Cricket as false sport:
Teams play only for sharing 100s and 50s!
-Abdul
Ruff Colachal (Specialist on Sport Fixing)
____________
Characteristics
of joint cricketism
Cricket is perhaps one of the biggest jokes, enjoyed by innocent
people as a real sport. This falsification, unfortunately, has the endorsement
of many governments being controlled by corporate lords that sponsor cricket
for more profits.
Nowadays, in order to promote bating, a minimum score is fixed by them.
Accordingly, the team that bowls first needs to offer at minimum runs as target
score for the second bowling team to chase down.
It is a known truth that batboys at the crease with bats get runs not just by
running between wickets but mainly by hitting 4s and ^s and this happens mainly
because of the weak and hollow bowlers who are trained to act too much with a
ball on the field in order to generate a false impression about their intended
efforts for wickets while in fact they only help the batboys increase the run
rates .
If one thinks upon winning the toss, a team opts for bowling the
bowlers would be seriously reckless with the ball, disappointment would be the
results as bowlers bowl to give as many runs as the batboys want especially the
bowling team that comes to “attack” first.
Every bowling team needs a couple of wickets to impress the crowds
that know noting or care about nothing about match fixing. Once one or two
wickets fall, the bowlers offer too many runs as per their mutual agreements-
from 3 runs per over to 15 runs per over, depending on the format they choose
to fool the public. The team also decide prior about the “estimated score” for
the team bating first.
After giving as many runs in 4s and 6s etc, the team that bats second has to
chase down the total to win the match if it can while getting back 100s runs, a
record, etc as return favors. If the team had given too many runs, it is
difficult to chase down the total if the bowlers are reckless.
That is reason why India always want to bat first by somehow”winning” the toss.
The bowlers and fielders would keep in mind the target score and work towards
that without harming batboys. The score for the first bating team is also
decided from 150 to 600 runs, depending on the format they choose.
Generally, bowlers can target w stumps or wickets or reduction in run flow only
towards the end of the match when the ”needy batboys” are safely with 100s etc.
One would be surprised to watch how the fiddlers derecognize the site of the
stumps when they throw the ball to effect runouts. After so much of “training”
by paid coaches, the fielders and bowlers have no idea about the stump attack.
The fact remains the cricket boards, captains and corporate mafia discourage
all serious bowling and fielding. Once in a while something happens but that is
not a rule, only an unintended anomaly.
Interestingly, as top batboys fall cheaply , the commentators say that the tail
enders defended the team exemplarily and they just shut their blind eyes and
refused to say anything about bowler tricks to promote the batboys and maintain
a good score for the opponent team. .
Umpires are agents of mafia that recommends umpires.
The cricket teams fix matches for 100s and they also decide which batboy
deserves a quick 100 for which a couple of other batboys would quickly
sacrifice their wickets.
Governments, managed by corrupt elements, thriving in dirty money and illegal
wealth, also promote fake sports persons for more black/grey money and awards.
Governments do not want any law to contain fake sport operations in the name of
entertainment.
Nor is there any effective international legal mechanism to punish all match
fixing teams and captains. Governments and their intelligences cannot fool the
public with the increasing joint cricket exercises.
Sri
Lanka pays India in the same token!
Sri Lankan team learned a vital lesson from its own junior team:
Under-19 team. On February 09, India Under-19 team seemed to have played
mischief with the junior Srilanka Under-19 team. As SL Under-19 team badly lost
to India, SL team playing T20 with Indians in India was very careful and bowled
India to a meager 101 runs and defeated India by chasing down that total
easily.
In the ongoing ICC Under-19 World Cup, India and Sri Lanka played
the Semi final on February 08 in Bangladesh. No doubt India is stronger than
Sri Lanka in many respects but not necessarily in cricket as well. SL won the
toss but elected to bowl. SL began very seriously the first few overs and
mainlined 3 runs per over and took 3 wickets. And it appeared India would d not
cross 125-150 score but later SL began adding quick runs to increase the run
rate to 5 runs per over. SL did not target for wickets until 45th over. India
lost 9 wickets but got 267 runs.
When SL batboys came to the crease, Indian bowlers began reckless bowling.
While SL increased the run rate of India after half way through, India never
let SL batboys to get good runs right from the beginning and halfway through
decreased the run rate of SL which got 170 runs.
India uses diplomacy (rather triclomacy) to influence the foreign
cricket teams to be considerate about Indian concerns. Already IPL tricks have
worked for India. It is quite likely India had a word with SL to let India bat
first and give at least 250 runs as minimum score. And after winning the toss
SL opted to bowl instead of bating and offered more than 250 runs. After two
quick wickets, SL gave Anmolpreet Singh 72 runs and Sarfaraz Khan 59 runs.
Possibly SL would have expected return favors as at least one 50 runs from
India but that did not happen because India wanted to win.
Interestingly, even junior cricket team under 19 of Pakistan also
continues the main team’s predicament in cricket of securing 100s and 50s as
perhaps Pakistan’s sport policy. On 08 February Pakistan under 19 team badly
lost to West Indies after from being the favorites to win. West Indies bowled
first and their bowlers began attacking Pakistani batboys and took 5 early
wickets but after that they began keeping two batboys at the crease for the
sixth wicket by offering runs to the tune of 100 and 50 receptively. Pakistanis
enjoyed that part as Pakistani batboys Umair Masood and Salman Fayyaz got 113
and 58 runs respectively while Pakistan got a score of 227 runs for 6 wickets.
Pakistni bowlers cold have won the match but they first wanted to make the return
favors to WI batboys and began bowling very positively in quick runs. TA Imlach
and SO Hetmyer were given good 50s. Maybe a 100 for its batboy was a special
that it thought to first returning the favors first and then win the match as
well. That did not happen as WI won the quarter final match to reach the semi
final and it is quite likely it would win the race as well against India.
For most Pakistanis, perhaps, getting a 100 for batboys is more important than
winning a match in a genuine manner. They would even argue that Pakistan got
what it wanted - a 100 runs. A fake record!
What is
the best method to take wickets?
There is only one method for taking wickets at regular interval:
commitment to the bowling profession. Every bowler is trained but they are used
for promoting the cause of batboys. As a result, more often than not, bowlers
are seen playing mischief and not serious bowling. ICC boys possibly instruct
the bowlers to be considerate about batboys’ needs.
Bowlers should be serious and committed to win the match for the team. And
seriousness can be demonstrated by denying easy runs for the batboys.
Of course, if bowlers are lucky or batboys are unlucky, quick wickets are
possible Also when batboys deliberately give away their wickets to enable other
batboys to make 100 etc.
However, bowlers should not depend wholly on batboys bad luck or their own
luck. But they must practice well.
Bowlers should enlist the full commitment from fielders and skipper.
Bowlers should stop offering runs for fun or money or for some other reasons.
ICC should reform cricket in such way that getting a run becomes as difficult
as taking a wicket, if not more difficult. It should consider 6s and 4s and let
batboys make scores only by running.
Getting runs in 6s and 4s but without running between the wickets
looks strange!
ICC should introduce double wickets from a ball as well. If a batboy is caught
the ball should be thrown to remove the other batboy as runout if he is out of
the crease when ball arrives.
Every rule stitched to make poor batboys shine too much with 100s and 50s while
bowlers have to support that mischief as their duty.
Indo-Pakistan
batboys eager for early series!
It appears India thinks it gets due recognition for its “records
and rankings” in cricket only if it plays with Pakistan. For Pakistan which
wants to promote only cricket as sport and as major entertainment and seeks
100s and 50s for its batboys in order to make them heroes, urgently seeks to
joint cricket exercises with its nuclear neighbor. In fact, Pakistani youth has
lost interest in real sports and young as well as old people play cricket only
for 100s and 50s.
Pakistan remains the only nuclear power on earth which has almost
zero level sport talent. In the ongoing South Asian Games, for instance
Pakistan is way behind India in medal tally, although it can claim to be much
better than Bangladesh. Maybe, Pakistan wants to leave sport field to India as
the latter does not like any serious challenge from its rival nuclear power in
sports. Whatever maybe the reason for Pakistan’s very pathetic performance
cannot be justified in simple explanations as Pakistani youth is denied its
role in sports
.
However, Indo-Pakistani cricket matches are the most dangerous tournament as
they create panic situations and generation tensions like cross border attacks.
Due mainly to terror issue, Pakistan and India have stopped
playing cricket series. While India manages 100s and 50s on a regular basis,
Pakistan would feel suffocated without them. Now more than India, Pakistan is
eager to restart the stalled joint exercises.
Both Pakistanis and Indians are upbeat about the prospects of
their teams playing cricket, to help batboys share 50s, 100s and more, after a
lapse of many years owing to tensions between them over stated issues like
terrorism. Pakistani corporates are restless without being able to sponsor
matches for making huge profits, including tax concessions.
It appears, more than India, Pakistan is keen to play with India
to legitimize its 100s and other mutual scores. Not many countries invite
Pakistanis team to play, while except Sri Lanka no cricket nation sends their
teams to Pakistan. That is the big loss for Pakistan though not a great tragedy
for the nation. But Pakistani government seems to be adamant to play only
cricket as sport and hence not at all interested in genuine sports.
Pakistani entertainments include films and cricket as it does not
play any other real sport. Pakistani government seems not promoting sports in
the country
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan has said if “the proposed
India-Pakistan bilateral series” is not held now it would not be possible to
have one for the next one year. He also made it clear that the bilateral series
with India that is still undecided and the World T20 were two separate things.
"This is a bilateral series between two nations the World T20 is an ICC
event."
But the PCB chief said in an interview that the PCB will have to
seek its government permission to send the team to India for the World T20 in
March. "We are monitoring the situation but given the current environment
in India with regards to Pakistan we will have to ask our government for
permission whether the security situation is ok for us to send our team,"
he said.
Khan sounded visibly disappointed at the failure of the Indian
board and government to clear the short bilateral series with Pakistan in Sri
Lanka. "We feel that India must fulfill the MOU signed between the two
boards and if the series is held it will play a role in improving India and
Pakistan relations." Khan also insisted that if India didn't agree to play
the series the PCB would obviously suffer financial losses but would not go
bankrupt. ".. We are in a stable financial position and though not having
the series will deprive us of lot of estimated revenues but it does not mean we
will be in a bad financial position." The PCB chief said he had still not
given up hope and even the ICC wanted the two boards to play the series soon.
Khan confirmed that ECB President Giles Clarke was playing the
role of a mediator in the whole issue. Khan felt that the Indian board also
wanted to play the series but said it was not up to them to convince their
government to give clearance.
Nothing has moved further. Possibly Indo-Pakistani series would
add more problems to the regional problems. Pakistan should not buy problems
for its people.
Pakistan needs to change its cricket mindset so that Pakistani
youth begins take interest in sports.
While the corporate media promoting only cricket are not bothered
about the future of Pakistani youth, Intelligentsia in Pakistan has a positive
role to play in encouraging the youth to engage themselves in real sport
activities and avoid fake sport like cricket.
Fake runs, fake records and fake glory, even if the governments
promote them, are not valid in Islam.
|