What a terrific sport! Yes, certainly it was, it was none aside from India`s former-cricket-captain-turned-commentator Sunil Gavaskar, who wrote on his Instagram web page after witnessing the FIFA World Cup last between Argentina and Qatar in Doha on Sunday.
The former Indian captain is aware of a factor or two a few terrific win, as he was a part of the history-making Indian staff which received the Cricket World Cup on the Lord`s Cricket Ground in 1983 beneath the management of Kapil Dev, a win which might change the face of cricket within the nation.
It was a last which was an absolute thriller, with six targets scored in 120 minutes, a late fightback from France, not as soon as however twice after which the penalty shoot-out which determined the title winner.
Nearly 4 many years again Gavaskar and his teammates had been rank outsiders towards the then excessive and mighty West Indies, however they pulled off one of many sensational wins within the low-scoring last over the Caribbean cricketers.
The win on Sunday was a thriller albeit on a soccer discipline.
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The Mumbai-born `Little Master` took sheer delight within the matches of the soccer showpiece occasion and watched two semifinals and the ultimate.
He took time to submit an image with former Arsenal supervisor Arsene Wenger, who was a part of the FIFA Technical Study Group of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
Gavaskar was not the one Indian cricketer in Qatar for the World Cup, two different former India captains, Ravi Shastri and Saurav Ganguly had been additionally there for the ultimate.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), General Secretary Jay Shah additionally witnessed the ultimate.
The 29-day soccer fiesta introduced the Jogo bonito into the highlight however cricket continues to be essentially the most adopted sport in Qatar, because of the massive Asian communities who’re primarily based in Qatar.
The Sri Lankan group rolled out the crimson carpet to former World Cup winner Sanath Jayasuriya, and in addition to a different former worldwide Farveez Maharoof, each of who watched some group matches earlier than heading again to the island nation.
Bangladesh, which has a number of folks working within the cricket sport in Qatar, noticed the previous captain of the nationwide staff Habibul Bashar, Akram Khan, who’s the chief selector of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, Mohammad Sanwar Hossain and Tamim Iqbal witnessing the high-intensity matches in Qatar.
Among the present gamers, Pakistan`s Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf had been the 2 who had been within the highlight obliged by posing for selfies and photos with the Asian group in Qatar.
Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen was additionally on the town and adopted a lot of the matches of the Three Lions. He shouldn’t be new to Qatar having been to the nation a decade again on the invitation of a businessman, who needed to advertise cricket in Qatar, however these plans didn’t materialize.
Those failed plans, there are various within the pipeline that the present office-bearers of Qatar Cricket Association headed by Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Saoud Al Thani wish to take ahead,
The Qatar nationwide cricket staff, each males`s and ladies`s, consists of gamers who had been born in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and sometimes somebody from Nepal and Afghanistan, Just a few youthful gamers are these born in Qatar however to oldsters who had been born in Asia.
The sport shouldn’t be of a lot curiosity to the Qatari youths though the President of the Qatar Cricket Association is a Qatari and has some long-term plans to advertise the sport among the many Asian communities particularly with Qatar internet hosting the Asian Games in 2030.
The QCA officers who’re working beneath Sheikh Abdulaziz, hailing from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh try to make use of the star enchantment of a few of the former cricketers from India and getting suggestions to enhance the sport.
The QCA which earlier rolled the crimson carpet for Virat Kholi, forward of the Asia Cup in Dubai, did this time round for Ganguly and Shastri, what transcribed between the QCA officers and the Indian cricketers stays confined to the 4 partitions as like all issues the QCA officers hardly ever talk with the media and the decrease rung personnel should not authorised to present info to the press.
But one factor is for certain not one of the Qatari children have an interest within the sport and no plans are made to get them into the gentleman`s sport in Qatar by QCA.
All the efforts to advertise the sport are by personal golf equipment owing allegiance to some personal firms, some who’re employed with the businesses and a few working elsewhere and enjoying the sport on the weekends as a passion.
Syed Rafi, hailing from the Indian state of Hyderabad a cricket and music promoter and who additionally dabbles as a content material creator says a lot of the gamers play the sport as a passion.
“On Fridays, which is a holiday in Qatar, they start matches at 5.00 am, when the sun comes out. They do not play with the hard ball but with the hard tennis ball and there are some 60 to 70 clubs in Qatar,” stated Rafi.
“We have three to four grounds in different parts of Qatar where you can play leather ball cricket and a number of grounds at Losail, where the QCA holds the league,” he added.
“I have never come across any Qatari playing cricket in my 16 years in Qatar,” added Rafi, who witnessed a number of soccer matches in Qatar in the course of the World Cup and is ready for the highest cricket motion.
With a lot of the Qatari gamers being beginner, they’re eagerly awaiting contracts from QCA, which they’re hopeful of getting within the months forward with Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia handing brief and long-term contracts to their gamers, who by the way hint their roots to Asia with an occasional native participant thrown in.
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