The Cheating History of Australian Cricket

Long before either cricket or Australia was discovered, hundreds of hardened criminal convicts, who were adjudged to be impossible to reform, in England were sent to this land which is now called as Australia, by the Order of The British Monarchy. The Monarchy and the British society was so afraid of social consequences of keeping these criminals that they finally thought exiling them to a no man's land would bring upon them the appropriate natural justice.

When they were taken to Australia, they were kicked out of the ship. Those who could swim over to the shore and later survive the adversities, built Australia on principles best known to them but are regarded by the civilized society as crime, treachery and cheating. But to their advantage, they were cricket players to the core, too, with whom alone England could play.

Come 1894, a tour by English team of gentleman cricket enthusiasts toured this land. There was no ICC, nor the representative boards but just the bunch of players volunteering in their individual capacities. Some 20 odd of them reached Australia after 3 months of voyage for a tour of 4-5 months.

All prevalent rules were flayed by the native players, they had the single point agenda, that was to establish their point of supremacy; they played 36 players against the 20 odd English in every match. They could bowl from any distance to any number of balls per over. They could bowl straight on your face or wherever their moods guided them. The matches went on for 7-9 days at stretches till players of one side called it quits.

By the time it was 3rd match, English tour party was reduced to 5-6 people; many had succumbed to injuries, others to sicknesses like malaria and plague which were rampant in those parts of the world at that time. English team was forced to play with fewer people inevitably, what was unfortunate was many of them were professionals accompanying the touring party who obviously had not played cricket anytime in their lives. The team captain had some how gathered some more persons of British origin to play their last tour game.

Today, Australians are an evolved lot going by their modernity, infrastructure they built; however, none of these is a big deal as any of these could be done with human efforts. What, without a wonder, hasn't changed a bit is their blood. As science has established, blood can't be changed or transformed; it only passes from generation to generation.

Ian Healy, the then Australian wicket keeper, had called Mohinder Amarnath a black and made racially derogatory comments in a match at Sharjah. See video clips here.

What to do with them? Is there anything we can do about this?

I simply wonder whether it is possible to reform an entire society at all. Have you forgotten the history?

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