If this article represents any living or dead people or something related to Jallikattu, that's purely coincidental.
It was one of the many lazy afternoons, Apoorva, the US born Indian, also the leading lady of PETS (People for ethical treatment of sportsmen), noticed a video in the suggestion panel in YouTube, with a heading, "Gruesome injuries in Cricket", when she was searching for cute cat videos as she had no other work to do at her boring office. She clicked it and saw some bouncers bowled at 150ks hitting the helmet, chest and groin of batsman, some acrobatic fielding efforts ended with injury and the player's subsequent pain and struggles , the 1st ranked gruesome injury was Sean Abbot's bouncer onto Phil Hughes' back side of his head which resulted with his sad demise.
Instead of shock, Apoorva's face lit up. Some big idea struck her brain, she had been in a big pressure to prove her US boss that people at PETS' Indian office was doing their job. She watched some other videos on cricket injuries and noted down some words like "lethal delivery", "fatal blow" etc, out of those she underlined one specific word "Tracer Bullet". When she discussed this with her US boss Sam, he found a potential there to introduce the US sport Baseball into Indian market by banning Cricket. He promised her all the financial and political support she needed.
She sent some of her staff to BCCI and told the officials that they will help the injured players to recover from both their physical and mental injuries. BCCI, without any suspicion, helped them with the data of all their injured players from the early days of cricket and the methods they used for the rehabilitation.
The next day she met her lawyer and typed a 1500 page petition to ban the sport because of the brutalities suffered by the players and presented it in the supreme court as an urgent hearing. The panel of judges who were not part of the cricketing community, and ignorant of the sport, appointed a retired judge to investigate the horrors of the sport.
The man who was reappointed for the investigation was indeed retired from the duties because they found the age will affect the work, was given 30 days to finish his investigation and file a report. He started to read through the 1500 page petition and convinced himself to ban cricket just after the first 10 pages . He spent rest of the 30 days sleeping and on the last day he asked the honourable judges to give extension of 20 more days to complete the said investigation.
Meanwhile, Apoorva met all the struggling actors of Bollywood, money hungry politicians, and the sidelined former cricketers to propagate against Cricket. She made deals which they can't refuse and they continued their propaganda through social media.
The retired judge submitted a 150 page report to the supreme court which was actually a paraphrased summary of the 1500 page report of PETS. The cricket ignorant judges came up with their judgement with some key points stating that bowlers should not bowl beyond 80kph (which is slower than a spin bowler's pace), fielders should not do any acrobatics such as diving, jumping and skidding and batsman shouldn't hit 6s and 4s. They appointed a panel under another retired judge Godha to make sure these are followed in upcoming matches.
BCCI and cricket fanatics were taken aback by this decision and filed a lot of petitions to remove these regulations but all in vain. BCCI was pushed to impose lots of changes such as dropping pace bowlers and pinch hitters like Dhoni and Yuvraj, recalling Manoj Prabakar, changing 30 yards circle as boundary line etc.
Cricketers who can't control their muscle memory, often dived, jumped, hit boundaries and bowled one or two bouncers even though they restricted themselves to some extent.
Seeing this, Justice Godha and PETS, filed a contempt of court on BCCI, and to ban cricket. The honourable supreme court came up with a historical judgement to ban Cricket in India. They even imprisoned Ravichandran Ashwin for six months as he repeatedly bowled at the speeds of 90kph.
For the cricketing community, that day was registered as a black day, end of an era, end of a culture and end of their dignity.
