Cevno
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That was Chennai mate, and the southern Indian crowds are still gun in general. The Pakistan team would still get applauded there i think after such a match if there was one, but would not have then say in a Mumbai,. Delhi or a Ahmedabad. And i think it is the same in Pakistan too from region to region and there is where the animosity arises between the 2 countries moreso too but that is a different issue.Yeah, i was at the ground for that QF, and i tried my best to applaud as hard as i could, but yeah indian crowds are terrible in that they abuse foreign players as much as australian crowds do, in some cases far worse, like the symonds monkey chants in vadodara, which is my hometown. I was at the ground in that game and it was pretty much my most embarassing experience ever... i felt ashamed to be a barodian that day
but when an opposition player scores a hundred, very few actually applaud him, which isnt the case in most other countries. In australia, atleast when tendulkar, laxman, etc score hundreds, they get really warm ovations.
Indian and in general, asian crowds are generally less appreciative than others, i agree with that completely. Its sad because it wasnt always the case, the 1999 chennai test being the prime example... how good was that?
Northern crowds are generally most rowdy (ask IPL cheerleaders) , the western ones in Mumbai and Ahmedabad tend to be more patriotic and mixed(Ahmedabad more patriotic in that sense than Mumbai), while in Kolkatta they are more concerned about their regional identity, then game of cricket and then the Indian team. Southern ones have the most knowledgeable from the start, especially the test cricket crowds.
Another couple of points -
1)Like every other country the players who are liked get applauded here in India too, like Murali, Gilchrist or Lee for example. Murali in particular gets applauded even when he went to field at the boundary during IPL. Warne was a favortie in Jaipur too. Maybe the test crowds being less in numbers these days also reduces the applause levels as a result in particular on TV.
2)And there are rotten apples everywhere who boo and even abuse players. What happened with Ponting and particularly Symonds was bad but it isn't something that is restricted to India. As i said see Gavaskar, Monty Panesar,Kohli,Harbhajan or Murali in Australia. The disliked players for whatever reason, justified or not tend to be the target of this the most.
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