Sport Today

As usual, the Indian press has started going ga-ga over the exploits
of messrs.
Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dhoni in their pulverizing of hapless Bangladesh..

As usual.. as usual .. as usual....

Things are getting back to the mindless hero worship... till the next
sordid
performance against an higher ranked team... and then all the usual
soul searching which the BCCI often does, the platitudes bequeathed,
empty threats against established seat warmers...

But they know they don't have to worry... teams like Zim, another
out of form Subcontinental cousin will always come to their rescue
where
these stars can always redeem themselves making mindless and
meaningless
tons.. and rocket back into the favour of their rich sponsors...

And this has been going on and will continue on and on and on..

And as usual, the fans themselves have very short memories... Already
the Dhoni haircut is coming back into fashion..Aplia Tendia Jinkla..
Gonguli-daada Bhaalobaashi..Hamra Dhoni ka shatakva...
Kaarthik enna adi......Dravid enu aata aaditu...

And the rich sponsors as usual will feed the press and this cycle will
go
on and on till the next debacle.

Shiva IYER
200507

tapped the keyboard and brought forth:

Not quite a pulverisation in the end, though. India are already
assured of having their ICC rating go down at the end of the series
and the Bangles of theirs going up. (England have to win the remaining
three in their series to stay where they are, so they will probably
also drop a point or two.)

Sure, India would very probably have won over a full five days, but
Bangladesh don't seem to have been played right off the park.

And what really lets them down in Test cricket is their undisciplined
batting, not their bowling, which is really quite serviceable. From
what I've read, Bangladesh bowled rather better over the last few days
than England did. Mortaza is above average at least and may in fact be
distinctly good, and Rafique is in the class of Vettori or Panesar.

It may be that scores made against the Bangles are actually worth
something these days.

Cheers,

Mike
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