I want to go back to a time when it mattered HOW the runs came.
I want to go back to a time when Dravid used to let a ball go with a flourish, and people would clap and say, "Well Left, great judgement"; rather than saying RUN MAAR NA $*%*#!
I want to go back a time when one could see the captain or the bowler setting the field without having to see a very stupid commercial for the 100th time.
I want to go back to a time when a catch was "Great catch" and not a "Citi Moment of success"; when a Six was a much awaited shot "Out of the Park!!!!!" and not the 600th "DLF Maximum"
I want to go back to a time when a maiden over could be a Bowler's achievement without simultaneously being the Batsman's failure.
I want to go back to a time when there was enough time for the drinks trolley to make its way gracefully into the ground.
I want to go back to a time when giving an extra ball after a No Ball was punishment enough, without having to suffer a Free Hit (Cant think of another game where one error is punished twice)
I want to go back to a time when the scoreboard showed just the score.
I want to go back to a time...
4 comments:
Well said, Ajay. Exactly the sentiment of every true cricket lover.
I cannot agree more with you.... i hate the commercials at every sneezing moment when there is no ACTION on the field. I love the laid back OTHER actions on the field... specially the drinks time.... hmm... you captured the feelings so well!
Very well Penned !!!
surprising everyone is in such a hurry when watching cricket. not the same when watching golf or tennis for that matter.
I still believe that many would enjoy watching a team battling with 2 wickets in hand and sucessfully avoiding defeat on the last day of a test match.
I also strongly feel that the entire feeling for Faster Faster cricket is created more by the media than by the cricketing fraternity.
My sentiments exactly Affy. Quite frankly, no true cricket fan ever found anything wrong with Test or One Day Cricket.. No one asked for a T20.
I am not against T20. I am against the fact that rather than serving cricket, T20 seems to have been invented to serve commercial, political and if the IT dept is to be believed, criminal purposes. Truly saddening.
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