Cricket Virus
Posted by Jerry on 14:58 - January 28, 2008
A game that is nowhere gets a whole page of news. A foreign Tennis player gets half a page when he is victorious. Yet the Indian pair of Bhupathi and Sania just gets less than quarter a page. They represented India, and they were beaten in the finals. If we can create a huge fuss about Indian cricket loosing then we can celebrate their near title miss. I have no idea. Leave all that how many knew that they made it to the finals of the mixed doubles at Australian Open
Over the days i have come to hate Cricket. It has become the single most inappropriate game that the Indians pursue these days. Its no less than a masala flick from a skimpy clad bollywood actress. There is nothing that you can define which is worth to be defined as memorable or a truly historic. I can hear people shout out what about the win at Perth? What about the lack of sportsmanship that was displayed by the mighty Aussies. I say damn all that. It was all as good as the wardrobe malfunction at fashion shows - you got to see something that you generally don’t see.
A racist remark, umpiring errors, a whole nation roars against that, a dramatic decision by the governing body, gentleman behavior by the captain - i’m asking do we need all these hype. Do we need cricket to survive. With cricket we no longer consider our neighbor as the arch rival anymore, its an island, miles south. The nation is celebrating victories and is doing injustice to other sports.
I dont care if the team loses or wins. The media makes sure that news reaches me even if i dont want to read it. Its in the front page of every news paper, flash news on TV. get out on the road, every one speaks about that, at work place the screens will have the score board open and local commentators shout out updates. I’m sick of this. Cant we just have some other sports take the center stage.
Does anyone care about what is happening to the other players. May be the media should dedicate time for other sports as well. At least report on the pitiable conditions of the other players. May be it should just avoid reporting in cricket. They are not GODs. They don’t deserve so much of attention.
Indians wake up, its just a game. F**K cricket. Its not really worthy of any praise now.
15:10 - January 28, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Its not cricket thats doing injustice to other sports. Its our attachment to it and its we’re not just attached to the players and their larger than life images, we just love the game and as long as its played, don’t quite feel the urge to follow any other sport.
Its something we should worry about? I think not. Lot of people in the country, enough to follow every sport in the world.
16:10 - January 28, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Of late i have started hating sports and tv…What has become is people spend time in front of idiot box for good for nothing sports. IN one part of the world or other there will be some sports event happening and these sports maniac will have all the access to all the television channels in the world showing the live telecast.
they will get absorbed into these and will not think about anything else in the world…