Thursday, November 13, 2008

Why can't Cricket have Football style yellow cards?

Random thoughts!!! If you like sports and if you feel our thought align then you can go ahead , if you are on the fence you can always peep in a think over my thought , others please break here.

Me & my friends had a heated discussion how the players fall all over the place in a football match where his opponent would have failed to touch the players. Ronaldo of Man Utd is one player i know of where i feel he falls to often without getting hurt. My friends would disagree me on that , but thats debatable, no hard feelings.

Yellow card are shown by referee where the player is official cautioned. He can continue to play until he receives one more booking. Then the famous red cards come out, The number of red cards is proportional to the number of mad people on the soccer field running for a ball. Can we forget the famous heat butt by Zanedine Zidane, that would remain my best memory that i can talk about in the football history. To me it Zizou : 1 and Matterazi : 0. Youtube presents those memorable Zizou heat butt moments.

I understand why people get angry, they are either provoked or are Robots which have been programmed to Run Fast , Hit Man !! Run Fast , Hit Man !! In a game of football we expect players to make fouls and be cautioned so all these fuzz about cards and send off make sense. I can similarly think crickets playing foul games and showing in disciplinary actions on the field. I have seen bowlers showing their bad side to provoke players. To me cricket needs to push this rule, i know its a Gentleman's game but players are provoked and showing violent conduct on the field.

4 comments:

Vijesh said...

You can have, but whats the need?

- in a 90 min foot ball game there is an average chance that it can be showed at least 2 times. There is more physical contact in the game so a fake is more usual. But in cricket. Say a test match, the bowler keeps bowling the batsman keep doing a well left.. Where is the chance of a disciplinary action. Incidents happen once in a while, so taking the incident off line but appealing to the match referee is a good way I believe.

Since cricket is still is played in Gentle Man spirit.

Arvind Sekar said...

Nice thought buddy !!! ..

But cricket is considered as a Gentlemen's game and football is not. I feel that since the spirit of cricket is hardly visible these days .. and after the infamous IPL incident, events in australia etc, yellow cards and red cards should be introduced ...

Srihari said...

@Vijesh, Yes football is a fast paced game and played for 90 minutes and i do understand that there will be more physical contacts during the course of the game. I can remember for every 1 card out of 5, booking is showed for in disciplinary action. Incidents such as shouting at the referee and at the lines man. Firing saliva's from mouth, these actions can happen in Cricket with cricketers like Sreesanth,Symonds around. But yes i take your point where the majority is played with Gentleman's spirit and few incidents to quote otherwise.

Srihari said...

@Arvind, Thanks.

I see good spirit with the current cricketers now. Earlier i can remember the incident of Greg Chappell asking his brother Ian to bowl underarm where Kiwis has to score 6 out of the last ball. This is not in the spirit of the game. This is not actions that can take a booking. Then the rule was not in place. But yes it will be good to instrument these new rules and see how it goes on.