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Tiktok in the age of air travel Pakistan cricket faces major upheaval after two successive Test defeats by England, with PCB sacking the coach and bowling coach and dropping seven players. Seven replacements have been flown in, highlighting how modern air travel and finances have transformed cricket’s touring and team structure. Someone at the PCB is concerned about the way Pakistan went down to two successive defeats by England. Concerned enough to sack the coach, the bowling coach and seven players, flying out seven replacements. The captain has not been sacked, His predecessor also has not. But the captain in the first Test (when the captains was injured) has been sent home too. Of course, this has been made possible in the age of air travel. In the old days, when touring teams travelled by boat, for a long time because there were no flights, and then probably because the Boards couldn’t afford them. No one has really looked into how much air travel has changed the way cricket is played. The idea of having separate teams for white-ball and red-ball cricket was only feasible because air travel was affordable for Boards flush with funds from TV rights. So it has been possible to sack seven players and the coaching staff, and bring in replacements. It wasn’t like the longest Test ever played, over 12 days,with two rest days. The last Test was to be timeless, and began on 3 March 1939.South Africa made 530, to which England replied with 316. South Africa then made 481, thus setting a target of 696. England made a fist of it, and had reached 654-5 on March 15, with 42 to win and five wickets in hand. However, playing on would mean the England team missing the boat to England. The match was ended as a draw, and remains the longest Test ever played. There had been timeless Tests before, but had never lasted so long. Even timeless Tests only went on for seven to eight days.. Of course, they were played to the bitter end. There were never any declarations, nor any enforcing of the follow on. And wickets were made by the groundsmen to last forever. However, an even greater disaster was in store for the PCB. The Pakistan women’s team was beaten by the Indian women’s team. Or maybe it was a sign that the women’s team knows what the country’s foreign policy requires. But maybe you need to be careful around women. They take these things seriously. Like the sisters in Ladhewala Warraich, in Gujranwala district, with the elder, 18, killing the younger, 15, for stealing her Tiktok followers. Tiktok followers didn’t become a life-and-death matter for nothing, it seems. These two girls came from a poor family, and raised money by their Tiktok accounts. That’s a new one. More typical is the way Syed Ammar Haider died. While he was filming for a Tiktok video, he was shot. He had first pointed the gun at one of his two companions, and then at his own stomach, where it went off. Ammar’s father accused the companions of having committed murder, and they were arrested. It used to be that Tiktokers, Youtubers, and other such social media influencers used to come to a sticky end while trying to shoot videos which were wilder and wilder. Now things have gotten more serious. And money has started becoming involved. The social media companies have got to put up money to get content, that I can understand. But what is this stealing followers thing? How can you do it? I would suspect that there were more underlying complaints, probably simmering for some time, which came to the surface as the two sisters quarrelled. I mean, if someone follows two people on Tiktok, both get credit. Stealing means getting someone to follow one person, and unfollow the other. I don’t know how that could be done. One possibility is that the murdered sister stole a video idea from the other, thus gaining the followers the other would have got. I leave it to the local police to carry out the investigation. Can we expect the owner of Tiktok to be beaten to a pulp, as the local SHO, hard and heavy of hand, makes him explain how Tiiktok works. Comments No comments yet. Be the first to join the discussion!