Spin founder 'Palwankar Balu'
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Palwankar Balu,the spin founder
Today we all know that cricket is the most popular sport in our country. We can easily guess the level of passion and support of Indians in this game. In this country, some cricketers have also been born who, despite showing enough skills in their time, did not get the respect they deserved, but received only humiliation and mental anguish.
Palayankar Balu was one of the few Indian cricketers to receive such discriminatory treatment from co-players just for being of the lower caste class determined by the upper class. In India, Jr. Gregg, a famous English cricketer of that time, was the first to find his talent. He used to get bold many times by the spin bowling of Balu but he couldn't solve the secret even after trying a lot. Palayankar Balu was only 16 years old then and incidentally the bowling of that teenager took him by surprise.
However, the popularity of Palayankar Balu continued to grow. Many provincial cricket team of that time also recognized his talent and they also knew that having a spin cricketer like Balu was the asset of any team. But all those teams were full of racism so the teammates were reluctant to play with him. So when giving him the ball, they would move the ball forward with their feet instead of hands so that they did't get touch of him. Not only that, he had to eat alone during the lunch break of the game and he had to wash his own dishes. But he had an strong mind. So in spite of many humiliations and mental anguish, he earned enough respect from the English in his professional life. Unfortunately, he retired before India's first Test debut in 1932.
Today we call the world famous spin maker Bishan Singh Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh etc, though the arrival of spin bowling in India took place through his hands. Although he has remained hidden from history, perhaps it is also a kind of social untouchability that we have always avoided.
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Bengali Translation
আজ আমরা সকলেই জানি যে আমাদের দেশে ক্রিকেট হলো সবচেয়ে জনপ্রিয় খেলা।এই খেলায় ভারতবাসীর আবেগ ও সমর্থন যে কী পর্যায়ে আছে তা আমরা খুব সহজেই অনুমান করতে পারি।এই খেলায় একবার নাম করতে পারলে যে সন্মান ও অর্থপ্রাপ্তি হয় তা আজ যথেষ্ট ঈর্ষণীয়।কিন্তু জানেন কী, এই দেশেই এমন কিছু ক্রিকেটের জন্মেছেন যারা নিজেদের সময়ে যথেষ্ট দক্ষতা দেখানো সত্ত্বেও যোগ্য সন্মান পান নি,পেয়েছেন শুধু লাঞ্ছনা ও মানসিক যন্ত্রনা।
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