I often feel that most of the indian fans are biased, nonsensical, illiterate (cricket) and irrational . Sorry guys, there are really good knowledgeable fans around in this country but they are being outnumbered and outvoiced by the shrillsness of these fans. Usually you can see them in popular forums voicing their myopic opinions.
Usually these trolls will appear during selection to Indian team to voice their opinion about the omission of their state players or favourite players.
Let us take the recent example of selection for T20 World cup. Vijay was replaced for injured Sehwag and all those frustrated souls came out in the open stating, it is regional bias, CSK bias (seriously ?) and as such.
The replacements most of them suggesting are Uthappa,Rayudu,Manish Pandey, Naman Ojha and so on. But mostly it is Uthappa who is recommended across forums as well as some blogs due to his blazing form in IPL. I would like to make my points here for them
1) Sehwag is an opener and needs to be replaced with an opener. Uthappa is not an opener. He has not opened for a long time.
2) The replacement can be selected only from the 30 probables who were named earlier. Uthappa was not named in that list.
3) For those who dont know or having selective amnesia, IPL is not the only domestic tournament in India. But for your information there is even an official T20 tournament called Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy played between state teams.
Before IPL, in those tournaments Uthappa was totally crap and thats why was not selected in probables list, whereas performers like Pandey,Mithun and some other players were included. Even he would be acknowledging this if you ask him. For the same reason Rayudu was also not selected in the probables list.
I rest my case.
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I agree with you on all your points. However, wasn't the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy running parallel to the IPL? I remember reading about Maharashtra making the finals and the IPL was already on.
ReplyDeleteVijay was the obvious choice to replace Sehwag, although it doesn't guarantee him performing well at the T20 World Cup. You can't replace an opening batsman with a middle order player. We found it out the hard way last year.
Just checked, the tournament was played in two phases. It seems Karnataka played only two games. Surely that's not enough to judge Uthappa. Not that I'd have picked him ahead of Vijay, but just trying to keep it in perspective.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Mahek,
ReplyDeleteI also dont have anything against Uthappa, its just people dont state their opinion on whats really happening.
That was one more anomoly from BCCI to hold 2 T20 tournaments at the same time.
Actually i was referring to his overall domestic performance including ranji,hazare and duleep trophies.
They could have gone either with Pandey or Vijay but Vijay seems to be a better bet than Pandey due to recent form.
Kanda!
ReplyDeleteIt's quite a tough call really - There's really nobody here who stands out of late. Uthappa, Pandey and Vijay are the only choices. Maybe they could have replaced Sehwag with a bowler /all-rounder, and gotten Karthik to open with Gambhir. Gives an additional option
Actually, considering the wretched form that Sehwag has been in, even any one of us 3 here could have walked in and done better :-P
MTJAG!