Sportsmanship on Bit Stories https://bitstories.net/tags/sportsmanship/ Recent content in Sportsmanship on Bit Stories Bit Stories https://bitstories.net/images/bit-stories.png https://bitstories.net/images/bit-stories.png Hugo -- 0.148.1 en Karan Juneja 2005-2026 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1100 Unsporting should be un-Australian https://bitstories.net/2009/01/unsporting-should-be-un-australian/ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +1100 https://bitstories.net/2009/01/unsporting-should-be-un-australian/ <p>Not for the Australian cricket team, not yet.</p> <p>The incident: A. B. de Villiers, third ball of the second over, Australia v South Africa, 20-20 match, gets a Tait special in his gut, edging off his bat. In pain, he keels over and inadvertantly hits the stumps, out hit-wicket.</p> <p>The man is doubled over in pain on the grass, and the Australian team? Celebrating away, meters from the man.</p> <p>This is an image that will linger in my mind for a while yet - that the disgusting sporting behaviour continues, that not a man on the Australian team took a second to ask that de Villiers was ok.</p> Not for the Australian cricket team, not yet.

The incident: A. B. de Villiers, third ball of the second over, Australia v South Africa, 20-20 match, gets a Tait special in his gut, edging off his bat. In pain, he keels over and inadvertantly hits the stumps, out hit-wicket.

The man is doubled over in pain on the grass, and the Australian team? Celebrating away, meters from the man.

This is an image that will linger in my mind for a while yet - that the disgusting sporting behaviour continues, that not a man on the Australian team took a second to ask that de Villiers was ok.

Disgusting.

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