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***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13
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SJS
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Come on !! After writing an eminently sensible post you say this. :o)
Burgey
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I blame the carbon tax.
Spikey
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thats no way to talk about a guy with such a great commentary career
Satyanash89
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silentstriker
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Hahahaha. THey should score another 100 now. Morons. That's what happens when you decide to be luddites.
SJS
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No country in the world would have dropped either of Ashwin of Ojha but there are forces at work in India . . . Bhajji will be a candidate til he announces his retirement or is completely off all ads and all sponsors payrolls . . .
This is no conspiracy theory. These are hard facts on the ground and Indian fans need to understand these. Look back over the last two decades and see which cricketers get dropped more easily and need just a small blip (some times none) in their consistency to be shown the door . . . and which continue to play since they are always "just one performance away" from coming back to sparkling form . . .
Its not just about the dropping of guys like Ojha but the way some of the "stars" are hyped by all the commentators on BCCI's payrolls (remember where the money comes from into BCCI coffers) without exception. There is no 'freedom of speech' for BCCI commentators and a tendency to "breach the code of conduct" with impunity can mean the end of the lucrative assignments these ex cricketers have that earn them many times the money they made in their entire cricketing careers.
The sad bit is not that this is happening, for one expects no better from an organisation where money (not Sachin silly) is God, but that the average Indian fan actually forms his opinion based on the daily drumming of the same 'propaganda' from these cricket experts - be it on merits/demerits of individual players or on UDRS.
The odd writer like Pradeep Magazine, brilliant writer on the game that he continues to be, is relegated to writing the odd column as an independent scribe. The Gavaskars, Shastris and Bhogles get the choicest writing assignments as well.
What the Indian fan needs to do, for himself, is to think independently and cogently on the game but how does one do that . . . you tell me . . . One possibility is to read the top cricket writers on the game from other countries. many of them cover an Indian series even when their own countries are not playing as opposition. But then we (Indian fans) will probably run them down as "biased goras" the moment they say a word against an Indian player or the Indian cricket structure . . .
Even Wasim speaks and writes taking great care not to affect our Indian sensibilities. If we are going to be so sensitive to 'home truths' being told to us - all we are going to get is what we want to hear and that is a recipe for disaster . . .
This is no conspiracy theory. These are hard facts on the ground and Indian fans need to understand these. Look back over the last two decades and see which cricketers get dropped more easily and need just a small blip (some times none) in their consistency to be shown the door . . . and which continue to play since they are always "just one performance away" from coming back to sparkling form . . .
Its not just about the dropping of guys like Ojha but the way some of the "stars" are hyped by all the commentators on BCCI's payrolls (remember where the money comes from into BCCI coffers) without exception. There is no 'freedom of speech' for BCCI commentators and a tendency to "breach the code of conduct" with impunity can mean the end of the lucrative assignments these ex cricketers have that earn them many times the money they made in their entire cricketing careers.
The sad bit is not that this is happening, for one expects no better from an organisation where money (not Sachin silly) is God, but that the average Indian fan actually forms his opinion based on the daily drumming of the same 'propaganda' from these cricket experts - be it on merits/demerits of individual players or on UDRS.
The odd writer like Pradeep Magazine, brilliant writer on the game that he continues to be, is relegated to writing the odd column as an independent scribe. The Gavaskars, Shastris and Bhogles get the choicest writing assignments as well.
What the Indian fan needs to do, for himself, is to think independently and cogently on the game but how does one do that . . . you tell me . . . One possibility is to read the top cricket writers on the game from other countries. many of them cover an Indian series even when their own countries are not playing as opposition. But then we (Indian fans) will probably run them down as "biased goras" the moment they say a word against an Indian player or the Indian cricket structure . . .
Even Wasim speaks and writes taking great care not to affect our Indian sensibilities. If we are going to be so sensitive to 'home truths' being told to us - all we are going to get is what we want to hear and that is a recipe for disaster . . .
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Jono
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India always appeal excessively to be fair. For like, 3 decades.
Satyanash89
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Umpire of the year? Umpire of the year
hendrix
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I dunno what the definition used on this forum is but do you not think that this is a pitch designed to turn more than even the standard Indian pitch?