Woolmer Dead

If you are blogging first time this is probably not the best title to start with...but I was compelled to do this. Not by anyone in particular but may be by the circumstances...

I am an Indian cricket fan who loves to see India win. 17 March was not a good day for Indian cricket as India lost to Bangladesh. This was like veterans loosing to toddlers.

Nothing worse could have happened to Indian cricket. At the same time when India was loosing to Bangladesh, there was another match going on Pakistan vs Ireland. Pakistan lost to Ireland in a similar disaster like the one India suffered. Being a true India fan I was really unhappy about India’s loss but being a true Indian my agony was somewhat reduced by the news of Pakistan crashing out of world cup. 2 losses in a row for Pakistan, wow, how many times do you see such an abysmal performance from a big team like Pakistan.

Today is 19 March, my morning started with the news “Woolmer Dead”. Woolmer was coach of Pakistan cricket team. I do not know under what circumstances the man died. All I can relate it to is to the recent loss Pakistan suffered in World cup. If at all this is the actual cause of the death, is it not too bad a news for the game. Forget the game for a little while, would I be happy when Pakistan lost the match had I known that this can result into something as bad as this. Thinking from the point of view of the Irish who made the last runs for his country, would he be happy at this point knowing that his runs resulted in death of a person. Or for that matter had he known that this is what can happen would he have made the winning runs? Obviously, I am not trying to say that he is responsible for this. The sole responsibility, I feel, lies with the people obsessed (not fans) with the game. They are the ones who are responsible for such a thing.

What’s killing me is to hear people say, similar should happen to Indian coach or players. Have we become savages? We are wishing for death of people who are not able to please us? Have they done any harm to us or for that matter did the promise us that they will win? They are mere mortals like us. They are trying their best. Can’t we think how many times we ourselves loose when we desperately wanted to win? Did we kill ourselves for that? No we did not coz we at that time we find out some excuse or the other and move on. Lets put our energies together for a better cause than wishing bad things for others. Lets be humans.