It is surely a dash of sherry that we won ‘Cricket World Cup’ after such a long gap of 28 years. A great applaud for captain of Indian Cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his whole team. But is anyone aware that recently our sportsman ‘Sanjeev Rajput’ won a gold in ‘Shooting World Cup’.
In a country like India where love for cricket is in veins of every being, have anyone noticed that even sports persons of other fields has dedicated their whole life for the sake of country and its name and fame? Cricketers are presented with lakhs and crores of cash prizes for winning even a single innings while at other end the other sports persons gain no credit ever, even if they perform wonders at any level. Can anyone explain this discrimination?
We have a recent case of an Indian athlete – Arunima Sinha alias Sonu, who lost her leg in an accident and have been offered a pitiable sum of money by Indian government, for giving her life for country, which will not even incur her the cost of her treatment. Or we can take example of the government of Punjab that if we talk of development, it has no money to spend but it has crores to distribute as prize to our crickers Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh.
I am just trying to raise a single question here that while selecting members of any team we don’t discriminate on the basis of caste and creed, how can we discriminate on the basis of anyone’s talents? Have we forgotten that every person has their own calling? Or like academic race – of all being ‘doctors’ and ‘engineers’, every sportsperson should be a cricketer?
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