The gentleman’s game has seen quite a lot of ungentlemanly behaviour on the field in the recent years. Players of international repute have been caught on camera hurling abuses at each other. These incidents have proved quite harmful to the reputation of the game and while disciplinary measures against these players have been taken, as is the norm, no notable change in the number of such incidents have been noticed.
The BCCI however, has come down heavily against their players. 177 bowlers have been booked for dodgy action and 110 charged on disciplinary grounds in 2015. 25 teams and captains have also been charged due to slow over rates.
Chucking is one of the most immediate problems that the board needs to be concerned about, recollecting on the 2015 domestic season. Rahul Dravid had pointed out in a press conference earlier this year that the issue of chucking cannot be done away with by just punishing the bowlers.
He went on to explain that the batsmen who ruin their careers facing these bowlers and the bowlers who get left out of major tournaments since the chuckers are selected, also have to be kept in mind. The former Indian captain believes the issue has to be addressed at the grassroot level.
Coaches responsible for illegal actions: BCCI
Ratnakar Shetty, the BCCI general manager for game development said that the Indian board has asked its umpires to be strict in taking disciplinary actions against the players with suspect bowling actions. He also mentioned that the Umpire workshop which happened in Chennai SRMC had a session where the Umpires were instructed on ways to detect suspect actions. They have also been acquainted with the reporting system for these cases.
“Coaches are responsible for this,” Shetty points out. The BCCI general manager also added, “It’s the state association’s responsibility to ensure that they take measures to help the cricketers with suspect actions to overcome the problem. At least one association I know, Karnataka, have formed a committee to monitor junior cricketers.”
Rahul Dravid had gone on record in his support for the newly made moves to curb dodgy bowling actions in domestic cricket.
Bengal most indisciplined, Haryana fairest competitors
West Bengal has the most number of domestic cricketers who have been black-listed. Pramod Chandila had been fined 10 percent of his match fees twice this Ranji season while eight others from the Bengal team had been reprimanded for breaching the code of ethics at various times during the season.
The biggest offender this season, however, comes from Delhi. The Ranji team captain and India opening batsman, Gautam Gambhir had been fined 70 percent of his match fees due to his verbose on field incident at Feroz Shah Kotla with Bengal’s Manoj Tiwari, where he reportedly threatened to ‘beat’ the latter. A total of nine Delhi players had been found guilty for various reasons in the season, taking them to the number two spot of the bad-boys’ list.
No player from Haryana has been booked or reprimanded in the 2015 domestic season, neither from the men’s team nor the women’s team.
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