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Staff and Agencies18-Aug-2001* I was taught to respect umpires’ decision very early: GavaskarFormer Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar said on Friday he was taught torespect decisions of umpires very early in his career "but at timesdue to unavoidable pressures I have reacted negatively for which Istill have regrets."Inaugurating the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s two-day 13thall India Umpires’ seminar in Mumbai, Gavaskar said players shouldlearn to respect the decisions of umpires so that the game can go onsmoothly as cricket is considered to be a gentleman’s game.Gavaskar, who is also one of the leading TV commentators in the worldtoday, said new technology has put umpires under tremendous pressure"but still I think they are doing a very good job out there as theyhave to be 110 per cent sure of their decisions." "When you watchreplays on TV, you see 95 per cent of the decisions made by theumpires are right and it is human that a few decisions may go theother way due to the tremendous pressure faced by umpires," he added.* Eight arrested on betting chargesThe Goa police on Friday arrested eight persons from a hotel in Panajion charges of involvement in betting on the Ashes Test match betweenEngland and Australia, currently on at Headingley, Leeds.A sum of Rs 50,000 in cash and 19 mobile phones were seized from eightpersons, all hailing from Kolhapur in Maharashtra, according to policesources. They have confessed to their involvement in the betting,police said, adding the stake involved was reported to be of about Rs25 lakhs.