In India some people still suffer the quota or regionalistic attitude when it comes to cricket. Tamil players not selected or Mumbai players being preferred when a Mumbai skipper was captain kinda talks are so common in India. Cynicism and jingoism are at its best when cricket is being discussed in India. Everybody knows the game more than the selectors and the poor jokers are always trampled by the so called experts.
Unfortunately this age REGIONALISM doesnt hold any place in Indian cricket. Dilip Vengsarkar tried to do it but he wasnt successful. Srikanth tried to stuff in his Tamil players in the team but nobody succeeded. Badrinath was automatic replacement for every injured player in 2008 in Srikanth era as was Rohit Sharma during Vengsarkar era. Chennai, Mumbai.
Why do we need to give regional boundaries to CRICKET in India. It stumps me. And then few jingoist bloggers who blindly support a team and trample others (Mumbai supported, others trashed) leave a bad taste in the mouth. Sourav Ganguly changed the mindset of the Indian cricketing setup, unforutnately the public mindset couldnt be changed.
Mantra according to me is perform and earn your place. Doesnt matter if you hail from Mumbai or Morena or Madurai or Delhi or Dehradun or Andaman...Jingoism, cynicism and regional feudal mindset just doesnt have any place in modern day Indian cricket. The days of Raj are over and so are feudal days.
No wonder supporting the pan Indian mindset has shooed away all the commenters on this blog. Regionalism wins. Go find blogs which whine on Mumbai or Tamil Nadu, they would have all comments, not this one. Fuck who bothers about comments.
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Sam,
Why is it that, when you can make perfectly sound and well reasoned arguments ( vide the Rohit Sharma post) that you choose to be shrill and harangue about everything under the sun?
There is this post, there was a previous post on Mumbai and then there was a post directed at me - none of which actually increase the substance of the argument you were making but rather, paint you as a flamer.
Which is unfortunate, imho.
Cheers,
Cheers,
Thats cos i detest jingoism and cynicism. the way you paint other teams in lesser light bothers me. Nothing personal against you, but then cricket is never specific to a city or region...
If you think me as a flamer, fair enough, i dont mind that. But look at few of the comments on your blog esp that of Raj and Prabhu. Aint they disturbing? Aint they coated with super regional content ?
What would you term that? non flamer? If so then may be i would need to say you are biased.
I do remember you had a fight with a delhi based blogger cos you had almost trashed Delhi when they lost the Nissar Mohd trophy to Pakistan team. Didnt you?
You trash everything which is Aussie n not Mumbai. Isnt that flamer? Aint your posts directed anti Aussie?
When you can tolerate cynicisms of Appam just cos he sent off Hayden, then i get a picture the argument lacks off your blog too.
when you say let us show who we are and why we are for a Gujju owner's IPL team for a marwadi owned cricket tamasha, doesnt it sound like a war cry something which RT in your esteemed Mumbai city gives against everything non Mumbaikar?
This are few of instances which bother me. So i put forth my views. And you should not bother about me Homer, many people read me but they dont find my content worth commenting, but they do it on urs if even u write fuck fuck fuck and call a good winning team Dhakkans....
I am not a flamer sir, i dont wildly support a team just cos i hail from that city. for me cricketing strength matters. And if thats in a team from manipur, then i would support it too.
All this instances out of your blog paint a different picture than what you paint here with Mumbai colors, unfortunately they dry out too soon like the impact of dibbly dobblies of Nayar, Raje and Kulkarni and of course Mr Dilip Vengsarkar!!
Thanks for taking pains to visit my 2 blogs.
You are welcome to your arguments Sam. Good luck.
Cheers,
Sam, I dint wanna commen' her, ya bayba. But makinna exepshun.
Who are the players who bag? Badri, Sreesanth, Mahela, Sanga - where do they come from?
Is there a pattern there? Do you want to examine your pan-Indian soul before advising others?
Never mind, I am sure you didnt even understand my point in Homer's blogs. I am sure Homer did and that is why we have sane arguments, and that is why Homer gets so many comments. If you can understand that, you'll get many, too. Bye, you have a great side bar there - I use it to navigate to latest posts in blogs. Thanks for that. Appreciate it.
"Who are the players who bag"
Read it as
"Who are the players you bag"
thank god raj and homer, i dont have space for regional jingoism and cynicism on Arm Ball. and i dont write for comments either. Neither i need to have short vision to think within the borders of the state or city.
Good luck for your expedition to get some Badri or Anna from Chennai in team who cannot even hold bat or ball!!
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