Cricket is religion! At least in a place like India where a billion hopes rests on the shoulders of the Gods of the game. After India’s inglorious exit from the World Cup, however, a lot of alterations are bound to happen. It’ll take some time for the people who’d their fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions set for bringing the Cup home. Millions of fans on the subcontinent went into mourning and the repercussions are grave. Companies cannot move quickly enough to dissociate their brands from the multimillionaire players who have trudged home from the West Indies as fallen heroes. One farmer from West Bengal committed suicide while another died with a heart attack. Bob Woolmer was murdered and Greg Chappell was shooed away. Can cricket get any more surreal at the moment?
The reason to cheer is, like anything else, there’s a flip side to it as well. No longer losing sleeps and run rate calculations for fans. Managers are happy that their folks will not be walking into office late and groggy. Wives are elated to get the control of remotes and uninterrupted access to their saas-bahu soaps as husbands are no longer watching cricket in the prime time. And finally – People, in general, have got a lesson that all that glitters is not gold and perhaps the ‘Men in Blue’ don’t deserve all the respect and worship that they entertain.
The way cricket is administered and played in India will have to change. Most Sports now are professionally organized activities that rely on identification, training, and building of talented players’ pool with no room for politics. When professional politicians govern Sports, there is something wrong. The dream will remain a dream unless we plan well & work hard to achieve it.
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