I was once a great fan of cricket. I used to love cricket. I used to fight and cry for cricket. Fight ok, but what does cry mean? Yeah, I used to cry when I was a kid when India lost. In fact, it turned out that I had to cry quite too often. I always hoped that the Indians would deliver in the end. I mean, how hard is it when there are so many great Indian cricketers and it is the most revered sport right now in India. But what did I see? Our beloved (sarcasm intended) cricket team will always lose when it counts. When did I see them win a major tournament? Err…I think, no we didn’t, err…I fucking can’t remember.

So it quite naturally turned out that I started hating cricket as a game. Why? Not because I was un-patriotic, but God forbid, because I was a patriot. Yes, that’s correct my friend. I couldn’t bear to watch India lose time after time, finals after finals (because unlike the sportstar who said participation is all that counts, sometimes you just bloody have to win).

And another classic example today. Since I don’t watch cricket I was not aware of the “crucial” match between India and West Indies today until my bro came in and wanted me  to connect to cricinfo for the match scores. And what did I see? India lose an easily winnable match by losing 5 quick wickets. I mean, how hard is to remember that you don’t just bloody don’t try to loft the ball when you’ve got lots of balls left and less runs to win the match. What the fuck is wrong with these Indian cricketers (except for a few like Dravid whom I respect more than the others)? Ok, lets see. You’re not a batsman, and you are a bowler and you are asked to defend the wickets. What do you do when there IS a batsman on the other end? Just defend you bloody mongrel (thats for the bowlers who got out giving catches to the Aussies). And the saga continues. Welcome home moneymongers. I hope you all eat the money and die because of acid indigestion.

And this attitude happens closer to home as well. I mean, we can see this everywhere not only on the internationa or national level. We had a match like this over at IBM (yeah, at last I say where I work on my blog) between different teams in Bangalore. When our team played against and obviously better team all the so-called “players” got out leaving me and sanjeeb on the wickets left to defend our dignity. Which we did by the way. But thats not the point. All the so-called “batsmen” were out for catches trying to be heroes. That’s like being stupid, impotent and premature ejaculation all rolled into one.

Now I know what the mass mentality of us Indians is. We are all fucking individual heroes who never can stand each other and can’t work together. A classic example would be how the game of cricket is being played.

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