The Night Cricket Died

It is written in the books of the discerning that cricket is a gentleman's game. No longer is it and this thing called cricket needs a new name.

- By CALLISTUS DAVY

That it happened at the Asia Cup is enough for Westerners to have the last laugh after what India’s cricketers did by refusing to move on after a match against Pakistan.

That the sport of cricket had to be dragged in or used to settle a political grudge was the biggest tragedy the once English summer sport was ever subjected to. By refusing to shake the hands of another nation’s cricketers, India had become a pariah.

Today cricket is no longer the gentleman's game, but another form of sport in the hands of the International Cricket Council (ICC) that is now under Indian influence to do as it pleases and the catastrophic results are now showing. The power of money is more important than the spirit and ethics of the game.

The rivalry between India and Pakistan has nothing to do with Hindu versus Muslim but more to do with one party displaying it is superior politically, militarily, economically, technologically, scientifically and culture-wise that has extended its tentacles onto the cricket field that culminated with the biggest snub that took place when India refused to shake hands with Pakistan after their match on Sunday night. It was the night cricket died.