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The dark side of the game
Wisden CricInfo staff - November 30, 2001

As the Denness rumpus rumbles on, we publish another selection of e-mails from Wisden.com readers Feedback: Day 7 | Day 4 | Day 3 | Day 2 | Day 1

Maung K. Sein
The darkest side of this affair … is the inherent racism that prevails in international cricket. One only has to look at how the Atherton `dirt in pocket' matter was handled as opposed to the Tendulkar affair. When Alex Stewart was accused of fixing, the ECB refused to act, and rightly so because it was only an allegation. Yet, the "white world" demanded that the Pakistanis and Indians accused of fixing should be immediately banned. By acting in this blatantly biased manner, and the white press applauding these actions and chastising the Indians, they are playing into the hands of someone like Dalmiya who is clearly exploiting the "race" card.

Sam Sams
What happened to the comments of Tony Greig and Richie Benaud and other cricketers when Mike Denness said that Sachin had not tampered the ball. When the BCCI offered the ICC to keep the charges pending or in abeyance, the ICC did not listen. If ICC does not bend, I hope that the Indian cricket board will make sure the ICC's back is broken into pieces and the stupid and foolish administrators in ICC will have to run.

Paul Thorburn
Has anybody thought of the feeling of the man in the centre of all this? Mr Denness, a man whom I have met on a number of occasions, has been branded a racist which is quite preposterous. If Mr Sehwag has the future of cricket as a whole at heart should he not make himself unavailable for the First Test in Mohali and so the completely de-fuse the situation by being a team player. By that I mean not just part of the Indian team but the team that is trying to promote the wonderful game of cricket throughout the world. I have read lots of feedback concerning the punishment of the Indians and asking why others have not been punished when they are quite obviously abusing players of the opposition. The referee can only act on the information from them incidences if a report is made by the umpires, unless, of course, he has a qualification in lip reading.

Rashi Makar
What Dalmiya did was the will of the entire Indian nation, so stop making it personal. Call it the decision of the Indians or BCCI if you want to be specific.

Sudheer Kamavaram
The same thing happened some time ago and the ICC official involved was Darrell Hair. The president of the ICC did not make it an issue, but resolved it, as no person (in this instance Darrell Hair) is greater than game. But now why has this happened. Why does your esteemed site not even mention this. Why did these so-called good guys, including the Wisden, did not condemn the removal of that umpire? Why not apply the same rules.

Is the compromise reached between the ICC and BCCI a sensible agreement or a sellout? And should the ICC agree to make the Centurion `Test' retrospectively official? E-mail us at feedback@wisden.com with your comments.

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