Cricket: Game of Death; Sex and the City

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Something I read on cricket and something I had to write about. It's not really a happy subject, though. But it's interesting. Cricket, is one sport, that has an alarming rate of suicides. Among international players, apparently, it is far above the national average in any other sport. David Firth has collected data on this subject and written a book. It's called , "Silence of the Heart--Cricket Suicides". I also think, I stumbled upon this bit of information a bit too late. The book was published in 2001. Spectator has a good review.

Okay, let me also write on how I got to this information. I was reading on suicide of a 38-year-old Japanese venture capitalist Hideaki Naguchi. Go to Google news, you will find it. His body was discovered Wednesday night in a business hotel in Naha, Okinawa, 1,000 miles south of Tokyo. Media reports said he had slashed his wrists. And then somehow suicides and cricket happened.

Do you guys watch Sex and The City? Well, it's supposed to air in New York City and New Delhi, in almost the same time, on HBO. I would like to think so. They talk a lot about sexuality and sexual orientations in it. And a lot of cheap American humour. Bi-sexuality, try-sexuality. I think it's crap. Not that it should matter to anyone. But anyways.