Been caught up with a job change is reason enough to distract one from focusing on how nations are building up to the cricket world cup approaching in 2011.
Then again, SL and India facing each other every second day is a boring exercise as itself and on the lifeless pitches of SL and it is almost a joke.
However, as if to shock and jolt your sensibilities and make you question your love for the game; Match fixing rears its ugly head... Spot fixing if you take this instance... Really; did we need this to wake us up from a cricketing slumber if there was one???
Pakistani cricketers are in the eye of the storm again. One of the most talented left armers after Akram and a swing bowler par excellence are the prima facie culprits and the astonishing part is every cricketing nation except Pak is seething with fury...
However, after the initial fury has subsided as I write this.. there is much to think about...
1) Is it possible that if this is such a big money spinning industry; only Pak cricketers would be involved?
2) What makes a young sensation like Amir risk his entire career for a no-ball?Just the money or pressure or threats?
3) If anti corruption body is so toothless as to not unearth this on its own; how easy would it be for someone to mingle with IPL players at exclusively staged night parties after the game
4) Is the logic of labeling criminals only when caught fair?
5) Is life ban or banning the countrys team any sensible solution to breach of the trust of entire cricket loving populus?
To me; we are over-reacting. We are letting the actual corrupt people get away far 2 easy.. Those bribing are not the ones implicated but those bribed are being asked to give up their livelihood... It's a mistake and the punishment has to be severe but humane as well. The purpose of punishment cannot be to demoralize and further criminalize the perp but provide him an avenue to repent his sins and lead a better life...
I believe a sensible action would be heavy monetary fines ( the thing that got them to commit the crimes; make them pay up to 3 yrs non paid work and put them under thorough observation) is the way to go. Also make the anti corruption monitoring body one that has teeth and purpose. Such illicit betting agents need to be monitoered as well and brought under the ambit of unfair gamesmanship if betting is legal in the countries they operate in... Finally and foremost, legalize betting... whats currently done under the carpet can be done over it too.. Odds and money bet can both be transparent... That way government can make money too. Bet360 and Fairbet etc are good sites that provide excellent avenues for legal, transparent betting...
Kill the disease not the affected...
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Haan Bhaiiyaa All is well....
Long, long time. I know. Cant say that I didnt wanna write all this time but then again; hobby always takes a back seat to your bread and butter tasks.
Just the other day had a discussion with a friend about how you really cant pursue your dreams so to say in the Indian system. I mean "all is well" sounds all too well in a movie and there you get to really exercise your passion and what not but how feasible is it???
I totally agreed with the vision in the movie and then again; I am sure it wont be easy to pursue that in India. You are expected to run the rat race; not just to try and be the top rat but also be just like everyone else. Your colors shouldnt be different than those of the others and God forbid; if you have stripes... you are just doomed. We pursue forced excellence and we dont contest the fact that we really dont have an option any which ways.
Sometimes every once in their life; everyone realizes that they dont wanna be a doctor or engineer or lawyer or anything tht needs studying. They love the tilting notes of music and the rigor of sport and writing poetry and painting a dream and doing everything their heart tells. They start to think about pursuing it as a career, the rainbow starts forming and then reality sets in. The rainbow is painted black and it only co-relates to the small illegit print in their books and the disinterest in their hearts.
Young hearts lose to their minds. They succumb to social, parental and all sorts of pressure and they go running for a piece of paper boat that will get them their bank balance. They see sporadic cases of a SRK, a Sachin, Shreya Ghoshal and they second check their heart. Could I have been that name?? They regurgitate on their thoughts, they drink, they flasify their happiness and they drink again. They fail expectations and they drink again. They take pills and they drink again. They dont die and they drink again...
They keep on drinking until they lose their color, drop their stripes and become a RAT and then they celebrate their conversion and they drink again....
And then every once in a while someone shows them a dream, shows them the smooth river and the green hills and small pad and a swaggering hammock and shows them Leh, Ladakh and a beautiful Kareena and sings to them that "All is well" and tells them that they should " get a chance to grow up once again" and that there is pot of gold behind that colorful rainbow and the people from the happiness starved black-rainbow nation lap it up cos they see a reflection they saw in their youth and for a moment they forget their mundane lives and they join in the chant...
Haan Bhaiiyaa All is well....
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