Cricket hits Rock Bottom - Black Tuesday..!!

Far gone are the days when Cricketers around the world were defenseless against the deadly pace attack of the West Indians. Modern day cricketers are even good at tackling or neutralizing seam movement, spin and bounce from the wicket. But today's cricketers I feel should not only learn to duck bouncers but also the bullets and evade the grenades aimed at them. Today marks a new low in sports history especially for cricket. Im sure the chilling visuals from the Gadaffi stadium would have given any sportstar jitters down his spine leave alone cricketers. Till today, it was cricket that had been a victim of Terrorism. But today it was the players themselves who were on the firing line. Today's attack on Sri lankan players was a despicable act of cowardice aimed at the sole purpose of cheap publicity. All the drama happened at a wrong time for Pakistan cricket which was trying to resurrect itself to prove the world that it was safe to tour their country. It was all going fine for Pakistan under a new captain, record scores etc. until today morning. It all went horribly wrong for them and their cricket hit Rock Bottom. Its almost game over for PCB now. not just that, even the WC 2011 hangs in the balance. Though India scripted a beautiful victory in Napier this same day, this day would be remembered for the horror it created and would go down in history as Crickets' Black Tuesday.

Terrorism in the name of God, that too when every religion stresses on Love and Harmony is pretty strange. But for an average Indian or for that matter for anyone from the subcontinent this form of terrorism would never be new. Every now or the other terror strikes and in the recent past its been happening like a natural occurrence. Its high time that Pakistan as a nation rises up against its own terror camps and bring them down before other countries do the favour for them instead.

Its paining to see that when ppl from around the world die of poverty, hunger, natural calamities, diseases and terrorism, countries like the USA still spends millions of dolars in space research and other evolution theories. What is the use of a new planet to live. Even if man gets to move to a different planet, he is sure to ruin it. Instead, let us focus our works and money in things that are constructive; in things that spread the Love of God; in things that will make this place a better place to live in. Let us all, as people unite against Terrorism and pray that one day this world will be free from all the forces of terrorism. To end I would like to quote Francis of Assisi's prayer which goes like this:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying [to ourselves] that we are born to eternal life.

Note: Any mention of 'him', 'his', 'he', 'man' in the above post are completely generic and it doesn mean that im gender biased ;)