A noble gesture that divides new and old India

Evening Standard

Cricket has always been considered a highly moral game. To get decisions, players have to appeal to an official. Without that, the umpire will not do anything in certain situations such as leg-before-wicket or run-out. This is not so in other sports.

Indeed in football excessive appealing can get a player sent off. Cricket's unique system works because both sides implicitly agree that there is a genuine moral basis to their appeal and the umpire is more like a judge in a court of appeal.