Pakistan cricket fans and critics, do they really understand the dilemma? (Part 3)
(Continued from part 2…)
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 Pakistan 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 has conveniently been ignored. 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 that has faded.
If we look back 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 on the 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 African cricketers, Indian cricketers, Pakistani cricketers, Australian, English, Carribean all of them 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 political system.
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 myself and others like me are sick of such naiveties, in fact pushed to the edge of our 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 much longer.
Despite not fancying the chairman of the Pakistan cricket board I do stand with him, when I read all sorts of bias articles that somehow ignore everything else to say that he alone is the problem. They ignore, how he too is an appointment of an elected political
leader.
It fails to make sense that the cricket board must have anything to do with politics for that matter. 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 http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128
has developed in the PCB has been detrimental for the main cricketing body of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755, however, even if he is replaced, that 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 and try to do away with their myopic views about issues that they do not truly grasp. 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 opinions 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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