Sanjida Afrin Sondha: In the subcontinent, cricket is a religion," which is a very popular opium too. Cricket, however, is not the ancestral property of this region._x000D_ It has been imported from the country of the elites, and this new form of religion was brought by or borrowed from the British, and now it represents the civil society, grandeur, and class culture of the people from the 90s and after._x000D_ _x000D_ The reformation of cricket took place by Kapil Dev when he took down the mighty West Indies and led India to win the 1983 World Cup. At that time, Vivian Richards, Clive Lloyd, David Lloyd, and Malcolm Marshall's West Indies were down and the neighboring country India claimed the title._x000D_ _x000D_ After that, Imran of Pakistan in 1992, and Arvinda of Sri Lanka in 1996 gave wind to the sails of cricket religion, later on, cricket, the cherished son of the subcontinent, became related to blood._x000D_ _x000D_ Needless to say, after 1971, Cricket slowly gained ground in a developing country like Bangladesh. Cricket fantasy started in Bangladesh after winning the ICC trophy in 1997. However, the media played the biggest role in spreading cricket widely. Although there was no free use of dish, antenna, TV, or Internet, Radio was the biggest means of promoting this cricket._x000D_ _x000D_ Cricket was a sacred religion for Chowdhury Zafrullah Sharafat, Saidur Rahman, or the late Khoda Baksh Mridha and as media commentators, they used to give their best in the commentary room to inform people about the news of the field or entertain them. After that, seeing/ taking advantage of various weaknesses in football and a bit of elite culture, the country's cricket took place on the world stage. Print and electronic media added more fuel to it. Bangladesh cricket team has now crossed two eras. There is nothing visible except irregularities, corruption, and lack of proper decision-making in the limitation. But these people who will fix them are seldom seen!_x000D_ _x000D_ In the den of cricket as a baby country, Bangladesh participated in the 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, and the 2023 World Cup that ended a few days ago._x000D_ _x000D_ Despite participating for years we as a team didn't do anything great because our domestic cricket could not come out of the trap of failure, why can't it? However, there are many factors behind this, including the domestic weather, infrastructure, pitch, selecting cricketers, and so on._x000D_ _x000D_ These things are and will be. Today we will try to talk about cricket and the media. First, we should be clear about one thing, the media and how it works._x000D_ _x000D_ Media is the process that communicates (its pros and cons) to the nation or audience in [need of security for the individual By presenting the correct information, the people of the society are informed or given ideas about a fact._x000D_ _x000D_ I was saying earlier, that with the popularity of cricket, cricket-based media has grown, and the cricket-based news department has been created. But this cricket-based journalism is a little more or more interest-based. This field of journalism starts purely on cricketer-based, while talking about cricket, sometimes the main problems of cricket in the country (pitch problem, Gamini de Silva the poison, Papan's autocracy becoming a monster, interest, questionable team Selection, including various scammers exist) aside from personal attacks and gossip - blasphemy is now open secret and that's taking place very openly on the table of cricket._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Although cricket journalism is a very sensitive issue, with the lack of consideration of journalists, lack of knowledge, greed for money, and the tendency to become famous in the journalistic world, with the polarization of various opportunities and power, cricket-dependent journalists are turning into cricket content creators!_x000D_ This is how cricket is being swallowed by the loop of capitalism. Needless to say, the capital here is the audience and the headlines! To attract the audience, the neo-aggressive style of journalism is joining cricket journalism called "Predator journalism!_x000D_ _x000D_ One of these hunters is the Channel Ekattor! This predator is playing the biggest role in the field of journalism. 'Ekattor Television and its sports department" Khelajog " It has been said earlier that journalists are becoming content creators chasing views, fake respect, and money! Now in a whole what is this content creator?_x000D_ _x000D_ Simple, untruths or half-truths based on assumptions, presented again with confidence, like I have my voice And I will speak out, to hell with honesty and justice. This type of thing, indiscriminately saying whatever you want, has no need or need for accountability._x000D_ _x000D_ It is also said that Ekattor is a channel supported by the ruling party. And what is happening, as a result, is that they do not respect even the smallest portion of journalism; they are hunting the country's cricket charioteers one by one like a hunting eagle or a Fox. Their victim list includes Shakib, Tamim, and coach Hatharusingh, including Yasir Ali Rabbi, Naeem Sheikh or foreign players or coaches._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Some of the catchy news headlines are,_x000D_ _x000D_ A. from Coach Hatharu "Tigers Chief Scientist Hatharu"_x000D_ B. BCB in sleep, 93 minutes storm in PCB!_x000D_ C. Not as big a mouth as big talk!_x000D_ D. The Board failed to resolve the Tamim-Shakib dispute, an impact on the national team._x000D_ E. Why Shakib in Bangladesh is in the middle of the World Cup?_x000D_ _x000D_ Now let's find out the reality of the headlines._x000D_ _x000D_ From coach Hatharu to Tigers chief scientist Hatharu: First of all let's say that the batting position is not decided by the coach alone. The captain, senior players of the team, and the staff decide the batting position together. Now the team is doing badly and for some of Hatharu's previous strict activities you will charge Hatharu like tiger hunting, isn't it sarcastic?_x000D_ _x000D_ And if Hataru himself has changed then why?_x000D_ Is it because the pitches of your country or our country are fixed pitches, and there is no seam swing? If you don't have a good quality spinner on the pitch, you don't even get a turn. Even if the pitch spins, it's no longer a pitch, it's the death knell for the batsmen. Now year after year, you make the XI with two batsmen and a bowler, and during mega tournaments, when they play bad to worse then, if you play a worse game the coach will be forced to change the position of the batter, is it necessary to be a scientist for this? no. Not at all but what is needed is the improvement of first-class cricket. pitch, ball, and player improvement, the interesting thing is that none of these happen, if it happens, Hataru Singh from cricket coach become a scientist discovered by Khelajog!_x000D_ _x000D_ ?BCB sleeps, 93 minutes of storm in PCB: It is true that a team has lost badly in the whole World Cup. It is true that every time the Bangladesh team plays badly in a global event, everything from the coaching staff to the entire team management changes, and the content creators take this opportunity. Profit from both money and content. However, a touch-quickly good decision has ever come? And the truth is that journalists or content creators pen or paper tiger or this Bangladesh team the first team to play the semi-final, or not? Then this game of "Shikari Gosti" had no desire or honest courage to show the improvement or wrongness of the country's cricket except by creating news under this title and hitting the public sentiment._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Tamim-Shakib issue: Ego and self-respect issue exists, and will remain. Through this, big players take themselves to a higher rank. All the teams had pairs like this, such as the Tillekaratne Dilshan-Upul Tharanga conflict in the Sri Lankan team, Pakistan's two greats Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis conflict, Rohit-Kohili in Indian cricket, etc. Now Whose profit, and whose interests do they want to achieve by looting the news in the fish market within the party while increasing T.R.P? More examples can be given in the IPL match-fixing scandal including Ajit Chandila, and Sreesanth, the biggest name was Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but the most influential media in the world of cricket, Indian media, for the sake of Indian cricket, suppressed the whole thing about Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Moreover, the biggest role behind the destruction of Ashraful's career, the biggest cricket star Bangladesh has ever produced, was played by the predatory media of that time, led by one of the country's leading newspapers. Then again, why does Khelajog want to divide the Bangladesh team by bringing the conflict to the fore?_x000D_ _x000D_ ?Liitton issue: Litton is one of the most talented cricketers in the history of the country. But he could not play as expected in the World Cup. His wife is in Bangladesh with a baby in the womb, now just wait a little bit and think, with all these journalists shooting arrows one after another with all their might he (Litton) is going through a run of drought, stress, what would happen if you do this to me? Poor Litton and like ten other normal people behaved harshly with the journalists and then he apologized. Now take a look, In the first semi-final of the World Cup, the Indian team got into a controversy about the pitch. After the match, in response to the questions of the journalists, Shubman Gill said that he did not know what happened with the pitch._x000D_ That is, if Gill doesn't notice what's going on off the field or what the outside crowd or the opposition are thinking, then why does Litton need to know what's going on outside the dressing room about his form or his lack of runs? And if Litton says who is thinking what, why did Khelajog or Ekattor become a tailor to measure how big is the talk or how big is the mouth?_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ ?Why is Shakib in the country during the World Cup: 80 million of the country's 180 million people watch cricket, and 70 million people know why Shakib was coming to the country during the World Cup. What people do not know is that Khelajog created this title to create controversy and trouble, in the middle with a view to increasing T.R.P., hitting public sentiment, and earning some financial gain, nothing, nothing else._x000D_ _x000D_ Every time the Bangladesh cricket team collapses in mega tournaments and at the same time all these content creators named journalists or opportunists or opportunistic persons or channels arise to bring down the Bangladesh team which is totally dead as a dodo. The question should have been asked how the hell in the post of president, an out-of-form batsman or bowler gets a place in the team without any consideration? How Gamini De Silva becomes the pitch curator year after year on demand! After having enough quality coaches in the country, why do incompetents have to be imported from abroad, one may ask why umpires Say 35-40 runs is enough for you to be out, why they say we have nothing in our hand, you have to lose! Why are there thousands of fake matches from spot-fixing in first-class cricket?_x000D_ _x000D_ There is a question, why is there no age-based cricket, why age-based cricket is on the way to vanishing due to corruption, whether it is a question why there is no field in each division with BCB having 900 crore rupees in the bank, why there is no district-based cricket tournament or when will good quality curators be produced from Bangladesh! There should be a hell of a lot of questions and answers but there are difficulties too. But there won't be any at all and There is no question because the individual cannot be held solely responsible here, if you go against the system, you may face punishment, or you cannot be a favorite of the board bosses, you do not get special benefits after the visit, or the gift will not get your personal address!