had ‘effectively ended the match’ ?
INDIA supported MURALI to gain 800th wicket in his last International test match. But SANGAKKARA and SURAJ RANDIV played dirty politics against INDIA's hero SEHWAG..This shows how jellous and selfish SANGAKKARA is ! He is spoiling SRILANKA's name which was lifted by great cricketers like SANATH JAYASURIYA and ARJUNA RANATUNGA
If the end result--violation of spirit of the game --is same, then there is no difference in events even if the means or act might differ, for example...
1. Randiv bowling a no ball deliberately
2. Sehwag deliberately pushing the ball for four
3. Some captains using negative tactics to stop the flow of the runs
You will find many more. My first question is....has Sehwag played the game like a Gentleman? No.
It is kiddish to point finger on other when you are cornered.
Make no mistake, I am not defending Randiv (or lankans), who himself is a offender like Sehwag has been earlier.
I think India won with a bonus point and that is what really matters. Even Sehwag doesn't care about centuries even though he fully deserved this one. 99 or 105 shouldn't really make a big difference.
