The cold war....

In the year 1700 britishers introduced cricket in India for the first time. Till 1848 non of the Indians played cricket, after which a parsi community in Bombay formed a cricket orient club and started playing cricket. The biggest and the hidden-in-pages story was the match of 1893 between selected Indian farmers and the British commission. Till then cricket was just a game which people never used to care. At that time hockey was at its peak, all credit to Maj. Dhyan Chand. He made the game so interesting that people never used to care what else is going on. But as the time passed Indian hockey players were losing their edge and at the same time Indian cricket players were improving their game. In 1983, the biggest milestone was laid in the history of Indian cricket, Kapil Dev’s boy lifted the world cup in the Mecca of cricket. But that was not enough Kapil dev and Sunil Gavasker broke all previous records and engraved their names in the history of international cricket forever. But there was more to come, a 16 year boy was added in the Indian cricket team. After that there was no turning back from that point of time. The Indian cricket was becoming more popular day by day. And our national game was losing its flavour. In 2008, for the first time Indian hockey team didn’t even qualified for the Olympics for the first time in history.

This is not enough in the game, the emotional touch always comes in between when the players perform well or if they lose the match. Winning can make them the national hero and losing a match is like committing a crime against the nation. But we often forget that winning and losing are part of game. When the game ends one has to win and one has to lose it cannot be a win-win situation for all. The rise and the fall is the part of the cycle and then it goes on to its lowest point but from there it has to rise. At the same time if one does not concentrate to take it back to its original deserving post them the flavour in the game is gone and if at the same time another can rise. But does this all make sense? People are over spending just to have a _______.... I don’t know what they get out of it. The game is now mixed with the politics and with this they try to settle in the scores between the nations also, which does not happen usually. After some time everyone forgets the so called heros of that time (how many of us can name the 11 members of the winning team of world cup 1983?) and start living there life. But the political effects are not so easy to wash away. They leave an impression which is carried out throughout the life time and the nation citizens are affected from it most of the time. In short run happiness we often forget to see the big picture behind the screen and then when the things fall in the trouble we realise that it’s too late.

I do not say that these kinds of games are bad. But the only thing we all should start realizing that there is another picture behind the screens running which is often over look the blur picture running behind the stadium. The real war is not with guns and tanks anymore but they are more with the balls and the players running behind it. The win always brings a moments of joy and proud for all of us but still the puzzle has few pieces to be connected.