GAMES &
SPORTS- CRICKET MATCH FIXING!
In the context
of the recent case about game fixing I
would like to pass on my views on the control over the games at the managerial
level to check such malpractices if any in Indian Cricket teams.
The field games
and sports were intended to create spirit of competition and sportsmanship
amongst the youngsters and also for developing their character building process
in the group games & sports. Now it seems that the entire system of games
& sports and the management have become a source of manipulations for
making “Big Money”!. How could such
sober activities of games fall into a den of people who deals with games &
sports as a money making machinery and a commercial enterprise?
I feel that many
of the people at the helm of affairs of the sports and games have not come to
that position due to their performances in the field of sports. Such managers
had their “ own axe to grind” in the management and control of international
events. This tendency in making huge money has misled the youngsters who were
attracted towards fabulous amount in the professional status of international
cricket.
The recent incidents
that followed on the issue of “Cricket
Fixing” are all due to this kind of diversion of sports & games towards a
commercial set up leading to such
malpractices. Punishments like, life long detention from game of cricket is not
the solution for correcting the youngsters if they have erred in the game. The
issues forced on them directly or indirectly are the reasons for such actions
from them. If such drastic steps are taken in similar cases in all the other departments,
many would have been jobless.
Even murderers
are given benefit of doubt and released without serious punishment.
Preconceived and preformed thoughts only lead to this kind of action from the
organizers. In this particular case of the BCCI’s decision, the president
himself is under observation for misdoings in the financial and administrative matters
of Cricket.
I feel that the
charges leveled against those youngsters must be withdrawn, giving them chance
to correct themselves and allow them to play the game in future. The organizers
should have taken a divine approach before imposing heavy punishments to the
youngsters of promise, reported to have done malpractices in the conduct of the
game of cricket.
Abraham
Mangalath Philip