ABSTRACT
There has been and continues to be, among the highest echelons of the cricket world, a widely held belief that players’ behaviour has been and is approaching and crossing over the line of the unacceptable. It no longer appears to be possible to simply refer to the traditions of the game, or to invoke the captain’s duty to ensure compliance with the Laws and spirit of the game. The idea that the umpire is the sole judge of fair and unfair play, enshrined in legislative text and combined with the ethical convention that an umpire’s decision is final and beyond question no longer are enough to ensure compliance by participants in the game of cricket with the rules and Laws of the game. Mere anarchy seems ever closer.
