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Mother Or Cricket: What Should The Son Choose? |
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Pitched By Cricket360 Observer
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009 |
Existentialist dilemma would never have panned out in such a manner as it is being panned in the case of a cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir. It is in fact unspooling like he script of a film, where a player has to choose between cricket and the mother. The mother insists that the son should not play cricket as she is waging a war against the nation for which her son wants to play a cricket match.
A fast bowler from Jammu and Kashmir named Mohammed Bin Qasim has been presented with one of the biggest challenges in his life. Whether he should ply cricket or should he accede to the request of his mother and leave it and pick up weapons to fight against the state which is providing him an opportunity to fulfill his dreams and desires.
Mohammed Bin Qasim is a fast bowler from Jammu and Kashmir, a tall strapping lad, who was a part of the J&K team that humbled Haryana in the Vijay merchant trophy. He should have been celebrating the success, but it was not to be. His mother called him and asked him not to play for the country against which his father and mother are fighting a war.
He is the eldest son of fiery Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughter's of the faith), Asiya Andrabi and was selected to represent J&K in Vijay merchant Trophy. He is a player who had spent his first few years of life in jail as his mother was in jail for protesting for the cause of Kashmir.
For Qasim it indeed is an existentialist dilemma as he is passionate for cricket. Besides, he holds the view that he was not representing India but Kashmir, and so did not understand the opposition of his mother. Cricket is like a second life for him and he has this burning desire o play at least one match at the national level to display to the world that cricket is alive and kicking in Kashmir as well. His mother Andrabi however is unflustered, and the passion of his son does not cut any ice with her. For her the cause of cricket is most important. Qasim's father is also a militant commander and has been in jail since 1994, and before joining militancy had played cricket at the national level. Does it point to writing of another Slumdog Millionaire, or sports being used as Escape to Victory?
How will it pan out in the end is not known, but right now the mother is firm that her son would not play for India at all.
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