Cricket team of Pakistan, also requires someone like Pervaiz Musharraf to make them play. Islam like any other religion of the world, doesn't teach us to just sit and pray and leave everything to GOD for achieving our goal. Allah asks to do our work with dedication sincerity and leave the tension of result upon God. So putting on beards doesn't mean Allah will help you, without you doing your deeds. What is the use of becoming religious when you can%u2019t do justice with your profession? Allah loves honesty. What is the use of becoming religious when you continue doing backbiting as is the case of many Pakistani players? What is the use of becoming religious when you still can%u2019t stop going to nightclubs or for that matter using expletives or becoming violent against an abusive spectator. All intelligent cricketers use their bat or ball to silent their critics by piling up big scores or taking wickets, but Pakistani cricketers prefer to use their bat to hit or warn spectators who hoots them. Why do we follow a religion? Answer is simple, to become a good human.
Post Imran Khan era not a single captain led the team from front and in fact used his brain on team%u2019s unity. Imran used to bring talent from normal players but the current Pakistan cricketers does have talent but they are not consistent or as mentally tough as the players which were playing at the time of Imran. Perfect example of this is Shahid Afridi. In eleven years of his cricketing span, no body can tell anything sure about him. Not even a single coach tried to work on this batsman%u2019s problem. He is extremely talented yet of not much use.
Pakistani cricket team should at least think about the other Muslims living all over the world because Muslims wherever they are living are related to Pakistan in some way or the other, no matter whether they have a link with Pakistan or not. Pakistani cricketers should think about their each move so that they can show the world that all Muslims are not terrorists and uneducated but they have other talents also along with the dedication towards religion. In India there are lot of Muslim celebrities but very few strike a balance between their profession and religion.
Adding to the woes of Pakistan cricket, is their management, which is too smart to conduct dope tests privately only to reveal its results publicly. They don%u2019t have anyone to teach the players modern day sports science or English. We, Indians are preparing for the current world cup for last four years whereas Pakistan had not more than three permanent players (Inzamam, Yusuf and Younis) or technically sound players to start their campaign for 2007 world cup.
Pakistan cricket is in a very sad state of affairs and even 100 Bob Woolmers cannot change the current helpless state of it unless Pakistan cricket change its attitude towards the game. Bob Woolmer was an educated coach who was battling hard to teach cricket to a bunch of illiterate players of Pakistan. One silver lining after the bizarre incident of Woolmer%u2019s death is that at least he was taking his profession very seriously which eventually took away his life. Coaches like Woolmer and Dave Whatmore are born once in a lifetime. We need to salute Bob!
RE:Effect of Bob's death
by sunilkumar mishra on Mar 19, 2007 05:37 PM Permalink
When cricket is a religion in India and Pakistan, where is the space for your religious beliefs and Gods. They need not be dragged into your games and sports. All our ills of the society has been borne out of this sectarian feelings for long. And we must keep in mind that Gods and godesses are not sectarian nor they should be bright into the narrow confines of our faiths. Your motherland is supreme and much bigger than narrow faiths. Is it that we pray Allah, Pak wins and we pray Vishnu India wins nad we pray Christ, England wins. Then they r not Gods.
RE:Effect of Bob's death
by abhijit malhotra on Mar 19, 2007 06:35 PM Permalink
Dot know what the person is talking about....cricket or allah ? These guys drag allah into almost everything.
