Cricket, once called a gentleman’s game has now become a
businessman’s game. With ICC it was implicit but with IPL it has become
explicit . IPL probably generates an income which if taxed can very well help
eradicate half the poverty in India.
We enter a competition for winning it. And on the upshot IPL is serving that very faithfully ( pun intended ). Moreover it is also helping in uniting nations by making them play together as a team. IPL removes the overwhelming patriotism that an Indian cricket fan pours into cricket. At least for once the failure is not tuned into an ulterior motive of treason and unfaithfulness. Now I won’t be a traitor if I support a Pakistani player over an Indian player.
We enter a competition for winning it. And on the upshot IPL is serving that very faithfully ( pun intended ). Moreover it is also helping in uniting nations by making them play together as a team. IPL removes the overwhelming patriotism that an Indian cricket fan pours into cricket. At least for once the failure is not tuned into an ulterior motive of treason and unfaithfulness. Now I won’t be a traitor if I support a Pakistani player over an Indian player.
| Good old IPL |
Oh blimeyy!!! It was years ago. Now its time for IPL 7.
Six seasons were enough to elucidate any doubts on IPL. How could anything, possibly as holy as cricket, escape the barriers of animosity, hatred and stupidity ? It did not. Which is precisely why Pakistani players were removed in the later seasons of IPL. What initially was meant to be a sport has now become an out and out business trading people. The sanctity of cricket was lost on the very day when people got into cricket for money and fame but with shunning of a country it has also lost whatever amt of fairness and modesty it had.
Ironically, even if the trps of IPL matches go down in negative it will still manage to have an army of supporters who whatsoever the reason, will never abandon it.
Because cricket is not a sport its a RELIGION.
Six seasons were enough to elucidate any doubts on IPL. How could anything, possibly as holy as cricket, escape the barriers of animosity, hatred and stupidity ? It did not. Which is precisely why Pakistani players were removed in the later seasons of IPL. What initially was meant to be a sport has now become an out and out business trading people. The sanctity of cricket was lost on the very day when people got into cricket for money and fame but with shunning of a country it has also lost whatever amt of fairness and modesty it had.
Ironically, even if the trps of IPL matches go down in negative it will still manage to have an army of supporters who whatsoever the reason, will never abandon it.
Because cricket is not a sport its a RELIGION.
| I love cricket |
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