I read this blog last week and was foaming at the mouth about this irresponsible-unethical-journalist, who's compiled a pile of shit and had sparked-off unwarranted debate!!!
T20 final between India and Pakistan, touted as 'Mother of all finals', did prove to be humdinger of a contest and the former managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat… A thorough edge-of-the-seat-thriller. Post match, during the presentation ceremony Ravi Shastri invited the losing captain Shaoib Malik to have a few words… This is what Shaoib had to say...
“First of all I want to say something over here. I want to thank you back home Pakistan and where the MUSLIM lives all over the world. We gave our 100%, India have a strong batting line-up. We did well to restrict them to less than 160 but our batting didn’t come through. The Indians bowled really well and we played some bad shots. That’s why we ended up on the losing side in this game.”
It is evident that Malik had uttered something repulsive… But what people should/must understand is the fact that it wasn’t just repulsive, but impulsive as well. Pakistanis have this dubious distinction of slaughtering English to agonizing levels, and Malik was no exception. But whatever he said wasn’t intentional and words popped out of his mouth on the spur of the moment...
Now that all is said and done, what is the role of media here? They should have ideally subsided Malik's words and should have engaged themselves with the match analysis and stuff…But what it has done??? Or rather what this Columnist had done… He's picked few words (Malik’s of course) and totally blown that out of proportion. During a time, when the peace process between India and Pakistan is scaling amazing thresholds, articles such as this, which threaten harmony, must be severely condemned.
Investing time in the 'Comments' section would best illustrate my point. If you read through carefully, you can find threads where people engage themselves in a war of words. It was chaotic, on one hand people defending Shaoib and reprimanding on the other… It was even more agonizing when I read oodles of comments appreciating the columnist for reporting this story… What kind of a show these people are putting out there? Fuck ‘em!
If the author had expected all of this hullabaloo and clamor, and had that been his intention, he's deemed to be forbidden from writing anymore!
A perfect solution to this menacing problem is to allow the players to honestly express themselves in their native language. Soccer does it, why shouldn't cricket embrace this practice and let the game be devoid of controversy.
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