Brisbane: So at the end of the day, both Jimmy Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja were both exonerated. What started off with two defendants ends up with the ICC finding that, in essence, nothing really happened. No video evidence, a toothless tiger running the game and national cricket boards only interested in what's good for them rather than what's good for the game.

Mark my words; it is only a matter of time now before we have an incident involving fisticuffs on the field. Cricket lives in a leadership vacuum, born of a self-interest agenda that transcends basic decency.

As part of a multi-part series, let's examine the controversial issue of sledging from a variety of angles. There's the cultural perspective – some countries accept, nay condone it, even encourage it whilst other countries hold a cultural antipathy towards the overall practice (although they are now becoming better at this dark art, if that is something to indeed be proud of).