Guys, I just want to have a small comparison between Sri Lanka and its nearest state in India, Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu's population (2001) : 62,405,679 Sri Lanka's population : 20,222,240
Even in geographical area Tamil Nadu is bigger than Sri Lanka. Whatever statistics I try to compare, Tamil Nadu has an edge over Sri Lanka. But what I don't understand is if Sri Lanka can have a cricket team of international standard, statistically Tamil Nadu should also have a team of international standard. There are so many other states in india which can beat these statistics easily and everyone of them should have a cricket team of international standard.
It is pretty funny that we compare our Indian team with Sri Lankan team and some concluding that Sri Lankans and Indians are almost equal in cricket or Sri Lankans are more stronger or weaker.. Guys, don't u think something is wrong here? Shouldn't we sort of kick a***s in all the games?
Say if a guy like Jayasurya is like one in a million. Then we should have 10 Jayasurya's in the team. Awesome man. Same can be applied for the Australian team as well. Even if we can pick the best man from every state, we should have 2 teams of awesome standard. Where are these guys? Do we have just 1 sehwag, sachin, saurav, dravid in India?
I think sports in india is pretty much ****** up by politicians. (Everyone knows this, so what is the point? hmmm)
I think we are like puppets. Who ever the selectors select, we just blindly support them. And we are comparing them with a team like Sri Lanka, whose population can barely match Kerala's population. What should be done guys? Is it how we do things?
I think one way to increase the standard of Indian cricket or any other sports in India for that matter is to change people's mindset to concentrate on domestic competitions. I am happy that we forget all our differences and cheer for Indian team, but is it the real Indian team? Is it the team which represents India? It might represent the BCCI or Corporate Houses's Team, but surely it is not my team. You know the worst thing of all? We dun have a bowler who can bowl more than 150 kmph. Of course it is not mandatory or necessary to have a bowler like that, we just need line and length etc etc, but the truth is we couldnt find one.
I would like to rephrase the last line, Is it "we couldn't find one" or "we didn't see one"? I'm sure there should be millions of guys out there.
As I said before, ppl should encourage the domestic games and matches and the Sponsors should start supporting these matches. I think then, the ppl will know atleast some more great names within our India, and more cricketers can earn a livelyhood with this game, rather than a few who play in the Indian Team. This should be done in other games as well, especially in hockey and soccer as we are very pathetic in that. Any other suggestions? What u guys think?
