Yes, I have seen it… It was cited near New York, Himalaya lines is their home, US military and air force have already found the species and government is keeping secret about it. Every now and then we hear these stories and statement, whenever the Aliens, UFO are witnessed confidently narrate the stories. Match fixing ghost, too pops up like the UFO/alien stories whenever someone alleges the charges. No one has ever proved the existence of UFO or Alien on the Earth, but at the same time the fact is also not denied that they do exist and same theory applies to the match fixing incidences. Match fixing charges kept coming, but due to the nature of the game, it always proved difficult to catch. Players like Manoj Prabhakar, Rashid Latif, Dean Jones, were on the top list of different allegations and match fixing stories. Now Vinod Kambli has joined this list.
The 1996 semi-final between India and Sri Lanka… who can forget that match - two wickets in first over; Arvinda Desilva’s counter attack; Sachin’s batting; India’s collapse from 98-for-1 to 120-for-8; 90,000 people in the stadium started throwing bottles; and Kambli’s famous emotional outburst! Frankly speaking, everyone was surprised when Azhar won the toss and selected to field. Even the commentators expressed this doubt... Azhar is defending the fact that Sri Lanka were very good at chasing, but those were day games where Lanka won the matches by chasing target score. We had won against Pakistan by batting first and the history of Eden Garden stadium was also heavily supporting the team batting first at that time. It’s difficult to trust whether Kambli is telling the truth or it is just a show buzz; but even Azhar was throughout suspicious in his career span between 1995 and 2000. Even Sachin was not willing to have him in the team during the Australia series 1999-2000.
When Azhar came back in the team for South Africa series in the year 2000, Sachin resigned from the captainship for everyone’s surprise at that time. Two months later when Mumbai police opened up the biggest match fixing scandal involving Hansie Cronje, the BCCI banned Azhar from playing cricket for lifetime, after the CBI investigation. Azhar says that Kambli’s character and his behaviour in the team was not good; but what about you, Azhar? Especially, when Navjyot Singh Sidhhu returned from the middle of the England tour in 1996, questioning your behaviour and bad treatment?
BCCI and some other officials are asking why Kambli kept quiet for 15 years. Answer is straight forward - ask it to any employee working in big organization. For him, Boss is always right. Even when he (the boss) is doing wrong. Because he (the employee) knows that if he confronts with the boss for any issue, his future career prospects would be in gloom. For Kambli, cricket was his bread-and-butter. And such is the power of BCCI, he knew that if he had spoken during his playing days, it would even end his domestic career! Now that he is retired from all types of cricket, there is no harm giving these statements.
No one, who is active member of BCCI or some or the other way linked with the functioning of it, would express the view in neutral angle, because they know the current affair won’t last for long. Besides, who would like to pinch the shark in deep blue sea?
Azhar-Kambli debate will be discussed for few days, but the question will stay as it is and the mystery of existence of aliens and match fixing will remain a “Mystery”!
Ritesh Kadam
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