1. Ground facilities in India - The only ground that "respects" spectators is Mohali, the others are a ground, a fence and giant concrete steps inverted on top of each other. Frankly, You wont really fault the Indian crowd for rioting etc if you give regard to the torture they've been put to by the Cricket Administrators. When the team also adds to that, it crosses the Boiling point.
2. Dew in day night matches - That has been a real show-dimmer for a long time now amd is said to give the chasing teams an unfair advantage by mitigating "spin". There are scientific methods now available to counter the effect of dew on the ball.
3. Stop giving "Karodes (crores)" to "Quick-bang-thank-you-maam" performances. The orgy of this orgy reached its climax when Yuvraj Singh was awarded a whole Rs. 1 Crore ($2.5 Mio) for slogging 6 sixes in that 20-20 competition. Agreed, it was entertainment, fun. But what value it added to cricket? OK, put another way, what value it added than Kumble's record 600 wicket one-man act on bat friendly conditions? Or Tendulkar's untiring 25 K plus International runs which is the single most important factor for why Indian Cricket is where it is today, in terms of wealth as well as performance, atleast battingwise? It's like the beggining of the Dotcom Boom. Tons of Bucks. Dunno how to Spend. So throw. Warning. Some of these will rebound as real bricks in the near future.
4. Tendulkar bashing - Media's favorite sport after selectors-lynching on the Ganguly issue. He's taken as the remaining pin to be felled in the way of a "resurgent" India. Yet the "yet-wet-behind-the-ears" team take refuge behind him nuder a crisis or a tough stage. Still accounts for a ton of runs in ODIs, and performed like a champ in the Test matches Down Under. Harby who averaged almost his average in the bowling dept gets more newsprint. But the old man never sulks. In the ODIs, bit of bad luck. hit wicket, inside edge, bad LBW, and suddenly the critics are at him, "Chuck him like the way you chucked Ganguly, Oh Selectors" "The elephant in the room noone wants to talk about". "Underperformer in the Finals" (Lolz, he had at that time an avg of 49 in finals, now 52). Simple thing, the media no more sees Sachin as a human being."It" is a machine, "bound" to make runs, "under all conditions", against all teams, with no riders attached. Bit of extreme worship becoming hate.
Because the Sri Lankans refused to shake hands after Aust. won the tri-series in Aust. earlier that year
