Cricket and Mahabharata

You must be wondering what could be the connection between the Mahabharata and Cricket. But trust me they are very similar to each other and only have a slight difference. You will be convinced by the time you read through this post. There was a time when test cricket was played timelessly and the match would continue till it got over. It was in March 1934 when a match started on the 3rd of March and ended on the 14th of March and it only ended because the English cricketers had to go from Durban to Capetown which was a 2 hours train journey to catch a ship that left on the 17th and there were no ships in a long time. So the match was ended in between and one of the English batsman said, you know what another half an hour and we would have won.

But the incident mentioned above made India fall in love with cricket because we had about the same pace of life. The Mahabharata was like this wasn't it? fought by the day and then it was sunset so every one went home. Then they made few more strategies, came back to fight the next day and went back again. The only difference between Mahabharata and cricket was that in cricket every one was alive to come back and fight the next day whereas this does not hold true for Mahabharata.

Things have changed with time and every thing has gained pace, everyone is running, people have almost forgotten to walk and so the face of cricket has also changed. The advent and popularity of the T20 cricket.