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]]> http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sport/indias-world-cup-woes#comment-2799 Asish Sengupta Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:07:31 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=2620#comment-2799 Apart from the pure cricketing reasons for India's mindless performances ,whether in victory or defeat, which you have succinctly summarised, a lot of our problems would have been behind us if some regulator could instil a modicum of responsibility into the section of the fourth estate in the country covering this event which goes by the epithet of World Cup but actually involves a paltry eight countries. The remaining six are of course dragged on to the arena for slaughter so that the former group can derive great satisfaction for having won some (mis)matches . Unfortunately no such regulator exists but the sooner the media realises that even the comments of someone who may not have been good enough to have graduated beyond gully cricket over the national network, under the garb of analysis , is likely to upset the emotional equilibrium of our junior brigade in Team India on the one hand or on the other, anger the captain leading him into the kind of indiscretions which we do not associate with him. Indeed the lack of accountability of the media on which you have commented in another article of yours, lies at the root of many an ill plaguing contemporary society. The other pertinent reason is the predominance of the sponsors. Repeated calls to " turn it on"( de ghumake ) and to hit improvised shots with fanciful names are perhaps taken too literally and end up as recipes for suicide. The chief of selectors in an interview immediately after announcing the list of the magnificent fifteen had stated that he had selected the team keeping in mind the cricketing abilities of the 1983 team members to the extent possible. A noble premise, indeed on which to base your team selection! However his matching , I suspect, was limited to cricketing abilities. He and the remaining four wise men would have done well to remember that the present team members are born in a different era and a different milieu where much sleep is unlikely to be lost over victory or defeat and life ( read IPL ) will go on unchallenged. Cricket in India in current times is a microcosm of the crass commercialism that epitomises Indian society today, something which was not foreseen even at the turn of the century. So irrespective of the final denouement, shed a few tears for Indian cricket. Apart from the pure cricketing reasons for India’s mindless performances ,whether in victory or defeat, which you have succinctly summarised, a lot of our problems would have been behind us if some regulator could instil a modicum of responsibility into the section of the fourth estate in the country covering this event which goes by the epithet of World Cup but actually involves a paltry eight countries. The remaining six are of course dragged on to the arena for slaughter so that the former group can derive great satisfaction for having won some (mis)matches . Unfortunately no such regulator exists but the sooner the media realises that even the comments of someone who may not have been good enough to have graduated beyond gully cricket over the national network, under the garb of analysis , is likely to upset the emotional equilibrium of our junior brigade in Team India on the one hand or on the other, anger the captain leading him into the kind of indiscretions which we do not associate with him.
Indeed the lack of accountability of the media on which you have commented in another article of yours, lies at the root of many an ill plaguing contemporary society. The other pertinent reason is the predominance of the sponsors. Repeated calls to ” turn it on”( de ghumake ) and to hit improvised shots with fanciful names are perhaps taken too literally and end up as recipes for suicide.
The chief of selectors in an interview immediately after announcing the list of the magnificent fifteen had stated that he had selected the team keeping in mind the cricketing abilities of the 1983 team members to the extent possible. A noble premise, indeed on which to base your team selection! However his matching , I suspect, was limited to cricketing abilities. He and the remaining four wise men would have done well to remember that the present team members are born in a different era and a different milieu where much sleep is unlikely to be lost over victory or defeat and life ( read IPL ) will go on unchallenged.
Cricket in India in current times is a microcosm of the crass commercialism that epitomises Indian society today, something which was not foreseen even at the turn of the century. So irrespective of the final denouement, shed a few tears for Indian cricket.

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