The legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar's remarks about the signing of Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed by an Indian-owned franchise, Sunrisers Leeds, for The Hundred Cricket League in England reek of unsportsmanship. He, in a column for the Indian newspaper Mid-Day, writes: "The fees that they pay to a Pakistani player, who then pays income tax to his government, which buys arms and weapons, indirectly contribute to the deaths of Indian soldiers and civilians." The franchise Sunrisers Leeds is owned by the same group that controls the IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad and is facing severe backlash on social media after it signed Abrar Ahmed.

He argues a relationship between sports and politics like solving an algebraic sum to find the value of an unknown variable. The algebraic relationship says that if x is equal to y and y is equal to z, then what would be the relationship between x and z? Teachers teach this relationship also as a definition of creativity: if a student solves the relationship between x and z, as Mr Gavaskar did, he is perspicacious and........

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