{"id":91327,"date":"2019-07-12T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91327"},"modified":"2019-07-12T17:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:02:46","slug":"cricket-muslims-and-beard-without-prejudice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/12\/cricket-muslims-and-beard-without-prejudice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket , Muslims and Beard ( without prejudice )"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

In British , Australian and South African  teams ,you\nnote that most of the spin bowlers carry Muslim names who wear beards .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Bangladeshi Umpire has also started growing a\n beard to identify him as a Muslim . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the Indian Cricketers also have got signature beard\nlike Kohli\u2019s , which is different from beard of other Muslim cricketers\nworldwide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

( I remember the story about an Indian inteprid pilot of a\nfighter plane which was shot down by Pakistan.He had a signature beard which\nbecame popular in India Ironically this hearded ( rather mustached pilot was\nreleased by no beard wearing ex cricket captain Imran khan who is the current\nprime minister of Pakistan) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beard of Indian crickets lkkmhas a point with a conical\nshape like the ones few Sinhala kings had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I cannot remember any Sri Lankan Muslim cricketer wearing s\nbeard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is that  most of the Muslim personnel in world\n-cricket started growing beard to identify them selves despite the fact that\nthey have typical Muslim Names..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question is why have they started this practice during last\ndecade ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Muslim community worldwide ,they may have been informed\nor indoctrinated to wear beard so that they are singled out among all the\nmembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other funny side is Muslim cricket  fans in Sri Lanka\nalmost always support Pakistan  when Sri Lankan Team plays against them .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure how they behave when Sri Lanka plays against\nBangladesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(We also note that Muslim players lift the bat towards sky\nand look at a imaginary god or kneel and kiss the ground and thank the divine\nforces.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Muslim Indians never support Pakistan when they play\nwith each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically Sri Lankan Non Muslim fans always support\nPakistan when they play against India .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Muslim politicians and some religious leaders\ntry to isolate Muslim politics from Sinhala ( or burger ) ,non Muslim fans\nnever discriminate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One thing puzzles me is why most of the Muslim<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Players in white cricket teams are spinners ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a Racist Sinhala saying thambiyage thoppiya wagei.\nIt turns when and where it suits <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May be the meaning of spinning the ball is turning  the\nball which batsman fails to play as he often does not know how the direction of\nturning ball comes to bat and to play safely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is another saying among racist Sinhalese that he is.\nThambiya, you cannot  trust him <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before we go further in building of trust between <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muslims and other nationalities ,Muslims should drop the\nhabit of wearing hats stop growing beard and change bowling to only fast\nbowling ?!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath obeysekera\u00a0 In British , Australian and South African  teams ,you note that most of the spin bowlers carry Muslim names who wear beards . One Bangladeshi Umpire has also started growing a  beard to identify him as a Muslim .  Most of the Indian Cricketers also have got signature beard like Kohli\u2019s , […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}