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When two
teams play, one wins and the other loses
Wednesday March 30, 2011 05:51:07 PM,
Raza Elahi
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The much awaited India-Pakistan World
Cup semi-final match in Mohali is set to begin today afternoon. For
the last few days television channels and print publications of both
the countries have covered every minutest details of
what-will-happen in the match in almost a warlike rhetoric.
The other day on an Indian news channels, two former cricketers Ravi
Sashtri and Amir Sohail were almost trying to beat each other in a
totally baised opinion in favour of India and Pakistan respectively.
People on the street have attached the national pride and honour
with this game and some have called it the mother of all clashes.
They have gone crazy. They didn't mind buying Rs 250 tickets at a
price above Rs 10,000 in the black market (in Mohali) a few days
back.
Fans of both the teams want to see their team winning the game as
this is the first match between the two countries since July 2008
which has taken place on the home soil of one of the teams.
Amid all this fever, the stage is also set for the cricket-diplomacy
as two prime ministers will be watching the game. And, media is
going extra mile to cover the politics behind the game.
However, somewhere between all these high-pitched noises, people as
well as the media have perhaps forgotton the essence of the game.
One should watch and appreciate the game and not the pre-defined
winner. When two team play, one wins and the other loses.
The two captains MS Dhoni and Shahid Afridi have made very balanced
comments and people should watch the game and beyond in spirit of
these comments of the two captains:
Shahid Afridi: "I hope that in the future, relations between India
and Pakistan get better and stay better, whatever the results. There
should be good cricket and people should enjoy the game."
M S Dhoni: "Somebody has to lose the game irrespective of what
happens. It is a part and parcel of the sport. It doesn't only
happen in cricket — it happens in each and every sport".
This write-up was
posted on the writer's blog RAZA SMILES
(http://razaelahi.blogspot.com/) on 29.03.2011.
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