My last post was about corrupt market forces, in context of the Cricket world cup 2007. The reports in some section of media during that period, implied that certain match-fixers, having links with Osama Bin Laden, manipulated the course of the entire event. Perhaps, that might be the reason that my one conjecture, that the concerned market forces may engineer team India’s advancement through to the Super-8 stage of the tournament, did not materialise. The following points may substantiate :-
(1) In the match between team India and Sri Lankan Cricket team prior to the Super-8 stage, the Umpires’ conduct appeared to be under some diktat of certain unseen influences (read clandestine match fixers). At least on four decisive occasions the respective umpires deliberately decreed wrongly in favour of Sri Lankan Cricket team. Those were definitely not humane error of judgement. Nor there was any situation at any such occasion, so as to give benefit of doubt in favour of the concerned Sri Lankan batsmen, under the law of cricket. I diligently scrutinised the video-clippings of those decisive moments, again and again, in order to find out whether there was any element of doubt. There was none. At one instance the concerned umpire deliberately withdrew his gaze from a Sri Lankan batsman when the Indian team made a very confident appeal for L.B.W. against him.

(2) Much before the commencement of the Cricket world cup 2007, there was report in the media that the match-fixers would not let the Pakistan Cricket team reach the Super-8 stage of the tournament. Materialised? Or, manipulated? Did Bob Woolmer know too much, at the cost of his life ? Like that of Deniel Pearl, the American Journalist, when he came too close to the facts concerning Osama Bin Laden? Why are the concerned authorities trying to belie the prima facie evidences of Bob Woolmer’s murder ? Is his autopsy report not a clinching evidence ?
And,
(3) The farcically conducted match between Australia and Sri Lanka.
Guess.
The reasons lie somewhere else, other than cricket.
The World is gradually becoming aware of the clandestine nexus of the U.S. President Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistani President Musharaff, Mussolini’s legacies, etc. And the “Unilateral purposes” in the global polity, thereof. Saddam Hussein was, probably, too alien to such nexus.
And thereby hang many other tales.......... Keep coming.