http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sport/just-not-cricket Powered by Webshore Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sport/just-not-cricket#comment-9225 ASG Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:26:59 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3453#comment-9225 I have stepped into this a little late but I suppose the issue remains alive. Thanks to the devil-may-care attitude of M/s Manohar, Srinivasan, et al, our on-field performers ( or otherwise ) live in the belief that their places in the team can forever be managed. Fitness, injuries, consistency etc are alien words and can be overlooked for more worthy causes. This is akin to the procedure by which business deals are struck, promotions are secured, trips to understand the methods for upkeep of heritage buildings in Scandinavia are managed. So don't gasp if the numero uno cricketing nation is staring down the barrel in a corner of the English cricket fields. And please don't waste your time targetting their mansions or damaging their Hummers for they will make it large to more than offset the loss. I have stepped into this a little late but I suppose the issue remains alive. Thanks to the devil-may-care attitude of M/s Manohar, Srinivasan, et al, our on-field performers ( or otherwise ) live in the belief that their places in the team can forever be managed. Fitness, injuries, consistency etc are alien words and can be overlooked for more worthy causes. This is akin to the procedure by which business deals are struck, promotions are secured, trips to understand the methods for upkeep of heritage buildings in Scandinavia are managed. So don’t gasp if the numero uno cricketing nation is staring down the barrel in a corner of the English cricket fields. And please don’t waste your time targetting their mansions or damaging their Hummers for they will make it large to more than offset the loss.

]]> http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sport/just-not-cricket#comment-9050 Sudeshna Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:14:30 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=3453#comment-9050 Somewhere here I can see a Board that like any ordinary individual wishing to display the power, ill-gotten perhaps. This, as you rightly stated, is not the Indian ethos that we cherish. Maybe not Gandhian- offer the other cheek when the 1st one has been smacked but definitely not the eye for an eye...... now that we can have it. But if one looks around can we not see this sinister strain affecting our lives ever since , again as you stated, the economic recession which left India unscathed to a greater extent? Somewhere here I can see a Board that like any ordinary individual wishing to display the power, ill-gotten perhaps. This, as you rightly stated, is not the Indian ethos that we cherish. Maybe not Gandhian- offer the other cheek when the 1st one has been smacked but definitely not the eye for an eye…… now that we can have it. But if one looks around can we not see this sinister strain affecting our lives ever since , again as you stated, the economic recession which left India unscathed to a greater extent?

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