16/05/2008

Mr. Kumble we have heard this one before

What if it is IPL, the latest format in cricket, some things never change including the excuses for poor performance.

Read on:

"What's important though, is that at this time, you need all the support and backing you can get," Kumble wrote in his column for Hindustan Times. "You need the people around you, the people who matter, to understand what sport is all about, to realise that no one goes out there to lose”.

(Kumble statement comes in the wake of the scathing comments made by Vijay Mallya, on Dravid.)

'No one goes out their to lose' is an excuse cricket fans have been hearing for eons. Since defeat is permanent and victory is temporary, lets us do away with these hackneyed excuses and come up with some new ones.

For starters, I like the one said by Afridi (cheerleaders are a distraction), it by far the best and the most original excuse someone has come up with in IPL.

Do you have any favourite?

2 comments:

straight point said...

i dont know about others but biggest excuse of century, for me, would be cricketers appealing excessive cricket...

have anybody heard any player mentioning excessive cricket now with almost daily match so much of traveling...'home' and 'away' matched in IPL??

money heals faster...!!

LVISS said...

The message is for the team owner.I think the team has by their silence authorised Kumble to talk on behalf of them.OR the team as a bunch are ready to quit.