If you have ever been to a circus, there is this one very popular event where one performer does a 360, swinging in the air and is held on by another artist. Pakistan cricket is very symptomatic of this where you are exceptional if you perform good but one slip and you are brought down like a house on fire. The recent Match fixing allegations on Pakistan shadows another event in this regard. My heart goes down to Younis khan, who even with a broken finger mustered the courage to lead against the Indians. And then when they loose to Australia and subsequently Newzealand all the trash talk about Match Fixing and the involvement of Indian Mafia comes up. Cricket has moved ahead from those gloomy days of Match fixing and if someone doubts the commitment of Younis Khan then they are probably living in the wrong world. Pakistan are the T20 champions and are a good cricketing team. I just feel that it wasnt their day.i would have wondered what the situation would be if they had lost to India.
This kind of feeling reflects the turbulence the country is going through where one small loss and you are taken to the butcher, if only Cricket is taken less seriously.If only someone does understand that if you can win on a day , there is an equal probability that you could loose on any other day and both of them are mutually exclusive.And the fact that it is coming from a Member of the parliament says more about the kind of governance pakistan is going through.
Cricket for christ sake can surely live without these elements
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