Pic - :: 85/100 ONCE
UPON A TIME - THERE WAS CRICKET :: There was “ NO ” Ratna Then
It was during those times when we as a child during those days
when FIVE NAYA PAISA would get us a COOKIE or a qualitative chocolates, but that
use to be say a FEAST to us during those days. When we would ask our Father for
it, he would say - :
GET
THE FIRST RANK IN THE CLASS AND THE CHOCLATE WOULD BE YOURS
Well I would explain and make the importance of the same felt
in a bright manner but let me fall back to the KHEL-RATNA and the Arjuna Award
conferred to the sports personalities for the year 2019 awarded this year.
Pic : The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
Eves
: rebalancing the GENDER relative generation
I would like to fall back from the Olympics 2016 to till date
while I write about the other sports and the cricket since 2011 after India had
won that WORLD CUP on the April Fool’s day. First to start with the Olympics.
The curtain was formally rung down on the Rio Olympics on 2016 in the third ie 3rd week of Sunday precisely on August 21st 2016 if my MEMORY serves me correct. . But not
before breaking several glass ceilings. It is not just about the outstanding
performance from the women in the Indian contingent (it is rapidly becoming a
way of life after India began rebalancing gender relations); neither is it
about the god-like ability of
Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt to transcend physical barriers and stay on top of
their game; not just in one but, incredibly, three Olympics (in the case of Phelps it is even longer).
Instead, from the Indian point of view, it is of the ability of
sports, other than cricket (the informal religion binding all Indians with MYST and MYTH surmounting the cascades ), to entertain and obsess us for the
last three weeks. Overnight, Dipa Karmakar, gymnast from Tripura; Sakshi Malik,
the wrestler from Haryana; P.V. Sindhu, the shuttler from Hyderabad, and Lalita
Babar, long-distance runner from Maharashtra, became household names—as big as
our much-loved cricket captain, Virat Kohli , though I have NEVER, and NEVER was I at anytime, and NOT
a BIG fan of his . .
He performs and gets a KUDOS
from me but not that I have been a fan of any a kind of this batsman who
actually holds the Indian batting in terms of FULCRUM and it’s necessity.
Women Power:: A “ HUGE
”
The “ WALK ” does the “ TALK ” :: Is This The End Of Cricket’s “ HEGEMONY ”
This is huge. Tallest in SPORTS
cannot be measured and defined that easily but the ladies ever since P T Usha
came to the scene from 1978 has turned the scale in favour of these eve’s who WALK rather than the doings that we
call it as a TALK and it is their walk
that does the talk . Actually, a defining moment for Indian sports:
the beginning of the end of cricket’s hegemony. The politics of sports is being redefined as games with mass
following—such as athletics, swimming, tennis, badminton, gymnastics, football,
hockey (a comeback, actually) and so on—begin to attract eyeballs.
Unlike cricket, most of these sports are not restricted to a few
nations and, hence, a global contest is for real. If indeed this trend does pan
out, then Indian sport is set for a
major overhaul—with a wider base and global medal winning talent as we
have discovered in badminton and wrestling- and it is inevitable. In a small manner BOXING too shows that faith but the WARES are few and little in boxing
" SPORTS " Award
2020 for 2019 :: EXTEMPORE – COUTH – " FUBIKI " – GLORIOUS BUT “ SANE- A- DROP ”
I shall now come back
to focus on the award winners of the Khel Ratna and Arjuna award for the year
2019 conferred on 2020. Let me start from cricket.
PUDDING AND PIE :: THAT MADE US TO CRY
Start looking into the frame after April 1st 2011 and
keep looking at it. Count the chickens that were hatched by cricket in the
field of World Cup, Champions Trophy, Asian Cricket championship, World T-20 and some of these kind of cricketing games, (
ofcourse the “ BIKINI PARADISE ”
for me and many ? ) and any relative cricket tourney of the shorter formation
that is played as the WORLD TOURNEY
TITLE . One would be FORCED to
sing that rhyme-“ POCKET FULL OF ROSES
AND BLOOD COMES OUT OF NOSES ” . For that has been the performances of the Indian crickeers.
Never wanted to BAZOOM
on Dhoni but just it serves as an example. That is it . Nothing more to CONCH on it. I similise it on the India
– Germany hockey Olympic group match during the 1984 Olympics. A OPEN-GOAL-MISS by Zafar Iqbal
and from there within ONE YEAR
Zafar Iqbal was nothing in terms of anything in hockey and class. He was a gone
case with nothing left in his suitcase to then give it to Indian Hockey . It took ONE year for Zafar Iqbal to crash him off from that goal miss. In
the same wave that night after April 2011 was the GONE-CASE-WITH-NOTHING-AT-SUITCASE
for Indian cricket. Dhoni continued till 2016 thereafter and till the last
World Cup at London. It was all EMPTY-
SHOWCASE for India to show and to see in cricket.
Individual records of many a kind was there for one and the
sundry to see that some individual landmarks are being created everyday and all
the day for the Indian cricket to JAHVIST doing the prayers at here at India
wherein it actually should be done at Israel for them to receive the blessings
from the almighty. Unlike Zafar Iqbal, Dhoni could continue because cricketer
like Dhoni are made and forced to continue. It is because , ON THEM THEY HAVE THE “ DIME ” AND
THE BCCI ALLOWS THEM TO TAKE THEIR OWN “ TIME
”.
From the time past April 2011 the BCCI’s meatcase and the showcase
has nothing to show and nothing to boast about. The surprising factor is that
the RATNA’S come to them exactly in
a manner the way the HEAVEN gets YUDHISTHIR who cuts through the HELL first to reach heaven.
Yes I’m talking about Rohit Sharma . Plainly for all his
individual effort India has NOTHING
to show for cricket for the last nine years and for all fairness it could have
been better if atleast two years the Government could have waited to see India
winning atleast ONE World title
perhaps the T-20 ( as this is the ONLY
BIKINI that the Indian cricket can wear PROUDLY and roam anywhere outside this
continent) before awarding that award to Rohit Sharma.
Not that Rohit Sharma’s effort should not be appreciated but
then bereft of the titles at the world level in cricket or at the Asian level,
conferring that award to Rohit Sharma was like awarding a Doctorate Degree to
somebody who has not even gone to the school to start his studies or it could
even be exemplified as a HINDU lady
going in for her marriage without a HALDI-RASM
and without wearing those SHRINGARS
the “ SOLAH ” SAJ-DHAJ as we
call it. If only the Government could have waited for India assisted by Rohit
Sharma and win atleast ONE world
title the icing on the cake would have been so better. It was a case of early
reward without crossing the path of worthy ward. That was something like a sour drop of lime put into the hot boiling
milk and that would be that if one does
that.
If some patience and perseverance was shown in this matter and
only if a wait of one to two years could have been done in the case of Rohit
Sharma the WORLD would have been pleased if not happy . The kind of a PITIABLE performance that the Indian
cricket team has displayed in the international level in the shorter as well as
in the mini shorter version of the game, and the kind of MAULING that we received at the Test matches outside the continent, India and the BCCI does not deserves this award. Even in the case of the TINY-TOTS and the TODDLERS at South Africa the lads were given the COLD-ROTTEN-BUN by the Bangladeshi’s in
the final of the junior World Cup .
Now I come to the case of the other award winner of the Khel Ratna that was conferred to Miss Monika Batra ( I guess I have mentioned the
name correctly). However before that let me take you back to the Olympics that
would be held at Japan.
The Japanese flag was created during the closing ceremony in the
Maracana Sadium at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday,
Aug. 21, 2016. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, rightly, waved the Olympic flag as
Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio De Janeiro, and IOC President Thomas Bach applaud
during the closing ceremony in the Maracana stadium at the 2016 Summer Olympics
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to proudly
announce that the next Olympics would be held at Tokyo at Japan.
It would be to the hilt and the hill above the hills to
differentiate between the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. The Commonwealth
games are held once in four years along the time when after these games the
Asian Games takes place.
The Commonwealth Games , leave apart the Olympics, it does not
compares in any matter to the Asian Games. The only sphere where the
Commonwealth Games beat the Olympics and the Asian Games are the middle and the
long distance running where the athletes from the African nation do the wizardy
in terms of keeping the flames alive . There may be one or maybe another at
times where the Commonwealth Games sees some kind of Olympic record broken
apart the running in swimming and at times boxing. Swimmers like Ian Thorpe and
Shuane Gould were born out of this game to set the pool ablaze in swimming but
then it is a one time affair which could be termed as ONCE-IN-A-BLUE-MOON.
The
standard of the Table tennis in the Commonwealth games where there is nothing
to speak so high about the players participating in this event is ZERO if
compared to the standard in the Olympics and the Asian Games , where you have
the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and the side eats of China competing in these
games .
This amiable lady had done good for her by winning the
MIXED-DOUBLES title in the Asian Games which cannot be ruled out saying that
it was NOT a GOOD credit. Yes it definitely was. But then a little bit of some
glorious achievement say like a QUARTER-FINALIST at the Olympics or a Quarter
finalist at the World table Tennis championship in the individual event where
this also will not be possible to achieve by the Indians in the Singles event, going by the standard of Table Tennis in
the World and the Olympics level, and perhaps one or two creditable performance
could have filled the heart with a lot of happiness but conferring this award
to the lady was a case of something very early.
THESE WERE THE TWO’S THAT COULD HAVE BEEN BAKED AFTER
FERMENTATION , but like the COLD CREAM COFFEE it was served early with the
quantity of ice being added more than that it should and that is where the gleam
took a little beating or else the others were exemplary winners and the one who
chose them in the category of the Arjuna and the other awards deserves all KUDOS
YOU
GET UNIMAGINABLE TIMES MORE THAN YOU DESERVE
Again it is NOT to slaughter anybody and in particular Mr M S
Dhoni. For on the eve of the conferration of these award I saw on the TV screen
Mr Dhoni saying that – WE SHOULD BE AWARDED FOR OUR HARD WORK.
Well YES agreed you should be. However let me ask- HOW DO YOU
DEFINE YOUR HARD WORK. No sooner that you FAIL
all your hard work goes to the drain and from there to the FRAIL.
If you have a CLEAR VISIBLE EYE with a beautiful vision then, Mr Ranchi-Ka-Maalpua kindly look into the showcase of the BCCI and it’s WARE of the period between 2011 to 2020 for the last NINE years , and it appeared that SIMPLE SIMON was NOT meeting the PIMON at all, and of it you were the Captain for the FIVE after that APRIL FOOL'S NIGHT on 2011 , years till 2016. CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING IN IT. It is an EMPTY “ PROFFER ” with you all filled with “ COFFER ” Better learn to accept that MOST of THE MORE and MORE of the MOST are always served to you cricketers for EVERYTHING and NOTHING . NOTHING for the EVERYTHING that a Prime Minister writes that kind of a FACTITIOUS PENS according you the CITATIONS, which he wrote to you knowing fully well that everything that he was writing to you in that letter was written by him for nothing that the cricket did in the last nine years. Yet the MOST that you could give to India in cricket was explained more in that letter by him send to you. That really demonstrates YOU GET UNIMAGINABLE BOUNTIES MANY TIMES MORE THAN YOU DESERVE .Kindly learn to accept the FACTS plainly and TRULY, Mr M S Dhoni. Your telly and TRULY if he has said, it is because of the matter of very sad to feel that the Indian cricket has been passing the kind of -UTTERISH RUBBISH in terms of ACHIEVEMENT since the post April Fool Day of 2011
Now back again to the Summer Olympics of 2021 which would be
held at Tokyo.
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro came to an end on Aug. 21 with a closing ceremony celebrating the best of Brazilian culture and music. The 16-day event saw 27 new world records and 91 Olympic records set. The Olympic flag was handed over to Yuriko Koike, the governor of Tokyo, where the 2020 Olympic Games will be held.
Last week, a colleague one of my friend who worked with me at
Genisys where I worked for the last time, wrote a piece, on this phenomenon,
while reacting to an argument that all other sport is ignored because India won
the cricket World Cup in 1983, largely due to the heroics (by taking the
spectacular catch of Vivian Richards at a key point in the final) by its captain Kapil Dev.
I would flip this and argue that the history of sports, other
than cricket, would have been less unfavourable, and it also could have been
more favourable- if in the following year, in 1984 , P.T. Usha, had not lost out on the Olympics
bronze medal in the 400m hurdles by a hair’s breath. Even her near success
inspired many budding runners, but the impact would have been fundamentally
different if she had made it to the winner’s podium.
Breaking a glass ceiling—believing that ‘yes we can’—is one thing, but to convert this into a trend
is another. The self-belief of India’s athletes is unbelievable, as it comes
against tremendous odds.Even in a place like Tripura where I had the
opportunity to visit that place in my life, in a very humble family and that
too coming from a place like Tripura, where except studies no one can ever
think of sports, and for women, they have to, especially in Haryana, overcome
social odds; this is over and above the hoops—lack of infrastructure, callous
administrators, poor diet, among a few examples—that athletes have to jump
through to become world class. The good news is, albeit slowly, an enabling
environment is falling in place.
VEER “
ABHIMANYU’S ” ARE MADE TO BE BORN BY THE
METHOD
With this in mind and sight I would CONGRAJULATE the judiciaries that were on the seats to select the ARJUNA’S and the other award by saying
them – “ BUCK UP ” for the “ BUCKS-TO-KEEP-THEM-UP ” Well done gentleman who selected those
winners. ONE-HUNDRED – PERCENT ”
above the 100% of marks for
selecting all those names who really really and really deserved to be on the receiving
front and not on the receiving end . Endless to say and say
again- BUCK UP for the
outstanding job done.
It is after so many years we see that the one’s who were
conferred with the awards are in the age group of fifteen, sixteen seventeen
and eighteen. Veer Abhimanyu was FOURTEEN
when he did that on that fateful day before losing his life at the Kurukshetra
. So did VED PRAKASH when he was 14 on that day at the CWG games at
Edinborough in 1970 . He laid an example on that day. He did not have anybody
to BACK him up after that day. HE STILL HAS “ NOT ” BEEN AWARDED THE Rs
5000=00 THAT WAS PROMISED TO HIM BY Mrs INDIRA GANDHI FOR THAT GOLD THOUGH
FIFTY YEARS HAVE ROLLED BY
Those who fall in the age category of fifteen, sixteen seventeen and eighteen when
I see them being conferred with the ARJUNA
this year I FEEL that the
Government of the day has sown the SEED
for reaping the ABHIMANYU’S of the
future.
India Slowly Coming Out Of The Clutch Of Cricket :: A “ BOOMING ” sign that I envisage for future.
India is slowly coming out of the clutches of the game of cricket- though very slowly but surely. The media is also not leaving especially the D D Sports channels like media and the TV channels connected to that to see the sports and games really comes out in the open and a stream of talent pour into the system of Indian sports. This is a sign which is belligerent and of course- DOOD-A-DOO. Thanks to the team of D D Sports who are taking every step to give a solidity and a mark of semblance to the games and sports especially those which are stagnated and cushioned at the rural India. We ought to have many more of those effort to rechristen and redefine Indian sports.
Lastly - : what is the marks that can be awarded to the GOI for"choosing " this year’s SPORTS awardee
Well truly, correctly, appropriately and subjectively IT IS 85/100 which is an EXCELLENT reward for a HONEST job done and if those TWO awards were chosen properly in the Ratna category it could have been 100/100 and that would have been THE BEST THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IN THE ANNALS OF CHOOSING THE WINNERS SO PROFOUNDLY
Umm!! Certain points for pondering. Imbibing sports and games into the social physical mental emotional pulse of every individual, nothing worthwhile is there to come out for the tricolour.
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