If there is one game that people all over the world knows that India plays, it should be ‘Cricket’. Though being a British game, circket and India are synonymous - many, over here, eat and sleep cricket. In my office, I can see most of my colleagues glued to their laptops and desktops, constantly refreshing (inspite of having ‘auto-refresh’ feature) the Rediff cricket live score page. You go to a tea shop, there you see an old FM radio connected to obscenely big speakers playing cricket commentary. Even if the tea shop owner doesn’t like cricket, he urged to tune into cricket news - customers’ popular demand. When I opened today’s newspaper, the headlines screamed “Anand is World Champion”..

Well, you might ‘ve guessed what this post is gonna be about. Yes, the recent noise created due to the cheerleaders’ dress code in IPL matches. I guess the cheerleaders have done a good job of not only turning the attention of the crowd watching the IPL games on them, but also that of the politicians and other sports people from across the country.

Is cheerleading vulgar? Let’s see the definition of ‘cheerleader’ from Wikipedia - “Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized routines made from elements of some tumbling, dance, …