Global Cricket Adjustments: cash, awards and politics

Why South Africa delayed a safe victory

& why India hates SA?

*By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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It is no more a secret that sports like cricket is played as a business cartel to amaze wealth and essentially to fool the watching world by effecting hidden agendas through match-fixings (and cash sharing) and also emabling the global governments to honor the cricketers with awards and cash plus lands for their "great achievements" in sprots. India has a big list of such sport "achievers" and Indians boast themselves of claiming these "greats". In the process the real players get lost some where unnoticed. .

It looks cricket matches are played according to a pre-plan or at least revised one in course. Today, three series are going on: South Africa-Australia, West Indies-England and New Zealand – India. Both India and Australia are explosively thorough match-fixers of the today. On 26 March after wining the toss New Zeeland made 619 in its first innings declared while India in reply could make only 305 all out pathetically in the first inning forcing for a follow on and it appeared to be an innings defeat for India, but as you see, the match is made too slow now even with Indian run-rate plummeting down to 2 plus per over. It looks both the teams have decide to slow pitch and prolong the match for the fifth day also. One does not know if NZ has already compromised with India and the outcome could still be anything disastrous for India.  Why NZ is delaying the match when the victory is clearly on its side?

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South African has out-championed Australia in ODI and is on way to take over the Test championship as well. That apart, in the recent Twenty20 against Australia, South Africa won the first match on 27 March at home. Not many eye brows are raised as it is not surprising SA won. However, SA other wise seems to be either faltering or making some usual adjustment with Australia during the Test match series. By convincingly trouncing Australia in the Third Test on 22 March at Cape Town winning the final with an innings, the South African hosts have, in a sense, effectively nullified the series win by the Aussies. However, the cricket series in South Africa between Australia and South Africa has once again shown Australia has not reinvigorated and the team has collapsed thanks to its secret dealings with India which make the Aussies crumble almost for ever.

This is an incredible performance by the Proteas. They had the match shifted towards them on the first day when the Australians could not get a good enough score on the board. The balance shifted more in their favor when their batsmen kept stitching partnerships and stretching their lead. Avoiding an innings defeat after trailing by 400 plus and with a depleted batting line up, it became even more difficult. Johnson and McDonald showed some heroics but they were not good enough to stop South Africa from winning the game by an innings. This is the first time in 11 years that Australia has succumbed to an innings defeat. Of course, all credits to South Africa.

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What is worth noticing is the fact South Africa also plays more than real cricket. SA was in a commanding position throughout and Australia was 6 wickets down trailing behind SA by over 200 runs and an innings, but SA slow-peddled to let Johnson (123) and his colleague McDonald make good runs (68) quickly before they could reach the crossing line and there they were all out. S. A’s commanding position made them take risk and play fun by letting Johnson get a 100 plus before pulling curtain down. The ticket-holding spectators thus got some more fun with the extension of the match for a couple of hours more. That is cricket of convenience.

Meanwhile, the same time, India seeking an innings win against the New Zealand failed to achieve the goal, as the hosts were defiant to concede that honor on the match-fixers from South Asia so easily. Although the NZ team was clearly showing that they were letting India win the first Test with an innings, towards the end on 7th wicket stand they decided to play for their country and denied the innings win for the guest, come what may ignored the cricket mafia dictates. Hopefully, SA will surge ahead fearless to win the remaining matches. And the "invigorated" Australia, a strategic partner in all sorts of joint exercises, including in cricket,   would, conversely, receive continuous defeat at the hands of SA.

Indian media and those media, now controlled by Indians, actively support Australia and badly oppose South Africa for spoiling Hindu chances in future too. Some commentators on internet portals make funny remarks when SA batsmen made quick runs and got annoyed when Austrian failed to make a six or four as they expected. The commentaries are biased in favor of Australia as if it makes a difference to the further course of the match (Does that make, in any case?)

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Why Indian media and sport commentators are annoyed more with South Africa now? Quite recently, Australia has lost ODI championship to South Africa and is edging towards to be over taken by South Africa in Test cricket too, though India has been trying , rather all means  at its disposal, including US connections, to outsmart all teams to reach the top space in cricket. South Africa had lost first two Tests to the hosts from Australia but played well to win the final one comfortably.

After outsmarting the Aussies through match-fixing and tricks, India was almost certain to take over from its cricket sally Australia, but SA defeated Aussies and clinched the issue to its favor and honor, annoying Indians. Under the match-foxing agreement India almost made the Australian team worthless and contaminated. Soon it became too weak to face the South African team which claimed the top slot.

Muslims are sidelined in all possible ways and India considers it a shame even to help a Muslim in any form. Now so, the issue of Muslims in South African cricket team is matter of "concern" for the anti-Islamic India and its media plus commentators. It is not just because of the  champion's race with SA ahead of Australia and others including aspiring India (at any cost), India imagines it has assumed a big status against both Australia and South Africa, but still more worried about possible negative impact on its Hindutva moorings.

South Africa has inducted a few Muslim batsmen, Hashim Amla, Imraan Khan who are solidly making their debut registered in international cricket by helping SA win the matches. India also ahs got a few Muslims as emergency showpieces for claiming "secularism credentials", but they are made to behve like underdogs and a couple of them are now being popped up as Indina bowlers as India wants to project them as mere negative characters along with "postive" schains and the like and does not want any Muslim to dominate Hindu psyche with their positive performances. And even if, by chance they do better work than the Hindus, they are not given due space in Indian press at par with Hindus whose photos & news dominate even the front the pages. India media want to say only Himdus are good humans and should excell every where in hIndia and abroad.

When the match-fixings made by the government agencies, big industrialists and, on their behalf, the cricket mafias India, always targeting Muslims in all possible ways, shamelessly, on false charges of match-fixing, removed captain Mohd Azharuddin, who has a family trouble that time, from Indian squad and since decided not to make any Muslim the top cricketer of India in future, at least for the near future. If at all Azharuddin was even remotely involved in the match-fixing he would have done it on behalf of the Indian agencies and in order to keep the world given by India to foreigners. Truth lies some where inside the corridors of power. Whosoever, India promoted, therefore, remained on the periphery of importance only to be criticized by the anti-Muslim Indian media. Muslims are supposed to carry out orders of Hindus if they want to survive and they are used for state terrorism activities and dragged into jails for severe punishment. That is India. That is Indian democracy! That is Indian secularism! That is Indian cricket for “entertainment”, crime and punishment. Any doubts?

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Yours Sincerely,

DR. ABDUL RUFF Colachal

Columnist & Independent Researcher in World Affairs, The only Indian to have gone through entire India
South Asia.