The Indian tour appears a watershed event in Australian cricket. Not only is the tour being analysed and agonized over, questions are being raised over Cricket Australia’s priorities, the commitment of the players and selection policies.
The compromise of cricketing values does not end there. Eight players involved in last night's match will be playing in today's Sheffield Shield match at the MCG between Victoria and Tasmania, and to accommodate their travel back from Brisbane the game starts at one o'clock. One can only wonder at the thoughts of David Hussey or Brad Hodge if they are walking out to face Ben Hilfenhaus or Brett Geeves in semi-darkness at 7.30 tonight.
Indians reading this may find a faint echo of the preceding months where everyone, even Ranatunga was questioning BCCI’s priorities. Apparently, a series win or loss changes everything.
Cricket News Online Live.com on India-Australia Tour 2008
12 comments:
So are you being a Ranatunga, Ottayan? :)
Soulberry,
Your question is out of the left field. Can you elaborate? :)
Australia facing the their own music..
it will take a while to realise the reality sinking in OTT...right now they are behaving exactly like the person who is not used to of handling such situation...
hayden's 'third world' statement is also the case in point...
Tri,
The beauty is they are behaving exactly the same way we do.
Pan,
Hayden is an insensitive arsehole. Hope he keeps away from CSK.
carrying on with your point on CSK
the more i see these cheap instances the more i get reminded of what smg wrote on these mentally retarded bastards...
http://www.dreamcricket.com/dreamcricket/news.hspl?nid=9150&ntid=4
excerpt:
"Whenever there is an interview to be given to the papers back home it is invariably with a dig at India and Indians.
Why there are several who refer to India as "thats f-----g India for you" and still have the shamelessness to stay on and earn money here because they are pretty much unemployable back home.
This tour has taught them a lesson that they never in wildest of dreams expected. The taste was sour and it has shown that,
They are gentle, as long as they win
Else they are mental
mental = rude+obnoxious weed
Pan,
Unemployable back home.:0
Anon,
The Australian's were beaten in their own game and they do not like it.
not bad... they are just like us... chaotic... hell, i am an aussie after all LOL>
Scorpi,
Bad time to be an Aussie.
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