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From Politics to Sports

by Bachchu
EURING the independence of the subcontinent we read tn our books and heard from our elders that Western people were very much fair in every sphere of life whether it is politics or sports or anything else. We were young then
But now we find things quite different from what we were taught. For instance, the political dominance of the West over the East, including the sub-continent, needs no fresh elaboration.
Here. I would like to draw the attention of the valued readers regarding a few actions of the European countries in collaboration with Australia In the field of Inter national games in order to achieve the supremacy over the subcontinental teams They go on changing the rules according to what suits them.
Let us discuss a few such examples. In the game of field hockey, most of the period of this century was dominated by this sub-continent. In 1936. during Berlin Olympic, Dhanchand's (who ts all time the greatest hockey player, coming from India) stick was replaced on the pretext that his stick had some Indian magical Influence. But still they could not stop him from his dazzling dribbling and unbelievable stick work and scoring goals against Germany in the final.
Traditionally, hockey was used to be played on natural turfs and nobody could match players from this subcontinent. Flpding no other way. the Europeans in collaboration with Australians adopted a cunning tactic.
Instead of natural turfs, they Introduced Astro turf. They took full advantage of the above factor because one needs much strength and stamina to play on any Astroturf. which la a very last sur, face. So. the Europeans and
Australians, with better physique, more strength and stamina than subcontinent players started dominating the game without much difficulties. while our players were merely struggling. After very hard work on Astro turf for many years, again our players have attained a reasonable standard. Pakistan won the last world cup and very recently India defeated Germany and Holland in an International tournaments. These results evoked anxiety amongst the westerners. Now. they have started thinking something else to continue their dominance.
I am sure in the next meeting of. the International Hockey Federation, they are going to change some rules, which will suit the robust Europeans and Australians and our players will have difficulty in contesting against them. According to the proposed and. rather, imposed rule, like soccer, a goal can be scored from anywhere of the pitch, ruling out the earlier condition oT scoring only from witbin the D. Tills rule will suit the Europeans and Australians .perfectly because their shooting power is tremendous..! am sure thia rule is coming next.
Now let us turn our attention towards cricket. Only England and Australia have the veto power in the ICC (International Cricket Coun-Ctl)
Bishen Bedi of India tn his prime time was famous for his slow left arm spin. He used to put seven fielders on the on-side and two fielders on the off-side and with this sort of field placing, his balls were unplayable. Then England hurriedly summoned ICC meeting and passed a rule that no bowler can place move than five fielders on the on-side. Bedi's career came to an abrupt end with the in traduction of this rule. But to
the utter surprise of the cricketing world, that rule was scrapped with the retirement of Bedi. One can easily realise how uqfalr those people are
Now let us come to the fast bowling. During '50's and '60s. England and Australia had very good bunch of fast bowlers like Truman. Statham. Tyson. Loader. Moss. Miller. Lindwall. Davidson and others. These bowlers were playing hell with our batsmen and they were enjoying every bit of it Even the spectators used to encourage those bowlers by shouting, "kill him. kill him." I am a witness to such scene.
But when their era of fast bowling ended and Pakistan and wrst Indies produced their dangerous battery of fast bowlers like Hail. Gilchrist. Andy Roberts. Garner. Croft. Marshall. Holding. Imran. Sarfaraz. Wasim Akram. Waqar Yunis and others, with no time to spare ICC (initiated by England and Australia with their veto power) took the decision that no bowler can send more than two bouncers in an over. That law was nothing but to give protection to the inefficient and coward English and Australian batsmen. Do you think those people are fair? It all seems that there is a deep mischievous understanding between England and Australia in order to help or rescue each other.
Dozens of such examples can be cited of their unfalr-neas in different games and sports from which one can well Judge the sick mentality of westerns sporting world.
The writer resides in Ooshala. Faxlul Huq Rood. SlruJqonJ