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Cricket is a gentleman’s game, the lights of Garfield Sobers, Gavaskar, Clive Llyod, Sir Don Bradman, Sachin , Brain Charles Lara clearly make this adage true. For India Cricket is more than just a game, I will it call a religion that has no caste associated with it. Folks around the globe, follow the game with same passion. Well there have been controversies for this game, giving it a black star, nevertheless still cricket is in hearts of million of people.
The spirit of any game is put down when we try to destroy its integrity. Stars like Cronje, Azharudin will always be remembered for what they did. Still the spec of corruption is present in the game, and for the matter of fact it will remain, when there is a huge following there are chances people to do some acts that are not accepted.
A new turnaround took place when India launched IPL- T20 for the first time, a new dimension to the sports was added, giving domestic players and international players to play at the same platform. The plan aimed at growing the confidence of domestic players and improve the standard of the game. Skills apart, the revenue generating aspect too seemed promising in ensuring that the domestic players who playing Ranji only to walk empty handed would now have handsome bank balance.
However, corruption has its own strange ways to peep in to the system. After initial speculations regarding undertable transactions during the bidding process of the teams, revelations by IPL Kochi owner Rendezvous Sports adds substance to the schema.
The owner was bullied by the minister to walk away from the bidding podium with a bribe of $50 million. Clearly if the IPL- committee can offer this huge chunk of money, we can expect what it would be getting in return.
Well I know this is just a news that will route every television, ear, news paper for a day, a week or may be a month, we Indians have very poor memory and soon we will be watching the IPL matches with a mug of beer and pop-corn in our hand. What is sad is the level of corruption that has creeped in so deep that nothing can escape from it, even a game like cricket, supposedly a religion for many within our country.
(original post posted on http://titimma.com)
Siddharth Gupta
Author - http://titimma.com
