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Cricket, you stupid bast**d


Ok for the first crapshoot of the blog. Since it is the Olympics season, let me start with it.

First of all I must salute all the wonderful men and women who have made to the Olympic stage. I mean it and I respect them a lot. Win or loose, in my books they are better than 99.99% of other population with a TV-remote.

As you might have guessed it, my rant is totally about sports today. There are many perspectives on how the current situation in India can be viewed. And like all else, we will be taking many sides as we continue writing. But for now, let me just concentrate on just one thing: cricket.

Now since Criciket is not a Olympic sport, why talk about it? The only reason is, cricket is the main reason why we are an absmal performer in Olympic or athletic sports.

Entire India is a slave to cricket, a rather stupid game, supposed to be a gentleman’s game. But I have not come across one instance where cricket insipired somebody to reform their life. Cricket never stretched beyond itself. There was a time, when cricket was like golf .. ah, the bliss of watching Steve Waugh, Rahul Dravid and Sunny Gavaskar calmly butcher the hording bunch. But now, in the shorter format it is an advertising's sport. Every aspect of the game is manipulated for that one more ad-spot.

Will try and keep it short:

Lets state some facts: Cricket is a niche sport. There are hardly a dozen countries who play it. but hey, we are the world champions!! Bullshit!

Cricket is a complete failure as a sport. Its not even the most ad-worthy sport. It’s a legacy of the 1983-win. It’s a legacy of the cricket clubs from British era. Every other country where it is played, with probable exception of Caribbean, its an also-ran sport. In India and Indies it is a religion.

With Ussain Bolt making the news, I really hope for all the goodness sakes that Carribeans ditch this religion. Cricket is not worth anybody’s time, not even mine for writing about it.

Cricket in India is a choker. It is choking every other sport.

Vishwanathan Anand becomes World champion, it counts for nothing. Forgotten. Mary Kom goes close to medal, we loose the brief in few minutes. Saina wins medal we give her a candlelight limelight. And we go on and on about every stupid random game that has ever been played.

This is not the last you will hear from us about Cricket. But that’s it for now.

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