~To be or not to be: that is the question~

After the match fixing fiasco, it is now about cheating for CRICKET. While one side of the debate being Mr.Hair’s bad track record of treating Asian teams, other facet is about Inzamam’s decision not to return on time to the pitch. Who ever wins the argument it’s the game that loses.

David Lloyd may say ‘For God’s sake, it’s only cricket’. Or is it?

Cricket is more like a religion in South Asia. This is the game that units the nations and it is this very game that helps the confrontation between the nuclear neighbours to vent their grudge in a more civilized manner. Throwing a ball with all the vigour is better than going in for nuke detonation. The muscle, teamwork, game plan, conditions and even love and hatred, all that you see in a battle field is manifested in the pitch too, and best part being, no team can out number the other. This elevates the game to a much higher importance that just being David Lloyd’s ‘it’s only cricket’. Fair refereeing is important for cricket itself, and much more for the people of the subcontinent to lay their trust on the game rather than confrontation in the battle field.

The overall outcome will eventually decide on whether the game would stay in the hearts of the millions of fans in the subcontinent or would be history forgotten in the last pages of the dailies.

Cheers