twenty20 and lots more!

Sharif has been sent back and surprisingly no post on my blog, partly because I have talked out all my breath and energy with anyone who was ready to take on the duet with me and despite the fact that I did write somewhere, where i have turned to writing these days, I still call it a mum from my side. The other "partly" is probably the disillusionment that's gradualy coming over me which is because there are some desicions that are beyond my person-desicions about myself. I personally believe that dictatorships dont fall unless people come out on the streets. These lawyers had been condemning Musharraf since 1999, passing resolutions at every bar meeting and making a strong statement over the referendum, the presidential oath taking and any major event that took place in this country, concerning politics and the military. But it was only when they came out on the streets for the Chief Justice that they became a power to be reckoned with. People come out in India; well fine, they have a democracy there but then what about nepal? Ordinary, downtrodden, poor people came out to trample a monarchy that was harsher and more tyrranical than what it had been before to demand a republic. They came out in Bangladesh to welcome their exiled leaders and that was when Hasina Wajid said that this isn't Pakistan where you can force popular leaders into exile. And if anyone thought that she was pointing to the military establishment in Pakistan, they are mistaken. It is as much of a pointer to the PEOPLE of Pakistan. It may be disillusionment with politics, probably something else but whatever it is, there;s no use complaining and not gettin up to make our voices be heard. and that's where my part comes in, some desicions as i said are beyond my control. As much as I wanted to go out to the zero point, I couldnt. and well, writing it down makes the feeling even worse.

Lighter things.Yess, the much hyped about twenty20 worldcup is finally underway. From all the years thar I have watched and played cricket, I think twenty20 is a mockery of the game itself. I mean, fine entertaining it must be but the high cost of quality should not be accepted by cricket fans. I understand that this form of the game is a great challenge to the bowlers and the fielders but batting will gradually be reduced to slogging. Slogging may not work all the time though the way quality Australian batsmen got out on rash shots, but u cant blame them for deviating from the quality standards of batting. That's the way u win twenty20s. And a few years down the road, no one would be regretting getting out on such rash shots. Every edge, every improvised sweep and leg bye would count if it runs to the boundary because teams would have very little time to retrieve that lost advantage. And therefore, at the end of the day, the real quality of a team may just not count. 50 overs is a long enough time to prove ur worth but twenty20 gives no room to the bowlers and the fielders. Every fumble and odd elivery counts. Cricket can just not be reduced to an hour and a half. This isn;t football or hockey and it cant be turned into one. Surely, the popularity of the game will increase for ofcourse if teams like Zimbabwe whose revamped team has not been able to win any one-dayer for a long time now, or Bangladesh which doesn't have even 10 test matches to its credit after about 9 or a little less years test country status, win against Australia and West Indies, it will surely bring some pride to the cricketfans in those crickets. But this isn't cricket-that's the whole point. It's a neighborhood, floodlight match which could be taking place anywhere in Karachi with young boys hanging onto every ball. But even that has quality because of its own rules and because of the low expectations. Here, it's not fun to watch Adam Gilchrist or Hayden getting into weird postures just to get the ball to the boundary.