Yes, the example has been made by the players, week in, week out. The ball boy was merely mimicking his heroes. The cheating that has been condoned over the years has now come back to bite the game in the arse.  Until players stop rolling around as if they'd been shot every week, they can hardly criticise a ball boy for doing the same.

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