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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Clean bar a few, clean the rot
Title : Cricket is clean bar a few: Harbhajan
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh refused to believe that cricket is no longer a clean sport in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal and said commitment of all the cricketers around the world should not be questioned because of the misdeeds of a few individuals.
"Whatever has come up in cricket in the last few days are very demoralising for the game. It has brought disrespect to the game. But what I feel is that as a player you need to play cricket in the right spirit. You need to play the game clean and hard," he said.
"If a couple of players indulge in bad things that does not mean all players are corrupt. At the end of the day cricket is bigger than any individual," Harbhajan insisted.
Harbhajan, who is in South Africa to play the Champions League Twenty20 for Mumbai Indians, said that the recent scandal, involving three Pakistani players, has come as a golden opportunity to clean the rot which is existing in the game.
"It's a great opportunity for all players to show cricket is clean and bigger than all other things," he said.
Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were provisionally suspended by the ICC for their alleged role in spot-fixing.
Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
Source : http://cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/30179/Cricket-is-clean-bar-a-few--Harbhajan
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh refused to believe that cricket is no longer a clean sport in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal and said commitment of all the cricketers around the world should not be questioned because of the misdeeds of a few individuals.
"Whatever has come up in cricket in the last few days are very demoralising for the game. It has brought disrespect to the game. But what I feel is that as a player you need to play cricket in the right spirit. You need to play the game clean and hard," he said.
"If a couple of players indulge in bad things that does not mean all players are corrupt. At the end of the day cricket is bigger than any individual," Harbhajan insisted.
Harbhajan, who is in South Africa to play the Champions League Twenty20 for Mumbai Indians, said that the recent scandal, involving three Pakistani players, has come as a golden opportunity to clean the rot which is existing in the game.
"It's a great opportunity for all players to show cricket is clean and bigger than all other things," he said.
Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were provisionally suspended by the ICC for their alleged role in spot-fixing.
Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
Source : http://cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/30179/Cricket-is-clean-bar-a-few--Harbhajan
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"Clean" with respect to "throwing games," or otherwise controlling the game score/outcome for gambling purposes. "Bar a few" is British, I believe. In the US, we'd probably say, "except for a few," although "bar none" is used.
- "Clean" with respect to "throwing games," or otherwise controlling the game score/outcome for gambling purposes.
- "Bar a few" is British, I believe.
- In the US, we'd probably say, "except for a few," although "bar none" is used.
- Everybody showed up in costume, except for a few.
- All of the players are honest, except for a few of them.
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"Clean" with respect to "throwing games," or otherwise controlling the game score/outcome for gambling purposes.
"Bar a few" is British, I believe. In the US, we'd probably say, "except for a few," although "bar none" is used.
Everybody showed up in costume, except for a few.
All of the players are honest, except for a few of them.
"Rot" is used as a synonym f
"Bar a few" is British, I believe. In the US, we'd probably say, "except for a few," although "bar none" is used.
Everybody showed up in costume, except for a few.
All of the players are honest, except for a few of them.
"Rot" is used as a synonym f
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