Thursday, June 08, 2006

Gentlemen

That’s what they call themselves, right? And the game’s called the gentleman’s game, right?

Then what’s with the annoying behavior? Why jump up and down like retards every time the ball so much as touches the Pads?

Let’s face it; the Indian team is really annoying with all the appealing and genuine lack of any bowling talent whatsoever. We generally play a real irritating brand of cricket. Terrible pitches with nothing for the bowler, teams loaded with batsmen, bowlers whose only motive is to get through 10 overs conceding less than 50 runs. The batsmen will handle it from thereon. (Real glad Mick Lewis got hammered for 115 that day… he’s an Aussie version of an Indian seamer).

Chappel seems to be a sensible one here, with the 5-bowler policy. Getting some sense into the game and the entire crowd starts yelping about wrong strategy etc. Grow up guys.

Anyways, we can easily stake claim to be the second most annoying team around.
Sri Lanka with their Chandanas, Dilshans and Lokuhettiges are by far the most annoying species ever. They don’t deserve a place in this planet.
Add to their players, they have KT Francis and Asoka DeSilva… Lesser said about the whole bunch of them, the better.

Back to the topic, yeah Sehwag deserves what he got. Watch one match and you’ll know how much these dudes get on your nerves with their appealing. It’s like he’s a Parthiv Patel wannabe or something.

Yeah Sehwag got what he deserved and Lara didn’t. How could anybody get away with something like that?

Cricket is run by bloody racists.

Look at it this way.
1) Wasn’t Lara also appealing excessively (an appeal that went on for 15 mins is kinda excessive)? So why punish Sehwag and spare Lara?
2) India was temporarily relieved of the ex captain and fantastic player of short pitched stuff courtesy his taking too long to finish up the overs (six match suspension). Fine that was a favor of sorts, but it wasn’t intended. Now Mr. Lara wasted a whole 15 minutes with his ranting and probably that time, if added on in the end would’ve meant a different result.
3) Slater on a previous occasion and now Lara have both been in heated discussions with the umpires and have both been spared and 6 Indians were once suspended at the end of a SA tour by an English match referee.

Apart from point 2, in all places the Indian team has been made a victim hasn’t it?
(Suspension of ex captain helped the team almost as much as his eventual firing. Thank god for small favors)

The one positive point to note here was the way Dravid handled the whole situation.
Brilliant.
He stayed to innocent onlooker when Lara went about his nonsense. He didn’t bother sending any word across all the while. He just watched on as Lara seemed hell bent on being a disgrace, and when Lara finally decided to let play continue and Dhoni got all emotional and decided to leave (man!! This doesn’t happen in street cricket nowadays, ask Mohammad Yousuf (erstwhile Youhana)), Dravid decided to declare. So he didn’t stop Lara from digging his grave of sorts with an earlier declaration.

Just too bad politics is streets ahead of natural intelligence.

Speaking of Politics, Has Salman returned from Dubai? Nevermind that…

Sticking with Politics, Has Mr. Ex captain been selected for the next Lanka tour? (whenever that is). Or is he still scared of having to face Dilahara Fernando and Lasith Malinga?

Question:
How does Chandana bowl when the ball is bigger than his entire palm and fingers of both hands put together?
And the commentator once said, “he has to learn to bowl the googly…”

12 Comments:

At 4:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I tend to disagree( nothing surprising ) on the allegations that are being hurled on Lara.I guess in contemporary cricket ,Lara has a stature which cannot be matched by anyone else(correction by only one Steve Waugh).

Also on the fact that this article is named Gentlemen….and if a player (who ever took the catch ) claims that he has taken a clean catch to Lara and if Lara stands by his player(the way our own Mr.Ex-Captain used to do),then we got to believe them…cos this is a game of a few good men…..!

Coming to the Pathetic Lankans…..except for the two…Murali and Sangakkara….all are bloody pathetic…

Murali should have been playing for India as he is an Tamilian(proud to be a chennaite) and not a Lankan Tiger as they claim him to be.

What about the crop(crap) of fast blowers emerging from India…I guess these guys are stretched too much in the MRF pace academy which is situated just near my place in chennai….,that when they are to perform on the real stage,they never perform

Look at Munaf,VRV and the other lad who apes Dennis Lillee(or Dennis The Menace)…donno…bowl at a speed that is a bit quicker that our so called leggie…and a bit slower that the retired lanky lad from bangalore…who mastered the slower ones,that made him forget the quicker deliveries….

Finally on the Ex.Captain….just wait and watch….he’ll back….J

 
At 4:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey GAG, hola senor, welcome aboard sir, nice to have you here.

Now for where we agree.. Lankans in general (starting from Vibhishan, they were all annoying), Indian Bowlers. Yeah agree... and lovefest outta the way.

Now for the rest, Lara's not got any stature as a gentleman. He's this awesome cricketer with a weird technique and plays golf right-handed, so the rep he has is all about sport. I don't see any girl going weak in her knees on sighting him, nor do i hear anybody calling him well bred or anything like that.

And Steve Waugh himself never endorsed considering players' opinions. Remember Sherwin Campbell crashing into somebody and all that... the walkout by the Aussies... the whole incident. He never bothered about sportsmanship et al. He had once famously quoted "we're here to win, not make friends".
Sticking to Lara, he's all about setting records when the rest of the team is crumbling not very gentlemanly.

Lara didn't stand by his player, he wanted to get a wicket and was caught without answers. Backing your player is showing confidence in him when there's a replacement ready and he's going through a lean trot. Neither Lara nor ex cap nincompoop did that. Ex cap didn't have any replacements around. Any of the 12-13 got injured, everybody was caught wondering what to do next.

Backing players in what current captain is doing with Sehwag and Kaif. There are replacements around, but they are being persisted with.

And ex cap got statemate Deep Dash to keep wickets (when he was a replacement selection in his own state team). That's not exactly clean you know.

As for Dennis the menace, I agree with you, but he has a rep too you know (smirk).

 
At 5:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

and as for Murali, great bowler and all that, but hoestly man, that dude chucks. And he blames it on deforemity. c'mon!!

what about Chandra? he too had a deformity... and far worse at that. He used to throw (fielding) with his left hand and bowl with his right, but his action was clean.

 
At 11:38 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow two posts in two days gr8 going guys.... hmm as for the ex captain all i can say is good riddance. Coming to racial and unfair decisions i copmpletely agree that the match umpires hav been biased to say the least and that is something that should be discussed. Yup Lanka as a team are just downhill as for Indian performance overseas we just Suck there is no other word for it....At home we prepare pitches which would not even offer a bounce to a yo-yo leave alone a cricket ball and then we take tall claims in our batsmen ...hardly a criteria for praise or identifying strenth...as for our pace attach the WestIndies pitches have exposed our nonability and non peroformance...if India is considering giving a tough fight in the world cup it has to do some major thinking in the regards and they need to do it pronto

 
At 1:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

two posts in one day gr8 going guys.... I agree the excptain got wht he deserver and yes the match empires hav been baised to say the least. the pace attack has been exposed nd our wickets wud not even offer bounce to a yo-yo. As a team the performance sucks. The records made on flat wickets and the victories on them are just a statical increment and nothing more because it does not identify the strenght or the drawbacks as per international basis thus iour poor performance overseas. If India truly wants to be in contention for the world cup it would have to do some thinking and they would need to do it pronto. As for Mr. Lara and his behaviour did remind me of a two yr old sulking spoilt kid.

 
At 2:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

About the Ex Captain…I prefer calling him DADA...donno what wrong he had done…firstly he stood by all the player whom he believed in.The likes of Viru,Bhajji,Kaif,Yuvi and the list is on…..who claim to be the current backbone of Indian cricket.
These were the guys who actually blossomed in the tenure of DADA.
Remember the time through which the Indian team was going in the late 90’s…due to some allegations which deprived my fav cricketer to play his 100’th test for India, and the allegations was never proved….i am still waiting for the legal verdict.This was the time when Dada took over the captaincy and build a formidable team …”Team India”….players who were given confidence by their captain….
That team looked like they played for each other and were happy on other’s success…but these days…a few people (GC and Co.)are trying to put in fear in all and extract performance….which is impossible.
Like to mention the person who coached these guys during this golden period of Indian cricket…he was absolutely great in man management.He was given a bunch of cricketers(on the captains request) whom he was supposed to coach….and what does GC know about the standard of cricketer in the domestic circuit…I guess he would never have seen the likes of Sreesanth,Munaf,VRV before.
The quality of players I guess is diminishing with the days passing…
Komodo …you must agree to the fact that Dada was the most unselfish cricketer of the lot…the reason being why would some one go down the order to accommodate a new comer into the side…cos he believed in his choice of player…
I don’t have anything against our current captain…but do u remember the days when he was bombarded left-right-center for his not so quick batting in the ODI’s….and it was our own Ex.Captain who stood by his side…(making him Keep for India and be in the side) now we know who the real wall is…:)
The so call Wall, during that period even called dada…Next to God playing through the offside…dono why…? (Answer cannot be 42)
Com’on maan scoring 10000+ runs in ODI’s is no mean achievement …and our Ex does need a much respectful exit from the game to which he has given so much….

 
At 4:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now that you've brought it up, the answer is actually 42 heh heh.

Anyways, as for backing players, remember Dinesh Mongia? remember Sadagopan Ramesh who was suddenly dropped because he was a specialist opener and Sachin wanted to open and ExCap assumed he's good at the job too.

As for the set of players mentioned, do you remember any player coming up the ranks of the domestic circuit who could've been a threat to any of these guys' places in the team? It's easy to back your comrades when the team's winning and there's a general sense of bonhomie amongst the fans.

And the wall was a permanent member in the team. Everybody knows that it's the not so knowledgable crowd that despises the sheet anchor. (Ex: Real Madrid after Claude Makalele quit). Remember England thumping us at home when Mr. Dravid wasn't around? Remember Yuvi coming into the series for the last two matches and saving our faces against Zimbabwe when again Mr. Dravid wasn't around?
Making him a keeper wasn't accomodating him, it was done against his wishes, just that he did it with the team in mind (and please don't question his commitment).

As for playing for each other, it was more noticable when Lanka came over and got thumped and also in the pak tour than ever before.

I favor the ex coach too, but I generally believe the coach ought to have a larger say in matters like in soccer. And also, he's regarded as the brain behind 7-4 ExCap just hogged the limelight.

I agree about attitude and all that, he was pretty good, but sometimes way too childish for a national captain. All those irrelevant quarrels with umpires and opponent captains.

And an unselfish cricketer would've quit after 3 years of failure (excluding Zimbabwe, Namibia, Holland, Bangladesh and Kenya as opponents).
2 centuries in the world cup, 1 agaqinst Namibia and the other against Kenya. jeez.

He used to keep quoting we don't care about history, then why does he bank on his 10000 odd historical runs for everything? Where is his fielding to be categorised?
Escort service? Valet Parking?

His offside days were relegated to smaller teams who couldn't bowl a steady tucking up line. Everybody else made him look like a cat stuck between two trucks on the freeway with short pitched stuff.
Remember his face when Shoaib came in to bowl?

And facts and statistics.
Even during ExCap's glory days, the team never got any better than a 50% win record.
Azhar c&b Dharmasena in the world cup semis. Will never forget that moment... Captain he calls himself.

 
At 4:38 PM, Blogger KD said...

Anonymous (assuming both comments are by the same person) LOLs @ yo-yo...
As for Lankans, it's not just their performance, it's the way they carry themselves etc.... pathetic characters all. (Canadians had more charm).

Agree about statistics :)

I dont think the team's that bad either (annoying, but not that bad yet), yeah if they don't get their act together and think a bit, they are headed for deep crap.

Also what's the hype about Jaffer for? one paced attack, no spinner c'mon...

 
At 6:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

yup komodo the answer is always 42 isnt it always when faced with absurb longitivity...began reading gag's comment but left it midway cauz of the essay length I am always scared of the one match wonders if u can call them that thjey dont last.

 
At 11:01 AM, Blogger Amrita said...

Too many things handled at one go...that's your style :)
Was wondering in what way will Chandana commit suicide on reading this...:-j
Well...Lara was too arrogant,also heard that some kind of his record [can't remember now which one
:-S,boy...I should restart my cricket channel :( ] was gonna get broken, so the baby cried :D
Dravid is the coolest one for sure :)
Sehwag...dunno what to say, when I see him bat, he gets out, when I dont see him bat, he hits tons...naah,by this dont think I jinx his performance,its just that faith wants me too watch only the Little Master play well,not so-called copy :P
This post is quite awakening for me...restart watching cricket dear,restart watching!

 
At 3:33 PM, Blogger KD said...

hmm Anon... yeah one match wonders are quite a bother. Not the same case with one hit wonders thankfully... else imagine the world without "Temple of the king"... 'then one day in the year of the fox, came a time remembered well...' awesome :)
GAG did come up with reasons btw, check ith out, he has statistical backing too, just that we think the other way ;)

 
At 3:39 PM, Blogger KD said...

Hey Amrita... long time :)
Chandana's got to hurry his suicide for sure... he with that chopsuey hairstyleof his, the gaunt look and genuine lack of a palm is a disgrace, he should leave :)
Dunno about the record (Dhoni-Lara), will look it up... seems interesting for sure.
Looks like the writer's block has really gotten to you btw.

 

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