I Went to play a little basketball today,theres this sports complex just around the corner, here where I stay.Its a pay and play facility.U know with our country men humping at a rate that might make rabbits suffer a severe inferiority complex,there are bound to be certain scarcities,land ,one of the most acceptable amongst them.The connotation of this fact
is ,because we Indians are the cheapest bastards on earth,courtesy:russel peters,(I do subscribe to his views),we want everything fuckin free,so when it comes to shelling out money for a petty thing such as sports only a few do it.
The general physce of Indians is that playing sports(except the world's favourite sport ;) ) is for dim witted morons who do not intend to become a part of this elite indian educated class(read engineer or doctor) and all they want to do is , what we frivolously call "awaragardi". Anyways,i hope i drove the "only those who are either well off or want to make a career in sports (read cricket...why? ill come to that later ..have some patience) will pay for it" point home.
So as I went in,I was startled to say the least.It was shocking,only one poor soul trying to put his spalding into the hoop,only one tennis court out of four had two aspiring federers or may be a nadal(one was left handed) striking the ball aimlessly.The story continued as i entered the comleptely vacant badminton court and on to the tt tables which too shared almost the same fate.
I dint have to go anywhere near the cricket ground to get a glimpse of the future superstars. From a metaphorical mile I could see a bevy ranging from small todlings to tall lanky lads all dressed in white .Three simultaneous mathches were going on , with fielders constantly getting flumoxxed about which of the three red round entities were they supposed to follow.
I might sound like a pussy here but i was scared for those kids.What if one was looking at a certain round entity and the other one decided to knock him out cold.Scary aint it?? Ok ok back to sanity.What irked me was that Why was this happening , even though cricket is a sport which lingers very precariously on the edge of well not being termed as one.Which other sport
can accomodate superhuman athletes like laxman,ganguly,munaf patel and anil kumble in the same formation and still win games.It beats me when i think some of the greatest names(read warne,hughes,ranatunga) in this game have basically been overweight cunts(not my words,ian healy addressed ranatunga with these two words...:)[Groans invited but suck it up,u know it
too!!!]
I mean unless you are bowling[pace] or batting, you are merely standing like a dumbfuck in a green patch for close to four hours or even worse if you are unlucky enough to be a part of a test match ,for may be days altogether.
p.s: This fact doesnt, at the least deter me from loving the game.In by blood.Im Indian.Cliche' eh??
You must be by now saying ya ya ,we know its a blog about the same ole shyte, giving a whole tirade about what the indian govt has or has not done to promote the other sports which have time and again been treated like an illegitimate child of the same father.So I save you the trouble of reading through what would basically be a vent to blow off my steam .
All what i ask is just give it a thought!!
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