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‘The social superiority of amateurs was built in to the customs of cricket’. Explain. |
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Answer» (i) The social superiority of amateurs was built into the customs of cricket. Amateurs were called Gentlemen while professionals had to content with being described as Players. (ii) They even entered the ground from different entrances. Amateurs tended to be batsmen, leaving the energetic, hardworking aspects of the game, like fast bowling, to the professionals. That is partly why the laws of the game always give the ‘benefit of the doubt’ to the batsman. (iii) Cricket is a batsman’s game because its rules were made to favour ‘Gentlemen’, who did most of the batting. The captain of a cricket team was traditionally a batsman. (iv) The social superiority of the amateur batsman was not because batsmen were naturally better captains but because they were generally Gentlemen. Captains of teams, whether Club teams or national sides, were always amateurs. |
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