Bastobota without reality chara

I received 1 sms last night. It said “some criminal gang kidnapped players of Bangladesh cricket team. The gang asked for taka 50 cr. If demand not met, they’ll burn all cricketers with kerosene. Please contribute. I gave 5 liters of kerosene!”.

Well, well; how funny was that!
It is somewhat an appropriate demand of burning down the cricketers after their terrible performance in Sri Lanka tour. We can do another thing; we can hand over the cricketers to brutal Tamil guerillas to tear them apart. I am sure the guerillas will play an unofficial test match with them before torturing them and obviously guerillas will win the match in 3 days with 10 wickets in hand. Hey hang on………Cricketers gave us joy in some occasions when they beat Australia, Pakistani rapists, Indian Media assholes and Zimbabwe (they can’t even catch a cricket ball for god’s sake). Numbers dude numbers. How many times did this happen and how many times we covered our face in shame? If a good team can’t produce good cricket any particular day & our cricketers shine well on the very same day---------Waalaaa, we get a winning performance. Audience has to wait for such a day for a long time man. Playing with Zimbabwe is an exception. We really have a realistic chance of winning with them.

The point to ponder is consistency. Losing doesn’t matter really; humiliating defeat is what kills our pride as a nation. Cricketers should put up a fight in every game they play. Losing by 3 / 4 wickets or by 30/40 runs is quite okay for a side, which is still learning. Our lousy cricketers lose by 8/9 wickets and over 100 runs quite often in ODIs. Talking about test match……holy crab, innings defeat is regularity! NOOOO, that’s not accepted over here dudes.

We let commentators and foreign newspapers humiliate us on every occasion our team plays. Atahar Ali does carry out a good job by defending Bangladesh. But without a good performance and in the legacy of losing matches by innings, he fails to prove his point. We the audience see the humiliation in nation & international TV. Do the cricketers have the rights to do this with us? I think not. Cricket board’s monthly expenditure is 50 lacks taka. In a simple calculation, yearly expenditure hits 6 cr. What for? For letting the nation get disgraced in front of the cricket world? I witnessed an interview of pacer Sayad Rassul after Sri Lanka tour, where he said he is proud of his achievements and will try to continue the same in future. The bowling attack could not let Sri Lanka bat for the 2nd innings in both the tests! If he is proud of his achievements, he must play cricket in Mohollas to boost up his spirit. Habibul Bashar’s comments are rather josh. He knows what he is capable of and after a bad performance he is bold enough to be responsible for it. I think we do have a josh captain. But nothing else. All these moron cricketers MUST allegorize to the nation for their miserable performance publicly.

Playing with Kenya, Holland, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Canada extensively might be considered. Playing with AUS,IND n’ ENG is way high at the moment. Another food for thought, if a test match is over within 3 days, no match fees, and if ends in 4 days, 50% match fee fined.

Cricket board is trying to spread the coaching throughout the country; initiatives are being taken to extend the league outside Dhaka. May be in ten years time we will fight back with proper infrastructure. I AM SAVING MY KEROSENE TILL THAN.

October 3, 2005