THE structure has novelty, so that’s a start: a Continental Pentangular. Do ICC and BCCI want yet another cricket tamasha? You bet they do. As long as there is pan masala there will be cricket. The official rationale can’t be cash, so of course we are formally taking cricket forward on the twin principles of revival and fresh fields.
We may have to reposition geography, but that is what empire builders have been doing through history. The five quasi-continental teams would be: IndoAsia; Af-Pak-Gulf; South-East Africa; Brit-Europe; and Australia- Windies, nicknamed Indasia, APG, Seafrica, Briteau and Auswies. The obvious Big Five provide the nucleus, but never the pauses; Netanyahu has blamed everyone but himself.
In a poll taken during end- October, some 50 per cent of respondents said they trusted generals more than the Prime Minister, and three quarters of respondents wanted Netanyahu to resign. His Likud Party has lost 40 per cent of its vote. Till the moment of writing, Netanyahu had shifted from his personal home to an American billionaire’s villa which is equipped with a nuclear shelter. While 360,000 Israeli civilian reservists, men and women, have joined the forces, his two sons continue to live abroad. There is much more in this vein; and enough to sketch out a future political upheaval.
was East Africa all about? It consisted of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. A certain Frasat Ali top-scored with 45 in their first match against New Zealand.
Other team members were Harilal Shah, Jawahir Shah, Hamish McLeod, Mehmood Quraishy, John Nagenda, Parbhu Nana, Ramesh Sethi, Shiraz Sumar, Samuel Walusimbi, Zulfiqar Ali, Praful Mehta, Don Pringle and Yunus Badat. How multi-ethnic harmonious can you get? Why not name the trophy the Harmony Cup?
The idea is free for the esteemed Rajeev Shukla to pick up and run.
