RETIREMENT OF GOOD PLAYERS:
Now
a day’s majority of players, workers& professionals play or work for money not
for their country or as a service to humanity, this is an unpalatable truth.
But for IPL, Bush cricket, Hut cricket, KF cricket etc many
players would have continued to play test cricket for longer period of time.
Foreign players do not play for records, records come of their own to them.
Trying to create
records some players drag on and on playing for years & became a laughing
stock in the eyes of their fans, instead of people asking why they started
asking when? Most of the Indian players
have less talent but they are very hard working, shrewd about the rules, technique
and playing conditions. India team wins due to other team’s poor lead ship or
wrong strategy. Majority of Indian
players are gentleman because of a good education background & Indian
culture but once our players’ education level comes down they would behave like
other countries’ players.
Suppose someone is offered a job with more than 10 times of
his or her salary then they would change in majority of cases. The enmity, the aggressive attitude, the
quarreling attitude, the exciting personalities all are missing from all games
due to set of idiotic rules and friendly attitude of players as they play from the
same club or teams in other tournaments. Players have become friends on the play field then how you expect them to fight with each other to make the game
exciting; if at all they do it’s for the gallery.
My point is due to
money factors we are losing exciting players, exciting games too early and what
we call as exciting matches majority are prefixed or man made.
I feel sad for the retirement of some exciting players who
made the game enjoyable; Kallis was one of them. I would have loved to see
him play (test cricket) till 40 years as a batsman and then retire. Best of
luck Mr.Jacques Kallis, meet you soon in BCCI- IPL extravaganza.
Sanjoy Kumar Satpathy
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