As purists frown at the Twenty20 game of cricket as disgusting, naked display of aggression, swinging the bat on anything and everything, the game itself has followers overflowing the stadium wherever it is played shows the kind of interest people have in the new format. Earlier, five days of a test match made the spectators go dumb gulping down a glass of beer in England. Changing times, as we call it, is for the better, particularly for cricket.
Twenty20 is a kind of entertainment in the shortest version of the game. A lot of youngsters, mostly from rural background have been able to fulfil their ambition joining the big league. It is beyond our capacity to think that sworn enemies of the game to play as a team. Twenty20 holds lots of promise to our rural and urban youngsters to rub shoulders with international stars. No one would have expected this kind of acceptance five or six years before. But Twenty20 is here to stay and would only improve with every passing year.
Conservative Indians lambast the organizers for hooking scantily clad foreign cheerleaders dancing around to entertain fans. Many youngsters have fallen in love for Twenty20 is the truth. Sooner or later, five-day test would be given a decent burial. There would be records preserved only in the archives department of national libraries for future historians to make out our lifestyle. Money, fame, jobs...continue to flow through the willow, so why make a fuss! Join the party and enjoy the fun!
Sunday, May 4, 2008
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