Well, here is a story that no one wants to read. No one wants to think over. Something, that has passed its sell by date. Something that cannot make any difference. Something that is as normal as normal can be. On top of it, if ever there has been a wrong time for any author to bring out his/her story, I would say, this is it.

The fact is, nobody wants to look back and brood over the events that have seduced him or her to poke into. This is a time the team India flying high on the wings of success. The ostensibly panoptic white washes of debased opponents, have earned a virtual cloud-9 for our cricketing barons. All is well with our Captain, people are with him today, and he has been cuddled by the luck factor as tightly as a piece of wood glued by Fevicol. Strategies succeeded, experiments worked out, versatilities exposed, efforts are applauded and in a nutshell, did everything right. Yes, everything indeed. Apart from all that which is, said read and tattled, this 'everything' encompasses a couple of unnoticed Melodramas,.... read on ..

The origin of this story refers to an incident that caught in middle of Lahore cricket ground a couple of months back on the dawn of opening test match between India and Pakistan, the much speculated animated discussion between current captain, Former and the coach.

In fact, none of us know what has happened there. Inevitably, the incident has occupied the headlines of all newspapers across the India the next day. Some of them stated that the former is willing to open but captain says NO. And rest of them sulked that the former is unwilling to open, while captain says DO.

There were entirely different versions of the issue. But for a normal cricket lover, the dilemma bequeaths only with two options. Yes or No, Willing or Unwilling, protect or desert. For now, lets not drudge the unknown, lets limit our imagination only up to observing how it was portrayed.

It was evidently testified that the former is not agreeing to something, which was enforced to him, thus proving himself as a bad boy again. And the explicit implications of this depiction are 1) It reinforces the ever conflagrating glitches of his attitude. 2) It successfully helps him win several more haters around. 3) It provides the beholders enough room to speculate. 4) It helps the rainmakers of the game to cook-up a beautiful story and ebb his advancement forever. Yes, the plot has paid its dividend, we have seen an irrepressible out loud clamor the next day. The first part of the gizmo has been impeccably executed.

Now lets come to what actually happened there. If we were to believe, the news and respected Rajbhai- It was an issue of who has to open. While both the former and the current captain were more than keen to fill-up the slot. The day-3 of the same test gave us the answer with captain padded-up as the opener. And the point to be noted here is "despite all the heat it generated, the captain had the final say and everything went according to his own conviction. Only difference is, during the due course of action, the former was left with an irrecoverable tag of being complicated. And it is to be noted, that all this melodrama has nothing to do with the game plan as it was predefined. Then why at all this entire circus?........... Here it comes the second part of the maneuver, which was again immaculately executed.

The logic behind this move was explained to us like the below. The captain did not want to make the former a scapegoat. This invokes one clear, just one clear strike at the bull’s eye? Who are we dealing with; "professional talent" or "school boys?” On the contrary, a small but sensible piece of hunch has been lingering at the back of my mind for a long time that-" was the skipper apprehensive of 'former being succeeded at the opening slot and earn a permanent place in the team; as opening slot in the test team was always being debatable. For all practical possibilities, incase the former has been successful as an opener, the question of where to accommodate him would never arise again.

At the outset, the entire scenario and its consequences have left a couple of questions unanswered;

1) Why do they need to have this discussion in front of the camera, in the middle of the ground, that to, knowing that the former is a media ICON now and his every moment will be tracked? Being in the drivers seat, what on the earth stopped the captain or the coach to pause the debate right at the moment and continue offline.
2) To which degree it deviates from "exposing the dressing room issues in front of the media?” Is this not an explicit attempt to give enough idea of whats happening behind the screen to all game spectators? Even if partly- Yes, what’s the penalty for the people who involved in that?
3) Mr. Skipper, who are you decide what the former has to get out of his life? It seems you are more worried about the world that says that ‘you made a scapegoat of the former’, rather than the game plan.
4) Why don't the team management treats the former like all other in the team? Why always there is a conflict and associated ambiguity around his role?
5) Just like all the others, why can't you communicate the former's specific role and responsibility in the game in advance? Why do you need to wait till the nick of the moment? Don't you think that this creates a severe sense of insecurity that in turn affects the moral of the former? Is this a fair treatment?
6) Who should be held responsible for the brassy outcry resulted against the former without knowing the he has been methodically trapped into a venous plot that has only one mission of demolishing him.

I don't think that a tired but outworn appeal from a non-entity like me would make any significance. When you are swayed gently to a cool but strong pre-monsoon zephyr, you never like to recall the scorching summer that irritated earlier. Identically, when the team is winning and the winning has been consistent, no one likes to bother about a piece of incident that deserves to be ranted. Convincingly, we all have mastered the art of MOVING ON with our lives.

And that how I would like to end this incomplete story- that NO ONE WANTS TO READ.