Usually there is a conspiracy of silence around the sportsman; most reporters are happy to stay clear of that particular story. In the case of India cricketer Mohammed Shami, there are two separate issues and those who take the Board of Control for Cricket in India to task for withholding his contract fail to recognise this. The BCCI was right in acting as it did. Most contracts have a “good behaviour” clause although that is not what it is called (Indian players sign a “code of conduct”). If we don’t hear so much about marriages of Indian players breaking up owing to cricket, it is not because Indian players are pure as the driven snow.

Source: The Hindu March 13, 2018 17:15 UTC