If you think that it is Danish Kaneria or the tainted Pakistani trio I am talking about, you’re wrong.
The Cricketer with dastardly selection policy and airheaded views on cricket and its players is none other than Kris Srikanth, the chief selector for the Indian Cricket Board.
You just have to watch today’s Times Now interview with Kris Srikanth. A bad taste in the mouth is the least of the sensations you could ever have. Just a few minutes back, on my after dinner smoke, someone said that Srikanth should be taken out and have his mouth washed with soap, if not with something stronger, or messier, for saying what he did.
He admits
If that is so in your Airheaded thinking, Srikanth, what about the selectors? Aren’t the selectors sitting in their Air-conditioned boxes or homes, snaffling expensive (soft) drinks, snacks and cocktail dinners afterwards, in fact, sitting out in judgement?
In your dastardly thinking Srikanth, then the selectors should just go with the same team again and again, as they should not judge the players, since the selectors are not in the ground and playing?
Would you believe, another cartoon with even more dastardly and airheaded view has joined the argument in Times Now - the intellect called Boria Mazumdar - every time on TV, he sounds like he is still a baby endeavouring to get out of his crib.
What a pathetic dribble!
/yuck/
(image courtesy Emile Mercier)
My Wise half wonders, ‘If ever a CBI/ED/ITD probe is ordered on the funding and the activities of BCCI, would there would be much or nothing, to answer for?’
To which my Naughty half natters, ‘It is time to change the name. What their activities have proved, even in cricketing field, is that neither do they ‘control’ cricket, nor what they practice is ‘cricket’!
update: This post has been rewritten under advice and guidance, on Thursday, with gentrified language in-lieu of the salty sailor-speak of the original. The changes are basically with the adjectives - intellect instead of idiot, dastardly instead of b*stardly, airhead instead of a**hole, etc.
When I read back, I realise that it carries the same punch but encased in gloves instead of the bare fist meeting boneheads.
The Cricketer with dastardly selection policy and airheaded views on cricket and its players is none other than Kris Srikanth, the chief selector for the Indian Cricket Board.
You just have to watch today’s Times Now interview with Kris Srikanth. A bad taste in the mouth is the least of the sensations you could ever have. Just a few minutes back, on my after dinner smoke, someone said that Srikanth should be taken out and have his mouth washed with soap, if not with something stronger, or messier, for saying what he did.
He admits
- that seniors have been given too much time - but is not willing to take responsibility to give them the boot.
- that the rotation policy has proved to be wrong, but does not know what else to suggest.
- that the youngsters have not proved themselves, in Australia, and hence defends the policy of persisting with old donkeys.
- that seniors who have been performing poorly overseas, in England and Australia, are being given chance to come good in sub-continent-like conditions during Asia cup.
- that at least 1 (or 2) players have admitted that they are unfit now, right in the middle of Australia series, and are being rested in Asia Cup. Presumably for them to get fit in time for IPL!
- that the board is not willing to give the same chance to new blood. I mean is it current policy that young bloods have to be blooded overseas? If so, why not an conduct Ranji trophies overseas?
If that is so in your Airheaded thinking, Srikanth, what about the selectors? Aren’t the selectors sitting in their Air-conditioned boxes or homes, snaffling expensive (soft) drinks, snacks and cocktail dinners afterwards, in fact, sitting out in judgement?
In your dastardly thinking Srikanth, then the selectors should just go with the same team again and again, as they should not judge the players, since the selectors are not in the ground and playing?
Would you believe, another cartoon with even more dastardly and airheaded view has joined the argument in Times Now - the intellect called Boria Mazumdar - every time on TV, he sounds like he is still a baby endeavouring to get out of his crib.
What a pathetic dribble!
/yuck/
(image courtesy Emile Mercier)
My Wise half wonders, ‘If ever a CBI/ED/ITD probe is ordered on the funding and the activities of BCCI, would there would be much or nothing, to answer for?’
To which my Naughty half natters, ‘It is time to change the name. What their activities have proved, even in cricketing field, is that neither do they ‘control’ cricket, nor what they practice is ‘cricket’!
update: This post has been rewritten under advice and guidance, on Thursday, with gentrified language in-lieu of the salty sailor-speak of the original. The changes are basically with the adjectives - intellect instead of idiot, dastardly instead of b*stardly, airhead instead of a**hole, etc.
When I read back, I realise that it carries the same punch but encased in gloves instead of the bare fist meeting boneheads.
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