CAN: DRAINING OF PLAYERS OUT OF COUNTRY???
Short story about Legend.
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""Hitting the ball out of the ground is not a cricket rather its a gentleman game---unknown""
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What a same even to think that our hero who made us proud is
not even in the picture as a bench
player. This is not what should happen to one of the most popular player of the
game of cricket in Nepal. How much you advance in present but you can never erase
the past glories. I won’t be upset if he was just kept as a bench player
instead of some very weak names
available currently. Not only that if he was not selected or replaced by
some good performers like Sagar Pun and Rajesh Pulami Magar and also by hasim
Ansari. I won’t complain anything about
selector,but look at them and their poor
decision to pick Krishna karki and Prithu Baskota Instead of some quality
performers. They are just having a monopoly in decision making and are not
caring about what fans and some great players of cricket globally are saying.
They are showing their incapabilities and turning the glory of
division four into some very difficult future for Nepali team.If
we see the history of international cricket a legend when dropped from team has
always been recalled as his team require him then more than ever as for
instance:
In his return ,Coming
in at 37/4, Ganguly scored 83 in a tour match against the rest of South Africa,
modifying his original batting style and taking a middle-stump guard, resulting
in India winning the match. During his first Test innings since his comeback,
against South Africa in Johannesberg his
score of 51 helped India to victory, marking the first Test match win for the
team in South Africa.Though India lost the series, Ganguly accumulated the most
runs on the scoring chart. After his successful Test comeback he was recalled
for the ODI team, as India played host to West Indies and Srilanka in back to
back ODI tournaments. In his first ODI innings in almost two years, he scored a
matchwinning 98. He performed well in both series, averaging almost 70 and won
the Man of the Series Award against Sri Lanka.
So I don’t want the selectors of Nepal doing such a mistake
what they have already done quiet often and would like to request all the people to urge voice to
bring back our hero;”The Saptari Tiger”.He is arguably the most popular
Nepali player.He is infact the terrific
hard hitter and infact a genuine swing bowler.He cannot be replaced by anyone even today when
we are in an exceptional form with both bat,ball and field.
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Mehboob Alam (L) receives cheque from Sujit Mundal CEO of Standard Chartered for his 10 wickets in an innings during ICC World Cup Division-V qualification match last year at TU Cricket Ground in Kathmandu on Friday 12.06.20. |
We should always be thankful to Mehboob Alam for all his
glory and making our names in the record books as for instance the Historic
Mozambique match where Alam bowled 7.5
overs 1 maiden 12 runs 10 wickets.Who can forget this match???i know no one
even the worst criticizer can forget the glorious day and even today with the
powerful search engines you go and search the world records it is always at the
top above all.No one has ever got this feet no matter how great he is in
International arena.He is the youngest player to take 10 wickets in an inning
comparing at every form of the game.
On Wednesday august 18 2010 he became the only Nepali player
to claim 100+ wickets in an ODI.
To add to these records, he also has top three bowling performances in a
match for his country and besides, he is a hard-hitting batsman who has scored
904 runs with an average of 21. His career hit of boundaries is 119, out of
which 18 are sixes.“Batting is a plus-point to my cricket,” he says. “If I had not been a batsman, I would have been out of the team long ago.” Mehboob modeled himself on former Pakistani great Wasim Akram and is a crowd favorite in Nepal. Such is a support to him by home crowd that the curator of TU Cricket Ground — the main cricket ground of the nation named an end on him.
So with all this record how can he be neglected or even dropped from the team.With this article I want to make light only one thing that legends must be respected and we should never neglect their past glory and records instead for the sake of whole nation and it’s pride we should make their presence felt to all the youngsters who would definitely be benifited by it.
I have a question to every lovers,fans and selectors of the Nation and National team that if this is a respect a player is receiving for his contribution to the nation and to the whole cricket family then what they have earn giving their whole life as a cricketer ?.we all know that it too hard to sustain once life being a sportsman. A player plays sports till his mid twenties in Nepal after that he have to handle his life in different aspect, sport is not proffesion in Nepal and even if we talk about cricket is a great dream to live in house you earn being a cricketer and give your faimily economically support as a result we are seeing different great players draining out for country in search of good livelihood,study and better life.so at these stage we have very few players who are still in nation struggling and even hoping to be forever, to play for the nation and its pride but what is missing to them is still a great question.Yes such a name is Mehboob Alam who wants to be in nation, playing for the national team but its a great blow to him and his dream-full carrer, knocking him out successively for the two seasons and introducing a new one without any exercise. He personally says "how can i prove if they didn't give me any chance". its a question to all "what if Parash Khadka will have the same pain tomorrow"? ,what if Basanta Regmi will go to middle east to earn his life and what if these all heroes who presently raise the head of whole country needs to struggle for food tomorrow???? no one knows if CAN can do this to Mehboob today then any one can be victim tomorrow, i don't need that players in team who doesn't play well, but i don't even see him out of team if they didn't gave him any chance.
Lets love Nepali Cricket and lets think about legends as well because we all are proud of our nation calling our self as Bir Gorkhali because of once Gorkhe have send back the english troops to their land so legend counts for the present and for the future as well.
