Tuesday, March 20, 2007

The World cup...

Of course I haven't been posting off late in my blog but my contention is that I have a strong reason for not doing so....the reason is.....Those of you who know the reason please tell to those who don't know and those who don't know the reason please ask those who know.... anyways cutting the crap.. its always good to be back .. reasons will always be there some personal,some work related.. and I don't want to whine about them... I am here to write something ..some crap...

This crap is about "World Cup"....Cricket .. best described as"game played by 11 idiots and watched by 11,000 idiots".(Bernard shaw if my memory doesn't fail me..) the same..(idiot thing u know...) is also true about the guy who said it.. dare not to make fun of our of unofficial National game.. we live with it ...with it we rise and with it we fall....of course we get hurt by seeing INDIA lose.. but some moments...( ex: IND-AUS 2001,Sachin's Sharjah heroics...) will be forever etched in our memory... we will talk about them to our grand children... yours truly here has been brought up seeing sachin tendulkar enter the arena and carving a niche for himself.. Its individuals like this who are still making this game a household one....

My buddy Karthik has written a nice feature "worstcup" .. although he reasonably presents a case where the public can feel cheated or humiliated... by supporting the cricketers ... but for every sehwag there is a sachin for every azhar there is a ganguly.... faith and belief are afterall the two things which make millions of indians pass the tests of life.....I agree with karthik that we need to prioritise things in life and cricket as such shud not be our first priority but aren't we entitled to things which will make us happy even after many years down the lane...

I guess cricket is a team game but it is the individuals which bring respect to the game .. cricket owes its popularity not to the way it is played but for the ppl who play it.. like kapil,sachin,ganguly and dravid who are so dedicated and comitted ppl equipped with the said qualities perform some class acts which will be etched in our memory for ages to come.. who said public has short memory.. how many of our parents forgot our win in 1983( of course world cup.. and world series in AUS)...how many of us can forget the IND -AUS series 2001 (pictured above.. )...

My point here is individuals like sachin and ganguly with their skill and elegance can make some or rather most of us sit up and watch or stand up and take notice.. so it is to these individuals that we owe something for giving us some of the most enjoyable moments..... I might be circumventing a little bit but i would like to say that .. Idiots have been there in the past.. (Azhar.. and co).. idiots are there now (sehwag and party..) and idiots will continue to be there.... but we should not hate cricket or get hurt by seeing these ppl fail... look out for the ppl who always play out of their skins.. always puts team before self.. and for whom success never goes to head.... All is not lost if we don't qualify for super eight.. but i hope India does qualify .. just to surprise itself and the ppl..

never lose hope coz when hope is lost there is nothing left.... so I hereby ask my fellow country men to cheer for India in the coming match( I pray for it to be matches..) .. see you after the srilanka match....

Prediction: India marauds srilanka with a victory by 100 runs or 5 wickets...

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

nice article buddy..but i have a few comments:

1) the article shows how you are obsessed with cricket..
2) when you say cricket is loved not becos of the game but becos of the people who played it, it shows how you are idolizing the players. this is the exact reason why the standards in cricket have gone down( i mean why the game has become so commercialized)
3)i agree that we shouldn't behave foolish when the team loses but when our 'idols' don't perform, we have every reason to blame them. ofcourse i dont support burning their posters or breaking down their homes. however when the team doesn't show interest to play, we have every right to get hurt.no fan has ever behaved wrongly when the team loses fighting. but giving away the match definitely hurts me
4)its wrong on ur part to say for every sehwag there is sachin and for azhar there is ganguly. what wrong did they(sehwag and azhar) do ?

other than these, i appreciate your like for our cricket team and i wi sh we win against srilanka

Soma

Wed Mar 21, 12:57:00 AM CDT  
Blogger ravi shankar said...

@soma alias vamsee garu....

when ur idols fail to perform y dont u blame it on wrong choice.... please recognise and accept the fact that the so called idols are not gods.. and nobody is perfect for that matter.. but stuff happens and its best done by taking it in stride ... blame them when they lose..but dont stop supporting them .. is all I say...

coming to azhar and sehwag..
I blame azhar for match fixing and u were asking what sehwag has done the answer lies in ur question that "sehwag has done nothing thats y i blame him..." he absolutely did nothing to make india win.. which hurts me...

Wed Mar 21, 01:09:00 AM CDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

when i say 'idols' i was saying it ironically . i used that only becos u seem to be of the opinion tht cricket is liked becos of these players
give me an instant when fans didn't support our team when they lost some match fighting...do u think fans start scolding our team everytime we lose a match
only matcheslike this cause such unrest among people.

Soma

Wed Mar 21, 01:19:00 AM CDT  
Blogger ravi shankar said...

I was just trying to put things in perspective.. like trying to say that there are ppl who give everything for india.. so lets just go and cheer....I dont think fans scold team after every match.. and i appreciate ur valuable comments buddy.... all I ask is to support India...
peace out
Ravi

Wed Mar 21, 01:25:00 AM CDT  
Blogger karthik said...

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Wed Mar 21, 01:30:00 AM CDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hehe
i have just gone overboard too...i cant accept my team losing like that..

hail peace
Soma

Wed Mar 21, 01:32:00 AM CDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

After all at end of the days Cricket is just a game like any other..one has to win & other has to definitely lose...

sometimes we win...sometimes others...it's impossible for our country to win always..and it isn't possible always for the same one to stand on top..

We all know it's a team game [whatever u say played by 11 idiots or any donkeys]...it's all rubbish to put a finger at only one player...saying that he hasn't played/performed well...

I agree Sehwag didn’t play well despite giving many chances…what does Dravid & Tendulkar & Ganguly so called 10000 run-getters do...did they.?..

As a sportsman myself, frankly speaking no one likes loosing a game...I guess people playing at that level know the pressure...that entire country is looking at them so that they could bring something back home...

Considering the cricketers as idols/role-models...for this thing we cant blame anyone...if u start here it ends nowhere..

Finally...there are some great moments in games I watched...and I loved to watch many as such...I guess many to come..

TRY THE BEST YOU CAN...that's all we can say...

-rams

Wed Mar 21, 03:28:00 AM CDT  

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