"We have a responsibility to grow our game in new territories and
amongst the women of the world," Gilchrist wrote. "I believe the
Olympic Games is the vehicle the sport should use to aggressively sell
the message of our sport to all 202 competing Olympic nations, so our
sport is strong and robust in countries where it is currently played,
and exciting and ground-breaking in countries who haven't yet caught
the 'cricket-bug'."
Cricket has been deprived of the Olympics status for over a century now. With 20-20, it is time that IOC recongnizes the game again and gives it a place in Olympics games.
With Beijing games just a week away, it is good time to muster support and lobby for it. I hope to see Cricket being played in 2020 if not earlier.
Controversial spinner Harbhajan Singh further deepened the animosity
between India and Australia on Thursday when he called Matthew Hayden
“a big liar” and Adam Gilchrist “no saint.”
The Indian has been in the headlines on the acrimonious tour of
Australia ever since he was banned for three matches for allegedly
racially abusing Andrew Symonds during the second Test in Sydney in
January.
The suspension was later overturned following an appeal hearing, but
the relations between the two sides deteriorated as Hayden called
Harbhajan an “obnoxious weed” on radio during the subsequent one-day
series.
Deep at the bottom of the entire controversy is the pressure tactics off the ground. It is mainly to keep the Indians busy mentally resolving their conflicts, so that the Australians could have won the series. Kudos to Harbhajan who kept is cool in the second ODI and did not give up to the mental games played by the home team.
