Seize the day?
Some of our national cricketers have shot the arrow at the back of our cricket by taking the surprise decision of retiring from the game only to take part in the money-based ICL cricket in India!
Do we need to mention that ours is a poor vault in terms of national coffer? No, we don't have to, I'm sure. As far as national interest is concerned, their recent performances have been poor, at times ridiculous--- they failed us/our expectations badly. Now emerges another question of good height and weight: what, at that point, was BCB doing? What preventive or rescuing measures did they take? Didn't they rumble, if not sit all idle, around telling us "this" and "that"? No perceptible concern was there to be found.
However, the rebellion that these cricketers in question have brazenly shown is of course a dire move, yet one cannot dismiss the vital point of getting enticed to the irresistible "Lure of Money" that the ICL is offering to the cricketers of the world. For, a player does have the right (by virtue of the freedom of "right" itself) to choose his path --- many players of the Test playing countries are doing the same.
This phenomenon is not a unique one, though. Cricketers are succumbing to this irresistible pull. From the socio-economic view point, we need not mention that we are an emerging or developing country that needs to take account of every single penny it spends for the people that represent us in different fields.
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