Cricket Sex ! ( The Rise of the Third Sex! )

Anywhere else, there are two sexes, Male sex and Female sex, right?

But in India, there is the third sex called Cricket sex!

And that too as the world cup is on all are attracted to this than male to female or vice versa.

We Indians forget everything whenTeam India takes the field.
Our sorrows, pains, troubles, headaches, job, family is forgotten in that 100 overs.

Why?

Because cricket is the greatest of all games without doubt.
You may differ, but it is true whether you like it or not.
Take cricket.
There are so many possibilites. Nobody is sure what happens next? It is like a Alfred Hitchcock movie.
There are widely 3 possible results, 1)victory, 2)defeat or a 3)tie.

But think for a minute. Within those 3, there are infinite possibilities.

One delivery can be

1) Hit for a six
2) Four
3) Three
4) Two
5) One
5) No run
6) It can get the bowler a
6) Wicket bowled
7) Stumped
8) Hit wicket
9) Handling the ball
10) Caught behind the wicket
11) Caught by 10 other fielders
12) Runout of a) Striker or b) Non striker
13) Stumping miss
14) Catch dropped
15) Runout missed
16) Overthrow 1+4 runs
17) Ball hits the helmet 1+4 runs

You can go on writing about the various, glorious, so very absorbing possibilities, it is incomparable.

Thanks to the British at least for that one!

Compare this to any other sports which are competing with cricket for the spotlight. Tennis, Hockey, athletics, Badminton, Football are all are at the most two dimensional.

But cricket, oh, my darling cricket!

It is such a multi-faceted game it is a game played by 11 angels sent from heaven for us to live in heaven for at least 100 over duration.

And it inspires us like nothing else.

We are on a high for the next 2-3 days
When Sachin hits a century,
When Dhony hits that straight six while his bat rotates like a Vishnu Chakra
When Yuvi dives in the air and picks up a brilliant catch mid air
When Bajji dupes Ponting with the Doosra
When Kumble bowls that looping yorker to a clueless Aussie tailender

Nobody who knows cricket dares to compare cricket to any other sport.

Only Chess can throw up this kind of infinite possibilities but it is not a spectator sport.

Don't you ever dare to say, "Cricket is a game played by 11 idiots and watched by 11 million idiots"
Somebody has said it and I call him the most unlucky person who died without knowing, with that impression in mind.

I still get goosebumps when I remember,

Sachin first innings as a opener in a ODI in New Zealand
Sachin's batting magic on a stormy day in Sharjah vs Austarlia
Chandra's bowling at the Oval
Kapil's Devils impossible victory at Lord's in 1983
Sehwag's triple ton in, of all the places, Pakistan
Srishant's Kathakali dance in South Africa
Gavaskar's one and only hundred in a World Cup of 86 balls
Ravi Shatstri winning the Audi Automobile in Australia

So many memories to forget the present if you are down or enhance the present if you are up.

Tell me now, shall I rest my case.

With all this when I hear some so called cricket expert India saying " Indian did not win the 1983 World Cup, West Indies lost it ", I get up and show my finger to him.
Add to it, he is not a ex-cricketer but was a mediocre radio commentator, presently a out and out power broker in our corrupt, cricket administaration.

I will come up with more

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