Its a typical mentality that we drag down our heroes in favour of "foreign" ones. I have seen many people here dragging down Sachin & saying that Hansie was a greater player than Sachin. Not only in sports, but in real life too, we tend to idolize or patronize foreigners & are quick to drag down India & Indians.
For the sake of argument, lets assume that Sachin is mediocre batsman & India is a mediocre country. How can a mediocre batsman by any standards score 14,000 Test & 17,000 one-day runs, 49 Test & 46 one-day centuries & even a double century in a 50 over game even if he plays for 100 years? And how can a mediocre country become No. 1 in Test & No. 2 in one-day if its players are not good?
We Indians have to get out of the mentality that India is a mediocre country & Indians are not mediocre. We have to beleive in ourselves. We are not inferior to any country.
Re: Typical Mentality
by madanmohan siddhanthi on Nov 03, 2010 02:49 PM
See the other side - Politicians and film actors should be treated as Shi* and we treat them like gods .so do not worry we are what we are and do not need others to say about us.Like in peter sellers film " We Indians do not think what we are we know what we are "
Re: Typical Mentality
by Praveen M on Nov 03, 2010 02:48 PM
it si all becos of bcci politics.. u know which country wud hav made him play when he had series of bad patches in ckt. if u take for instance, lance klusnar was a terrific match winner but was dropped due to poor form for 1 yr. how many such period hav sachin not gone thru but bcci didnt drop him cos ppl like shastri, suny were hading the bcci & were making heroics comment abt him only to retain him in team & make money on his brand balue. Brand value sachin earned was fm this crooks how for a single run makes a big comment on TV. such is Ind politics & sports.
Its a typical mentality that we drag down our heroes in favour of "foreign" ones. I have seen many people here dragging down Sachin & saying that Hansie was a greater player than Sachin. Not only in sports, but in real life too, we tend to idolize or patronize foreigners & are quick to drag down India & Indians.
For the sake of argument, lets assume that Sachin is mediocre batsman & India is a mediocre country. How can a mediocre batsman by any standards score 14,000 Test & 17,000 one-day runs, 49 Test & 46 one-day centuries & even a double century in a 50 over game even if he plays for 100 years? And how can a mediocre country become No. 1 in Test & No. 2 in one-day if its players are not good?
We Indians have to get out of the mentality that India is a mediocre country & Indians are not mediocre. We have to beleive in ourselves. We are not inferior to any country.
Re: Typical Mentality
by kskumar on Nov 03, 2010 02:40 PM
Don't get excited about non entities writing under psuedonyms. A lot of people feel jealous about successful people and this is a human failing.
Let them be. Sachin certainly doesn't need any certificates from these people anyway.
Re: Re: Typical Mentality
by bharani dharan on Nov 03, 2010 07:15 PM
I don't agree with you. I don't patronize foreign players. But, I don't idiolize Sachin. Sachin is playing for 20 Years as a batsman. On an average if we take he scores 500 runs per year it accounts to 10,000. So, his record stands more in numbers. Please, do not show me the statistics of MOM etc. He is not a finisher unfortunately.
When everything has been settled down what is the sense in raising this dead issue again.No sensible would ever do this.Have pity on you Gibbs?This should be lesson to all upcoming Traitors that he should be totally condemned and banned for life from Cricket.
Re: Traitor Judaschelle Gibbs
by Praveen M on Nov 03, 2010 02:51 PM
dont u follow IPL. he is indierctly telling that IPL & all matches can be easily fixed & u dumb ppl sit whole day watching matches & doing nthg
To survive in todays world,honesty is the worst policy. Cricket is no exception. Fixing or no fixing,we know that cricket is no longer about the nation,it is not even a profession,yet we indians are mad about cricket!
Re: Yet another example of Sachin collecting hundreds for records
by mohammad haque on Nov 03, 2010 02:28 PM
In 2003 Who pave the path for india to enter in final. Go and search. Any one can made a mistake. It was a huge total 350 which needs to chased and that was very tough in that era. That pressure makes him to take charge and take risk. In that risk you may or may not pass.
Re: Point 2 be noted
by sonam kapoor on Nov 03, 2010 02:10 PM
I did not understand what you are trying to say. Do you man that after Mcgrath retired anyone scoring runs against Australia has no value ? Or this only applies to Sachin ?