Is too much being made of the Suraj Randiv no-ball which denied Virender Sehwag his 13th ODI century?

Virender Sehwag was just one short of his 13th ODI hundred when Sri Lankan spinner Suraj Randiv, who had not bowled a no-ball in the Test or ODI series this season, bowled a 'deliberate' no-ball.

The Sri Lankan cricket board has ordered an inquiry into the matter and former cricketers have lambasted Randiv for his 'unsporting' behaviour.

But others argue that gamesmanship is part of modern sports. Teams are going all out to win and that's all that matters, sportsmanly behaviour be damned. In the 2010 World Cup, just before the final, Dutch winger Arjen Robben said he'd rather win ugly than lose beautifully. It's a different matter that his team played ugly football and still lost.

In the ODI in question, Randiv knew Sri Lanka had as good as lost the game and letting Sehwag score a century would just be rubbing salt in the wound. So he did what he had to do, unethical though it may seem.

In the furore, most people seem to have forgotten that India won the match and secured a bonus point and that, surely, was more important thing than Sehwag getting, or not getting, a century.

Is a mountain being made out of a molehill? Is too much being made of the Suraj Randiv no-ball which denied Virender Sehwag his 13th ODI century? Does sportsmanly behaviour have a place in sports today? Click on the link below to leave your comment.