LONGEST EVENT

WHY THIS LENGTHY WORLD CUP CRICKET?
Total fourteen teams are participating in this World Cup Cricket, out of which six are out before the tournament has started (thanks to the new format).We are left with four from each group which comes to eight. The matches are held in three countries still then you find one match a day or maximum two if minnows are playing.
This is sheer nuisance. If you think the ICC runs the game you are totally mistaken.ICC is in the hands of BCCI/Business house/fixers, which runs the show. It’s a huge gambling period of seven weeks for the gamblers. The TV channel, match fixers, organizers, business house, sponsors actually decide the fixtures from that the word ball fixing, pad fixing or catch fixing is derived. You have been told earlier and now again repeating the same—put your money on India.
The commentators are actually not required with the big screen replays; in fact most of the real cricket lovers put their TV in silent mode while watching a match where India is playing. One is more of a coach commentator, what OZ and Eng commentators speaks majority of Indian TV viewers do not under stand, Crazy fellow is a joker commentator, pucker face is a beginner hanging on to his job because of his connection, there are few ladies in the commentator box, (curtsy womanizer) with bare bodies who try to tell you the difference between balls and bells. If there is pin drop silence it means a four or a six by the other team or an Indian wicket has fallen on the contrary if there is a bursting of a firecracker or a huge uproar means a six or a wicket is taken by an Indian bowlers-what a patriotism??
It’s true that some one told decade’s back-“played by 22 fools, supervised by two fools and watched by twenty thousand fools” but he was wrong-now its played by 22 billionaires(mostly), supervised by two millionaires and watched by twenty two billion(fools) people bring their countries to a stand still. It’s no more a fool’s game it was a game of kings and queen now it the same in different names.
Real spectators are dead long back that used to under stand the game and follow it too. True to Asian spirit we behave improperly be it talking over phones, driving a vehicle, crossing the railway lines or traffic we have no concern for others. Matches are tied knowingly or unknowingly I do not know, other wise crores of rupees will be destroyed by the public if a particular team gets defeated. If same day three or four matches were being held then the tournament would have been over in ten days time but hold on how our big boss of cricket will benefit from that??
All things have a positive and negative aspect; we talked about t negative side of this game now we see the brighter side. It’s a boon for the retired persons who wait eagerly for the month to end, those physically invalid people who can’t move out of there house, house wives, shop keepers, patients who can’t move out of bed and the list goes on and on. This is the only game with so much of technicalities, rules, laws and bylaws. In foot ball or hockey there is only one event, that’s goal but in cricket so many things can happen-from hat trick to brilliant catch. The biggest beneficiaries are the business men to small venders. A country where electricity is so scarce that power cut is part of our life- goes for day night matches just because sponsors want it. If a match involving our home team is played at 0230 hours in the morning still then our stadiums would be full to capacity in this cricket crazy nation. Every one blames for the British Raj but the Raj still remains and will remind us that they still rule India in a different way.