My preoccupations about the Indian cricket team has largely been confined to the composition of the team, individual talent, petty politicking and anything else that goes around in India (sometimes around the world) in the name of cricket.
However, it has never made me lose my sense of appropriateness, for I am a strong believer that whatever I do or rant, Niranjan Shah will effortlessly eclipse me with the size and scope of his blathering.
With this healthy dose of pragmatism, I consider cricket as just a game whose best players can be found among the officials of the BCCI, yet this had me gasping.
Tendulkar's refusal to take over the high-profile job, often regarded in this cricket-mad nation as the second-most important after the Prime Minister's.
I doubt whether any Indian will consider it so. We are passionate about our cricket. Winning or losing drives us into feeding frenzy. But we have our priorities right. To consider captaining India as the second most important job is a bit too much.
Damn it. It is the most important job in India.
What do you say?
However, it has never made me lose my sense of appropriateness, for I am a strong believer that whatever I do or rant, Niranjan Shah will effortlessly eclipse me with the size and scope of his blathering.
With this healthy dose of pragmatism, I consider cricket as just a game whose best players can be found among the officials of the BCCI, yet this had me gasping.
Tendulkar's refusal to take over the high-profile job, often regarded in this cricket-mad nation as the second-most important after the Prime Minister's.
I doubt whether any Indian will consider it so. We are passionate about our cricket. Winning or losing drives us into feeding frenzy. But we have our priorities right. To consider captaining India as the second most important job is a bit too much.
Damn it. It is the most important job in India.
What do you say?
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