" MUST - NOT " Ought To Be " MUST " In The World Of " TOPSY - TURVY " I.C.C World Of cricket - " AUTOPSY " Required
Let me first start by putting in some notes on the above
picture/photo depicted herewith. This photo would seem to be a CARICATURE but
that is the REALITY This the
the condition of the nation which we call it as Pakistan and this is actually
the manner that the Pakistani team played in the recently concluded World Cup cricket.
As the nation this are the people and India and pakistan are just opposite in charecteristics, to each other, and complying on that
substance I could not control my quality of advocating the MEMORIES that the
people of India, could make, and the conclusion
that could be drawn after Pakistan’s dismissal performance in th recently
concluded World Cup cricket.
What is that
Pakistan takes back from this World Cup-::
Pakistan would take certain memories NOT of the World
Cup but of it. Citing an example, their cricketer Hasan Ali visited the Taj
Mahal at Agra after the World Cup. That is the beautiful memory that he can on
an individual basis take it to his home after the World Cup.
However what could be so PRECIOUS that Pakistan can take back
home from this World Cup. I can cite NO better than their players carrying with
them THREE bag ful of flour ( attaa) with them back to their home.
Atleast on that account they can chew the chappatis made out
of the same, gain some energy, and can come back to fight in their next World
Cup campaign. However the MILLION dollar question that arises is-:
WILL THESE FLOUR (
ATTAA) SURVIVE THAT LONG A PERIOD FOR THE NEXT WORLD CUP THAT WOULD BE PLAYED.
It seems by the next World Cup cricket comes Pakistan players would be a MOVING
SKELETON on the field. Where is the MONEY and where are the FOOD GRAIN
available so cheap at Pakistan so that they can eat and survive.
We Are A Nation ..... ?? . !!
We are a nation with a very big heart.We cannot see anybody going unfed and dying of hunger. Even if a BEGGAR comes to our house we give them the ALMS.This is what we have given to their players out of our kits and our money to them- THREE BAG FULL OF ASHIRVAAD FLOUR for them to eat and survive till the next World Cup.
MAY THE CRICKET PAKISTAN SURVIVE WITH THESE BOUNTIFUL GIFT THAT INDIA GAVE IT TO THEM .
Back again to the basics of the points that relates to this write-up and back again to cricket. I now fall back to the BASICITY of the cricket in under devloped cricketing nation.
Well now back to my main subject about the International
cricket Conference ( I.C.C ) which rules the administration of the world of
cricket . I.C.C , could I ask you all about
HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO RUN A SHOW OF PLAYING THE BIG BROTHER TO EVERY
WORLD CUP EVENT WITHOUT DOIG ANYTHING FOR THE GAME.
No sooner that an event of this stature comes into the play
the I.C.C jumps from its wagon and starts taking the shots. However the BILLION dollar question is does the i.c.c. really does anything to
solidify and concrete the game all over the world.
Over the years from 1975 till this age and time, from a
EIGHT team participation, the I.C.C World Cup everytime notices TEN teams now
to play in the World Cup. From East Africa, in 1975, Sri-Lanka ( Ceylon ) and Canada in 1979, Zimbabwe in 1983, U.A.E
and Kenya in 1996 , Bangladesh in 1999 ,
and now Afghanistan in 2023, there have been these nations that has
participated and played in the World Cup.
What is the stage of these nations playing in the I.C.C World
Cup cricket. Let us take the examples as of now-::
Canada- : There exists NOTHING as cricketing infra structure in that country.
East Africa- : Participated only in 1975 to make up the
numbers with players from Zambia,
Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya making up for the team. Kenya played till 1996 and
the other named nation has nothing in sort of anything that relates to cricket.
Kenya too after humbling the mighty West – Indies in 1996 has rolled it’s
cricketing office for good.
Zimbabwe-:: After reaching the semis of the 1999 World Cup,
at present it’s administration only opens ot’s office before any tourney ought
to be played and again locks the front door till the enxt I.C.C cricket events
is played. With nothing at stakes it is really not interested to develop this
game in their country.
Bangladesh - :: Staring with only FIVE teams namely, Brotherhood Unions, Bangladesh Biman
Bahini, Mohemmedan Sporting, Dhaka, Bangladesh Banijyo Bank, and Abhahani Krira Chara in that country in 1984 , Bangaldesh has only
two cricket stadium and NOTHING as a team. To help salvage some respect they
play the Bangladesh Premier League and that is what they have in their kitty.
The number of the players at Bangladesh in all over the
country would be even LESS
than the number of players playing Ranji Trophy for Saurashtra Take the
other teams into consideration.Take for examp[le, Nepal, Singapore,
Afghanistan, Malaysia, Hongkong, Mongolia to cite as an example. I even add the
name of Kenya, Bermuda, Canada, Namibia who are invited by the Asian Cricket
Board and the I.C.C to play in the World Cup qualifiers . These nations have
played either in the World Cup proper, like Bermuda, Namibia, Canada and Kenya,
they have-:
A ). NO
cricket ground that could be termed as cricket stadium to show for.
B ) . They have NO
tournaments that is being played in their country.
C ) . There are NOT
even twenty players in all in the entire nation that plays cricket In other
words these nations even DO NOT
possess a set of 24 players
from which atleast TWO teams
could be formed to play atleast a Sunday game amongst themselves. However when
a World Cup qualifying tournament starts, these nations are called for games to
be played for qualification and those players somehow make it to the team just
because these nations have to fulfil the numbers of the players to play for the
team.
JOKE : THY NAME IS CRICKET - ::
Cricket is a DAMN expensive game. To practice, one has to have good numbers of balls, and ofcourse the entire kit. GOSH, and GUESS how do the players that represents the teams when they play the qualifiers get the kits and the modes to practice.
I cite as an example. In the recently concluded Asian games at China, Mongolia played their first ever games of T-20 cricket and Nepal were their opponent. The Nepalese team scored 420 runs in their allotted 20 overs against Mongolia. In the very FIRST over, the Nepali opening batsman hit the opening bowler of Mongolia for 36 runs. This is a WORLD RECORD created for an opening batsman to hit SIX-SIXES in the very first opening overs to say for six straight sixes. The question that arises is-:COULD ANYBODY CALL IT A WORLD RECORD. These are the JOKES that are beinbg created and that are being scripted as RECORD. Mongolia has nothing in terms of any cricketing infra structure at all. There are hardly eleven players who practice this game on a regular basis. There are NO stadium of cricket at Mongolia where the players can practice? . There are nothing in terms of any tournament to judge the form, fitness and the performance of the player in that country.
Ditto and same is the
case with Namibia, Bermuda, Greneda, Canada , though as a nation Canada that it is, it’s condition
could be somewhat better than these nations whom I have mentioned. Yet these
countries play the I.C.C World Cup cricket event, only to be SLAUGHTERED and only for the
reputed players to CREATE records against them. IS NOT NOT A “ CRUEL ” JOKE.
Namibia has produced a WORLD
CLASS sprinter names Frankie Franklin who won the World Athletics
Silver in 100 metres run beside an Olympic Bronze. NO BODY WHO CONSIDER
THEMSELVES A CHANNEL GREATS OF TALKING ABOUT SPORTS CAN REMEMBER OR KNOW ABOUT
IT. I bet and I guarantee AFTER READING MY ARTICLE THEY WILL NOW
FIND IT OUT AND START TALKING ABOUT IT.
The basic problem of the I C C is and are as follow-::
Unlike the F.I.F.A the authorities of the I.C.C just cannot
go to any country and get the HEAD of that country to convince them to play
cricket. F.I.F.A gets the nod because Football is over within 120 minutes (
including the extra time ) and cricket is a waste of time.
2). The Head of those countries come forward to allot a
ground for playing football. That requires a small pitch of land and the
maintenance also is too cheap. Cricket is otherwise and the I.C.C does not gets
any favour for this too.
3 ) . The money required to play football is NOTHING at all. Cricket…. Well this
could be anybody’s guess.
4 ). The IMPOVERISH
can play football without any investment Also the SKILL-HORNING-EXAMPLES in football is SIMPLE and INDIVIDUALISTIC.
Cricket is otherwise. So the heads of these nations just give it a DAMN to cricket.
5). Many countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Brazil Argentina, to
cite it as an example they and their Football Association earn millions of
money by the transfer of their players to play abroad .These brings about a good
revenue to the respective Government and also to their clubs. Cricket can just
NEVER do that . The I.C.C
and its head therefore DO NOT GET ANY
HOOT from the respective head of the state in these matter. Basically
no body at these countries even bother to pay any heed on cricket.
These are some of the most rarest and glaring example of
running the game of cricket in most part of the world. How much does a Nepali
cricketer earns by playing cricket could be anybody’s guess. The semis of the
Kenyan team in the 1996 World cup cricket would sell tomatoes on the street for
a living.He grabbed a FIFER against Sri-Lanka in
2003 including the wicket of Aravinda De Silva . The younger of the Strang
brother who played for Zimbabwe would go to a saw-mill to cut the wood before turning to play the
Test matches at Harare when he played cricket for Zimbabwe. This is cricket run
by the I.C.C and this is the reason why cricket at Kenya just does not exists
and why the cricketing root of Zimbabwe is not to be seen anymore.
Just because the B.C.C.I has money flowing like the PACIFIC
OCEAN does not means that the other nations are so well off with
cricket and so their cricketers are?. What can more the money do in sports. The B.C.C.I and cricket India thinks that by throwing money,at will, they can win anything. It that was the case then Brazil which has won the F.I.F.A World Cup football FIVE times and Argentina which won it thrice , totalling EIGHT, ( 39.09%) ot of the 22 edition of the World Cup Football tournament held, WOULD NOT HAVE WON ANY TITLES SO FAR It is because they have NO MONEY at all in their coffers. This is an EDUCATION for the B.C.C.I to follow.
Holding these kind of an mega event and globalizing it by
any means is nothing but an EYE-WASH.
If you cannot develop this game like the F.I.F.A does for
football, PLEASE DO NOT INVITE THE
COUNTRIES THAT IS NOT EQUIPPED TO PLAY AND PRODUCE EXCELLENT-WORLD-PERFORMANCE
LIKE CRICKET.
In an exhibition match against the West-Indies in 1985 at Wankhefe Stadium, Gordon
Greenidge did hit Kapil Dev for SIX
consecutive SIXES in an over but that was in the 3rd over
of Kapils’ first spell in that game. However it took 11 years for Greenidge (
74-85) to play, practice and hit Kapil for the same. This incident happened just before the West - Indian team was to land at Pakistan to play a THREE - TEST series and that series had ended in a 1-1 draw with Pakistan winning the FIRST levelling the second and losing the THIRD. Memories being short people have forgotten that BUT THIS IS A FACT.
HITTING SIX SIXES IN THE VERY OPENING OVER IN THE VERY FIRST MATCH
THAT NEPALI OPENING BATSMAN PLAYED IN HIS LIFE , TO A MONGOLIAN BOWLER JUST
DEMONSTRATES ABOUT THE SO CALLED , “ NATWARLAL
– CUM – CHARLES SHOBRAJ “ ACT THAT THE I.C.C. IS DOING WITH THE GAME OF
CRICKET.
Change The Format Of The World Cup-::
The format of the World Cup cricket completely ought tpo be changed. My suggestion would NOT go well with those reading it because in everything they see money and nothing else. Money can get you the BEST of the things BUT NOT THE DESIRED RESULT.
You can buy the most expensive cot by throwing money but can you derive the best of the sleep if you are suffering from the disease that does not gives you the peaceful sleep.That is it to explain. How to make the World Cup cricket more compititive, far more interesting and more aggressive for the players to play the game with an open mindset.
Simply invite about FOUR teams, that has made it to the semis of this World Cup as DIRECT ENTRY. India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealandof this World Cup to cite as an example,and TWO more teams that qualifies through the qualifiers to play
this game in the World Cup, rather than creating all JOKES and LAUGHING
STOCKS in a tourney like the World Cup.
Let these teams invited , play two games each against easc other. Make it a DOUBLE-LEGGED affait in the league stage for the ones to qualify for the semis. and let the BEST four teams make it to the
semis. This will create more competitive spirit and tremendous excitement for
the events rather than making it an event to rake in the moolahs .After all
AFGHANISTAN HAS NO CRICKET STADIUM
STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY. Yet their perormance in this World Cup defies all the LOGICS about having big money to produce excellent cricket.
Coming back to the subject, in the semis , again play TWO - LEGGED matches and then let the finalist make their way to the finals. The losing semi-finalist if needed so could then play the HARDLINE matches.This will be far more effective to produce excellent cricket with excellent performance filled with excitement rather than playing cricket for 45 days with 47 games.
How strange and what a comparison. The F.I.F.A World Cup has 32 teams to play and the entire tourney is exactly finished , ie , ie it is all over on the 30th day after it's commencement however the I.C.C WORLD CUP HAS TEN TEAMS WITH 45 DAYS TO PLAY. Just playing this tournament only to catch the fever of excitement hoping that it would produce excitement worth calling it something very different hardly matters and it hardly produces that kind of any result.
There is another point to be noted.The F.I.F.A allows only the CHAMPION team of the previous World Cup as a DIRECT ENTRY. The others who so ever it may be and WHOTSOEVER GIANT it might be, have to QUALIFY and play the tournament ie the TOURNAMENT PROPER. Why is that the I.C.C gives DIRECT ENTRY to EIGHT of the cricketing playing nation and allows only TWO qualifiers to play the tournament proper.
The raring and the class example is of Afghanistan.They hardly play cricket back at their home. Infact they come to India, beg for a stadium, they get one, practise , as if it is their , and there and then set their feet to play this game on the international scene. What has been their performance over the years. Well IT IS HERE FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW -:
They have won the SILVER in the Asian Games T-20 cricket
now, a GOLD in the previous edition of the Asian Games in T-20 cricket, beating Bangladesh in the finals. and have
done something in this edition of the World Cup which can make everybody proud.
It would be very interesting to see whether Afghanistan goes the Zimbabwe and Kenya’s way
THE I.C.C HAS TO LEARN ABOUT THE " MUST - NOT " AND THE " MUST " JUST ALIKE THE KINDERGARDEN CLASS IN TERMS OF IT'S WAY
Now I turn my eye to something which serves as an example to cite and for the others to emulate. I'm placing a link over here. I would request everybody to see this in their computer set or their cell-phone. Here under is he link-::
https://twitter.com/i/status/1723550985401040963
Afghanistani Cricketer Doing His " ROUND - OF - BLESSINGS " To the Road Sleepers At Ahmedabad at 3.00AM .
This is to be seen and appreciated .I would REQUEST one and sundry to see this in the link stated above.
Time For Some Afghanistan
and Bangladeshi Players to Play In The I.P.L
Afghanistan and it’s players are making a very frantic
effort to raise the game and it’s standard in their country. They made a very
good name for themselves when they defeated the three previous World Cup
winners Pakistan, Sri-Lanka and England in the recently concluded World Cup.
They almost pulled that win from the feet of the Australian before Glenn
Maxwell dug them in.
This link about Gurbaz has many a tales to prove. This he is
doing to win the HEART of the I.P.L franchisee so that he gets a right to play
in the I.P.L
THE FIRST FOUR BATTERS OF
AFGHANISTAN ALONG WITH THEIR TWO SPINNERS
AS WELL AS MEHMOODULLAH OF BANGLADESH
BY 100 PERCENT COULD BE THE BEST INVESTMENT BY THE I.P.L FRANCHISEE OWNER TO
PUT THEIR MONEY ON THEM
Pitch And It's " JOKE " :: " VICTORY " For Cricket, Defeat For India
A lot of the one's who are interested in this game and who enjoy watching this game beside those who have some knowledge about cricket blame the method about how the original pitch on which this game was to be played was changed in the last instant. Many believe that the change was the reason for the teams especially India to lose the finals.
I have been advocating all about the bad pitches below the level of the standard and quality that are prepared to play the game at India, maybe the five dayers , maybe the one-dayers. I would not like to waste my lines on the pitches prepared to play these matches.
Had India won on that day playing on these kind of pitch the future of cricket would have gone blind all over.That defeat is the VICTORY for cricket though it may sound bad but that was the DEFEAT NECESSARY for India.
Coming back to the I.P.L better it would be for them to pick some players from Bangladesh and Afghanistan f for the I.P.L The I.P.L franchisee can take the cognizance of the same.
MY FINAL PIECE OF ADVISE - ::
Finally I would conclude by REALLY giving about a PIECE of advise which might NOT taste good at all, but this is the fact-:
Simply invite about SIX teams, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and TWO more teams that qualifies through the qualifiers to play this game in the World Cup, rather than creating all JOKES and LAUGHING STOCKS in a tourney like the World Cup.
Let these teams invited , play two games each and let the BEST four teams make it to the semis. This will create more competitive spirit and tremendous excitement for the events rather than making it an event to rake in the moolahs .After all AFGHANISTAN HAS NO CRICKET STADIUM STILL IN THEIR COUNTRY. They actually were the TEAM of the World Cup cricket 2023.
This in fact and this is truth retells and speaks about it all ....
That Is It and that speaks all about it .
Regards and Thanks
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Shyamal Bhattacharjee
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored SIX books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012, GOLDEN QUOTES on Inspiration, Sorrow, Peace and Life, published by B.F.C Publications, Lucknow, and QUOTES:: Evolution and Origin of Management Electives by Clever Fox Publishing, Chennai and From Dhyan To Dhan :: Indian Hockey - Sudden Death Or Extra Time published by Clever Fox Publishing House . He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .
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