Will the real Indian team, please stand up?
15/12/2005OK. I am pissed now that Ganguly has been shown the door out of Test cricket in such a acrimonious method by the so called Indian Cricket Selectors. Much has been said about the impotent bunch of jokers we have had the helm of Cricket India, and much has been said about Mr. Politician Greg Chappell (Seriously I cant believe he is still around – he is the first person that deserves the boot badly from Indian cricket altogether! ). But what has really got me pissed off is the so called Indian Team itself, who don’t even want to speak a word for the very man who has groomed the team to the fighters they are today – not one? Not a single one? Wow – Indian team definitely is made of selfish money minded bastards and it shows and how – Yes, that includes Mr. clean image Rahul Dravid and Mr. God himself Sachin Tendulkar.
Back in 2000 when Ganguly helmed the reign of the Indian cricket team, lets remember that he took over when Indian cricket was at its lowest point, a point so low that the God himself couldn’t get it back to its feet. Ganguly and Wright helped to build a team – a real together; didn’t we have dissent and mud slinging – yes we did – but Ganguly stood by his players and it worked. It would be a good joke if we don’t recall how Ganguly has reacted over his support for Harbhajan, Yuvraj, Sehwag, and even Kaif, Pathan and Zaheer? Yet, where are they now? Not one – except for a while back with Harbhajan – has come in support for Ganguly? Ganguly and Dravid are supposed to be good friends off the field, and yet not one word from him? Do they fear the BCCI THAT much? After all that they have achieved in cricket, they are still shit scared of the big boss that they can’t speak.
…And yet, don’t be surprised if 5 years after they retire, the same Dravid, the same Tendulkar will hone the commentator’s cap and crib how Indian selectors are not doing their job – and how they don’t seem to have any logic or reasoning behind dropping players; The same people will write about negative vibes in the team 5 years before; the same people will then offer to air their “expert†views on issues affecting the team; why, some of them may even write a book about it, and again start the Ganguly tirade.
Ganguly himself has become a media scapegoat – trash reporters @ rediff and Times of India cried to no end to put Ganguly out of the team; why TOI started a send-hate-mail to Ganguly campaign and the Indian public was up in arms against him. Now, that he has been dropped again from Test Cricket, the same trashy publications are viewing their sympathetic ears towards Ganguly – Indian media is one big hypocrite, and its about time they stopped using Ganguly as a puppet to figment their sensationalist stories, and treat Ganguly as a human. Enough!
The list should include nincompoops like Sunil Gavaskar, Harsha Bhogle and others to stop cribbing, whining and complaining about Indian team, and more specifically Ganguly – for they are nothing but a bunch of people on a ego trip trying to settle scores through media. Where is Sunil Gavaskar and his column when Ganguly is dropped out of Test team? No – but he won’t speak for him will he? Should we really expect him to?
I feel sorry for Sourav Ganguly today that when he needed the support of his team the most, they have deserted him in lure of money and playing for their “countryâ€Â. I feel sorry that Sourav Ganguly took the guts to stand up against a legion of mudslingers and built the “Team India†everyone is so proud of – he would have better off playing for himself.
What a bunch of jokers Team India are – shame on them.
Well, this was expected isn’t it. None of the players stood up when BCCI declared that it was a private entity and did not represent India – the bastards cared only for money – the same mr. Tendulkar and mr. Dravid who harp on representing India, couldn’t even stand up and say that they wanted to represent India when the government decided to forbid using tri colors on team’s shirt.
Even Karthikeyan had an objection and an opinion about Tri colors– but our team? Ha ha! And we expect them to support Ganguly.
Will the real Indian team, please stand up?
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