Cricket
and Emotions
I
watched the Cricket World Cup without any emotions.
That
is also because I had nothing else to do on this particular Sunday.
This
is the only (having been a cricket fanatic from Childhood) time I did
not blog or made any predictions about Ceylonese team or any other
team.
I
wished if Ireland was there in the preliminaries but it was a tight
schedule and as usual weather spoiling few games.
I
did not watch any other games.
I
just used to look at the results of the other matches past midnight
when I was browsing the emails (which I finish in less than an hour).
When
I looked at the BBC live report and the expression written down by
commentators (former players included) and spectators, I wonder how
many of them had near enough heart attack.
I
remember long time ago one player I knew (hockey player) had a heart
attack when Ceylon Team lost in a cricket game.
I
mode my a resolution I will watch the game without much a do.
Just
another game. Well I am not playing, anyway. I won’t go for
betting, too.
I
sometime think live coverage spoils the game, if somebody really
loves the game buy a ticket and go in person to the cricket ground.
Mind
you cricket is the only game an Asian can go.
If
an Asian (my time in UK) go to a football game, one is almost
trampled to death.
I
used to hide in a coffee shop or bookshop when these guys
(spectators) come out after a football match.
That
was the reason, I was never interested in football.
I
got a kick when Argentina beat them in 1980s.
I
was in UK, then.
The
sports have become a sort of mania.
I
do not want to be a part of it.
I practice equanimity (neutral)
instead.
Mind you I lived for short time in both countries and
ordinary British and New Zealand guys are simple and ordinary except
during matches of Football or Cricket.
I
used to play snooker or billiard and I loved billiards.
One
need meditative attention to play this game and always made a point
to beat white guys.
Some of them ask where the hell you learned this
game.
I say Ceylon.
Where the hell is Ceylon, the response.
Playing
billiards help me to graduate into meditation in later life.
I am
slowly approaching equanimity.
World Cup was an example.
