Essays

A person who plays a game seldom is not said to be a sportsman. A sportsman does regular practice and that punctually.

A sportsman is always possessed with the spirit of doing something wonderful and unbelievable in his Feild. He does not like to be corrupted or to corrupt.anybody. It is because of this performance that he is acclaimed which he has to prove in the ground wheremany hundreds of people watch him. So, transparency Is one such quality which always lives with him.

The qualities imbibed in the field of sports in youth stand a person in good stead all his life. The first and foremost quality is the sportsman spirit.

This quality persuades a man to remain cheerful evenwhen he loses a match. It means that one should play a game for the sake of game and not just for victory.

Life is also a field where one acts. It is one's choice to accept it as a happy field full of sports or joys or a valley of misery. One who knows the art of happiness takeslife as a game of sports where one is expected to play Honestly and with complete sincerity to the best of hisknowledge, skill and capability.

Sports help us in developing our personality. It is a pity that much attention is not paid to sports in our country.

Most of the funds-are wasted on trivial items not connected with sports such as dinners, tea parties, honoring some personages from outside the realm of the sports, etc.

Our players do not even get sufficient didInfrastructure for sports in our country is lacking. Then there is so much bungling in the matter of selection of teams.

It is no surprise that we are not able to get a single medal in the Olympics when we shamefully realize that we are a country of one billion, or we comprise one seventh of the total population of the world.

Certainly, something must be done to overcome this malaise at the highest level. Just the creation of a ministry of sports at the union level is not enough.

In April 2000, there was a sort of upheaval in the world of cricket when the revelations regarding match fixing became a part of the public debate. Every lover of cricket was appalled.

As a result of all this turmoil, many voices were heard demanding banning or abandoning of the game of cricket altogether. Let us hope this is hot going to be done.

Instead, we should hope that the detractors, if any, .are going to be suitably punished to ensure a fair game So that it can continue providing entertainment and inspiration to millions of spectators and T.V. viewers the world over.