The End of Cricket as we know it

The growing fangs of global terror have not even spared the gentleman's game. The brazen day light attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan is a reminder that when it comes to terrorists, nobody is immune. Lucky for the cricketers and for us that all of them survived with minor physical injuries. They can still continue to work their magic on the field. But the face of cricket in the subcontinent, where it is second only to religion, has taken a beating.

In lamenting about how the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers will change how cricket is viewed on the sub-continent, Harsha Bhogle writes:

Increasingly cricket grounds will be heavily guarded, cricketers will play in what look like garrisons; it will take longer to get into a T20 game than actually watch it. Little children will no longer eye the wax paper packet in which their mother has packed the best sandwiches in the world. People might stay in drawing rooms, not only because they are more comfortable, but because they are safer. Increasingly cricket will be limited to what the camera shows and what the commentator says. If they can fight their way through all the advertising! I fear cricket watching will become clinical rather than innocent.

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