Cricket: Lankan bowlers promote Indian batboys!
-Dr. Abdul Ruff (Specialist on sport fixings)
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It was indeed a anti-climax as Sri Lanka defeated a much better looking India on India’s independence day on August 15, in fact making the celebrations in India by cricket fans who were expecting a fantastic win in Colombo, less glamorous and meaningless.
In the ongoing test match series between India and Srilanka, Lankan bowlers in the first innings happily made “important” Indian batboys shine too much, with the offer of 100s Indian skipper and another batboy, though India bowling first had crushed Lankans by offering a meager 183 runs in 49.4 overs in the first innings. SL possibly expected India would offer SL batboys like Sangakara good scores in the second innings so that Lankans can also shine. Good logic but at what cost? In the second innings India was very generous and offered 367 runs to SL but SL bowlers became very alert and restricted Indians to a meager 112 (target was just 176 runs) Sri Lanka won by 63 runs because bowlers became alert.
In the second innings, Lankan bowlers selected for good runs those batboys who did not get enough runs in the first innings. SL boys offered ‘competitive and respectable ” runs to Lokesh Rahul (108) Virat Kohli (c) (78) Rohit Sharma (79) Wriddhiman Saha (wk) (56) in the first innings but in the second inning, these big guys were sent back to the pavilion without enough runs and SL offered runs to those who failed in the first innings: Murali Vijay (82) Ajinkya Rahane (126). However, it seems Binny is not being promoted by both teams and so he fell very cheaply in both innings .
Just on the eve of test matches, India got Sangakara to who has already announced his retirement from cricket, to declare Indian skipper Virat Kohli as the future of cricket in all formats and departments. In order to prove what Sangakara said his loyal bowlers made Virat Kohli, who has been failing at the crease in recent times, shine once again, if not for the last time now as it is golden opportunity for them to amass runs and enjoy regime honors, big money.
It is a known fact, both India and Pakistan terrorize the besieged Kashmiris by their mutual crossfire operations. Now they want to conduct joint cricket exercises to amass runs by transferring 100s and 50s to one another. It seems Pakistan badly needs some 100s for their batboys from India but New Delhi is not showing enough interest in Pakistan’s cricket proposal.
Cricket is officially out of sports ministry and private enterprise everywhere to promote corruption and fixings without problems as governments obey the boards. Cricket boards and ICC, like cricket boards in cricket countries, run by the billionaires and corporate lords, are deeply worried that batboys do not shine with easy 100s and 200s as before and they obviously have asked the teams to save cricket by offering good marks for the poor batboys. In fact, even general public and media now are aware of fake records but governments cannot withdraw all fake awards offered to batboys under pressure from corporate lords who control the governments and parliaments.
That is indeed the “give and take policy” followed in cricket by every team and all such bogus records — essentially for dishonesty and fake display – are bogus but are treated as big achievement by the government to honor the cricketers with national awards meant for meritorious nation building efforts.
Cricket records generally are fake. But no amount of exposure of matching in cricket in the media would make cricket boards behave and try to get cricket on honest or gentlemanly tracts with better rules to suit batboy cricket. Corporate lords still fund the fake shows.
If a country does not trust its skills and talent rather than color code to win sports, something is wrong somewhere.
Not only color code but also Indian gods work for Indian sports people.
In fact it is not only India, but most nations are engaged in paying the “fixed” matches.
In view of rampant match fixings, establishment of an international squad is absolutely necessary to track all fixing cases and punish the culprit nations and players. Schedule verifications and genuine toss techniques are important.
There should some check on sports and cricket for genuineness and reliability of outcomes.
Meanwhile, it is to be seen if India also would, as the usual return favor, readily oblige the hosts in Colombo by offering a full 100 or at least a pass mark of 50 runs to SL maestro Sanga.
In case Sanga does not get a “decent” score that could only be construed as his bad luck!
After all, every batboy can hit big if bowlers are willing to help by using pro-batboys pitches and field conditions.
Interestingly, the ongoing Ashes series which England has already won and the last test being showcased now clearly show some mischief by both. In the last test England won the toss and elected to bowl instead of bating, and offered good score to Australian batboys who feel bad and when England came to bat every bat boy collapsed in both innings one after another. Obviously, Australians would win the last test to shine in a limited sense.
That is mutual Eng-Aus caring. However, while Australian skipper has announced retirement England skipper Cook is yet to decide that. Cook is a waste bin already. It is time Cook allow new batboys and good bowlers to take over.
Post script
SL expects Indian bowlers to be kind and help its batboys also with good runs and return favors. .
All expectations of Sri Lank for a one last 100 for Sangakara from Indian visitors were terribly short-lived as Sanga was not even given a pass mark of at least 50 runs, thereby making all his records also fake. This Indian ungrateful attitude annoyed the hosts and SL hit back in the second innings by restricting India’s big batboys look like an empty match box. Herath’s seven razed solid India for just 112 and Indian team lost the match from a winning side.
Can Australia offer its highest civilian award to Sanga as it did to Indian Sachin?
SL can claim sweet revenge but cricket stands fully exposed as a bowler managed entertainment, braking or making batboys who are often the beneficiaries s of bowler mischief.
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