A good start to the new year! Happy New Year Folks :). First things first. I don't support racism. period.
We are all hypocrites! But none can beat this!
The Aussies can taunt all teams around the world with their straight, sexual, abusive, well thought, planned, hard mouthed cricket!! When they do it, its a mind game. Hah thats the politically correct term I suppose?
But "a monkey" is all that takes for Andrew Symonds to goto MAMA (read ICC). Yes, Bhajji has apologised to Symonds for the same word earlier! So nothing wrong there. If he did it again, the ban serves him right.
Now there seems to be a one Hogg calling our folks names.. like b**tard. We in India probably call it taunt, verbal abuse. Perhaps, if he had used those same words off the field to any one of our players, he would be RIP. Well, apparently the Aussies are fine with b**tard but not monkeys. Symonds apparently is annoyed / irritated / disturbed by the monkey comments! And, it turned racist. Wow!
Look at this article from Waugh... eloquent, waxing eloquent!!! I quote from his article in Herald Sun, Australia
Beautiful, he went on to pooh pooh the monkey incident in India as well. But, in the end, .. err... he ends up contradicting himself. So, he actually wants every other team to accept all that comes from the Aussie cricketers for high quality banter, chatter, sportsmanship! Excellent! Claps all around!
So if the ICC wants to stop all this nonsense from happening, it cannot let just tighten strings where the Aussies want it tightened! Why should Gilchrist object to a speaker near the stumps being sensitive and the same being broadcasted?? Whats to hide if its friendly banter mate? If not whats the need for it in the first place? If there is cricket then let it be just cricket! Don't let Kumble the Silent talk the bodyline talk!
And thats another news item that has catapulted the already high flying news channels into the limelight. NDTV-IBN and Times Now increasing in levels as they come! Making news, whoever coined that term!!??
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Harbhajan 'broke a deal' on abuse
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We are all hypocrites! But none can beat this!
The Aussies can taunt all teams around the world with their straight, sexual, abusive, well thought, planned, hard mouthed cricket!! When they do it, its a mind game. Hah thats the politically correct term I suppose?
But "a monkey" is all that takes for Andrew Symonds to goto MAMA (read ICC). Yes, Bhajji has apologised to Symonds for the same word earlier! So nothing wrong there. If he did it again, the ban serves him right.
Now there seems to be a one Hogg calling our folks names.. like b**tard. We in India probably call it taunt, verbal abuse. Perhaps, if he had used those same words off the field to any one of our players, he would be RIP. Well, apparently the Aussies are fine with b**tard but not monkeys. Symonds apparently is annoyed / irritated / disturbed by the monkey comments! And, it turned racist. Wow!
Look at this article from Waugh... eloquent, waxing eloquent!!! I quote from his article in Herald Sun, Australia
"At the centre of most incidents between cricketing nations is the clash or lack of understanding of each other's cultures.
Teams playing against Australia fail to understand that the banter, gamesmanship and sledging it uses is the way Australian kids joust and play in the schoolyard and backyard.
On the other hand Aussie teams can't stomach time-wasting tactics and perceived manipulation of the rules, including calling for runners, over-appealing and the alleged altering of the ball's condition."
Beautiful, he went on to pooh pooh the monkey incident in India as well. But, in the end, .. err... he ends up contradicting himself. So, he actually wants every other team to accept all that comes from the Aussie cricketers for high quality banter, chatter, sportsmanship! Excellent! Claps all around!
So if the ICC wants to stop all this nonsense from happening, it cannot let just tighten strings where the Aussies want it tightened! Why should Gilchrist object to a speaker near the stumps being sensitive and the same being broadcasted?? Whats to hide if its friendly banter mate? If not whats the need for it in the first place? If there is cricket then let it be just cricket! Don't let Kumble the Silent talk the bodyline talk!
And thats another news item that has catapulted the already high flying news channels into the limelight. NDTV-IBN and Times Now increasing in levels as they come! Making news, whoever coined that term!!??
Checkout Links ---
Harbhajan 'broke a deal' on abuse
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