women are an important part of the entertainment industry. ipl is the legitimate baby of the marriage between entertainment and cricket. finally, its all about a good game, and money, and money is where glamour is. why else are we after cricket, while hockey and the others cant come up ? tennis got a boost with sania (sorry amritraj, paes, and the others who gave it their sweat and tears). hockey needs someone like the chandigarh capt / railways capt of the chak de team to make it popular. football in india needs someone like bipasha, with her ability to play with stars of goal, and international footballers alike. we need the glamour for ordinary men to be interested in the sport. we need cheerleaders. and where there will be cheerleaders, players will need help to handle the women. the women will handle their money and fame..
When was the last time such an incident reported in Indian Cricket Team ???? Lot of new faces have come in Indian Team but i think nothing of this sort was reported or made public. Harbajan was there in the team for a long time but such an incident was reported from him now only. So who is the cause ???
RE:When was the last time such an incident reported ???
by kidface on Apr 30, 2008 01:01 PM Permalink
harbajan had shown signs of his behavior before. It was quite apparent many a times. He used to bang the ball on the ground when he was not given to bowl. Sreeshant: does a new antic every second.
I completely agree with Kumble that the neo stars of cricket need professional help so that they can manage themselves well.I am a psychoanalyst and I have developed a simple but effective medicine.It is called "HUNTER".When ever I am contracted to manage team members I will sit in the Team Pit by the side of boundry with my "HUNTER".When ever BHajji types show their bad side I will get in and just give some lashes using my "HUNTER".The dose is proportional to the severity of offence.So may be I will have to crack the "HUNTER" 10 times for Bhajji and 5 times of Sreesanth and may be 3 times for Yuvraj.I may just have to wave the "HUNTER" from boundry for people like Saurav or Ishan Sharma.If after using this medicine for 1 year BHajji shows no improvement thyen I will be forced to give "HUNTERS" to both the umpires and all members of team playing against BHajji.How's that???
RE:I can help Bhajji and the likes!
by VSR on Apr 30, 2008 01:02 PM Permalink
Hi, there are lots of stakes in IPL tournament. Please let them know your fees for managing these guys with your HUNTER. Possibly, you will also become famous as you may get publicity and endorsements options for you to earn your money and I will manage you with HUNTER again for fees from IPL. How's that?
Kumble is very right. Fame n money can corrupt anybody's mind. Sachin Dravid, ganguly, kumble are exceptions who have handled the fame very nicely. about the rest....leat said the better
BCCI, Kumble, Tendulkar and the entire Indian team firmly stood behind Bhajji during the racial abuse episode in Australia. Tendulkar's statement and BCCI's arm twisting resulted in Bhajji getting off with a light penalty, EVEN THOUGH BHAJJI WAS NOT FULLY INNOCENT! Although the abuse hurled by Bhajji was not a racial one, the words he used were extremely derogatory. Bhajji was lucky in that case. But he continued his bad ways and there are crazy people on this forum who expect BCCI or Tendulkar to stand by him again even when he has done something so obviously wrong!
RE:Bhajji has misused collegues' support
by VSR on Apr 30, 2008 01:09 PM Permalink
One is the incident happened in Australia where 11 Aussie guys used sledging and Bhajji replied with his derogatory marks, which was offensive and not racial. And the BCCI stood by them with Kumle and Sachin supporting Bhajji in the moment where India lost a match because of poor umpiring and high handed behaviour of Aussies. In the present case, Sresanth said "Hard Luck" to Bhajji while handshaking. In real terms saying "Hard Luck" is neither racial nor derogatory, nor offensive in any manner if the expression showed by Sreesanth would have been sympathy. If Sreesanth using a wicked smile and telling Bhajji "Hard Luck" would have certainly put Bhajji on dock this guy lost his cool and punched. In fact Bhajji should not have done this and paying the heavy price. What Kumble means here is to manage guys like Bhajji who has been paid heavy price tag.
RE:Bhajji has misused collegues' support
by bharat on Apr 30, 2008 12:58 PM Permalink
Sreesanth has so far not got into big time controversies but will, sooner or later. He is childish and immature and whenever he tries to do stunts, he invariably ends up making an ass of himself.
RE:Bhajji has misused collegues' support
by seema juhi on Apr 30, 2008 01:01 PM Permalink
when i watched sreesanth crying i felt i was watching my nephew who is two years old on TV. Dude let him grow up.
Something is wrong with the present day cricketers like bhajji, sree, Ntini, symonds , shoaib. the list of naughty boys in cricket is more than in any other games. We hardly get to hear a brawl of many other sports around the world. but for cricket its increasing day by day. Let there be more counsellings and psychological treatment for players during tours.
RE:cure the disease nto symptoms
by DM on Apr 30, 2008 01:31 PM Permalink
The reason you don't hear about brawls in other sports is that, Indians watch only cricket. Cricket is a sport where there is no body contact and when things like this happen it makes front page headlines. Not that I support Bhajji's action but you could see similar sorts of things in international sports.
If you see a rugby or a rugby league game which is high on physical contact there are real fights happening everyday. Remember the Symond's charge on that streaker during that final of the tri-series, that is one of the features of a rugby league game. Players use it quite often and there are many people who get injured everytime. There are people who cross the line here also and they
Looks like Kumble is planning something for his post retirement.. BCCI can consider him for the post of 'fame & money' coach for Indian team, the position in which he advises Indian team players on how to handle money & fame....
RE:Post retirement plan??
by Talisman on Apr 30, 2008 01:06 PM Permalink
Atleast he has a good idea to fix the problem, instead of gawking at the news. We salute him for that.
RE:Post retirement plan??
by Tanveer khan on Apr 30, 2008 12:57 PM Permalink
I agree with you. our cricketers are pampered a lot.now they want advisors...remember its all our money what they are having . appointing advisors will incure more spends on the cricketers.Spoon feeding? Shame on Kumble , his team & his thoughts
What Kumble says is completely right.But education can be given or taught who have basic common sense.Both Bhajji and Sreesanth lack that.They have been regular at Match referee's office. Bahjji since last 6 years and the other fool since he started playing for India.What they have done in IPL is delibrate particularly Sreesanth to attract media attention and fame. I remember how in school days how kids used to fight and beat each other. Then the school used to interfere and hand over punishment so that they are disciplined. But unfortunatley none of these guys involved are kids. They are doing delibrately and the whole world is laughing at them for their school boyish behaviour and bringing bad name to India
RE:Completely agree
by SDR Ranganathan on Apr 30, 2008 01:02 PM Permalink
I fully agree with Kimble's opinion on the situation with regard to the players behaviour.But these guys require psycho-analysis to see how they can behave like gentelmen both on and off the field. Can they not learn from Dravid, Kumble and Sachin-who have been role models. I think family background also counts. Severe punishment is the only stick that can mend these fellows who behave badly. Secondly do not dole out all their fees and keep back 50% to be paid at the end of the contract period-that too subject to their behaviour being good and their performance is good.
RE:Completely agree
by on Apr 30, 2008 01:02 PM Permalink
A bowler who has real talent should sledge and not jokers like Sreesanth. He is no where in comparison to Sachin, Jaysurya, Hayden, Ponting et al.. Once he tried to slegde Sachin and got what he deserved. Remember we lost the world cup because of Zaheer Khan who tried to sledge Hayden from the word go. Zaheer has improved a lot after he stopped sledgeing and now he is concentrating on real cricket.
Sreesanth should be banned even from domestic Cricket.
RE:Worst team
by suresh kasu on Apr 30, 2008 01:05 PM Permalink
Well Mr Mukesh Ambani just like yr retail business u should hire my expertise on low input high output frm professionals like me.
RE:Worst team
by bharat on Apr 30, 2008 12:56 PM Permalink
Looks like Mukesh Ambani has put his money on the wrong ghoda. The big hitters are either not playing at all (tendulkar) or have been flopping. On paper, Mumbai team is full of big hitters (Jayasurya, Uthappa, Dwayne Bravo, Tendulkar) but all are flopping at the same time.
RE:Worst team
by ravi shankar on Apr 30, 2008 01:03 PM Permalink
Watch out Jayasurya in next games.He will outclass all other so called heroes of other IPL teams!Dare to watch his future games!
