Sanjay Subramanyan asks some relevant questions following the sacking of Charu Sharma from the Bangalore Royal Challengers and the release of five players from the Kolkata Knight Riders.
… these stories highlight the thing that BCCI never did. How many times have the BCCI pulled up its players for non performance? How many times have team selection [...]
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Gowri laments how IPL turned her family topsy-turvy.
Her daughter goes
‘I support Uthappa at all times. So I’ll always cheer for his team. Except’ she pauses significantly, ‘except when his team plays against Chennai Super Kings - because Chennai is my birth place! When Chennai and Uthappa’s team are not playing against Royal Challengers, I’ll always [...]
Advt options for IPL
Published by May 12th, 2008 in Advertisement, Humour, India and Sports. 0 CommentsKiran Dhanwada explores advertisement options for IPL. A fun read.
Let’s take this a bit far – how about a ‘Britannia single’, ‘MRF two’ and a ‘Cheetos three’. How about naming some of the bowling/batting ends as ‘Reliance end’ and ‘Birla Sun Life end’? A sample of the commentary would flow something like this –
Daredevils Sehwag [...]
Siva Rajendran has a question for you:
Some one born in Hyderabad, working in Delhi with Vijay Mallya’s KingFisher airlines, idolizes Sachin Tendulkar, ardent fan of Shahrukh Khan’s movies, has reasons to support Deccan Chargers, Delhi Dare Devils, Royal Challengers, Mumbai Indians and Kolkatta Knight Riders. Which IPL team will he support?
‘White trash’?
Published by May 3rd, 2008 in Culture, Media, Prejudice, Sports and Women. 0 CommentsSandyk expresses his views on an article by Barkha Dutt in which she refers to the IPL cheerleaders as ‘white trash’:
But I can not blame her since Indian morality is a big issue with people in power and public domain. We do not like things which make us uncomfortable. We have not learnt the art [...]
VM at Random Ramblings writes about the Bhajji and Sreesanth episode-
My initial reaction to Bhajji hitting Sree and the drama that ensued was embarrassment - on behalf of Harbhajan. Bhajji has ruined it and has made Team India, the BCCI, and us (bloggers/viewers/fellow India supporters) and look like clowns after having supporting him in the [...]
It is just three days into the IPL, and already we see cricket taking a backseat. IPL has become all about dancing girls, celebrity attendance, in-your-face publicity and unabashed histrionics off the field.
Pr3rna writes
“At the Ferozeshah Kotla in Delhi a crane flung Akshay Kumar from the top of the floodlight tower to the ground … There [...]
Great moments in sporting history
Published by April 18th, 2008 in History, Humour and Sports. 0 CommentsThe city was in an uproar. Everywhere little booklet biographies of Pele were published, sold and bought in droves. [Abhijit still has one of them], Calcutta having always been a literary city, and the merchandising juggernaut as yet a glint in the eye of international football [one assumes]. The game was to be played at [...]
Aparna tries to find out about India’s participation in this year’s Olympics and discovers more bureaucrats than sportspersons:
Once I thought about my initial quest I forgot about the poor appearance of the site and decided to start the hunt for Team india. Alas I was up for more disappointment. The site had wonderful photos [...]
How will Ishant Sharma lose form or fade away? Jrod looks at the potential ways:
His adam’s apple is actually an alien, sent from the planet klaatu, and is intent on killing us all.
Some Bollywood producer (aka India mafia dude) gets him a gig on the Indian remake of irreversible starring Aishwarya Rai, but he takes [...]
Dilip plays a game of tennis with an ex-Davis cup player and narrates an interesting account. I wonder if he plays tennis of the table variety too?
Jo jeeta wohi sikander, jo haara wohi bandar
Published by March 6th, 2008 in Humour and Sports. 0 CommentsGreatbong, in his inimitable style, tells us about an interview with two Jingoistic Australian Mainstream Reporters (JAMRs) following the recent CB series. One of the many quotable quotes from the post:
[...] Ponting’s loss of form can be traced back to an incident that happened in India the last time the Australians were minting money sorry [...]
On the Un Official IPL blog, this post claims that controversies surrounding the IPL are inevitable:
The tournament hasn’t even started and there is talk of corruption charges in the Parliament? Aside from the obvious question that why is the Parliament discussing cricket tournaments in it’s precious time (instead of doing more useful things like solving [...]
The Amount of money being poured in the IPL has surely generated a frenzy amongst bloggers. A few of them write;
Withfreshlime writes,
Cricket, Bollywood film stars and big bucks have come together to break with tradition.
Our cricket players - normally treated as kings - are reduced to mere pawns to be auctioned.
India - with its poverty [...]
Suchi concludes racism is mostly about culture and power and the values we assign to them:
No, if Indians come across as racist, the evidence lies firstly in our cultural superiority complex. The Pew Global Attitudes survey found that 93 percent of Indians believe their culture to be superior to others’ (see here). However, make [...]
‘Tired of being little brother’
Published by February 3rd, 2008 in Culture, India, Racism and Sports. 0 CommentsFrom meek and submissive to aggressive and proud- Sriram Veera, quoting Harsha Bhogle, says the change in the attitude of Indian cricketers reflects a change in the attitude of the average Indian:
Since I was a little child, my abiding memory is of visiting journalists and cricketers coming to India and making fun of us.We [...]
Sania and her latest tormentor
Published by January 19th, 2008 in Cinema, Culture, Media, Religion, Sports and Women. 2 CommentsRishabh Srivastava is ‘extremely disappointed by this recent controversy surrounding Mirza of showing disrespect to the tricolour’:
I really don’t know what to say, but I am out and out against such allegations that are baseless. Mirza is a great nationalist and she has the highest regard for the national flag. It is not long ago [...]
Reacting to a report by Andrew Stevenson, Sydney Morning Herald correspondent, that Indian cricket team’s selection is caste-based, Dinnie comments that ‘journalists are quite fond of finding new angles to old, beaten-to-death topics’:
Gavaskar, from a proud, wealthy Brahmin family, the highest caste in the Hindu social order, had an uncle, Madhav Mantri, who played for [...]
Harbhajan banned: the masala is racist
Published by January 6th, 2008 in Cinema, Culture, Dalit, India, Media, Prejudice, Racism and Sports. 2 CommentsThe Indian cricket team these days seems to provide as much melodramatic entertainment as the film and television industry in the country, sometimes you suspect what you’re witnessing is a collaborative effort. The BCCI orchestrates the production, players play their roles on the field and off it (or on the field and on the sets), [...]
As India lose the second Test at Sydney, the cricketing fraternity is up in arms over the bad decisions meted out to India. Even as a headstrong Ponting defends his decisions, gestures and insinuations, a multitude of the people who follow the game and know its nuances like the back of their hand seem to [...]
‘Salman is all right , but Shahrukh is the best’
Published by December 13th, 2007 in Cinema, Development, India, Poverty and Sports. 0 CommentsSunil tries to put together India:
On the return flight, I wondered how even if I had tried , I wouldn’t have been able to explain to Syed who was Richard Branson and what really he was doing here in India. I thought how odd it was to have such a feeling- to be an Indian [...]
Joseph John says Indian and Sri Lankan players indulge in ‘covert racism’:
Indians across the world would be happy to be associated with whites, but when it comes to blacks it’s suspicion and disdain. Ranging from South Africa to Uganda, Black Africans have been wary of Indian-origin people, who from the colonial days considered themselves higher [...]
Racism and Symonds
Published by October 19th, 2007 in Humour, Prejudice, Racism and Sports. 0 CommentsAkhil thinks that the racist behaviour of the crowd was a sham. The real problem apparently seems that the crowd doesn’t like his haircut. :)
Earlier, I asked fellow blogger Ottayan and he said that he too got a similar explanation. I am sure more than half of the crowd present at Mumbai and Vadodra had [...]
Dilip thinks the real issue is not that Symonds was taunted.
You see, I couldn’t really care less about whether what cricket fans have been shouting at Andrew Symonds constitutes racism. I also think all international sportsmen must and do eventually develop a thick skin; they learn to take abuse and answer it on their terms. [...]
On the Indian national hockey coach, Mr. Joaquim Carvalho’s recent comments, Ashish Chandorikar believes that the coach has the right issue but the wrong time.
So the point, which Mr. Carvalho has raised, is not wrong but the time, which he selected, is wrong. He should have raised the issue just after Asia Cup victory. Because [...]
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