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They are bringing
the Cricket down to zero! |
A Feature by Syed Ahsan Ali
on June 08, 2007
They said that One Day Cricket is an exciting
type of cricket attracting spectators from all
over the globe. Then we have been watching that
they are almost on the brink of its utter
disaster. Now, they say that Twenty20 Cricket
will be the next generation of cricket. Okay,
now they will not ruin Twenty20 Cricket but this
time around what is on the line here is the
hunger of spectators for the most loved game
especially in this part of the world where we
live.
 More
cricket does not necessarily mean quality
cricket or service to the game. Economics has
one very psychological theory. Marginal utility
which says that the more you use a thing the
less you need it with each unit of that good.
First glass of water will yield you the highest
satisfaction in presently drenching heat wave in
sub-continent, but as you consume more and more
glasses of water your satisfaction level will
drop with each glass and comes down to zero.
Sorry to say. They are bringing it down to zero.
We love cricket but making it sprout like
unwanted thorns here and there is killing the
game. First the Abu Dhabi series in searing heat
of desert, and now this Afro-Asian cup where
teams are badly mismatched. One is weighed with
too much talent and other one weighed with lack
of talent. What is this? Lack of top cricketers
from Africa makes it absolutely dead competition
even before it starts. It could be the time when
players can get some rest before getting back to
their nerve-wrecking itinerary which they cannot
ignore at any cost. They are making them money
making dominos. Cricketers are not humans, they
do not have families, or they do not like to
steal time from their hectic schedule.
The Pakistan cricket board specifically
requested Afridi to travel to India and play.
The PCB Chairman himself asked him to leave
because they do not want to make this futile
exercise more lackluster. Afridi can help them
out in that department. And you cannot say no to
your chairman. You know how a cricket structure
operates in India and Pakistan. Little anger of
any high officials can send group of angry
ghouls at your doorstep. That’s a risky
business.
Around 15 Tests and plus 50 One Day
Internationals in a calendar year are not enough
for lusty profit making desires and to top with
dirty stuff they are cropping up these dead
matches when no one bothers to even telecast it.
What they want to do with their lives that are
not our set of affairs but kindly don’t make our
beloved game boring for us. In the past, we
didn’t miss the highlights of an already
witnessed match and now we are not interested in
even watching the live telecast. Especially when
we can decide from the outset that a match will
be over during one new ball spell of an Asif and
Zaheer. Some can argue that players also want to
feature in these matches, then fine, the only
casualty of this whole catastrophic situation
is, we the fans.
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