LATEST CRICKET TRIVIA: THE ONE THING NOBODY NOTICED ABOUT CRICKET IN 2018

Have you ever wondered why cricket is losing its glamour and cricket fans are scared to talk about cricket in front of everyone? These days cricket fans have to get a good pulse of who the audience is before starting a conversation on cricket.

The match and spot fixing scandals have been a persistent parasite on this gentleman's game for decades that now a lot of the general audience do not consider cricket matches as part of their life.

There used to be a time when people would take leave, have their kids bunk school, buy snacks and sit down with their family to watch their favorite national team play their favorite game.

It was in the year 2000 when the gentleman's game took the wrong turn and enabled the global audience understand the inbuilt corruption and scandals of the sport. I was surprised with the Hansie Cronje episode and the subsequent King's Commission. 

But what caught me off-guard was how it went from there and ended up killing Hansie Cronje Try reading about the flight accident that involved Hansie's charter flight getting cancelled and him having to board a cargo plane to go to the crucial hearing of the King' Commission. That flight was not successful and the crash killed all onboard including Hansie.

Soon after, cricket shows and news started showing Hansie discreetly tampering the ball during drinks breaks, 'trying to reinforce' the opinion that Hansie was indeed a 'Bad Guy.' If camera caught Hansie ball tampering, then he should have been punished soon after. Instead, the industry waited until he pleaded guilty of match fixing and soon after his mysterious death, started broadcasting footages of Hansie tampering balls during drinks breaks.

Try asking around how one can learn and become a 'Live Editor' of a cricket broadcasting business and you will know how there is a whole art of controlling what people watch from a continuous stream from 27-30 cameras in a stadium. Such editing involves the concept of 'working with a live script.' I will let you get the details and understand that side of the story in your own terms.

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DIGITAL GOVERNANCE: DIGITAL INDIA AND HOW IT KILLED CORRUPTION

Have you ever wondered how corruption has taken over the digital india landscape? So many processes have been computerised with online application and submission processes.

Here's the catch. Not all of them are avoiding corruption. Instead they are now making sure nobody gets around that government office without paying a bribe.

A good example would we what one would go through while getting plan approval for building houses.

The system has been redesigned such that the application must be submitted online but only a select group of registered/certified engineers can do it. This means the bribe receivers have been moved out of the government office into private offices, making it more convenient to negotiate higher bribes.

The applicants, in spite of having all the documents required, have to depend on this certified/registered engineer to submit the application and get a 'Number' generated using which the process proceeds further. If you do not make the offer of a bribe, this engineer would sit on the application for days and weeks and say the department officials are not available or the 'server is down.' Until the applicant makes the offer of the bribe and convicts the engineer, the server will remain 'down.'

In other similar processes, involving private companies applying for government contracts, the companies can submit the application online and get status updates from the government website. However, the application needs to be signed by an engineer in the department that does the evaluation and approval. 

So, the digitisation of government offices have very little to do with eradicating corruption. In fact, the digital processes have reinforced the bribe-extorting power of the government officials.

Feel free to ask around to verify this story and you will hear much more than what is documented here.

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