Watching some of the World Cup football games once again affirmed that the beautiful game is no longer the game of skill it was in the ’70s and ’80s and is now more that of fake and foul one. Speaking of fake, in cricket a few years back, a playing condition was brought in that penalised a fielder for faking to have the ball in his hands. His team would be penalised five runs for doing that. Cricket is a game where there’s plenty of deception involved when a bowler is trying to deceive the batsman who in turn is looking to outsmart the bowler by sometimes moving this way and that or even changing the grip and playing the switch hit. 

The bowlers and batters are never penalised for that because its accepted that that’s the name of the game so why penalise a fielder if the batsmen at the crease are stupid not to be watching the ball?