Get Over It - Let Them Play!
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I'm a Sports lover. I love and have participated in cricket, rugby, hockey and tennis as both a player and administrator including umpiring and off field admin. I watch the theatrics of this Australia vs. India debacle and I just have to shake my head. The Australians are a tough bunch, they've dominated cricket for a decade or more, they are without a doubt the strongest side in world cricket and they know it. The Indians are a nice enough bunch of guys. Competitive, talented and I dare say one of the sides in international cricket who have the potential to be the worlds best. The fact that they pushed the World champions right to the edge (away from home) is a remarkable feat. What I don't understand though is this insistence on blowing up things in the media and the name calling and trading of insults across via PR agents and press conferences. For crying in a bucket anybody that's played either amateur or professional cricket knows that being called a Monkey (irrespective of race, religion etc.) is probably one of the lesser chirps one here's traded on a sports field. And the guys that play the game they know it. I'm not sure on Singhs' English but for all we know that might be the best he could muster up in the heat of the moment. I am 99.99% sure that Paul Harris and Dale Steyns' parting chirps to Chris Gayle with that send off were certainly not Bad luck old chap. I certainly don't get why India had to blackmail a tour simply to get their way and why the ICC had to be so slow in coming up with negotiating a truce. It seemed to me pretty obvious the world agreed Bucknor was beyond bad and Singh certainly wasn't the only one involved in the chirping aspects of the game. I've seen it in professional and amateur sport players get wound up on the field and they trade verbal. Big deal yes I understand it's a poor advert for a sport when it comes to marketing it to children but the supporters like to see a bit of emotion in their contests. Why the captains and players couldn't sit down over a beer and chat it out I'll never know the players know they were in the wrong and they need to reel it in. Sometimes administrators, agents, PR and communications people must just get out of the way and let sportsmen hash it out. Nobody walks away with any respect if they win an appeal in a sports court or they rely on the agent to do the talking for them.
I'm a Sports lover. I love and have participated in cricket, rugby, hockey and tennis as both a player and administrator including umpiring and off field admin. I watch the theatrics of this Australia vs. India debacle and I just have to shake my head. The Australians are a tough bunch, they've dominated cricket for a decade or more, they are without a doubt the strongest side in world cricket and they know it. The Indians are a nice enough bunch of guys. Competitive, talented and I dare say one of the sides in international cricket who have the potential to be the worlds best. The fact that they pushed the World champions right to the edge (away from home) is a remarkable feat. What I don't understand though is this insistence on blowing up things in the media and the name calling and trading of insults across via PR agents and press conferences. For crying in a bucket anybody that's played either amateur or professional cricket knows that being called a Monkey (irrespective of race, religion etc.) is probably one of the lesser chirps one here's traded on a sports field. And the guys that play the game they know it. I'm not sure on Singhs' English but for all we know that might be the best he could muster up in the heat of the moment. I am 99.99% sure that Paul Harris and Dale Steyns' parting chirps to Chris Gayle with that send off were certainly not Bad luck old chap. I certainly don't get why India had to blackmail a tour simply to get their way and why the ICC had to be so slow in coming up with negotiating a truce. It seemed to me pretty obvious the world agreed Bucknor was beyond bad and Singh certainly wasn't the only one involved in the chirping aspects of the game. I've seen it in professional and amateur sport players get wound up on the field and they trade verbal. Big deal yes I understand it's a poor advert for a sport when it comes to marketing it to children but the supporters like to see a bit of emotion in their contests. Why the captains and players couldn't sit down over a beer and chat it out I'll never know the players know they were in the wrong and they need to reel it in. Sometimes administrators, agents, PR and communications people must just get out of the way and let sportsmen hash it out. Nobody walks away with any respect if they win an appeal in a sports court or they rely on the agent to do the talking for them.