Will the trophy and medals be couriered to the Indian workforce?

The physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman famously stated, “If you aren’t fully confused by quantum mechanics, you don’t perceive it.” You may say the identical about Indo-Pak cricket too. Did India carry away an imaginary trophy from an imaginary match the place Tilak Varma made an excellent imaginary half-century?

Will Operation Sindoor proceed with the ladies’s World Cup (India play Pakistan in Colombo on Sunday)? Will skipper Harmanpreet Kaur even be co-opted within the warfare effort and be anticipated to donate her match charges to the military like Suryakumar Yadav did?

If India ever lose to Pakistan in any sport anyplace at any time once more, will it imply a setback to Operation Sindoor which appears to be an on-going warfare unlikely to earn President Trump even an imaginary Nobel Prize?

Should Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, informed he wouldn’t be welcome as a trophy-giver, have revered his different hat because the President of the Asian Cricket Council and stood apart, permitting another person to do the honours?

Or may he have left the trophy on a plinth at a protected distance from himself so Suryakumar may have picked it up on his personal?

Couldn’t this complete factor have been labored out earlier than the ultimate so it might not trigger such ill-will and make Asian cricket a laughing inventory?

Will the trophy and medals be couriered to the Indian workforce?

Did India insult Naqvi, Pakistan, skipper Salman Ali Agha, the sport of cricket, sport basically, mankind, a number of the above, or not one of the above?

Did Pakistan insult India, politicians, Donald Trump (who claimed to have ended the warfare however couldn’t assist Pakistan win the Asia Cup), cricket, a number of the above, or not one of the above?

Do we consider Suryakumar when he says the workforce had determined to not take the trophy and that “nobody informed us to do it”, particularly when the cricket board secretary has stated the identical factor? Who is supporting whom?

Can Suryakumar or any Indian participant contracted to the cricket board afford to have a voice of their very own?

Is it attainable that the gang was higher behaved than the gamers, even when the strings have been being pulled elsewhere?

Should that mildest of quick bowlers and gentlest of males Jasprit Bumrah have imitated the plane-crash gesture of Pakistan’s Haris Rauf when he yorked him?

Should the Indian Prime Minister have equated a victory on a sports activities subject the place solely egos are broken, pleasure is injured and Trophy hopes killed with one in a warfare with actual casualties and dire penalties?

Should India have left the on-field annoyances on the sector, and proven themselves to be the larger workforce, higher on and off the sector, too large to hassle about whether or not the trophy was awarded by the Interior Minister of Pakistan or Mickey Mouse?

If Pakistan win any International Cricket Council match anyplace, will they refuse to obtain the trophy from the President of the ICC as a result of his father is the Home Minister of India?

Do we inform ourselves that proxy wars on the cricket subject are preferable to actual wars (some extent this column made final week), and take comfort from that?

Should we proceed to play Pakistan figuring out that because the gamers have been co-opted into the nationalistic trigger by either side, cricket won’t ever be the main focus?

How can the honour of a rustic be tied to efficiency in a sporting occasion?

How a lot better will the strain be on the Indian gamers subsequent time they step onto a cricket subject (and never simply in opposition to Pakistan) when shedding may be seen as anti-national?

Can we settle for that patriots lose cricket matches too?

With a lot using on the sport, is it attainable for AI to control the telecast the place the lead to one nation is completely different from the lead to one other, so honour is maintained?

Next time will each groups carry their very own Board-approved trophy-giver (or their holograms)? Like the captains had their personal interviewers on the toss?

Does any of the above actually matter?