Does lightning strike twice at the same spot? er...Let's try this again,
Are black holes really black?
Of course not.
Anyway, read this article while we patiently wait for you to come back.
We have issues with what the writer has to say but good writing is good writing is good writing. While we like to wax lyrical about good cricket writing, the writer apparently feels that cricket writing is mostly "painfully jocose and bathetic". While we agree with him that much of cricket writing is bad, the good writing more than makes-up for the bad writing. As an analogy, just because most fiction writing is bad does not mean that all fiction writing can be panned.
The beauty of Cricket does not lie in the hypocrisy surrounding it. Rather, it begins and ends inside the boundary lines. Two batsmen against the other eleven who are trying to get them out. Cricket is a game where there is room for individual brilliance within the framework of team work. The beauty of Cricket is in some of its vignettes. A bowler marking his run-up and the batsmen taking guard. The crowd waiting in anticipation while the bowler starts his run-up and then that anticipation turning to instant boredom as the batsmen shoulders his arms and lets the ball through to the wicket keeper.
Cricket is also a game which is not "fair". A good delivery might not get you a wicket but a bad delivery might. A great shot can be caught and a thin edge could fly between the first slip and the wicket keeper. Some people cannot handle that iniquity. We feel sad for those people.
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Indeed. Like life itself, cricket consists primarily of long periods of quiet, seemingly prosaic drudge work, punctuated by intense and thrilling victories and losses. But as is the case in the game of life, it's the losers who see the quiet spells as "boring," who fail to study and learn from the gentle ebb and flow, and who live only for the shouting. Cricket, like the broader world, rewards patience, diligence, and concentration. Other sports may favor the mercurial and the brilliant -- but in cricket, the shooting stars fade away before anyone even realizes that they were there.
Of course, cricket can be a capricious bitch goddess, as you rightly say. The sorriest edge can trickle to the boundary, the easiest catch can be dropped, and the umpire can botch the clearest lbw shout. But that's life. And as in life, the successful shrug off the unfair tricks of fate, and soldier on. The losers cry about their bad luck.
No other sport provides such a test of character; and while it truly is no longer a gentleman's game (and thank Jeebus for that!), it teaches virtues that hold their value in every other facet of existence. And that's worth something.
Couldn't agree with you more. You said it much better than we ever could.
I went to the dentist a few weeks ago to have my braces on. I' m still having difficulty in eating because of the wires. I also observed that I' m having a lot of cuts inside my mouth because of the wires and I consider it very undesirable.
Sachin is the most overrated over-hyped cricketer in the world. Sachin Tendulkar's inability to win matches for India a blot on his career.
Sachin is the most overrated over-hyped cricketer in the world.
A test of character... Why is it then that India is in the top3 for nearly all formats of cricket but their sexual violence rate so high domestically?
Strength of character? You've got to be kidding me... More like who can expend the least energy / effort and wait for the opposition to make a mistake to improve your winning odds than to actually be proactive to do something and win the game with initiative?
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