I vehemently oppose the circus that is commercial cricket

I vehemently oppose the circus that is commercial cricket or even international cricket vis a vis Pakistan, the country that elects cricketers as Prime Ministers. Yes, yes, yes, granted I am not a very sports-loving personality. I couldn't care less which ball is thrown at what speed through which hoop or which goal using which apparatus. For the life of me, I couldn't care less about which country managed to win the most points for sending balls across fields or run with wickets or how moist the pitch was or what the odds were. I am simply not interested in commercial sports, football clubs, and the obsession with sports figures. The technicality of it some of it , yes, gets fascinating and can't be denied. There are sports figures who rule hearts , who made goals as if it were God's hands Himself, and, their genius, their fitness, their godliness is so magnificent. But still, I don't really care. 

I particularly don't care how many runs these batsmen make in cricket or how many wickets these bowlers got. Cricket is the most boring spectacle , it's deathly boring. But what's worse is how cricketers are lauded and, shoot to fame and power in Pakistan. I am guessing it's Imran Khan who changed it all , not content with simple philanthrophy but thought he's so sexy he has to be PM. Other cricketers were sporting beards and making a show of their religiosity.  Pakistani cricketers have celebrity status and, are everywhere on TV screens and donation boxes. 

I can't stand it. 

Wassim Akram is another one I can't stand. He can't get enough of teaching women how to wash clothes with his endorsements of Ariel. It's honestly sick. And, then he's in all kinds of ads, a caricature of a caricature of a cartoon. His Australian wife's patronising social posts also do my head in. 

The morality preaching plus capitalist personas is cricket to me. 

These cricketers fill social spaces which should be held by experts, academics, activists, scientists. 

And, let me not get started on the Pakistan-Indian cricket matches and the sick sick jingoism, hollow nationalism on display. 

So, to conclude I couldn't care less that Pakistanis and Indians couldn't shake hands at which ever sporting event recently held where Pakistan lost. 

As if shaking hands is a big deal. Pakistan and India are permanently at war.