The next time there is a National Census, along with asking all the usual questions like
->how many family members?
-> Do you get electricity regularly? etc, there should be another question, just for fun.
-> How many of your family members have received some sort of cricket training?
It is exciting to see so many kids taking up cricket nowadays. Definitely not good for sport, in the country as a whole, but as a cricketer, I feel happy knowing that if I'm unemployed in the future, I can always open a cricket coaching centre and know that people will flock there even if they don't actually learn anything.
In a way this is not the fault of the trainers at the coaching centre. Parents have extremely high expectations, and they convince their children that they're the new sachin tendulkars of cricket. I vividly remember the face of a parent who was told that his son was a good bowler. He looked as though he was kicked in the balls. He wanted his son to be a batsman! Heights of expectation!
Everyone wants to be T20 ready in a matter of months and then play for the state team as early as possible.
Ranji and the IPL should happen in 5 years! A friend even had the gall to ask me, "I want to play first division cricket. Where should I sign up?" Sigh. This is what money makes of people.
The plan sounds like a government's 5 year plan, and we all know how that works out!
Anyway, coming back to the matter in hand, we are being riddled with too many cricketers. Too much is too bad right? So I thought of some alternate professions for our rich stock of cricketers.
1) Invest in other sports. Tennis for example. Cricket can never again be accused of over shadowing other sports. We will supply free ball boys for all ATP tours. All they have to do is catch and throw right? They might even offer some sideline entertainment trying to dive for the ball to catch it. To make sure there's participation, have a small "Best Fielder" trophy for every tennis match.
2) Sports goods manufacture. The ONLY people who are enjoying this outbreak of cricket enthusiasts.
3) Baseball! very similar to cricket. Baseball and Basketball are still the only probable aveues in which "Indians are not involved. Its our Uncle Sam. He will accept us, no worries.
4) How come there still isn't a reality show based on cricket? Entertainment!
This post is brought to you by the lazy superstitious idiot who thinks a mindless tradition like blogging before exams will better his performance in the exam. But then again, all is fair in love, war and exams.
Ciao
->how many family members?
-> Do you get electricity regularly? etc, there should be another question, just for fun.
-> How many of your family members have received some sort of cricket training?
It is exciting to see so many kids taking up cricket nowadays. Definitely not good for sport, in the country as a whole, but as a cricketer, I feel happy knowing that if I'm unemployed in the future, I can always open a cricket coaching centre and know that people will flock there even if they don't actually learn anything.
In a way this is not the fault of the trainers at the coaching centre. Parents have extremely high expectations, and they convince their children that they're the new sachin tendulkars of cricket. I vividly remember the face of a parent who was told that his son was a good bowler. He looked as though he was kicked in the balls. He wanted his son to be a batsman! Heights of expectation!
Everyone wants to be T20 ready in a matter of months and then play for the state team as early as possible.
Ranji and the IPL should happen in 5 years! A friend even had the gall to ask me, "I want to play first division cricket. Where should I sign up?" Sigh. This is what money makes of people.
The plan sounds like a government's 5 year plan, and we all know how that works out!
Anyway, coming back to the matter in hand, we are being riddled with too many cricketers. Too much is too bad right? So I thought of some alternate professions for our rich stock of cricketers.
1) Invest in other sports. Tennis for example. Cricket can never again be accused of over shadowing other sports. We will supply free ball boys for all ATP tours. All they have to do is catch and throw right? They might even offer some sideline entertainment trying to dive for the ball to catch it. To make sure there's participation, have a small "Best Fielder" trophy for every tennis match.
2) Sports goods manufacture. The ONLY people who are enjoying this outbreak of cricket enthusiasts.
3) Baseball! very similar to cricket. Baseball and Basketball are still the only probable aveues in which "Indians are not involved. Its our Uncle Sam. He will accept us, no worries.
4) How come there still isn't a reality show based on cricket? Entertainment!
This post is brought to you by the lazy superstitious idiot who thinks a mindless tradition like blogging before exams will better his performance in the exam. But then again, all is fair in love, war and exams.
Ciao
There IS a reality cricket show: the IPL!
ReplyDeleteHaha, true. I meant something along the lines of other reality shows.
ReplyDeleteCriterion for a show to be called a reality show.
-> The ratio of the time spent in an episode on the actual act in question to the nonsense associated with it MUST be atleast 1:5.
The IPL does not satisfy this criterion.