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And if Indians can be better than white and black sportsmen on the cricket field, why can’t they beat them in an Olympic stadium?
The Case for IndiaNEW DELHI – Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams.
Three of India's Presidents have been Muslim, as have been innumerable cabinet ministers, ambassadors, generals, and Supreme Court justices, not to mention cricket captains.
Former Prime Minister John Major called the UK “the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, ‘Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’…” But what he was really describing was England.
Musharraf did head that way a few months later, when he forced an invitation out of Singh to watch a cricket match between the two sides in New Delhi in 2005.
“I am happy to inform the honorable members of this House that I have decided to invite President Musharraf to come to India to watch the cricket match between our two teams.
Be it to watch a cricket match; be it do some shopping; be it to meet friends and families – India is proud to be an open society, an open economy.
Musharraf went to Ferozeshah Kotala cricket ground in Delhi and saw his team win the match.
Three years later, a Pakistan-based terrorist group killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India’s financial capital – and, with them, the diplomatic opening initiated by cricket.
Once again, however, cricket has revived dialogue between the sub-continent’s two nuclear-armed rivals.
All that is left is to restore the fortunes of England’s national football and cricket teams.
The newspapers’ front pages have had space – under massive banner headlines – only for a topic normally reserved for the sports pages: cricket.
After years of corruption scandals, political dramas, and protest marches, this was manna from heaven – a story combining cricket, the national obsession, with vice, the national weakness.
A country that traditionally grinds to a halt during an exciting cricket match has now been ground into submission by its antithesis – the slow unraveling of illusions about a game that seizes Indians’ imagination like no other.
Five years ago, I wrote a column about the phenomenal appeal of the IPL and its transformation of cricket in a manner inspired by the televised razzle-dazzle of American sport.
Anyone watching the IPL, however, might be tempted to conclude that Twenty20 cricket, the “instant” form of the game, is actually an American game deliberately rediscovered by the Indians.
The call for reform in cricket is really a call for reform in the way India goes about its business.
In cricket, if a batsman hits the ball and one of the fielders catches it, the batsman is out.
His decision surprised some of his teammates but won applause from many cricket fans.
Wickets and WarinessNEW DELHI – India-Pakistan relations – a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai of November 2008 – received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket.
General Pervez Musharraf’s visit to a cricket stadium in Delhi in 2005 came at a better time in the countries’ relations, but, in hindsight, foreshadowed the sharp reversal three years later.
Watching cricket does not necessarily lead to improved dialogue.
Even the once gentlemanly game of cricket has been tainted by the infiltration of gambling networks and other crooked dealers.
For example, in the northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a 100-year-old woman is running in the general election against former cricket star Imran Khan.
Their seasons were the opposite of ours, as were the days – a point that was driven home when, in the early morning hours, we listened to cricket commentaries from Brisbane or Adelaide.
Independent candidates can choose from an assortment of alternatives, ranging from a cricket bat to images of various large animals.
The High Court of Bombay moved the world’s biggest and wealthiest cricket tournament, the Indian Premier League, out of the state of Maharashtra.
And Hindu zealots stormed a Cricket Control Board meeting to disrupt discussion of a possible India-Pakistan cricket series (which now seems unlikely to take place).
Submitting to the counsel of his close advisers and addressing the public as prime minister-elect, Khan said that, having played cricket, he knows the game is not over until the last ball has been bowled.
No, the IPL is the newest Indian innovation revolutionizing that most staid of Victorian sports – cricket.
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