Parents wish cricket could wait

HYDERABAD: While a cricket-crazy nation like ours waits with bated breath for India''s XI to take on Pakistan, parents are praying that the series is held at a later date.
They fear the upcoming cricket series will affect the studies of thousands of Class X, Intermediate and under-graduate students in the state. The series will distract children from studies at a crucial time, they feel.
With the cricket schedule overlapping with several examinations, they fear that their children will be keen on catching up with the action in the field than concentrate on studies at their homes.
Several such anxious parents are now turning towards God to seek in scrapping the India-Pakistan cricket series, while some more are planning cut the cable connection temporarily. "We wish the imbroglio over TV telecast rights should continue so that the series will be put off for a few weeks," says a parent M Sasidhar.
Or else, they say the court should come in our rescue by not allowing the BCCI to telecast three tests and six one day internationals in any TV channel.
The main worry for the parents of Intermediate students is one day matches. All the six matches are scheduled just at the time of the Eamcet.