Twenty20 not Hindsight.

I've been watching the Champions League Twenty 20. A beautiful day in Cape Town, not a cloud in the sky with the mountain sitting regally in the background.


It is a strange emotion knowing the area so well having lived much of my productive life in South Africa, remembering so many of my most happy memories.
The lifestyle is so different, the mind set contrasts the the European from many points of view and watching the cricket brings home the best aspect of living there.


The Highvelt Lions are playing the Chennai Super Kings. 
I wonder what will become of these events as the worlds financial debacle plays its self out. The West, including the "States", is bankrupt.  Perhaps the Indians will extend cricket vouchers to the traditional nations to allow them to swap food coupons for travel coupons 

The sun is setting behind the mountain and the light is stepping aside for the night to envelope all the beauty. Night engenders a different sense of opportunity, the opportunity now is handed to the people of the night who we fear will take it into their heads that what is mine, is as much there's especially if I find myself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The onus has passed from the joy of being in one of the most beautiful parts of the world to questioning what one can do to remain safe. 

The night changes everything it imbues in all of us a primitive fear of the unknown. In darkness lies the unknown, in the shadows lie the demons of our imagination which debilitate us and demolish much of  
                                                                    our self esteem.

The cricket in South Africa has drawn relatively poor audiences compared to the sub-continent where much of the short game is so popular. I wonder if the Provincial game is as highly contested as it used to be. The country would be polarised when the competition drew a The Cape v Transvaal audience with everyone having their favourites.
I think the "Marketing" people ruined the public's internalised support system when they changed the names of geographically recognised teams and gave each team a silly tokenistic name.



Geography plays such an important part in the history of the country, the geography was so important and in many ways, the areas were an imprint of historical events that identified the people who forced events many years ago. 
To shift the imagery of a team drawn from remnants of the English immigrants set against the descendants of the Boer community living in The OFS or Northern Transvaal was crass and stupid.

Other than for the Politically Correct Brigade !!!!!                     

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