The death of Coach in suspicious condition signals that cricket is no more left a game played by two teams where one will ordinarily be defeated by another one. We have played game of cricket and hockey or some other in our college days. We know that defeat is painful but we also know that winner performed better with least errors. If only one team is to win forr ever then perhaps we would have lost the game itself. What went wrong over the years? I have seen in 70s' when westindian team used to be full with class players in batting and bowling. Still, we had a young player like Siddhu who played against them and scored century as a young lad in three days game. What was missing that time or perhaps was not rampant, is 'gambling' tendencies. Now, it has been established beyond doubt that 'bookies' play the game and our poor players, coaches, captains and even honest umpires remain a'actors'. It is these criminal elements who go to any extent to see using muscle, money and political power that who will play and who will umpire!!! They go to any extent of threaatening anybody who may come in their way. I will suggest that we should stop attaching emotions and money to cricket and see that game will come back and our players and coaches will make efforts to improve the standards of the game. Money has corrupted our entire system including our players and play-makers. Our sports administration must keep an eye on our players' earnings including the one which comes from advertisements. Many a times these advertisements' earnings are fake and indirect channels to compensate a player for his corrupted behaviour. Cricket association may keep an eye on regular compensation mechanism to pay all the players well, though greed always surpasses any reasonable payments.
