WEEPING BOYS OR RATHER WHIPPING BOYS

Whipping boys is an American expression for someone who is punished for the errors of others whereas weeping boys is expressing sorrow. Ironically, both these expressions duly fit in for the Pakistan cricket players and to make the matters worse the world is somehow conjuring their weeping boys image and ignoring the Whipping boy image. It’s definitely a pity that a bunch of exceptionally gifted and talent lot will be missing in probably the most entertaining platform of cricketing circuits, the IPL .Clearly the IPL teams will also be disappointed by this absence of the players and it will raise questions on IPL being global.

 But again all this chaos might have been avoided by IPL organizers themselves if they had not invited the players to be the part of the auction then later bluntly dismissing them stating all the fuss about visa requirements and government clearances. Nevertheless the Pakistan players are not facing this kind of a situation for the first time. The Terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan players was a very big blow for Pakistan cricket and due to that they were deprived of playing in their home. Whatever maybe the case, its not only Pakistan but sports in general has suffered a lot by many such instances.

But the point is who the beneficiary among this turmoil is. In recent days, the auction incident has spurred up like anything and has reached to the level of diplomacy. Ministers talking about insult of real ambassadors, to an extend it is true but deeming it as a conspiracy is clearly sick. Voicing of boycott of Pakistan Hockey team from World Cup to be held in India is again something unwarranted for. Not only in Pakistan ,even in India such sports related instances tend to take a very political scenario. Shiv Sena activists digging up kotla is one case in point and more recently Anti Telengana protesters disurupting a Ranji T20 match. One thing that is to be kept in mind is that IPL needs players, T20 world cups champs ,they need  Afridi, Tanvir, Razzaq to lighten up season 3,but they have some constrains, the biggest being security. The brand of politics played out in India is very murky and tends to become very ugly. Taking into account Mumbai, the MNS (Maharastra Navnirman  Sena) has warned Australians from playing due to the racial attacks in Australia , again absurdity, so one does not need to think hard to what extend they can go when you have players from Pakistan playing in Mumbai.

In the End it’s a loss to cricket and hopefully this should not lead to any weakening of diplomatic ties between the two countries.