Out of proportion
Once Virender Sehwag accepted Suraj Randiv's apology, that should have been the end of that.
By issuing a public apology, the Sri Lankan board merely belittled the concept. At worst, Randiv’s no-ball was petty; at best, it was naughty. But he broke no law; he didn’t even contravene the ICC code of conduct as it is laid out. He can be accused of breaching the spirit of the game, but the spirit of cricket is a fuzzy concept. Batsmen rarely walk when they know they are out, fielders do their worst to cheat a favorable decision out of the umpires; and wives and girlfriends are sometimes brought into the equation to rile an opponent. If Sehwag was owed an apology it was from the bowler.
The bowler apologised, the batsman accepted; where do the rest of us come in?
http://www.cricinfo.com/sl-tri2010/content/current/story/473077.html
An excerpt from Cric Info
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