Cricket used to be my favorite sport to watch and play. It is a game played between two teams of 11 players and can stretch across five days and still end in a draw or no result! Some limited-time versions of it have come up recently. Where the game is restricted to a day and there is a result. Used to play it in college. Have a broken finger bone to prove it.
Football is the current favorite. Played a little in school. I was not exactly great at it but loved to watch it. Chess was another game I loved to play.
Some great sporting moments/ teams I watched on TV include the outstanding West Indian cricket team of the eighties, India lifting the cricket world cup in 83, the sensational Maradona during the 86 World Cup. Boris Becker winning his first Wimbledon. Bobby Fischer was a sport personality that always mystified me.
I think it would be great if all our battles and arguments are resolved on the sports field. At the end of the game we accept the victor, promise to defeat them the next time and go back home happy and alive.
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