When I was a kid, the only sports I knew existed is Cricket. Though we played so many games as kids, when somebody speaks about sports, its always cricket. Cricket was the ultimate game, there was passion, there was energy. I learnt the true meaning of patriotism in a India verses Pakistan cricket match. Though in school we used to have many sports activities, like football, volleyball, kho-kho, hockey but when it came to professional sports, cricket always stood out. And cricket was always synonymous to great names like Kapil dev,Rave Shastri, Gauvaskar, Sreekanth and later evolved to include Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly. They were always thought about in par with superstar heroes of movies like Rajini kanth & Vijaykanth (remember as a satanch Tamilian, I never knew about Amithab other than the name:))
But recently Cricket as such has undergone a revolution. Gone are the days together 'Test' matches, even ODI are out dated, IPL are the new season favorite. Somehow after 1998 world cup and the De-glamorizing of cricket, I lost the interest in them. May be I was watching it with dil-se and I was heart broken when I came to know that Cricket is also just another game played not by legends but normal corrupt mortals!
But still some part of me even now regards Kapil dev, Sreekanth, Gauvaskar in a pedestal. So recently I watched the you tube ads of Kapil Dev's 'Ek Nayi League'. Have you watched them? Kapil is as usual charming, but more than that he says he is getting a new league in place, which if played 'dil-se' will be a 'hit-wicket'. Basically the ad conveys something that we are
even now doing with cricket. We play and also watch it with 'Dil-se', may be if we remove this emotional quotient, you get to play a game as a game. Like how we played during our childhood days. You don't play for the scores, you don't play for the awards, you don't play to win and you don't play to lose also. This league promises something like that..
Remove the 'Dil-se' part, we will get a Game which is played for just that, not for money, not for awards, not for winning. That would be like going back to the true spirit of games. You play just for playing, you play for yourself, nothing else. Ohh... now I am all piped to see what this 'Ek nayi League' of Kapil Dev's is all about. You too piped to know more about it?. Go watch and start dreaming about this EkNayiLeague like me. Happy Watching/ Waiting. You can also have a guess about it, like how I did. Nothing wrong in dreaming.
Here is the site http://www.eknayileague.com/ and the same can be followed in twitter by following @eknayileague or hashtag #EkNayiLeague
But recently Cricket as such has undergone a revolution. Gone are the days together 'Test' matches, even ODI are out dated, IPL are the new season favorite. Somehow after 1998 world cup and the De-glamorizing of cricket, I lost the interest in them. May be I was watching it with dil-se and I was heart broken when I came to know that Cricket is also just another game played not by legends but normal corrupt mortals!
But still some part of me even now regards Kapil dev, Sreekanth, Gauvaskar in a pedestal. So recently I watched the you tube ads of Kapil Dev's 'Ek Nayi League'. Have you watched them? Kapil is as usual charming, but more than that he says he is getting a new league in place, which if played 'dil-se' will be a 'hit-wicket'. Basically the ad conveys something that we are
even now doing with cricket. We play and also watch it with 'Dil-se', may be if we remove this emotional quotient, you get to play a game as a game. Like how we played during our childhood days. You don't play for the scores, you don't play for the awards, you don't play to win and you don't play to lose also. This league promises something like that..
Remove the 'Dil-se' part, we will get a Game which is played for just that, not for money, not for awards, not for winning. That would be like going back to the true spirit of games. You play just for playing, you play for yourself, nothing else. Ohh... now I am all piped to see what this 'Ek nayi League' of Kapil Dev's is all about. You too piped to know more about it?. Go watch and start dreaming about this EkNayiLeague like me. Happy Watching/ Waiting. You can also have a guess about it, like how I did. Nothing wrong in dreaming.
Here is the site http://www.eknayileague.com/ and the same can be followed in twitter by following @eknayileague or hashtag #EkNayiLeague
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