How would you define spirit of cricket?? Does it exist anymore??

[AnkurUpadhyay]

This is an interesting article about spirit of cricket.. but after all the incidents in recent time, like Broad's decision of not walking off and Ramdin's cheating.. Also, match fixing scandals in IPL...Do you guys still think that spirit of cricket exists these days??

Broad saga in ongoing Ashes series once again raised questions over the spirit of cricket.. Whether to walk or not is a debate in itself, but this incident proved that cricket has changed over the years and so has spirit of Cricket.. But the question is, what is this 'Spirit of Cricket' means. What is it in reality and are there any rules that defines it.. I was pondering over this expression, spirit of cricket and wondered if it could be defined. I gave up my effort at defining the term and came to the same conclusion as was drawn by Lord Tennyson, former England captain, in his book Sticky Wickets: "Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket which can't be defined." Though the expression does not lend itself to a satisfactory definition, the underlying meaning can be inferred from the observations of well known cricket writers who have written in praise of the game and from the action taking place on and off the field.

http://www.thesportsway.com/2013/08/defining-spirit-of-cricket.html

[cricfan123]

Spirit of Cricket is an excuse for when the english receive a decision they oppose of, they go into the opposing dressing and beg for the decision to be overturned. Also when a decision is in favour of england the common response is stop whining

[AnkurUpadhyay]

Spirit of Cricket is an excuse for when the english receive a decision they oppose of' date=' they go into the opposing dressing and beg for the decision to be overturned. Also when a decision is in favour of england the common response is stop whining[/quote'] same thing happened two years ago when Andy Flower went into Indian dressing room to convince Dhoni... But they didn't seem to think that Broad's decision was wrong..