It's happening again. Today is the Asia Cup Cricket final between arch rivals India and Pakistan. Even though Pakistan is a much weaker team than India (it has already lost two matches to it), TV channels are showing children, men and women confidently predicting that Pakistan will win (it'll be a miracle if it does). But just think of this: the people who are so confident are mostly those who've never played the game. In fact, burqa clad women, heavily bearded old men, school girls and children are the so-called "experts" interviewed by the media. I doubt if they even know how to spell cricket, yet they solemnly assert that our team will emerge as the champions. Naturally, I hope their prediction turns out to be true, but what if it does? Will it mean that we have won a war and India will allow us to walk into Kashmir?
If our team wins, our media will have nothing to talk about for the next few days. Again, experts will give their views on why we won. The same children, men and women will claim that they're the ones who should be thanked for our victory.
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