From: sramalin@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Dakil Kev and Sengvarkan
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:46:26 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

                        AS YOU GIVE SO YOU RECEIVE
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Dakil Kev was selected as captian for the coming tour of the world cup to be
held within next two months. It was a great honour to be bestowed on him. Among
the other players, there was Sengvarkan most prolific scorer and few other
people from all parts of the country. The team was stated to win the cup
easily. And Dakil was not a small man. He was a leading player and also a
leading businessman holding shares in several companies etc. He also had one
news paper which obviously printed in bold his achievements both in and out of
the game. 

The team's first game was a sour one. It lost the match by some few odd runs
and everyone criticized the players and few the captaincy too. But then on the
team kept up the pace and ran smoothly to semifinals without any further
problems; Sengvarkan being the most contributed player in every game. So
everyone was on their toes expecting a great finish in the semi-final.

Herecame one stupid  and whispered into the ears of Sengvarkan. " Man, this
is the best chance to win the captaincy for yourself. Feign that you are sick
for the semis and they will go for the match without you and then a loss is 
certain. This follows by removal of Dakil Kev and the next choice is really 
you ". So by the time match started, Sengvarkan ate something that made him
sick and on examination, he was found to have eaten something dirty. So they
declared him to be unfit. A faceless fella took his place and the match started
as usual. The result was obvious. Dakil Kev led the team to a loss. Everyone
criticised the captain and the way he led the players - without any personal
example in that match eventhough he played extremely well throughout the
tournament. So the team was knocked out of the tournament. World cup matches 
were no more interesting to anyone in that country.

When the team was ready to play next time against someother team officially it
became clear who was the captain. Sengvarkan was the name that one heard
everywhere. But Dakil Kev couldnot be ignored. He was an outstanding player and
was selected as such. As the matches progressed the rival captain started
writing some stuff about the teams and players and scorings etc in a local
news paper. That made Sengvarkan to write too. But it was against the law.
Before giving the captaincy, he was told that he cannot write or express his
views as he liked without the permission of the bunch of fellows who selected
him; and Sengvarkan agreed too. Now that Dakil Kev owned a news paper,
Sengvarkan asked him to let him write his views in Dakil's paper. Dakil always
saw to it that the game never interfered with his news paper business but now he
readily agreed and asked the staff of his paper to allow Sengvarkan's column
because it was the question of country first; and paid for his labour too.

At the end of all the games, the bunch of fellows met and came to a decision:
Sengvarkan did an unlawful thing and he was to be suspended for two years and
accordingly he was suspended. Then while spending the two years in isolation,
he lost his vigour of scoring and never came back to the team as his old self.
Thus Sengvarkan paid the penalty for feigning sickness when the country needed
him most and repented for his life for not getting into the team. 

Finally he decided to retire after playing for his state if he could win the 
Trophy as a captain in the local highest competitions. As luck would have it, 
his team was matched against Dakil Kev's in the Trophy. As Dakil played the 
international games even after Sengvarkan left, he devised a good game plan and
won the trophy for his own state - evewnthough it was for first time - in a 
nail biting finish. Sengvarkan collapsed on the ground with tears and was led 
to back home by the referees of the game . Fate indeed plays like that. Let us
all pity Sengvarkan.
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The characters created were only imaginary. Any matching is purely coincidence
and I am no way responsible. The views expressed are completely my own
And I typed this story in a sportive manner and not for serious discussions
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