I am allergic to bull shit
[Now this post was almost getting rotten after staying so many days in draft, so I am finally going to post it somehow even I don't feel like posting]
I still don’t know what to write about the latest shit happening in Cricket specially Pakistan Cricket. After reading, listening and thinking a lot about it, I still don’t have my own thoughts, I still can’t make of anything out of it. May be it is too clear to have a different view about it or may be it is too blurry to make anything out of it.
Desperate time for pure cricket fans like me who will cheer cricket, win or loss doesn’t matter much as far as there is good cricket to satisfy them but this time it has hit cricket and it has hit badly. I have gone through lot of soul crushing Pakistan defeats but nothing can destroy the soul of a cricket fan than this cheating.
It is hell of a discussion which is already cut loose every where and I and lot of you already have enough of that so I don’t feel like going into that.
Here I am just going to put a conversation between some purest Pakistani fans after the hell broke loose. This might be an oridinary conversation for some but it can be a worth a notice or two for some if you feel it as a fan.
Let me first introduce you with the characters of this conversation because without this it is not going to make any sense. Two of them are my little brothers and other are little cousins and this is real conversation happened between them.
- WiserKid: A 13/14 year old school going kid, loves to play cricket and loves to watch it.
- CleverKid: A 12 year old more cleaver kid with more knowledge, more talkative. Latest generation more into tech stuff and video games than real games.
- WonderingKid: A 13 year old genius but didn’t had enough exposure to the outer world due to lack of environment and his very weak eyesight, can hardly see TV beyond 4 feet.
- YoungerKid: A 7/8 year old kid, very lively and special personality trying to learn the world around him.
Scene:
Sunday afternoon I was back in my home town in my home with family, we had a cable out yesterday so I really didn’t know the state of ongoing Lords test last thing I know was Mohammad Yousuf made a duck in first inning. It was still half an hour before the play will start for the fourth day of the test. Going through the usual routine of changing channels after every 2 minutes I stopped at a new channel for a while and that is when I got shocked to read the news ticker, my first reaction was oh match fixing blames once again what happened yesterday? Than news bulletin started and rest of the story you all know.
In the meantime match also got started, all four kids mentioned above were also sitting there watching match they also had heard the news and WonderingKid and YoungerKid started to ask about what is going on about Pakistan team in news. Someone explained them “Amir and Asif took money (lot of money) to bowl no balls!” and look at me for confirmation and I could only smile.
Than they went on with their own talk which went like this:
YoungerKid: oh, so they pay money for bowling no balls too?
WiserKid: Yes they bet on them.
YoungerKid: haha they first ask them to bowl a no ball and than bet on them, thats thats cheating.
WonderingKid: So this is not allowed right?
CeleverKid: yeah and they will loose a match too if you give them a lot of money.
WonderingKid: oh shit! Who took the money?
WiserKid: Asif, Amir, Akmal and Butt.
YoungerKid: Akmal and Butt can not bowl a no ball? They don’t bowl!!
WiserKid: They took it for their batting so that they will get out early, you stupid!
CleverKid: hahaha they will get out early anyway why waste money on them, stupid Mazhar.
[Meanwhile Pakistan's wicket fell at regular intervals, I am omitting their comments on each player and his wicket except a few interesting one. Amir is in for batting.]
YoungerKid: look look Amir is here for batting.
WonderingKid: Who stupid will give money to Amir, he can’t bat.
WiserKid: Idiot! they give him money for his bowling.
[Amir got out.]
CleverKid: What he will do with that money? Will he buy a new bat?
YoungerKid: He should get a good hair cut first!
[Umar Akmal hit Swann for a six]
CeleverKid: Aaah!! thats a slap in the face, thats how you play it. You bastard Swann!! take it.
WiserKid: Finally, he is batting.
WonderingKid: He didn’t took money?
YoungerKid: He will took it from his brother Kamran they will share it like we do sometime, right?
WiserKid: This is very bad.
CelverKid: So they are not as bad as it seems they just do it for money, bastards!!
WonderingKid: I was thinking why Kamran Akmal can’t catch even with those big gloves, I think I can catch too with those gloves.
YoungerKid: We will still not make wicketkeeper, you will still bad than Kamran, hehehe.
WonderingKid: But I will not take money , I don’t need money, ok I need some but i have enough for that.
WiserKid: aha but how will you buy that bike with your pocket money, thats not enough?
YoungerKid: oh shit so Amir want to buy a bike? Why don’t he asks his father? He must not be studying well but just playing cricket so his father must be angry, right?
All Three: oh Shut Up!!!
They went on like this for a while but I don’t remember much of what they said as my mind was spinning at 1000 cycles per second as I was wondering what kind of message they are sending to these young kids, how will they act when one of them will become next Amir? There were lot of thoughts coming and going making my evening painful. My thoughts were more for future than past like:
- What will happen to bloody rebuilding of the team
- Now people will have more than enough reason to accuse every Pakistani match a fix and Pakistanis will be in front of that group.
- Who will believe in Pakistan team and its players?
- So I thought this summer went well, 2 win out of 6 and team rebuilding wasn’t bad but just than bull shit happened.
All I and almost every fan want is that at least this time around they should catch the beast of Match Fixing and/or Spot Fixing by balls and shove it to roots if they really have some love for the game.
- If there has been some shit happening, get to the root of it and not only players but so called agents, bookies and mafia should be exposed.
- As far as Pakistan is concerned they should not only be harsh with players but it is high time PCB management should be sacked and if this opportunity is lost there is no chance that Pakistan cricket will come to terms in next 2 or 3 years.
- And If all this is just a media conspiracy or some thing else as there has been it should also be properly exposed and forces behind it should be exposed as it is not only destroying Pakistan cricket it is also destroying the game of Cricket and its credibility.
- There is a special case of Mohammad Aamer that such a rare talent should not be wasted like this, I am not sure if law will provide him any such relaxation or we should provide him some relaxation at all.
My gut feeling is:
Nothing is going to happen again, there might be few bans few punishments, few conspiracies, few judgments but this mess will still be mess at the end of it or even worse. There is so much shit under it that ICC doesn’t have the guts to get into it. While others either don’t have interest or does have such interest that they will try to keep a carpet on it.
But fans of the game will be left amused, bemused and disappointed.
- And finally I am allergic to this bull shit.
Mudassar,
I think it is too high profile for the ICC to ignore this time around. If it does, I think hell will break loose. Not only will teams refuse to tour Pakistan, they will refuse to play us at any venue…unless they are Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe.
Now, since the scandal, Watson, Shakib and Tamim have all come out and said they reported being approached too, but not much was done. This will have the effect of putting pressure on the ICC to act this time around to fend of criticism. It also means, I think, that more revelations of fixing are yet to come and that it may not just be a Pakistani issue.
@Stani, it is not only Pakistani issue, it is only looking like this because of our management which is totally shit. They r not only proved incompetent while avoiding all this and keeping a check on the players (I seriously think majority of the management is also involved and they should be actually center of bloody investigation) they are also totally failed in defending anything from Pakistan pride to their own asses. Bloody clowns and still our Mr 10% says he will not change any of them. This is totally a hopeless situation and I will not mind if we loss some good players in process of cleaning up our house but this is just a wishful thinking. No body is going to clear this mess from current setup.
They already had found a way in conspiracy theories involving India and International hate etc and this will be very useful to calm down people back home, crap!!!
Mudassar,
Like I mentioned to Wasim, if the ICC were stronger, had more power then boards like ours would not be able to operate like they do. They should have some sort of rule in place whereby any board linked with corruption is taken over by ICC officials whilst a new board is convened.
It’s a bit like when a business goes into administration and is taken over by administrators so that it can carry on running. In the mean time, new buyers are found for it. We need something like that to clear this disease.
ICC should implement such a rule and give countries of corrupt boards a choice to go that route or be chucked out of cricket for good.
what a depressing performance on the field too they clearly are not mentally into the game.
I m looking for a 0 – 5 ODI result English media mission accomplished and no entertainment for me on EID vacations back home, its going to be boring, ah!!!