If the stakeholders of the game don’t learn from the James Anderson-Ravindra Jadeja fracas that resulted in both parties deemed non-guilty to everyone’s surprise, then all the time spent getting to the bottom of this ugly spat is a sheer waste.

The probe could not nail any of the hot-headed players because of lack of evidence and the words in Caribbean American singer Harry Belafonte’s song Mama Look a Boo Boo ring true in this case: “John says it’s James who started first; James tells the story in reverse.”