Adam Collins dissects the opinion of MCC laws manager Fraser Stewart to strike a balance between rules of the game and breaching the Spirit of Cricket’

Laws tsar: Fraser Stewart

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It is fashionable when the term ‘spirit of cricket’ is thrown around to dismiss it as confected garbage, used selectively to bolster the narrow argument of the person making it. I should know, given that mine is usually one of the voices reacting/ranting in just this way. The thinking continues that those who cli...