Cricket---- Our Passion

Go thru it...These are not my words....but I have the same feeling, the auther of this article has...

23rd March this day brought an end to India’s world cup campaign, 2 days of bad cricket, lack of high level concentration and application, surmount pressure, few great deliveries, lady luck totally against us are some of the factors which caused us this state.I’m a fan of Sachin, and I admire him as a great batsman, but I don’t know whether someone would have scolded more than I did when he got out that night..though it was a good delivery, he should have played it, and if a man who had played 384 matches couldn’t handle the pressure then who can?…Sachin should take the responsibility for this followed by Ganguly(whats the need to play vaas like that?), and comes poor dravid who should have been a lot more aggressive and thought provoking to players and as a captain he should take the responsibility as he should have pulled up the players like what ganguly did last time !!! Some stringe action should be taken against the players, Dravid can be asked to step down(any way he’ll do it by his own), ganguly and sachin can be given severe warning, cut down match fees etc etc, and a reshuffle in the rest of the team etc…but I think these three players have got more punishment than what they deserved…..

Happenings of the last 2-3 days have made me feel bad more than what I felt when india lost……..the things which I saw, read,listened, over-heard have made me ponder that do people are really civilized ? Yes, I do accept that the above mentioned trio[ who were the main reason for even daily wage workers to become cricket fans by their play in the past years(Sachin in particular)] have committed a blunder, dark days in their life, but dark days are part of every human being..they are also human beings I suppose. I do accept the people representing say half of the billion populations should not commit this blunder, but I just throw a question to the so called social minded media and and the so called real patriotic people who want these players head to be chopped off along with their families, do you have the same feeling and aggression (which you have for just a game) in all anti-public events happening around our country??

Just wanted to quote some things friends- the famous news channels which boast about their telecast -right from india’s loss have been conducting polls, viz. what can be done to the Indian team ? where do u feel that Indian team is heading to ? etc etc and one of the famous answers they got respectively were “can be given saadis to wear and asked to cook food at home!!” “ Can ask them to go straightaway to graveyard with their familes !! “… aren’t they ashamed to increase the BRB ratings by this!! Friends, is this what you do if your near or dear face a failure in his/her life ?……… I can strongly tell that out of the 1 billion population the most saddest will be those 11 players… no one will like to lose on any game for that matter…… If u feel that cricket is more than a game and it’s a part of our life, then aren’t the players your family members? Is this what you do if one of your family member is depressed ? those who have watched closely the faces of dravid, Sachin n co in the final moments of the match, would have seen the distress in their face…….. Not a single news channel is an exception.. starting from Sun News to Times Now.. they want to make money out of every minute of India’s loss.. what a sadistic nature !! They are interviewing agitated public, and the words which come out of them scolding the players’ family members(though it was muted, we could guess how cruel the words were!) made me feel really sorry for these players who because of these 2 bad days(which they will never forget in their life) are now facing greatest humiliation !!!….they say these players play for just money and the funniest part of it that the above statement comes out the news channel who closely cover burnt down bodies of infants and telecast for money!!! If these guys have patriotism to their peak, they should have conducted a poll – Is the present govt doing good to people? Sms your views, we’ll telecast uncensored sms by you as we do for cricket !! will they ?………..

will they conduct a poll- should Laloo be suspended and asked to sit at home for his corruption? Neither they will conduct a poll like that and nor a person will send sms “will ask Laloo to wear saadi”..they know that’ll be their end… …… Coming to tamilnadu’s news channel, everyone knows abt them.. when heavy rain lashed the city few years back, they asked the public to say “ivvalvu mazhai peyudhu, indhamma adhai onnum thadukka maatengudhu ? “..such is the state of them…. They were interviewing TV personalities, crap directors, past heroes for their views on Indian team ..goddamn I seriously ponder how worse media has become which was once the key for India’s freedom struggle ! One cinema director P Vasu who had directed crap movies so far says “ Indians don’t know how to play.. in the first 15 overs no fielder will be outside and they should have used that….tendulkar should be asked to sit at home.. dravid should be given punishment “ …. Gautham a local dancer, who shows his face time n again in tv serials says –“ if I would have played there, I would have done better… tendulkar n dravid should be ashamed of themselves”………… I donno her name, a tv serial artist and an item number dancer in cinema says “ I cant believe this… tendulkar should sit at home “………… enna kodumai nga idhu…… yaaru yaaru public statement kudukradhu nu oru vivasthai venaama? If they are like that interviews of sadagoppan Ramesh and murali karthik were even more funny . “I think its time for Sachin n ganguly to sit at home… they donno to play” says Ramesh.. murali karthik says “ they should have applied themselves”…….

Even we don’t have such a poor memory and we know how Ramesh and Murali kartik had played.. what to do- “yaanai kuzhi kulla vizhundha, ohnaai kooda yetti paarkumaam! “ Also was hearing the senseless radio channels… one guy just plays the interview of dravid before the start of world cup where he says we’ll do our best to bring the WC and then after that he plays the song “vaarthai thavari vittaai kannamma maarbu thudikkuthadi…….. “ ! great patriotism.. will he play our CM’s pre election talks and play the same song ?? he knows dravid or Sachin wont hire gangsters to finish him off !!! All these radio channels for just making money are making humiliation of these wounded players to the maximum extent !!! Coming to the so called patriotic people who owing to sheer patriotism are burning refugees of players, slapping them with chapels, abusing them and their familes with pure bad words in public televisions, staging protests etc etc.. I have a question for them too.. if you would have done the same things against cruel politicians( who have the fate of our life in their hands comparing to cricket which is just a game) atleast half of what you are doing here, India would have been a country what the poor man Mr.APJ still believes will become in 2020, by now itself ! Even my own personal example, I found that one of my close friend had tried to speak to me just after sachin’s dismissal that night(though I had slept then) to just tell me “what abt your sachin da? Have failed today also ? vetkama illai “ as if I’m sachin’s brother… isn’t he our Sachin who has played his heart out for 17 years for country….. do u take the failure as time to make fun of people ?...the same Sachin who was god to people when he played well, now has become a shit is it?

Coming by the argument “money”, I just want to take the trio as an example again… Sachin is 34 now, and has spent nearly 27 years of his life to cricket, and he still wants to play for country.. do u think that he wants money/fame/name/ records so that he wants to play?? He has got these more than anyone in this country ! And this hasn’t come over single day.. started to play cricket with bleeding nose and fought for a draw in late teen ages, he has come over a long way…. take the case of ganguly.. this royal guy, was thrown out of team at 32 and fought his way back into team by 34! Do u think he needs more money, and so he came to play !! Are you people talking sense ? Same with the case of Dravid ! These three have records which very few in cricket can have! We should cherish them !! They had 2 bad days, which have caused them to great humiliation of their life ! They say they acted in ads and got crores! Why did pepsi gave so much money coz it wanted to beat coco cola !! It is the sponsors and advertisers who make them rich so much and not the players who go towards them for money… Why did Sony lose 500 crores, coz they bid so much for their own good coz espn-star was waiting with 450 crores……. Money , money, money ! I couldn’t imagine that this single world have even made professionals and literates to think uncivilzed !!!

Coming to present debate of sacking these trios from the team and pick the domestic players !!! Can anyone deny the fact that the selected team wasn’t the best team available ! Murali kartik says “tamilnadu players should have been given chance, and that would have made India perform better in this world cup”… if TN players are best then why can’t they win the national level tournaments ? Why is that Mumbai alone wins 40 times?…. Kaif’s coach now shouts at the top of his voice that if kaif had played he would have done very well…. We all know how many chances kaif was given… the bad thing that its not that we lacked potentials, but surmount pressure n obvious reasons gave 2 bad days of cricket, which brought the end of campaign !! Everyone shouts now to sack Sachin, dravid, n ganguly from team.. can anyone think of a ODI/Test line up without these players right now…. Since it will be last few years of their cricket, sensible thing will be to groom young players around these three for the future.. sacking all of a sudden all these players would put as way down the barrel and its meaningless totally! Now, BCCI should appoint people to go and search talents in the streets of India coz the whole domestic set up should change, and these 15 players are the best among all domestic players no doubt……. Accepted, we didn’t play well, we had a bad tournament and that’s not the end of it… 1987 champs Aussies crashed out of first round in 1992, so as SL in 1999… any team, any person, can have a bad patch.. now it’s the turn of our team….

i repeat OUR TEAM !! is it not our duty to back them ? rather than shouting/making fun at the hour of failure out of pidity/emotions or whatever….. The ironical part is even former players couldn’t understand that. Kapil now scolds the team at his best. Can’t kapil remember just few months after winning the world cup WI toured India and went away with 5-0 white wash in both forms of cricket !! Doesn’t he know that ODI cricket is just playing good cricket on that particular day !! This trio is capable and deserve holding the cup ! Iam afraid that owing to foolish protests all over country if the three resign now, it will be a worst end to three illustrious careers. They have the capability to play more cricket, groom fresh talents and leave them for future which they will do in the recent future. Please allow them to do ! End of road to WC 2007, is not the end of everything !!!

Please treat cricket as a game and cricketers as human beings !! Don’t treat them as GODS when they win and please don’t treat them as SHITS when they lose ! Iam a fan of cricket not a fanatic and I wrote this blog to just express my views on humanitarian grounds ! I’m sure that I didn’t pen all that I have wanted but owing to length I finish it. It’s the moment of failure for the famous Indian Cricket, now its our turn to support the players and back them to come out of depression and do well in the future and not by sending mails/messages by scolding and making fun of already wounded hearts(of both players and fans) !!!I just finish this blog with a statement representing all those who support and back hearts of their near and dear in the moment of failure and depression-“Its history that you didn’t play well, didn’t apply yourselves and the dreams have been shattered! Bad days are part of life and it can be made a good day if we learn the mistakes from those. Hope you learn them. This failure can very well be the beginning of a new era of a formed/moulded Indian team, and our support is there for you ! Iam a fan of the game called cricket and above all iam a human being who tries to understand others feeling ! Wishing Indian Cricket that it regains its lost pride and glory sooner!