This days there are 2 cricketers who are targeted bhery bhery much across the blogs. And they happen to be 2 captains of the teams. And those 2 teams are the finalists of the 2007 world cup. Australia and Sri Lanka. I am critic of Mahela Jaywardhena, so much so that Damith termed me as “riled up school boy” on calling MJ blabba king. He might be a good batsman or a good skipper, but his repetitive comments piss me off. Ok there are good players, some new players, some old players in the team who fail or deliver in a given match or series. Going blind over the performance even if it’s against a minnow and calling it of highest order is ridiculous. For me he sounds more like Amar Singh of Samajwadi Party, the political group famous for absorbing big Bollywood film stars in its lineup.
Second one who is being criticized across blogs is Ricky Ponting. I admire him. Poor guy has been under fire from all ends. He is unable to cope up with the sudden attention in the negative way bestowed on him. Ok there are few well known critics for Ponting, Homer and JRod along with Damith one of them. Nobody goes and says them “riled up school boy”. But why me ? I criticize Pakistan, I m judged, when I criticize SL for being a minnow basher, I am judged.
But guys like Damith, when they say huge things about some fabulous Indian players like Ganguly and Kumble who were triggered to the retirements after that painful Lankan test tour, they feel they have right to say anything they can. And if they feel so to say they feel, I hold the same right. After all free speech counts for something.
“Arm ball came here and predicted a whitewash, using his favorite line of the ‘minnow bashing’ team going to get a taste of their own medicine. He hasn’t been seen around these parts since the 2nd match”.
Dude, I was away on the long weekend and net connectivity wasn’t as frequent as I was with my family, so I didn’t visit too many blogs. Don’t worry, I d be there if you miss me so much. But I m not biased. I try to see the game from my eye and eyes vision differ.
And sour grapes aint for me dude. If you bank on the series record wins for your team after India defeat, then let me remind you that 3 of those wins are against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. And let me not remind you the manner in which they have come. Contrast that to the Indians. They are afresh after a 5-0 win over Poms in ODIs and 3 Test wins over Aussies and Poms in the best of the season for them ever since I can remember. Going through a home season undefeated is hugely a big thing yeah ? And then we don’t have blabba kings in the lineup. Yeah there is a Bhajji to an extent, but then barring his M comments and slap to Sreesanth, he is not as loose speaker than few others. Yes I can compare Sreesanth to MJ, but then who needs Sreesanth anymore ?
India hasn’t chip chopped the bowling attack in last one year or so in both forms of the game unless its been injury reasons. Ishant and Zaheer now form the crux of bowling attack in both forms and unless one of them is rested for the heavy workload, no reason why they won’t form the best of the new ball pair for India after Srinath and Prasad did it for brief duration in 1996 – 97.
Fingers crossed, I m tensed for the outcome of the game tomorrow. If India wins, then we were fresh, if we lose, we are rusty, Blabba King gets more hyper and more pressure on “dirty players”.
But then Indians aint a good starters when they come from long break (1 month here though). So maybe I have claimed them to be underdogs.
