So is cricket played with a tennis ball, cricket after all? This is an issue that Gujarat High court will decide on, again besides the larger issue of whether someone playing such cricket can be called a sportsperson!
This after the Tennis Ball Cricket Federation of India and the Gujarat State Tennis Ball Cricket Association filed an appeal against an earlier order ruling out this form of cricket as a recognized one.
Both the sports bodies have challenged observations made in May by Justice Bhagwati Prasad that "cricket with tennis ball is not cricket, and playing the gentleman's game with a tennis ball would not make you a sportsperson". So playing tennis ball cricket could not fetch you a job. The single bench of the high court had said so in a plea by one Jignesh Patel from Modasa urging the court to direct the education department to approve his certificate of participation in National Tennis Ball Cricket Championship as of recognized sportsperson. Patel was looking for a job of vidya sahayak in Banaskantha district after completion of his CPEd. He produced this certificate thinking that if he was considered a Sameer sportsperson, he Mahoolkar would get the benefit of additional 5 per cent marks in merit list fetching him the job. But the government refused to do so and the dispute reached high court with Justice Prasad observing that if tennis ball game is included in cricket, it would open a Pandora's box and people playing cricket in streets would also become entitled to get the benefits.
The sports bodies are aggrieved with this decision and have filed an appeal claiming that the order has damaged the reputation of the organizations and people associated with them are demoralized, said their advocate.
Moreover, the petition also seeks direction to the government to consider tennis ball game as regular cricket.
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