Re: STOP BARKING
by Mart Twain on Nov 28, 2012 04:51 PM
As far as success or rags to riches stories go, MSD's life saga should rank among the top in India if not the world!
Starting out as a tribal boy growing in the wilderness of Jharkhand wearing nothing but foliage as groin cover to reaching the upper echelons of Indian Cricket is no small achievement.
MSD has had a meteoric yet hurdle-ridden rise to his current place in the stratosphere. He had to first learn how to live in the civilized world as a human who follows all the written and unwritten laws of public decency. For a child of the wild who never wore anything but minimalistic foliage to cover his groin area (lest the rest of the inhabitants of the animal kingdom mistake his hanging appendage as food), developing a habit to cover a majority of his anatomy must have been a major challenge in the early days of his brush with civilization. The next challenge was interacting with other humans in a manner far different from how he dealt with his brethren in the animal kingdom. His early behavior of snatching all glittering objects or anything that remotely resembled food was welcomed with complete scorn in our society. Today, the ease with which MSD hobnobs with elite sports personalities from all over the world glosses over his past difficulties with simple human communication. Next challenge was to wield the bat and not use it bludgeon others around him for food when he was hungry!
Re: STOP BARKING
by Mart Twain on Nov 28, 2012 04:51 PM
MSD’s recent performance may not be one of his best but we as ones who had the good fortune of being brought up as regular human beings should cut him some slack.
Does anyone of us know anybody other than MSD who has overcome such formidable challenges and achieved such greatness? Definitely No!
So let MSD be! He means no harm. One day, after all the fanfare has subsided, he will quietly return to his beloved wilderness and we will miss this civilized jungle boy who has entertained us so many times!
Re: Re: STOP BARKING
by John Vicks on Nov 28, 2012 04:59 PM
Mr. Mark Twain (or whoever you are), this tribal boy has done something that would aspire the unprivileged to dream about something they would never dare to in the past. Regarding your knowledge of covering groin with foliage and your general "jungle" knowledge, it is better you keep your thoughts to yourself. Pls. visit the tribal belt of Bihar and Jharkhand and you will feel ashamed of yourself for making such vulgar comments about the tribal society in general. It is for grand personalities like you that the term "racist" has been invented. All the best for your future researches.
what ravi shashtri and navjyot siddhu r doing in this chaotic situation they must come 4 rescue of poor captain cool otherwise all the electronic media news papers dominated by british colonial overhang will not spare indian confidence level just as SLEDGING? so BCCI must be alert to protect players for rest of british tour of india as i vigilantly observe news papers that not a single news for britishers is leaked any where in the indian media as if indians media are still slaves of?
Re: british media has already hit india confidence hard be alert
by Jiju on Nov 28, 2012 04:38 PM
Why Ravi Shastri & Navjyot Singh Sidhu? Call Abey Kuruvilla, Dodda Ganesh and Nilesh Kulkarni also.....
Dude, please dont empty your thoughts all at once. Please write slowly and clearly.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Neelamegham
by sunil vaidya on Nov 28, 2012 04:28 PM
dont repeat the sad story of your mother again and again...i am bored reading about it again and again...
Re: LOLZ
by sambit patnaik on Nov 28, 2012 04:24 PM
would Mr. Harper accept if Dhob=ni gives somebody out??? when he cant do that why shud he call anyone back? What for the ICC has appointed umpires & match refrees? Let all do their jobs & Mr. Harper write a book on onfield cricketing discipline that aussies shud first maintain & then harp or bark on others' doings.......!!!!
Re: Re: LOLZ
by Jiju on Nov 28, 2012 04:27 PM
Bingo....! I am not a fan of Dhoni, but still agree 100% with him when he says "Umpires get handsome payments, they are supposed to take some decisions".
Re: Re: Re: LOLZ
by taklu on Nov 28, 2012 04:31 PM
moreover bairstow should've stayed and not walked...but he probably didnt know the helmet rule . can't blame dhoni for that. good he didn't do that pretentious spirit stuff he did in england
Re: Re: Re: Re: LOLZ
by Jiju on Nov 28, 2012 04:36 PM
Ya, and there was the whole lunch session for umpires to discuss the helmet rule..... I am surprised why some people expect only Indian cricketers to do charity. I maybe wrong, but I observe more wrong decisions by umpires after the introduction of DRS :)
Respect needs to be gained by all, be it the players, the teams as a whole, the umpires, the boards or even the spectators. The umpires should not dream of respect when a trail of erronous decisions follows them. One off wrong decision is fine.. not a couple every innings or match.
of intense jealousy by many Indians and foreigners including cricketers, fans, laymen and now umpires.
In the instance that Harper is harping about, if the field umpires had any doubt about the genuineness or admissibility of the catch claimed, it was their job to get it verified and declare the batsman in question out or not out based on the feedback from the TV umpire.
By no stretch of imagination can any person expect the fielding captain to be very nice, inquisitive and generous enough to withdraw a claim.
Harper has obviously forgotten how Ponting argued with the umpires in 2008 test series about a couple of catches, resulting in the normally polite and docile Kumble declaring that only one side (i.e. India) played by the spirit of the game.
Thanks Mr. Harper, we, the fans of Dhoni do not really need any accolades from you for him!
