Palladian, 23 Aug:We won the
third test match against England at Trent Bridge Nottingham. A fitting reply to
our last defeat!
What a
wonderful five days of wholesome cricket!
Forget the
TV replays and the short footages in the hews. Reading the coverage in detail in the sports
pages each day was so thrilling & satisfying – especially when we started
wining from Day1 itself. Wonder how many people subscribe to Sportstar
magazine. Should have some fantastic shots and centre-spread in the coming
issue.
Unlike modern
day IPL enthusiasts, I strongly endorse the classic 5-day cricket. (for this
blog only)
IPL is bad medicine!
How can one
substitute a 5-course gourmet meal with a cheap Chinese take-away ?? or take a
melodious Mehdi Hasan Ghazal and force fit it on top of a Malkit Singh’s
Bhangra rap??
Fast cricket,
like fast food in no good for no one in the long run. Only the ad agencies and media
houses thrive.
Sad!
Real Sad!!
Cricket is (or
was) a gentleman’s game .
Epitomising the
true spirit of sportsmanship, grace, style and perfection in each stroke.
A game of leisure played over 5 wonderful bright
sunny days (and a rest day thrown in) and played with ultimate patience and
unlimited overs in
spotless whites. While the players enjoyed the test match, we, the spectators
enjoyed 5 days of relaxation & picnic with our friends , family and everyone
in the stadium. We shared a wonderful
ambience, bonhomie with both sides and shared our food hampers and floppy hats.
We made tons of friends, exchanged and
traded cricketers’ photos, sports mags, and bragged over our heroes! Remember those day long sit-outs in Bombay Brabourne Stadium and Chennai's Chepauk Stadium days??
And IPL
reduced these wonderful cricketing experiences into a frenzied 4-hour football-like
brawl!! Heavily sponsored by the TV
media. And no different than the WWF TV wrestling bouts!
My question: If people wanted to play or watch a fast-paced
game, and jostle and scream and sweat and argue and sledging, why don’t they
take up football or rugby or buzkashi or quidditch??
Why cripple
and maim a wonderful long-standing tradition???
Krish..
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