Our great and noble institution that we call the Parliament has been out of work for quiet some time now. Not that it ever had any work before. If you see the day’s proceedings on the idiot box watching some idiots debate makes me laugh. These days the pet job of our elected representatives is discussing cricket. I do not know who it was that passed a motion to speak on cricket a subject that they have no idea about how it is played except that there exists a limited knowledge that it is a game of 11 players in each team and it is a game of a bat and a ball.

Instead of discussing the welfare of the country our parliamentarians prefer to talk sports and of a body that is, doing well and really cares about its players despite a politician heading it. It is a different issue that our players have not been doing well recently that does give the country the heart aches in the manner that they loose so often these days.

I fully agree of what Greg Chappell said of the guys and gals sitting in the house. Why did it hurt the people in the house when Greg showed them the mirror, now I know what the phrase “Truth Hurts” means? How many of our sports bodies are headed by politicians other than cricket and see the state of sports in the country. If some of the sportsmen and women are doing well then its despite the politicians running the show and not because of the politicians very much like our booming economy and some of the companies doing well on the global front, it is despite the political system in India and not because of the political system in India as it is made out to be.

I was horrified when Ramdas Atavale talked about having a quota system in sports very much the same way I was horrified when Meira Kumar talked about reservations in the private sectors. What was this man thinking does he not have better things to do? There is a limit to stupidity but this is the height of stupidity I must say.

Just to name a few federations headed by politicians look at our football federation headed by Priyaranjan Das Munshi what has he done for the sport heading it for so many years where are the trophies to show and he does not care to resign and its riddled with all the muck u can find in the by- lanes of West Bengal, Kerala and the other states of India. Deserving people and all those who raise their voices against the various sports establishment are never heard of playing or heading the sport again. The less said about the hockey federation the better. The person heading it Mr. KPS Gill used a hockey stick during his hey days on all the terrorists that he could lay his hands on to telling effect. The sport has only deteriorated further in the 12 years he has been incharge and the best players have left in disgust. The secretary of the hockey federation has been there for ages but none of these guys ever takes the blame. It is the players and the coaches who are sacked at every dismal performance. While I write this article, some of the best hockey players are sitting at home wondering why they are dropped from the team when they deserved to be in Doha at the Asian games.

Talk about archery, the shooting federations or the Indian Olympic Commission, its even worse, and the table tennis federation headed by a person who must have used the racket to squash the flies of his many buffalo’s butt.

What right do the politicians have to talk on sports when nothing is done for the very sports federations they head? All one has to do is to look at the performances of the athletes taking part in these Asian games to be held in a couple of days time in Doha the place where I now work and reside. I will not be surprised with the number of people who will be on free rides occupying the Athletic village.

Chappell is only the coach and not a magician with a magic wand; it is the players who have to perform on the field. If the guys playing do not have the balls or spunk to give a fight to the South Africans then why blame Chappell and the coaching staff. Besides it is high time the news channels start talking sense. What is the credibility of the people discussing the happenings on the cricket field on Star or Zee News? Have they ever held a bat in their hands that they have the authority to discuss strategy with people of the caliber of a Sandeep Patil or any cricketer for that matter? These guys should stick to their trash that they dish out hour after hour, of what Aishwarya is doing with Abishek in which temple, and how they reached there or wearing what brand of jeans or best how much Mallika Sherawat has reduced of her already shrinking butt after all is it not what our news channels are best at.

Before Somnath Chatterjee and his circus talk on any sport let them, first talk on improving the condition of sports & sportsmen and women in our country. The best way to do it is for all the jokers in their ranks running the various sports bodies to resign, so that these sports can be spared of deteriorating further. Let the sportsmen and people of caliber having knowledge and a vision run the sports body that is the least they can do. Before I signoff one advice to Somnath dada who does not like to be advised ‘Please don’t waste our poor tax payers money discussing cricket in parliament. You have better things to do and one more thing ask your troops to talk sense and not make a mockery of the institutions that you guys are sitting in by talking nonsense of reservations in sports’.