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...late Sir Donald Bradman was the greatest cricketer of all time [MILESTONES, March 12] and had the respect of all who played the game, with him and after him. He changed the face of cricket. There are not many nondignitaries whose family receives a personal and private message of condolence from the Queen of England, but that is what happened to Bradman's. PETER HATLEY Sydney, Australia...
...reference to London's Lords cricket ground, home of the Marylebone Cricket Club and universally acknowledged as the cradle of the game and Mecca of its faithful, is important. To have ruled over its empire and subordinated distant cultures, the British had to believe in the superiority of their own. And cricket was held, from the 19th century onward, to be the ultimate codification of those virtues, or imagined virtues, that gave the British their sense of superiority - fair play, discipline, fortitude, teamwork, self-sacrifice, respect for one's opponent and for the keepers of the rules, the will...
...much as besting the British at their own game became an expression of cultural pride and national assertiveness for the colonized nations, cricket also indelibly inscribed its values on them as a metaphor for the proper conduct of human affairs. "Just not cricket" is an expression common throughout the former British empire to describe behavior that is beyond the pale...
...Tehelka.com has certainly lived up to its name, announcing itself last May with an exposé - using spy cameras - of corruption in the top ranks of Indian cricket, the national sport. Now the fledgling web site has stirred an even bigger storm by secretly filming politicians, bureaucrats, army officers and business touts as they boast about fixing defense deals and, in some cases, are seen actually pocketing bundles of banknotes offered by Tehelka reporters posing as representatives of a fictitious British manufacturer of thermal imaging binoculars...
...they may also be discovering new heroes. Tehelka investigative reporter Anirudh Behl, who doggedly pursued both the cricket match-fixing and the defense ministry exposes, got mobbed when he stepped out onto the street in New Delhi. Two grown men grabbed and kissed him. "I'm amazed at the response of ordinary people," says Behl. "There's this whole feeling of empowerment, this feeling that somebody has struck a blow against corruption on their behalf." Things are certainly heating up in Indian politics - you don't need thermal imaging binoculars to detect that...