The world of cricket needs Harry Potter and his friends
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Young-c41367, lanky orphan boy waits for a miracle as he wistfully looks out of a small window of his cold, shabby room. The boy lived with his torturous uncle and aunt, who also have an equally torturous not-so-young, fat boy.
The 11-year-old innocent boy has big sad eyes with round spectacles and a bolt-like scar on his forehead. The boy does not know how he got the scar but he feels prickling pain sometimes yet he keeps the agony to himself.
The boy is oblivious to a world far, far away that is waiting for the “boy who lived.” He is unaware about the fact that he is no ordinary boy. He saved the unknown
magical world from the evil and the young boy is ignorant to that until now. He is surprised to see a huge human being who resembles a giant coming up to him and telling him that he is a wizard. The boy does not even understand the word ‘wizard’ yet
he is excited to run away from the depressing shackles of the people he lives with. The boy goes through an amazing journey where he finds friends and foes, a family he never thought he could ever have and above all he finds himself as he battles with a nose-less
wicked villain of the wizard world.
The story is the world’s greatest fictional novels ever written. But saying that the book is fictional can be wrong as it is the story of our lives. It showcases the basic dilemma faced by the society that we are currently living in.
Voldemort (the evil wizard) represents all the malicious things that are being nurtured in our society. The world is being taken over by the dark powers (read selfish politicians) that would replenish the world into depressing moments.
The dementors, who are the soul sucking creatures in the book, represent the antics of such people whose sole purpose is to tarnish the world with extreme anathema.
There are classes in the magical world as well, the pure blood (pure wizard born) and muggle born (non-wizard born) which shows that not even the fictional magical world is safe from the atrocities of the social classes.
But what does Harry Potter (the protagonist/hero) of the story has to do with cricket. Well, it has everything to do with the ironically called “gentleman’s sport.”
The year 2010 will always be remembered for the corruption allegations that were revealed in the summer of this year. The fixing claims have always been there in this game. The betting on the teams and players previously was carried behind closed doors but
now this has been sort of “legalised” as it is present in this age of technological advancement. The game is breathing its last breaths under a wide and deep sea of hard cash. The big powers that are pulling the strings are egoistic people who would do anything
for fame or money. What can one do as money makes the world go round?
So yes, sadly the news mills were not churning about the great play of the batsmen or bowlers but the way how a certain country’s players sold their pride for money. This article is not to replay the story of how and when the alleged played fixed or how
many more players felt threatened by the hostile fixers but to highlight the fact that the game seriously needs a fairy-god mother who would swish the magical wand and clear the venoms of corrupted minds.
As the millions of Harry Potter series fans and avid followers come to terms that the series has come to blissful end, the cricket fans are hoping for a spark of magic as well. Harry and his friends’ journey may be over but the gentleman’s sport needs the
heroic strength such as the teen wizard (read the big people in Dubai headquarters) to make this game gentlemanly again.
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