Todays news when i switched on the TV was about Kumble making some allegations of match fixing in cricket .
Cricket was never my favourite game . But some time in the past i sometimes thought" if" i were interested in cricket i could have spent around 10 hours glued in front of TV and never got bored . For there was always a cricket match on TV in the good old days before animal planet , discovery and star movies became just a channel change away . I am referring to the Doordarshan era when daytime TV only had cricket in it .Those days the the minority who hated cricket used to say it was a game where 11 players played and 11000 fools watched . (i never hated or loved it btw). But now with each day churning out the match fixing plots getting public i dont know whether i should agree with the joke or not . What is the fun in watching the game when it is rigged ? And that too for hours
Most of the cricket players used to get very large amount of money legitimately for the games they played and when there was not a single audi car in the public domain it was in one of the cricket games , a worldcup where the man of the match got an Audi car as prize . I remember it was ? 1984 . That was good and legal . Nowadays they also get money in millions from their many endorsements of various products in advertisements too . I am not against talented players making money . But in a country where many people live below the poverty line when some of these people inspite of getting a lot of money legally do such activities as matchfixing to get "extra cash" they should not go unpunished . For i once again yearn for the time when i felt jealous for the people who could enjoy continuous 10 hours of a game .
Cricket was never my favourite game . But some time in the past i sometimes thought" if" i were interested in cricket i could have spent around 10 hours glued in front of TV and never got bored . For there was always a cricket match on TV in the good old days before animal planet , discovery and star movies became just a channel change away . I am referring to the Doordarshan era when daytime TV only had cricket in it .Those days the the minority who hated cricket used to say it was a game where 11 players played and 11000 fools watched . (i never hated or loved it btw). But now with each day churning out the match fixing plots getting public i dont know whether i should agree with the joke or not . What is the fun in watching the game when it is rigged ? And that too for hours
Most of the cricket players used to get very large amount of money legitimately for the games they played and when there was not a single audi car in the public domain it was in one of the cricket games , a worldcup where the man of the match got an Audi car as prize . I remember it was ? 1984 . That was good and legal . Nowadays they also get money in millions from their many endorsements of various products in advertisements too . I am not against talented players making money . But in a country where many people live below the poverty line when some of these people inspite of getting a lot of money legally do such activities as matchfixing to get "extra cash" they should not go unpunished . For i once again yearn for the time when i felt jealous for the people who could enjoy continuous 10 hours of a game .
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