Nuances of Cricket
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

The British empire will continue to control the world along with USA, mainly in its former colonies, so long as cricket is played in the former colonies. And India represents UK in South Asia.

Greatly thanks to the efforts of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in recent times, an ungrateful and deceptive India has “achieved” what it dreamt of for decades- Cricket test ranking as the top slotted team. For Indian media the said bogus ranking is the best part of Indian personality something only specially erected “Bharat ratnas” can match. Somehow, BD avoided an innings humiliating defeat in Test 2, but that is all, other players thought they would somehow win and field to deliver as if without really believing in God they expected God to do His part for BD against the powerful bribery master India. All cricket series in  all forms need to be restricted  to one/two match only

Day-three of the Dhaka Test will surely go into the annals of Bangladesh cricket as truly memorable. It was a day when a young man showed immense talent and temperament to carve out a splendid century, lending respectability to the team’s fightback against a formidable opposition. Tamim Iqbal Khan played the innings of his life, as he clobbered the Indian bowling attack for 151 runs off just 183 balls. Riding on Tamim’s brilliance and his mammoth 200-run partnership with Junaid Siddique (55), Bangladesh responded to India’s 311-run lead with a solid 228 for three at stumps on day-three. Day four saw quick fall of BD wickets. If one calls them fools, they would naturally object and begin to oppose. The fact they could let Indian have the pleasure of having the cake and eating it too before leaving Dhaka by kicking hosts by an inning defeat at the end the bilateral Test series is not a bad sign. If they wanted they could have easily done that too, as it appeared in the morning session as wickets fell like ice cubes during a morning winter.

Bangladesh, unlike Pakistan, seems to have some employable potential  n cricket and it was demonstrated on January 26 against India in BD in the ongoing test series when BD kept on thrashing Indians and its opener Iqbal got 150 plus with help form his co-batman Siddique who got 5o plus. But, both fell quickly as if they suddenly felt hungry or some call from the nature. The BD scored 290 runs with 3 wickets down- two of them toward the end and it was not sure if BD, if it had played as badly as they did at the end on Day3, could save an innings defeat as well which the Indians, including the aimless, hapless, hopeless Muslims were looking forward only to blast semi-explosives to showcase its military power. On Republic Day they could show their power that way because of BD bating spree. India wanted to pack off BD before lunch, but failed in their only mission as BD overcame the defilcit and began leading by just ONE run at lunch. But this no victory  for BD.

Both Pakistan and Bangladesh have to outsmart an arrogant India and they need to learn all weaknesses and plus points of Indian cricketers and learn from their own mistakes if they want to play good cricket- not for the sake of fake ranking, but for becoming good players to stay in sport. They must take an oath not play on Fridays when their Muslims are busy praying their Juma- they must respect Islam and other Muslims. Liquor is prohibited for Muslims and Muslims players play with Islamic tenets by drinking all sorts of liquor plus the all sorts of meat provided by non-Muslims. Islam is first for Muslims - vague democracy comes only later. Indian Muslims do not know why they pray just for the sake it at all. Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims should not follow Indian example in any aspect.

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Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
India
abdulruff_jnu@yahoo.com