Ompuris Of Cricket
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Few years back naseeruddin shah , known as institute of acting himself , was awarded with lifetime achievement award in one of bollywood awards . That award ceremony had ompuri video congratulating naseer. Ompuri said some thing which was sattire to Indian Film Industry. He said "we are like aloo . When something is missing in making vegetable , people add aloo!!!!!!!!!"
Similar thing is happening in world of cricket. Largely a batsman game and pressure for commercialization if making this game as purely batsman's buisness. Bowlers are there so that batsman can hit boundaries and sixes. 3 Power Plays , Free hits , Only one bouncer and no leg side ball in onedays!!!!!!!!. Sure we see more 300s + these days.
Kapil Dev recently lashed out at cricketting faternity for having pitches like that of rajkot. Recently harbhajan singh had too lashed out on ahmedabad pitch. He went to extent of saying that bowlers are not just to serve batsmans!!!!!!!!
Gavaskar when asked by cnn-ibn about which era he would have prefered if given choice , 80s or present one?. Immediately gavaskar replied that 80s was more challenging as batsman and so would have preferred 80s.
Bowlers are important part of the game and they should have something to pose challenge to batsmans. Commercialization must not take away charm from bowling or else time would come , when we would have 11 specialist batsman because bowlers might give 20 runs per over anyways so what is need to have bowler. Even batsman can bowl and give that many runs!!!!!!!!!
Bowlers are indeed becoming ompuris of cricket who are respected by colleagues but not much seeked and loved by people like batsmans!!!!!!
Similar thing is happening in world of cricket. Largely a batsman game and pressure for commercialization if making this game as purely batsman's buisness. Bowlers are there so that batsman can hit boundaries and sixes. 3 Power Plays , Free hits , Only one bouncer and no leg side ball in onedays!!!!!!!!. Sure we see more 300s + these days.
Kapil Dev recently lashed out at cricketting faternity for having pitches like that of rajkot. Recently harbhajan singh had too lashed out on ahmedabad pitch. He went to extent of saying that bowlers are not just to serve batsmans!!!!!!!!
Gavaskar when asked by cnn-ibn about which era he would have prefered if given choice , 80s or present one?. Immediately gavaskar replied that 80s was more challenging as batsman and so would have preferred 80s.
Bowlers are important part of the game and they should have something to pose challenge to batsmans. Commercialization must not take away charm from bowling or else time would come , when we would have 11 specialist batsman because bowlers might give 20 runs per over anyways so what is need to have bowler. Even batsman can bowl and give that many runs!!!!!!!!!
Bowlers are indeed becoming ompuris of cricket who are respected by colleagues but not much seeked and loved by people like batsmans!!!!!!
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