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IANS informs us<\/a> that cricket has been banned in a few villages in Haryana because, in the words of a panchayat head, “[t]his game is making the young boys go astray.”<\/p>\n

When will these old fogeys understand that drugs and rock & roll and cricket and sex and so on are all just red herrings. There’s just one thing that makes the youth “go astray.” And that is youth.<\/p>\n

That’s both sublime and tragic, but you can’t ban it, can you? Huh?<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Lalbadshah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IANS informs us<\/a> that cricket has been banned in a few villages in Haryana because, in the words of a panchayat head, “[t]his game is making the young boys go astray.”<\/p>\n

When will these old fogeys understand that drugs and rock & roll and cricket and sex and so on are all just red herrings. There’s just one thing that makes the youth “go astray.” And that is youth.<\/p>\n

That’s both sublime and tragic, but you can’t ban it, can you? Huh?<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Lalbadshah<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCricket banned as \u201cyoung boys go astray\u201d - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/cricket-banned-as-young-boys-go-astray\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cricket banned as \u201cyoung boys go astray\u201d - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IANS informs us that cricket has been banned in a few villages in Haryana because, in the words of a panchayat head, “[t]his game is making the young boys go astray.” When will these old fogeys understand that drugs and rock & roll and cricket and sex and so on are all just red herrings. 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