Sri Lankans are proverbial with the concept of terrorism. Back in ’96 World Cup when every cricket playing country refused to play a single ODI in Sri Linka, it was Pakistan and India that went their and showed solidarity with Sri Lankan brothers. Maybe this was the major reason that they despite every odd and propaganda decided to play cricket on the Pakistani soil. But we lost the trust the Lankans showed in us and our authorities.

The attackers who ever they might be succeeded in their target and placed a question mark on the cricketing future of the country. It’s high time that we raise our voices, our pen, our flags for peace and fight against terrorism which is a constant threat to Pakistan, its nation and the whole region.

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Once upon a time there was a young boy who found it extremely difficult to stand on his two feet. The mother was informed about the abnormality of her youngest son, the two legs were not of the same length and the elbow of the boy’s right arm was present completely apposite to every other normal human elbow i.e 90 degree apart.

One day when the poor kid was struggling to attain the balance on his two feet, his elder brother threw him a ball. To every one’s amazement; the boy didn’t only hold on to the ball but was able to keep the balance on his two feet.

The boy grew up to be the fastest bowler of all time and one of the most talented one as well. They named him the Rawalpindi Express.

When Shoaib left for India, he was facing a 5 year ban on allegations that are as phony as the man who is in charge of the PCB these days (Naseem Ashraf). Even after his arrival, the skipper of his team decided to make him sit on the bench for two matches. Tonight his team “Kolkatta Knight Riders” was playing their most crucial match of the tournament. It was a do or die situation with only 130 runs to defend on a good batting pitch. But today the fate was on his side for a change. 4/11 and the Knight Riders booked the ticket for the victory ride.

Okay I am exaggerating a bit Delhi Dare Devilz fought back, but after loosing some early wickets and players like Sehwag and Gamhir the poor total of 130 became quite hard to get.

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Among other sports; cricket is one SPORT which is rigid to changes. It took ages from; Test form of cricket to ODI’s and then came twenty-20 which quite changed the shape of International cricket. Its more exciting, thrilling, one can arrange more matches in a day. But many veteran cricketers like Waseem Akram, Javed Miandad and Ricky Ponting are still in love with the original form of cricket ie Test cricket.

When I first heard about IPL, I was pretty excited. I was expecting some quality cricket along with the regular excitement and fun. And then we witnessed cricketers being sold out like sheep’s and goats. The only difference is that no goat worth millions of dollars The commercialism didn’t stop here. Rich Actors (SRK), Business Tycoons (Vijay Mallya etc) and not so rich girlfriends of quite rich Business men (I am talking about Pretty Zinta here) won the rights of each regional team.

Cricketers seems to be (filthy rich) happy, so are the investors for obvious reasons. But guyz shouldn’t there be any difference between cricket and a Karan Johar film or any Bollywood commercial flick for that matter. I am not against Indi masala films, neither I am against 20/20 or new exciting form of cricket for that matter. But people IPL is anything but cricket. I mean golden helmets and pads. Half naked cheerleaders cum bar dancers jumping/dancing on every boundary. Okay I agree I am a bit conservative when it comes to this, but the fact that sex sells does not imply that every picture in the art gallery should have a naked woman. Go on call me a traditionalist but my point makes sense.

The only reason of my displeasure is; I was expecting a league of EPL & UEFA standard and I am observing something like WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). So the question is; will the real cricket survive?

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