Make cricket free of corruption
Justice Mudgal committee has come up with a report
relating to cricket. From the report it is clear that there is need for thorough
clean-up of cricket in the country. The
report says that Gurunath Meiyappan was not the owner of Chenai Super Kings in
the Indian Premier League but just an enthusiastic follower of the team. The report describes him as a team official.
The
report accuses him of having indulged in betting and passing on information. The
report recommends further investigation into allegations of betting and spot
fixing against Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals.
But the committee’s third member, Nilay Dutta, does
not accept the allegation of betting against Mr. Meiyappan. During the days of test cricket in the past
there was never a need to appoint committee to probe into the cases relating to
corruptions of test cricketers. The new form of cricket has given birth to
these corruptions. But one can’t jump to the conclusion that the new forms of cricket
that have come up today are worse than the test cricket that we had in the
past.
IPL has
done a lot of good to cricketers and the cricket fans. The Twenty Twenty format
has made the game more exciting like
football or hockey. No wonder it is
called ‘Cricketainment’. A sport
without entertainment cannot be called a sport. Test cricket in the past used
to be a boring affair. Cricket has been converted into a very exciting sport
today considering the ‘Carnival’ kind of atmosphere that gets generated in an
IPL game with excitingly dressed dancing Cheerleaders also getting equal TV
coverage along with Fast Paced, 'Sixers' Based and 'Sixers' Packed cricket with
bowlers getting mercilessly punished on grounds with shortened boundaries and
with new rules and restrictions on field placements. Financially too it has
done such wonders for professional cricketers.
The negative side of this new form of cricket is
that it has become a money game and with such high stakes involved, it has led
to corruption.
Cricket is a game that was introduced to the World
by the British. Test cricket was their idea. But non-English cricketers should
be given the credit for introducing today such exciting forms of cricket
instead of the boring test cricket matches that we used to have in the past.
It is true that certain steps are needed to break
the nexus of money making in the name of cricket. The investigation by Mudgal Committee
clearly laid down the curtain from the dark side of Indian cricket. This money
game is loosing its moral and ethical norms. Players, senior officials and
others are indulging in the conspiracy. On the basis of Mudgal report, Apex court
should take an initiative for a proper vigilance of IPL as well as other format
of this game. A strong action is needed against the perpetrators.
After all, a sport should be a sport only. Cricket
in India is no longer a sport. With underworld links it represents an
aberration which should be removed.
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