Steve Waugh said it right " Indians only Play for Records" they are not clutch players who can deliver in crunch situations.
Your most popular cricketers are coming home to India tail between their legs not being able to reach the Super Eights and beaten by the lowly Bangla Desh.
Even now is your choice the Losing Popular Team India to Winning Unpopular Australia?
Australians are ready to spill their blood and guts on the field to win the 2007 Cricket World Cup. If they think it is not enough, they are ready to spill the blood and guts of their opponents to win.
Do you want to know what is the root cause of the great Indian annihilation, Mr.Sunil Gavaskar?
Our Cricket stars are more worried about losing their cricket sex appeal (this phrase is patented!) and the consequent ad rakings than about winning and losing a cricket match.
In effect Sunny, they do not want to lose their popularity. And in chasing popularity, they have lost everything including their popularity.
Ever heard a popular quotation? %u201CHappiness is like a butterfly. If you chase it, you may not catch it, but if you sit still it may descend upon you.%u201D
Replace the happiness with popularity. Team India is chasing popularity not excellence in cricket.
Popularity should be the effect not the cause. The great Indian Cricket team, with tiger stripes painted on their faces, thinks popularity is the cause and hence this greatest of debacles. You want clearer definition of Cause and Effect.
You play excellent cricket (cause), and you become popular (effect). But Indian cricket stars think they are popular (cause) and hence they by, default, should play excellent cricket (effect). And people like you by making them demigods fuel this madness.
Why you make them demigods is to increase your salability is a known thing. But by creating this hype and hoopla about Indian Cricket, you are killing real cricket played by Australia. The batting of Heyden, Ponting, Clarke etc was real cricket Sir, and what the Indian Cricket Team played in the 2007 is a cheap imitation.
I define the quality of Australian Cricket today as Sublime. It is attained by hours and hours of practice and saint like discipline, sweat, pain, sacrifice and self-denial.
And you have the effrontery to make derogatory remarks to them? Mend your ways, Sir, before it is too late! You did it, to a certain extent, by apologizing to David Hooke's family. But that is not enough, a full scale apology is due.
You know what the opponents feel when our, once great, Sachin Tendulkar takes guard. HOPE!
But when Ricky Ponting takes guard. FEAR!
In India cricketers should not only be able to play cricket, but should be photogenic also, so that the Colas and Pepsis can promote their worse than human urine like soft drinks, using the beautiful faces of Sachin, Dravid etc. Remember, %u201COoh, Aah, India....%u201D
Ramesh Powar is a better one-day bowler than Harbhajan Singh in today%u2019s form. He was not picked because he is not good looking. You were a better cricketer than me, so I need not have to tell you this. Observe closely how Ramesh Powars delivers moves in the air. You call it %u201Cdrift%u201D in cricketing language. Harbhajan of today does not have it. An off spinner without the %u201Cdrift%u201D is a toothless tiger.
All this is because of self serving servants of the Indian cricket who have established themselves in the garb of cricket experts, cricket commentators, cricket administrators, cricket advisors, cricket selectors.
Ricky Ponting ups his batting to the next niche when the opposition, the situation of the match is toughest.
And your so-called Popular Cricketers up their batting when the opposition is the hapless Bermuda and when there is nothing in the bowling
