The Century 'Dating' Game

Narrated 'diorama' of an iconic cricket-matchup highlighting what makes games/sports representative of human/social detention!

An homage to what made the globally iconic 1975 Cricket World Cup sports-event reflective of Earth-distance(s). Thanks so much for reading, 

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My name's Amlan Satan ('Storm-Shadow'), and I'm a huge fan of Facebook-IQ and am casting this diorama-vignette about the magic of sports/games and why they capture a fascination with human intelligence and general imagination and why we'd blog/write about sports/games for Facebook-IQ.

The triumph of the Astros in the 2017 World Series (American baseball) against the defiant LA Dodgers was a mark of what makes/made sports and games re-presentative of human/social distances and daydreams and energy and wit(s). This is the game of baseball, the most iconic American sports in the media-era, and it's considered a team-field sport that captures an intelligence regarding what makes the United States (Western civilization) so democratically drawn and teamwork creative!

However, baseball is not the most iconic/popular sports or game in other parts of the world, and other nations around the world in this modern era of multiculturalism and pluralism-driven commerce and capitalism-globalism rhetoric in the post-9/11 era of highway securities consciousness celebrate other sports/games (those we may not see/hear about 'regularly' for Facebook-IQ!) including carrom, cricket, and soccer. India, for example, champions field-hockey and cricket way more than, say, football/baseball the way Americans do, right?

No, folks, this diorama-vignette is about the 1975 Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Australia. Now, cricket's a lot like baseball in that both sports celebrate the fielding-energy of defensive ball-catchers/throwers rotating against the opponent team taking lineup-turns to compete as singular batsmen, trying to hit the ball with a stick to get points or runs. However, cricket is much different than baseball, and the 1975 World Cup (Cricket!) saw the West Indies triumph over Australia by just a meager/thrilling 17 runs in the end. Cricket involves pitchers/bowlers trying to strike at the standing sticks behind the competing-team batsmen who try to 'defend' this stick-alignment called a 'wicket' by striking the pitched/bowled ball with a more flat-shaped bat-stick to get allotted runs in single or series matches. Cricket is much more elegant than baseball and therefore draws out much more 'faerie-tales' than baseball, and the West Indies became a rare African-ethnicity athlete team to capture the title/crown in 1975. This is nothing like baseball, folks!

Cricket generates much glitter/confetti and ad-revenue in countries outside the United States, including India and Australia and the West Indies and Pakistan! It's a game of much flair and striking uniforms, either all-white colored or multi-colored in simple design. Cricket's created great ideations of human/social distances regarding media-broadcast era audience-storytelling, albeit non-American.

When we think of the trophy-triumph of the 1975 West Indies team in world-cricket, we think of what makes the idea of competitive games reflections or re-presentations of pronounced human intelligences. What we love on Earth about games/sports is the cast 'idea' of sportsmanship and strategy and wit(s) and of course creative-thinking. We think of the IQ behind 'the game' when we think of the storytelling and 'faerie-tales' (simple/complex) behind the 'experience' of wrought competitive survivalism in a setting of nonviolence or controlled rage.

Imagine we're invaded/visited on this fair Blue Planet by a mysterious or even 'hostile' alien intelligence/species, perhaps an insect-dragon 'being' of great wrath or colonization intent and/or one of great chess-like intelligence/strategy. What would we respond to with our own systems/games representing civilization-IQ or democracy? Would we be able to compete in chess games against such a 'potent' alien species/intelligence? Would we share with this 'hypothetic' alien creature our sense(s) of purified environmental adaptation or survivalism or competition drawing(s)?

ALIEN: You 'puny' humans can't match me in chess-play/games.

AMLAN SATAN: Didn't we 'shine' in the 1975 Cricket World Cup --- a trophy-souvenir for Earth-drawing(s) of democracy?

ALIEN: Cricket is nothing like chess!

AMLAN SATAN: Well, chess, like any other game, 'exemplifies' the quality of human/social thinking!

ALIEN: Perhaps that's true, but if we drew a 'stalemate' (or tie/draw) in chess (between us), would humans be satisfied?
AMLAN SATAN: We humans always appreciate a 'good' game of drawing(s).

The ideation(s) behind this 'game-theory' diorama-vignette is the casting of human/social thinking in terms of the re-presentations of competition-IQ through the 'vivid' lens of real species control(s). In other words, what game(s) can make you feel alive/human? Is it chess...or baseball? Does the 1975 Cricket World Cup illuminate something 'real' about species-control(s)? What did the athletes of the triumphant West Indies cricket-team in 1975 derive from such a 'conception' of gaming democracy? What do you think?

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