While watching cricket yesterday..... there was an interesting event...
muralidaran was playing really well... and there she was ..his wife.. a tamil girl from Chennai... cheering him.... naturally i was pissed..... still i am not sure if she was right... she born an indian married a sri lankan and cheering for him when your country is playing..... well... may be thats natural..... but i am not the kind who approves of it....
on the same topic.. there are people who come to england.... stay there and play cricket and eventually relinquish their countries for playing cricket... a case in point Kevin Peitersen... he was unhappy with quota system in South Africa.. so moved away to UK.. played for a while and now he is an englishman.. another case is Ed Joyce.. an irishman by birth moved to england for opprotunities to play cricket at the highest level.... are they right?... arent they discarding their nationality ?
well... the question of country VS career comes up... kevin peitersen did not want to waste his prime waiting for the quotas to ruin his life... ED joyce knew ireland would never play test cricket during his time .. so chose to move to fulfil his ambitions... not very different from indians who come to the US.... to earn money/do research/for better living ......... being one of those indians how can i blame people for shifting allegiances... after all cricket is a game.... at most a profession......
based on a similar logic.. may be Mrs. Muralidaran is not wrong.....
of course there is always the fact that she exercised the option of marrying a Sri Lankan.. she would nt have married him if she was not ready to support him n his country... which for me is wrong....
so what i am getting at is... people who marry people from other countries are in a way are not caught up in nationalistic ideals....
but for some people (like me!!) its impossible to imagine such a thought... may be i belong to the last century... but i am happy for that......
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