With India having defeated Australia – once an arch-rival for world cricket domination – 4-1 in the ODI series, this might not be the best time to make fun of cricket. But then stand-up comics always wade into trouble.
And so here’s Biswa Kalyan Rath saying unpopular things about the game. And about sports in general.
“I don’t get sports,” he argues. “Sports to me is a futile exercise in thermodynamics. Because people come, they do things in circles, go back home.”
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