Cricket Fever 2007...

As usual, no introduction and straight to the point. This entry focuses on some of the things that are pissing me off with regard to the Cricket World Cup.

Firstly, Ricky Ponting. Enough of his goofy rabbit smiles everytimes he says something. You do NOT need to smile after every statement you make. Sunil Gavaskar was absolutely right to point out Ricky's shortcomings. But instead of graciously accepting his faults, he decides to act like a total idiot, in analogy with some of the other people who are too fat-headed to accept their faults, whom we only know too well.

Secondly, these people on television who, for one month before the Word Cup started, were discussing India's prospects with people who were getting less distinguished by the day. What's the point in holding discussions? What difference does it make? Yea everyone said India is winning the World Cup. But as I write this, India are struggling against Bangladesh, a country only marginally smaller than India's largest state.

Thirdly, advertisers who come up with these weird quizzes on TV regarding the World Cup. Predict who's gonna win seems pretty reasonable to me. But then they start asking, Will India beat Pakistan.? Well Mr.Oracle, how do you know that India will meet Pakistan in the World Cup. India and Pakistan, with their huge populations with even huger expectations, are right now struggling against B'Desh and Ireland respectively, teams composed by students who got thrown out of school and looked for another means of livelyhood.!

Fourthly, Inzamam-Ul-Haq, saying Inshallah everytime he goes for the presentation ceremony. Why can't people keep religion out of sports? And yea why do people get cars and bikes as Man of the Match/Series..?? It's cycles these people need. We gotta act fast, before obesity enters the realms of cricket...

By far the most irritating people associated with cricket ever. Hindi commentators. Final. No competition. Hindi commentators. I don't really understand why these croakers with double digit IQ's are droning on how cricket is being played, when most of them haven't even held a bat, that too in Hinglish, cause every second word a Hindi commentator uses is English.

Some of the most heard phrases on National TV;

Behthereen shot; Shot is obviously english. Even Behthereen sounds like a sort of superlative of Better.

York Karane ki koshish: York. If you don't know the hindi word for that, why are you saying it?

Achcha shot magar fielder Mavjhood; Here every alternate word is English. A literal translation would be, good shot, but there's a fielder. How is it a good shot, if it's straight to the fielder. First of all your language sucks, then you're technically screwing up on terminology too. Suckers!

Cup-thaan Rahul Dravid; Capthaan!!! Why try to make Captain sound Indian now? If you were comfortable with using English words so long, why not either use a Hindi or English word, instead of trying to combine the two..? Your accent is bad enough. No need to make it more obvious. Another non-cricket example: Daaktar, for Doctor... WTD???

Accha over. Maiden over.; Here three words out of the four are English. Is the Hindi in the Hindi commentary getting just a little scarce??????