Cricket-crazy Country!
Our boys are back, though empty-handed!
But we hardly returned from abroad, with our hands full, excpet in 1983!Our performances overseas have been below our potential. We hardly won any series abroad. Even in our last tour to the Caribbean, we lost miserably.
Still each one of us have an expert opinion about Indian Cricket team’s loss in the World cup. Sometimes I wonder we all talk like Cricket pundits. As Viv Richards says, we are still babies in our minds.
Come on guys, Cricket is afterall just a GAME! We make heroes out of cricketers because we don’t have enough heroes in other spheres of life. We worship cricket and media contributes 24X7 in making cricketers larger than life figures. We should stop seeing them as superheroes, they can’t be! They are not!
We don’t care a damn when our elected leaders don’t perform. We go back to the polling booths and vote them! We don’t burn their effigies or attack their bungalows when they are caught in some scams! We don’t throw stones at Bollywood stars when their films flop!
Then why do we target cricketers when they don’t perform. Do you know that these cricketers are not even representing our country? Technically they are representing an independent body BCCI! We don’t even have any right to question their performance also
That’s the irony! We are too much obsessed with cricket, and we don’t have any other option. It’s our opium and we survive on it. But our memory is short! In our next tour to Bangladesh we will beat them black and blue…and all our anguish are gone! We’ll start worshipping them again! They’ll be our heroes again!
But we hardly returned from abroad, with our hands full, excpet in 1983!Our performances overseas have been below our potential. We hardly won any series abroad. Even in our last tour to the Caribbean, we lost miserably.
Still each one of us have an expert opinion about Indian Cricket team’s loss in the World cup. Sometimes I wonder we all talk like Cricket pundits. As Viv Richards says, we are still babies in our minds.
Come on guys, Cricket is afterall just a GAME! We make heroes out of cricketers because we don’t have enough heroes in other spheres of life. We worship cricket and media contributes 24X7 in making cricketers larger than life figures. We should stop seeing them as superheroes, they can’t be! They are not!
We don’t care a damn when our elected leaders don’t perform. We go back to the polling booths and vote them! We don’t burn their effigies or attack their bungalows when they are caught in some scams! We don’t throw stones at Bollywood stars when their films flop!
Then why do we target cricketers when they don’t perform. Do you know that these cricketers are not even representing our country? Technically they are representing an independent body BCCI! We don’t even have any right to question their performance also
That’s the irony! We are too much obsessed with cricket, and we don’t have any other option. It’s our opium and we survive on it. But our memory is short! In our next tour to Bangladesh we will beat them black and blue…and all our anguish are gone! We’ll start worshipping them again! They’ll be our heroes again!
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