Arul says… Harbhajan’s slapping of Sreesanth is nothing but a form of violence. Violence by anyone, is an unlawful act.
In some developed countries even if a person uses violence against his or her own child, he or she would be punished and would even be sent to jail by the state, whether the child complains or not. If an owner of an animal uses violence against it, he or she would also be punished. Should sports persons be allowed to go Scot free if he or she uses violence, though he or she might apologise to the person on whom he had used violence later in private life. The violence by Harbhajan Singh is not only an unlawful act but is also an insult to the millions of spectators who in one way or other, pay the players. The sports bodies and governments should take appropriate action to arrest such conduct by the players. If not, there may come a time when players might even murder other players on the playing field. No man however great he may be in the game is indispensable. That point has to be driven into the players by taking action against offending players.
There will be hundreds of players in any country waiting to replace them.
If violence is condoned, especially in cricket, which is glorified as a gentleman’s game, what Bernard Shaw said about cricket - that it’s a case of eleven fools running about in a field in the hot sun, with eleven thousand fools sitting in the hot sun and watching it - would be absolutely correct.
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