What type of site is this that deletes posts that challenge your opinion? I will post one more time and see if this stands. To those who disagree that is your right. But it is my right to disagree with you also.
India received some bad decisions, that's cricket, harden up. Would have..could have...should have...DIDN'T. If it was the Australian team on the receiving end, then guess what, they would have dug deeper and fought harder. That is why they are champions. Sure India can run cricket, it has the largest market, the most money, but it does not have the best team in the world. Why, because it is soft. All this talk of being aggressive before the tour was just that, talk. Still doesn't change the fact that India had the chance to battle for the draw in the final overs and crumbled under the pressure. Tough talk has suddenly turned into take my bat and ball and go home crying. Perhaps they should go home to avoid the flogging they are going to get in the next 2 tests, because at the end of the day they lack the courage and the fortitude. Rich, yes. Powerful, yes. Heavily supported, yes. Champions, no. And I believe that is the bottom line that really gets your goat, covered up with all this rhetoric. Stop being such crybabies and take your lumps like men.
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by raj on Jan 08, 2008 07:00 PM Permalink
lols, yu tick people the wrong way, yu've gotta be a troll.
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by Ananth Rao on Jan 08, 2008 07:12 PM Permalink
Australia is the cry baby here...running to papa when you can't take the heat. I am a fan of the Aussie way of playing hard and fair, but if they can't take the heat, they should stop being such sissies.
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by on Jan 08, 2008 07:42 PM Permalink
The only thing we complained about is Racial Abuse - we are a multi-cultural country (including many Indians) and for that matter we can't accept racial abuse or discrimination it would ruin our country. India on the other hand has complained about 1. Umpires (bad decisions went against us too you know) 2. Australia not shaking hands quick enough (check out the 20/20 semi-final and then tell me this isn't hypocritical) 3. The Match Referee (I think you have a point here :P) 4. Aussie sledging 5. Australins appealing for things that the super slow mo showed was out. But no you're right - we are the sissies. See we're Aussies we can handle being called a nasty name :P
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by on Jan 08, 2008 07:25 PM Permalink
Actually, when it comes to racism I disagree. It has no place in sport, period. Seems as though racism is acceptable in India but I guess the caste system is as culturally ingrained as it is to rednecks in the American South. As an indigenous person I know full well that racism is alive in Australia but for someone to refer to someone as a monkey on the field of a professional sport, come on, you can't see anything wrong with that? Remember he has admitted to that once already and got off with a warning. When Darren Lehmann was caught out being a racist no one said it was alright, or cultural misunderstanding or denied it happened. He had to face the penalty and rightly so. Seems like Indian supporters are living in denial, just like the crowd issue in Idian recently. Sure, we are suppose to sweep racism under the carpet are we?
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by raj on Jan 08, 2008 07:30 PM Permalink
the indian crowd issue has been raised repeatedly. all the newspaper condemned it. the tv channels gave it full coverage, and claimed it a national shame. if yu missed that part, its yur problem. but yu will be termed as one sided for sure. yu dont see the facts properly yur problem.
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by on Jan 08, 2008 07:43 PM Permalink
Yet this incident is not condemned or a national shame but "injustice". Truth is if he was on my team I would have stood him down after the 1st time. But I guess I don't see the facts.
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by Cameron Richardson on Jan 09, 2008 01:55 PM Permalink
Ananth Rao: What heat are you talking about? Certainly you cannot be suggesting Indian cricketing heat? Are you? You must have a fantastically brilliant sense of humour. Truly, that was one of the things I enjoyed most about your country: fantastic humour.
Good luck to you sir & your team. Lets hope they play some real cricket now & that cricket is back in the headlines for all the right reasons.
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by TJ on Jan 08, 2008 06:59 PM Permalink
Hei there are a lot of clowns within rediff who does this. My counter views were also reported and deleted.
This generally denotes the vicinity of unilateral views
