For many of my friends amd myself the decision to ban Azhar from cricket appeared to be a politically motivated one just before he was about to become the first person to score 10,000 runs in one day cricket. He was the most succesful captain of the Indian cricket Team despite many in the team not liking him and not cooperating with him. Team India was not as coherent during his time as it is now. All of us know that he gave his best for the country during his tenure and was the best palyer of the team interms of fitness and fielding not to speak of batting. Injustice done to him and others cannot be rectified but their acheivements atleast can be rewarded and BCCI should start paying the pension to all those on whom the ban was imposed like it does to other players.
In a match where hundreds of crores are at stake , just by dropping a few vital catches , the ISI operation for years can be funded. It is a tragedy that Azharuudin was not arrested under POTA. To leave him now will be as suicidal as leaving Afzal. Politics and minority appeasement can go to any extent in this country. So Manoj Prabhakar , who opened it up is guilty and Azharuddin is being honourably acquited. GOD SAVE INDIA FROM POLITICS
RE:The Shame Of Azhar
by Atif on Oct 21, 2006 03:07 AM
Hi rajiv upadhyaya People like you are responsible for evergrowing differences between people of two community. May be its time for this generation t retify whatever happened in the past. So plsssss stop bull shitting and work for building new prosperous INDIA. Atif
RE:The Shame Of Azhar
by Amjad Ansari on Oct 20, 2006 08:19 PM
When board ban Azhar, he had said that he was targetted because of his religion. At that time it looked like he was playing minority card, even myself, at that time I felt like but now it seems it was a conspiracy against Azhar. Except Azhar all are banned for some time. For people like rajivupadhyay every justice to minority people seems like appeasemt. "To leave him now will be as suicidal as leaving Afzal" this sentence shows how biased he is against Azhar and Muslims. If he is not guilty then Azhar should sue the Board for the damages for his honour and his reutation . I kindly request BCCI to give Azhar a chance to play for India and hope whe would play better than any other current player.
BCCI has at last woke up regarding Azhar's issue.Body showed very irresponsible justice.They have ruined great player and successful captain in history of indian cricket.
I am not aware how they going to justify Azhar ,and also what faith current and future players of indian team will have on board.
Why do you guys give unnecessary publicity to people like Lele. Was'nt he the same person who had shamelessly predicted that India would lose the series 3-0 against Australia ?
Lele now displays the blatant North-South Bias in the great Indian Cricket Tamasha, that players and administrators have had to bear. How convenient of him to have forgotten the farce that Azhar and Jadeja used to create by running 1) if both were there, either of themselves out or spoon a catch to cover, or 2) if Sachin and others were around, try utmost and run them out at a crucial juncture.... we have seen this too many times in the mid 90s to call it a coincidence. And oh, Mr. Lele what about all the damning evidence that Messrs Bahal and Mehta use to dish out fairly often in Outlook about the fixing, rigging, betting scandals with fresh evidence each time? Suppose he was buried in too deep thought to have heard the media and public crying themselves hoarse about the scandal. Mr. Muthiah did what was best possible in the circumstance. In retrospect, if Lele feels like dragging some Madarasi's *** in the media, then let's divide the cricketing circle into two teams for India Team 1 for the Mumbai/Delhi crowd and Team 2 for South of the Vindhyas and Bengal (yes, Dada will be the captain). Where is Balaji, Zaheer, Sreeshanth. Balaji and Sree are fit to start.
RE:How convenient
by Raj R on Oct 20, 2006 11:21 PM
Dude, have you ever palyes competent cricket? if yes u have to know that one or two players cant fix the match. so shut the **** up
RE:How convenient
by sri on Oct 20, 2006 09:05 PM
Hello Dr.Navin, Nobody says that match fixing didn't exist. Everybody is referring only to the difference in the magnitude of punishment dished out to others who were equally involved and Azhar. In my opinion, other players at that time (no matter how celebrated they were and treated as paragons of virtue now) would have had a hand in this fixing and Azhar was made the scapegoat. Further, the north-south divide certainly exists as you said. If you think about it, players from the south are slowly being pushed out!!!
