A disaster called Indian Cricket

I have held this belief before and I say this again.
This Indian Cricket Team(ICT) needs to lose all
tournaments. It's good for the Indian Cricket and India
Fans. At the very least the fanatic indian cricket fan
deserves what their team dishes out to them - consistent
failures when it matters the most. One win here and one
win there, these now-firespewing fans will again be calling up
cricket analyists on news channels about how they appreciate
certain player or what their strategy should be and
what not. If they fail to see the hollowness of the India
Criketing System then they completely deserve this.

There are people who blame our coach, Greg Chappell for
this World Cup rout. I say, if he deserves any blame it
is that he didn't choose to expose the hollow selection
process and senior's attitudes(which he is most likely
to do when asked about the rout) before. Nothing more,
I wouldn't put anymore blame on him than this much.

While having started on the blame game lets get into
it more seriously. Foremost among the people to blame
must be our selectors. When you see a badly behaved
child do we blame the child or the parents who had/have
the chance to rectify the child's behavior? Our selectors
have time and again shown their lack of will to wield
the proverbial stick against non-performing players.
The fans have to contend with statements like "Look
at the records of the player. He has runs behind him."
Well, dear selectors, have these records won us any
major tournament after 1985?

What else do we have? Players growing so much above
the game that they cannot be touched even by the selectors.
I hope the disgruntled fans get a chance to touch these
players :)

What else? The abominable endorsements! These days, all that
an indian cricket player want is to remain in the team.
This, as abundantly seen, fetches them lucrative
endorsement contracts. So what does a player do
to remain in the team? First and foremost, be in the
good books of the Captain. A dear captain will
fight for your case even with the Chairman of the
selection committee. The other popular way is to
muster the courage to hit atleast a half-century just
before you are being touted to get the Boot.

The other, largely ignored, woe of the Indian Circket
are the analysts. Yes, these are the people who are
analysing our cricket in the Print and TV media. You
won't see a more fickle person anywhere else. These
are the people who will attempt to lift a player's
stature for as little as a half-century. Strangely
though, rarely will you see them trashing a player's
reputation. But when you see them doing it it is
usually at times when it is least expected. Basically,
these are the people who are forming the opinions in
the minds of the fans. Apparently, they have this
unenviable task of not letting the game fall to the level
of Hockey that people stop following it. After all,
their comments are paying their bills. And the media
itself sells on the hype of the game and the endorsements
it brings to them. Therefore, it is in their interest
to unleash unproportional outrage when it senses little
public outrage and unproportional Kudos when there
is little public pride on our team's performance.

It's this symbiotic existence of the selectors, players,
advertisors, media and the analysts on each other that
is handing out India this Cricket Team which year after
year is failing us miserably. It's high time the fans
saw through this farce and moved on! These players don't
deserve our time. If you want to come on the roads and
protest spend your time on issues like water, electricity,
roads and environment. Please don't waste your time on
Cricket. Unless there are sweeping changes in how cricket
is played and promoted in India I will hold the opinion
that I made at the start, that India needs to lose in
all matches. The players need to be brought to the ground.
The BCCI needs to know that it'll not keep growing
irrespective of the quality of the Indian Cricket Team.

Give a man a fish..[the improvisations]

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and run the risk of overfishing, contravening EU fishing policy, reducing the biodiversity of the world's oceans and increasing the economic decline of our once-great fishing industry.

Give a man a fish, and he'll probably look at you very odddly, and say something like. "I'm sorry, but you'll still have to pay the speeding fine...."

Give a woman a fish and you'll be sleeping on the couch again.

Give a man a fish, and he'll wonder what you want from him.