They say billions are now riding the game of cricket, more specifically IPL. But the old cliche still holds: money can't buy every thing.
Sure, you can buy no-balls, dropped catches, sixes, wide-balls, long hops, over-throws but can't 'buy' Korean illustrator Min-suk Kim, better known as Kwang33, who has been contributing to basketball publications for the past nine years.
Look at the following picture to realise what cricket is missing...
Michael Jordan in full flow
Artist: Min-suk Kim;
Picture courtesy: Guardian, UK
Watching the picture is like reading the following Marathi poem of B S Mardhekar (बा सी मर्ढेकर):
"दणकट दंडस्नायू जैसे
लोखंडाचे वळले नाग;
कभिन्न काळ्या मांड्या जैसा
पोलादाचा चिरला साग,
...
.यंत्रयुगांतिल नवनृत्याचा
स्थाणुभाव हा प्रगटे येथे
मनोज्ञ मुद्रा शिल्पित एक
संगमरवरी मांसामध्ये,
-अहा, कोळसेवाला काळा !
नव्या मनूतिल गिरिधर-पुतळा !!"
[poem no 46, "कांही कविता" ("kahi kavita") from "मर्ढेकरांची कविता" ("Mardhekaranchi Kavita"), 1959-1977; courtesy: राघव बाळ मर्ढेकर (Raghav Bal Mardhekar)]
Sure, you can buy no-balls, dropped catches, sixes, wide-balls, long hops, over-throws but can't 'buy' Korean illustrator Min-suk Kim, better known as Kwang33, who has been contributing to basketball publications for the past nine years.
Look at the following picture to realise what cricket is missing...
Michael Jordan in full flow
Artist: Min-suk Kim;
Picture courtesy: Guardian, UK
Watching the picture is like reading the following Marathi poem of B S Mardhekar (बा सी मर्ढेकर):
"दणकट दंडस्नायू जैसे
लोखंडाचे वळले नाग;
कभिन्न काळ्या मांड्या जैसा
पोलादाचा चिरला साग,
...
.यंत्रयुगांतिल नवनृत्याचा
स्थाणुभाव हा प्रगटे येथे
मनोज्ञ मुद्रा शिल्पित एक
संगमरवरी मांसामध्ये,
-अहा, कोळसेवाला काळा !
नव्या मनूतिल गिरिधर-पुतळा !!"
[poem no 46, "कांही कविता" ("kahi kavita") from "मर्ढेकरांची कविता" ("Mardhekaranchi Kavita"), 1959-1977; courtesy: राघव बाळ मर्ढेकर (Raghav Bal Mardhekar)]