CRICKET’S LAWS ARE TOO EASILY EXPLOITED FOR GLORY

If there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, the same can be said for the moral limbo land that seems to exist between cricket’s laws and rules and that woolly concept – “the spirit of the game”. It was in that spiky no-man’s land that Carew Cricket Club found themselves recently, chastened by none other than that well-known paragon of virtuousness, Piers Morgan. In a series of tweets, Morgan, a keen village cricketer in his day, unloaded his scorn, calling Carew a “spineless, cowardly bunch of path...