MEDIA TOO HARSH

"Another spineless performance from India”

   India’s horror show down under.

    Flames down under.

    Ships are sinking

    Absolute shame.

The above were the headlines of the newspapers after India suffered a loss in the perth test match yet again. India was bowled out for 191 in the first innings and 162 in the second innings and was handed yet another inning defeat by the Australian team.

I think the media has gone bizzarde against the losses that India has suffered at the hands of Australia which was once the world champion. In my views the reaction from the media was extreme because it’s only a test match that rather a test series that India has lost not its pride. I wonder how a person who has not held a cricket bat in his entire life term Indian team good for nothing and define the losses down under as a shameful sin for which the members of the Indian cricket team are responsible.

I wonder how some people can term Indian coach Duncan Fletcher as a man with no ideas. It’s not right on the media’s part to term a series loss as a national shame because in my views the game of cricket cannot bring a national shame to the people of India. One must not forget that cricket might be a religion in India whose god’s are the star cricketers but it’s not even the national game of our country.

Many national television channels termed India’s loss as flamesà> as if the world was coming to an end. Many termed it as a matter of absolute shame as if the cricketers had degraded India’s pride at the hands of Australia. I wonder how the people can term the Indian batting order spineless in the presence of greats such as Sachin, Dravid and Laxman. I think media has no right to suggest them when to retire because for decades these players have performed consistently to be at the top and they very well know when it’s the right time.

Also a die heart cricket fan must realize that losing a test match is no big deal and their faith in the Indian cricket must not disappear due to this. It’s not a matter to be worried of because in a game you win some and loose some it’s just that Indian team was at the receiving end. One must not forget the memorable triumph moment that our team gave us in April 2011 when they made us the world champions after 28 long years .one must not term them as zeroes just because the team is going through a bad face that might end soon and India would retain its number one position in the tests also Sachin would score his much awaited hundredth international hundred and would give us a moments of joy and would put Indian team back on track.

I wish them all good luck for the triangular series and many more series to come.

sahil gupta

23/01/2011