Kudos to the media. Greg Chappel and the Indian team have seemed to have hijacked the media for their own personal or professional reasons. And...the media both visual and print media are lapping it up. Anybody giving any information about the world cup debacle seems to have got some airtime or atleast space in a newspaper or website article. Well, a few have enough credibility and performance in their playing days to comment on the team's performance. I remember Krish Srikanth saying that Saurav Ganaguly should be dropped when the e-mail from Chappel was 'leaked' out. Now the same person bats for Ganguly!! well come on, we are not fools..former cricketers...but yes we are fools..cos as the saying for cricket goes '11 fools playing and 11 million fools watching' except that we are one billion people watching. People who will turn the cricketers into demi-gods one day and demons the next. Cos this is India...Indians who are so passionate about cricket that people have time to burn effigies, pelt stones on the houses of cricketers, demolish the compound walls of the houses they are building. Well, this shows something. Aren't these people supposed to go to work? Which brings us to another point..what happened to the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, that promises 100 days employment to rural people. May be we should ask the Centre to extend it to these people who vandalise and resort to ugly gimmicks in the name of being cricket fanatics. Accepted that these are the people who have made the cricket board rich.
Wait..I m supposed to write about the media lapping it all up and not about cricket. Well, being from the media, that's what I have been doing all this while..trying to make sense of all that I have written above. Hope u have!!
