Sunday, March 25, 2007
Forgetting yesteryear
The defeat of the Indian cricket team at the hands of the minnows, Bangladesh, and against the more formidable Sri Lanka, has drawn the ire of its supporters. They have gone overboard in expressing their displeasure at the team’s defeat, by organizing mock funerals for the players, burning effigies of the players, raising slogans against the player etc. I ask all of us to take a turn back, and observe our own lives. How many times have we failed at attempts in the past? So many of these failures have come when people - our friends and our family- have expected something from us. Did these people go around burning our effigies or shouting torrents of abuse against us when we had failed? In fact, these were the times when they supported and encouraged us the most. Why the difference when it comes to the team’s loss? The team has accepted defeat gracefully. Now it is time for its supporters to accept gracefully that the players are also humans.
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yes anup...fans are those who stand by you when the bad times come...like the tifosi who stood by ferrari through those bad yrs...and we have to support the ppl who play for us...not show our disappointment in such frivolous activities....but one cannot but wonder that there are so many people in our country who for some odd reason have nothing better to do in life...the reason may lie within them or within india's political structure....
P.S.I am still sad that one does not find the same level of commitment from the indian team that one has come to expect from teams such as AUS and RSA who hit the stumps at any opportunity
So true Anutta- people forget that they are also human and just like us, they also tend to make errors. The difference here is that when we do mistakes its only our kith and kin who lose something - like money etc.But over here these players are paid so much (who is actually paying them) whether they win or loose that they ( at least a few of them) stop bothering about their game.I'am sure that if their pay was directly proportional to the scores they made and if they were stopped from taking up any ads then they would have more time and energy to concentrate on their game.And one ore thing- it is not just this once that we have lost,Actually we have more loses than wins.
I don'e agree in the way that Indians reacted( by burning effegies) but then all this is what one in limelight has to accept.
Cricket is a religion here Anup. The Gods are failed. We lack the killer instinct. Watching any other match in this WC tells that. For slow over rate a captain lost the place in team. He has been hunted for that. He with the former coach made a winning team, won a Test series in Pak and many other. Writing about cricket cant be done in a few words. Just this much.
Vinayaraj V R
Hey Anup... i completely agree with what u had writeen in ur blog...u shouldn't burn effigies and all dat it's way too much...but...imagine in a country of 1 billion people where no sport is allowed to grow just because it's eaten up everyone's head...With so much support...lucrative offers and plenty of infrastructure and talent... Why aren't they producing the results the people expect them to..? The reasons are:
1. When the Austrlian team is busy planning their next strategy our players are busy sigining endorsement contracts...A day will ome some day when instead of joining the IIM's or other reputed B-schools u can easily get a degree in Advertising and Marketing by joining the Indian team :D ...after all de pay is good.. ;)
2. People expect too much from them...you know people should be realistic...i never expected them to cross de first round...
Maybe it's time people started realising there's something called soccer...Tennis...Hockey etc...If India starts organising their infrastructure properly and give their support to those talented athelete's whose talents remain untapped...India could achieve anything...If a small country like Australia can do it why not us...?
Rupesh Nair
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