Cricket?@!@#

I'm sure every human being on this planet, atleast those who are not cricket fanatics would agree with this. At home I have a brother who lives, eats, sleeps cricket. Bad enough, one adult individual to drive me up the well, my dad also joins in. Weekdays, normally, during dinner we sit together in front of the tv for dinner. We watch a couple of popular serials for about an hour. As usual there are a million breaks. And flip!!! The commentary begins. Mum and I silently bear this torture. Ok, if there were a live match, maybe India was playing or it was some interesting match, understandable. But flipping to cricket, to watch a match from the 1980's!!!!

Weekends, Mum and I normally get sometime to watch a film or some interesting programs. Then again, if theres a match, Mum can retire to going through classifieds and I can either prove invisible or read a book or basically grumble such that no one cares. The game is interesting. Sports is good. Good, happy, proud of it. But consideration for others, sort of disappears when this game is turned on. The fact that there are two other individuals in the house who might have some kind of interest and maybe require a break too - errr who cares!!!

I have a friend. He's nuts about cricket. He usually mails me when in office. And the day goes, just exchanging mails. A great friend. Someone i cannot do without. He drives me crazy sometimes, but still a great guy. There was a day he wasnt in office. Why coz he was sick? Poor chap was running a fever after getting drenched in the rain. Didn't really want to disturb him by messaging too much. Constantly checked how he was. He simply replied 'Betr' or something equally informative. Figured he must be resting. Post noon, asked him what he was doing all day. 'Watching Cricket'. That was the longest message he sent the entire day. Something snapped in my head. There were few more messages that went back and forth, and I simply said bye!!!. I have no intentions of messaging. He takes leave to recuperate. He's too sick to message. But he's perfectly ok to sit and watch a bunch of loonies running around the field chasing a ball that's almost always elusive!!! Argghhh

Honestly I have nothing against the game as such. Ive lived in a family, that lives on cricket, with an exception of mum of course - Thank God for some miracles!!! The game is fine, just like every other sport. What drives me nuts, is the hype. The constant banter on how the 'Men in Blue' need to prove themselves. You want to prove yourselves, you darned well play well. You dont need a commentator to tell you that. People make and lose more money, simply sponsoring cricket, than some people earn their entire lives!!

Search me, I fail to understand this game's greatness!!!