{"id":4554,"date":"2022-09-30T22:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=249002"},"modified":"2022-09-30T22:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:45:22","slug":"i-remain-disturbed-by-the-vitriol-directed-towards-deepti-sharma-indian-commentator-harsha-bhogle-slams-english-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-remain-disturbed-by-the-vitriol-directed-towards-deepti-sharma-indian-commentator-harsha-bhogle-slams-english-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI remain disturbed by the vitriol directed towards Deepti Sharma,\u201d Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle slams English media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Deepti Sharma dismissed England\u2019s Charlie Dean through a way which is acceptable by some and unacceptable for others, mankading, to end the\u00a0 \u00a03-0 ODI series victory for India at Lord\u2019s.\u00a0 Even though the MCC, the guardians of the rules of the game, has been steadfast in supporting it as a legal mode of dismissal, England players\u2014both current and former\u2014as well as other experts in British, have been aggressively disapproving Deepti Sharma\u2019s mode of dismissal. On Friday, Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle criticised the English media on Twitter for how they had covered the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I find it very disturbing that a very large section of the media in England is asking questions of a girl who played by the laws of the game & none at all of another who was gaining an illegal advantage and was a habitual offender. That includes reasonable people & I think (1\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773686082465792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it is a cultural thing. The English thought it was wrong to do so & because they ruled over a large part of the cricket world, they told everyone it was wrong. The colonial domination was so powerful that few questioned it. As a result,the mindset still is that what England (2\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773688280264704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">considers wrong should be considered wrong by the rest of the cricket world, much like the \"line\" the Aussies say you must not cross having decided what the line should be which is fine in their culture but may not be for others. The rest of the world is no longer obligated (3\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773693351165953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">to think the way England does and so we see what is so plainly wrong. So too the notion that turning tracks are bad but seaming tracks are fine. The reason I say it is cultural is that it is what they are brought up to think. They don't think it is wrong. The problem arises (4\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773697910386688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">and we are guilty of it too, when people sit in judgement of each other's approach. England wants the rest of the world not to like running out batters at the non-striker's end and have been vitriolic and abusive towards Deepti and others who have done it. We come hard too (5\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773702649950208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">asking others to wake up from centuries old colonial slumber. The easiest thing is to play by the laws of the game & stop worrying about subjective interpretation of the spirit of the game,stop forcing opinions on others.The law says the non-striker must be behind the crease(6\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773706697445378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">till the bowler's arm is at its highest point. If you obey that, the game will move along smoothly. If you point fingers at others, like many in England have at Deepti, you remain open to questions asked of you. It is best if those in power, or who were in power, (7\/n)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1575773711260872705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Deepti Sharma dismissed England\u2019s Charlie Dean through a way which is acceptable by some and unacceptable for others, mankading,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[572,507],"class_list":["post-4554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-deepti-sharma","tag-harsha-bhogle"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}