Changing face of Cricket

Fortune favours the cricketers to make fortune overnight. Fortune turns their heads too so that they can’t turn bat and ball properly. Now India has almost called it a day in World Cup T20.However, India’s proud of its rare distinction of winning the first World Cup T20. Like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle, in cricket Glorious Uncertainty principle very much prevails .So here win or loss is equally glorious as ‘uncertainty’ makes a team winner and loser. Any way, cricket has undergone a sea-change with time. Once it was a 5-day game, then it reduced to one dayer and subsequently a few-hour match. Like instant coffee or tea, there might be instant cricket in days to come. What’s interesting all these forms co-exist and are almost equally popular. Of course, as our life has been very busy day by day 5-dayer Test or Classical cricket is not as popular as before like classical songs and music. They have a class of viewers or audiences of their own. In terms of overs, semi-instant cricket are in two formats- 50-50 and 20-20. Instant crickets to come must be of still lesser overs. Much controversial Lalit Modi introduced 20-20 cricket in a new package called IPL.Interestingly,along with IPL has come slave trade, though in a bit new form, that earlier was almost extinct in our society . Here, the cricketers are sold directly in auction and the highest bidder can buy the cricketer of his or her choice. However, the bidding money is given to the purchased cricketers. Thus Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla along with other share holders are jointly owners of all the cricketers purchased in auction for Kolkata Knight Riders. Thanks to Modi he’s made the cricketers simple commodities and Cricket more an entertainment than a game! Changes are taking place in the world of cricket so fast, it’s really difficult to keep track and equally tough is to make count of money flowing.