Cricket is a Funny Game

The Grip The Game Has

Two Buckets of Cricket -

With a known late-16th-century Origin, emanating from South-East England and subsequently spreading to other parts of the Globe, inextricably with colonisation, the game of Cricket is often loved and hated by people of the same household. And this holds true for a majority of Households.

A) Cricket is a Funny game, so people who follow it are Fools;

B) Cricket is the best team sport that captures people's raw spirit & imagination, so Cricket haters are Dreary souls.

Let's try for a new perspective on the dichotomy and settle this old divide.

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IND VS BAN - 2016 ICC T20 WC: 

The last over of the match is an epic drama, and you will slide to the chair's edge whether you love cricket or not.

With 11 runs required in 6 Balls, Mushfiqur Rahim prematurely celebrates after securing consecutive 4s, though eventually BAN falls short by one run and IND wins the match!

What followed next wasn't very pleasant for Mushfiqur, as people made him a butt of all jokes for his false excitement that turned into a flop show.

The Dwayne-Gayle shake-up:

When Bravo or Gayle celebrates, irrespective of premature or not, the 50000 crowd dances with them. The two dance when WI win, when WI lose and when WI is not playing! Dance separately while representing competing teams in IPL!

They provide equal, if not higher, entertainment while celebrating in front of the crowd or while hitting the ball.

The Euphoria-less "MSD":

He is Icy sharp in stumping, but brushes aside even as teammates jump around celebrating his brilliance of ending an opponent's wicket and yet people throng for praising him as "Captain Cool".

Dhoni has adequately demonstrated, what Emotional Intelligence is.

The pertinent question:

Aren't people, who are inconsistent, actually are funny and Cricket is not? People could be erratic in appreciating the game & its players, though the Game of Cricket itself is very consistent in providing one of the best entertainments known to humankind!