Cricket still our religion; Tendulkar still is its God. Few aren’t just real cricketers but Nirmal Babas & Nityanandas of Gentlemen’s game!

Many might perceive irs end but the game itself is resilient to be so...

Cricketing world today is in deep sabotage created out of its own people who were primarily meant to protect and live up to the high standards the game asks from its players. But the spirit of cash-rich sport hasn't yet died nor will it die any sooner or later; the flame and its vigor has shortened but not washed-away completely as few might perceive it to be. Sure, the crowd of today has been left with no other option but to look at each new game with an eye of suspicion. We still are not sure if the ball that we are looking at is planned already or the last dropped catch talked off way before the beginning of match! Whatever be it and rest; the age old history of the game reveals how it deeply repairs itself at the time of disgrace when everything starts sailing against the tides.

No doubt, now certainly is the grave tough time to pick up canes and straighten the dismantled and aggressively driving, the super rich - Board for Control of Cricket in India! 'Bulldozing or media hounding' of Srinivasans of BCCI is not the permanent but temperamental solution of the heavily running fixing veins in a country as messy as India. If one head goes, the other still more 'intelligent' and cupid will replace the same sooner or later. Do we actually have asked for it? Not exactly.

The whole structure of BCCI is vaguely formed or built up with the course of time, allowing every new president to mould and bend its rules the way he desires and finds comfortable himself in.

Greed for perks and money-for-honey offered from BCCI certainly is greatest spoiler among whole things which in return demands loyalty of players towards board which boasts of its wealth and frowns when somebody asks it to get itself in the ambit of RTI. The board expects total loyalty and complete silence over conduct of board thereby shutting the shutters of elite greats who once ruled on field with the prowess of their willow. How weird is that? You aren't just shutting your mouth for 'good-of-board' but selling your inner god for aggressive and egoist 'self' of richest club the world has ever seen. The Gavaskars, Shastris and even Navjot Singh Sidhhu who at other times speaks just too much one can listen into have preferred velvet stitches for their blah-blah lips. How cool is that? The most adored and stunningly successful captain of all time, Mahendra Singh Dhoni goes even a step further and prefers silence with toppings of his irritating smile at a press conference to cover what is uncover able at this moment of embezzled time.

24*7 media is frowning red & blue but listeners who really got to listen are closing themselves behind the glossy, safe walls of their luxury homes albeit fed by board. Who actually knows the tragic inside story of fixing scandal?

Anyhow, we still love the game amidst all blemishes, we still believe in the prowess and integrity of few players who have made us to believe in the holy beauty of game and has had glued us to the same may be forever. We simply could just hope that in near time, the spirit of sportsmanship prevails over the dismantled spirit of perks and goodies.