IMHO apart from the talent the Aussie success of Australia is greatly the way media and crowd reacts in other countries when the Aussies take a dig at the player.
Every time a country tours to Australia the media will start attacking the visiting team. When Srilanka travels, Media has articles about his action, When India travels, they talk about age of the team or Sachin vs Lara contraversy and When Pak travels it is Shoaib/Asif's action and so on.
Why can't our media ask Australian captain about the 20/20 loss or If Gilchrist (after first few 1-days) is feeling the heat because of Haddin and so on. Instead we focus if Saurav was dropped or sat out because of injury. The Media is over critical on our players. I don't condone racial abuse of fans, but I think our fans getting on their heads is OK.
Our Media is too soft on visiting teams and go all out to bring our team further down when they are down. Unless this changes, we cannot beat a team like Australia and we will help them win.
RE:Indians taunting foreigners as monkeys....
by JM on Oct 17, 2007 01:33 PM
Besides, Aussies sledge their own teammates not to mention Breast-cancer survivor McGrath's wife. They made fun of a NZ batsman on the death of his sister in a train accident.
I think it would be impossible to break the world record of irony set by Aussies telling Indians how to behave on the field.
If you want more, it is for a reason that people in Aus are in Aus. They were gangsters, goons, thugs, hos, murderers, rapists who were banished from England to a far off land where they wouldnt bother the rest of the world.
RE:Indians taunting foreigners as monkeys....
by JM on Oct 17, 2007 01:27 PM
Why does Symonds gets riled up? That he has called a monkey and not an ape?
Atleast Indians dont wear that white lipstick stuff and matted making themselves look like a Frankenstein, a silverback and a grizzley had a 3some on Symonds face.
All sledging should be made illegal, and penalized by 5 runs to the opposing team, per sledge. The stump microphones should be turned up so every one in the field and TV can hear them. The other alternative is to take it to the limit, and the Indians can use all kinds of bad language on the opposing team... I think the former is better. The Aussies have their origins in convicts, so their behaviour is not surprising. It is time for the cricket world, the BCCI, and the English Cricket Association (whatever it is called) to step in and stop this peuerile behaviour altogether.
Very good analysis of the whole issue. The main points being 1. The indian CRicket authorities did not handle the racial slur problem well. All they had to do was to apologize to the player on behalf of Indians. The fact that some player was hurt was enough. The argument that Aussies are bigger racists is lame. Two wrongs do not make one right. You dont want to give any ammunition to the australian team to carry on their Psychological war. 2. Australian commentators like Chappal have multiple standards in judging other countries and their players. 3. Sreesanth needs to grow up big time needs serious grooming as to how to behave.
RE:good writers need of the hour...
by Smitesh Sundaran on Oct 17, 2007 11:46 AM
Please come up with a sensible line up if at all u are to come up with one.... thank god u r not the selector in chief......
RE:good writers need of the hour...
by cattamanchi chaitanya on Oct 17, 2007 12:53 PM
Good Team Dude , India can finish its batting in 20 overs , saving lot of Time for us
The Line says this'" Back to the Dileep piece: In message boards, you often see people cribbing about selfish players making inordinate amounts of money; nowhere, though, do you read a good word said for the time, and money, cricketers spend on various charitable causes. When I pointed this out to a friend, he suggested this was because the fans didn't know"
They do all these stuffs to escape from Income Tax budhu.... ;)
RE:Charity for What? Do you know that?
by anil babladi on Oct 17, 2007 12:06 AM
And what do you do? You do not even pay taxes. Then what different are you from them. They at least pay more than you.
RE:sree
by Raj on Oct 17, 2007 12:58 AM
If an Indian doesnt get support in India, where would he get it? in Africa? And if you arent supporting him, you are not a true Indian.
RE:sree
by Raj on Oct 17, 2007 01:32 AM
I wasnt talking about supporting bad behavior. I support an Indian no matter what he does when foreigners are up against him/her. Thats how I feel.
RE:sree
by CricFan01 on Oct 17, 2007 08:29 AM
You are contradicting yourself in the statement. On the one hand you say that you support and Indian no matter what he does and on the same token you are saying that are not talking about supporting bad behavior? In this situation Sreesanth's behavior is not only bad but irritating. In my opinion we have had enough of this Sreesanth distraction, so better kick him out for a while. Let him learn to bowl well consistently (not one or two balls per 4 overs) first and then do all this antics
