Monday, August 30, 2010

Who is clean?

With recent spot fixing allegation on some players of pakistan cricket team, everyone jumped over them. Media, former players, politicians, social leaders everyone from every possible corner of world started critising them. But then who is clean? Former players? I still remember Pakistan- Bangladesh one day match in a world cup where no one expected that Pakistan will loose but they did. Wasim Akram was the captain that time. In India itself, few players had been banned for lifetime a decade ago. Investigation agencies found players from almost every country weere in contact with bookies and in some cases they recieved money from bookies. This is proven fact. The entire cricket system is in mud whether we would like to accept or not. Indian politicians (who are usually supposed to be very corrupt) getting interest in cricket is directly or indirectly proving this. Lets closely observe Indian Premiur League of India. The entire setup of IPL indicates that cricket has gone beyond sport and has converted into money, high society contacts, parties and liquor. IPL has the teams where players from all playing nation participates. Naturally they must be close to all background activities which goes on along with IPL schedule.

Are we serious to clean cricket? Its a joke. No one is serious. Media is making money with these revelation and why would they like to seriously investigate this and get the truth out? After all, these (fixing news) are a good coverage for them. Cricket boards are full of corrupt officials and they themselves are making money thru these corrupt practices. If we start counting the names of officials, majority of the names will have tainted image. How can we expect them to clean the game and the entire setup.

Lets avoid watching cricket.