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Cricket needs to be sanitized

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I hope and believe that with the end of season 2 of IPL the names of Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty and Shahrukh Khan wont come up in the same breath as cricket. Cricket needs to be sanitized with the dirt this guys left in the soul of the game we adore so much, at times more than ourselves.

In bid to glamorize the cricket, the Bollywood and crap gained a touch too much prominence in the IPL. Remember one thing we always should that, the IPL was successful not cos of the glamor factor of this shitty stars, but due to the game. Due to those stars which have entertained us over the decades. The cricketing stars. Nobody else.

The price tags the cricketers carried was for their performance in the Tests and ODIs. The T20 players were not successful as the old horses or the current ones who are success in ODIs and T20s. Age, experience, retired, non retired doesnt matter. All what matters is cricket, its basics and its primary contests — bat vs ball, mind vs mind.

Cant wait to witness the cricket in its original form. If game would have continued to have prominence in the IPL, nobody (purists) would have complained. But the sidekicks, goons took over and cricket just lost its relevance.

Written by Sam

May 27, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Posted in IPL, Spirits of Cricket

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  1. Ms Bollywood, IPL ka jalwa, Akon smack are all fuck, 6000 hits best.

    RT

    May 28, 2009 at 2:13 am

  2. Sam,

    Well put. I was extremely sick and tired of constantly having to endure the celebrity faces time and again on tv.

    I guess since they are going for this whole league-franchise format, the ownership of such teams cannot be controlled. But what CAN be done is atleast :

    1. Prevent owners / associated celebs from sitting near the players sections/dug outs/dressing rooms during the games. This is unacceptable.

    2. The media should stop continuously focussing and salivating on the celebs for most of the game. We dont need ot see snapshots of what they are doing each and every second, what they’re eating, what they’re saying, if they are farting!!! GODDAMMIT!

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    Fark

    May 28, 2009 at 6:35 am


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