Oversimplifying, or overcomplicating issues without truly understanding their intricacies is hardly ever beneficial or makes a good article. These days it is common to come across material that is heavily castigating http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket with baseless accusations
and pointless arguments. There are people who call for Pakistan cricket to be banned as they conveniently turn a blind eye to all that is happening elsewhere in the world of cricket.
The fact that corruption in cricket is not a new phenomenon but has in fact existed for a long time. It is not only about corruption at the end of the day, but lack of morals, of that minimal level of moral integrity that was so close to the heart of the
game itself. If we look back in retrospect we will find that the very heroes who graced the game indulged in practices that in no means could be thought of as fair or honest. WG Grace was known to stand his crease even when he would get out, refusing to budge
on more than one occasion and the umpires did not have the courage to question him. They would allow him to play.
Hansie Cronje or other South Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Australians, and English all of them involved in corruption were well to do cricketers who did not hail from poor backgrounds. What can explain their reasons for accepting bribes from betting syndicates
and bookmakers? Or the fact that it is common knowledge in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 that Sharad Pawar is yet another face of a corrupt Indian politician.
Double standards, in cricket and in writing will in the long run be detrimental to the game itself that we love dearly. We love a simple, old fashioned game of cricket with its value system and its unique appeal. The ICC and budding cricket writers need
to pay heed to this line of argument. They should also pay heed to the fact that the public is sick of such naiveties, in fact pushed to the edge of their patience.
We no longer have the stamina to read long mundane naive tirades of how it is a harsh world. How it is a fight between the apes from the planet of shapes against the good honest principled men of the cricketing world. We cannot tolerate it any longer.
We fall short of understanding that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128, PCB’s chief, is not the only root-cause of Pakistan cricket. The PCB is in dire need of restructuring, it is in need of administrators and the system itself needs to be changed. The dictatorial culture that
Ijaz Butt has developed in the PCB has been detrimental for the main cricketing body of Pakistan, however even if he is replaced, does not imply that the job is done. A lot of work is still required in terms of developing the cricketing infrastructure in the
country and sincere efforts will be required to bring international cricket back to Pakistan.
Having said that, it is more than necessary for writers to understand their responsibilities as writers try to do away with their myopic views about issues that they do not truly hold value. This is not just limited to budding writers but to established
cricket writers as well, some of whom unfortunately base their articles on raw emotion to make claims that are not supported by facts.
Please save us the torture of lopsided opinion that has been a cause of frequent seizures for cricket fanatics who eat, breathe and sleep cricket. We can certainly live without it.
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