Sometimes I feel that my hate for Mumbai Indians is more than my love for the other teams! Actually the thing is... I hate Mumbai Indians for 4 reasons... (It was 3 for so many years, I just made up one now!)
1. MI (Mumbai Indians, not Mission: Impossible! Though you can exchange those terms!) is owned by Ambanis, whom I hate! Advertising and management students may call it the 'halo effect', but I don't care!
2. MI has Sachin Tendulkar, who I feel is the most hyped player in the world!
Damn it, why doesn't he just retire and give other youngsters a chance? At the end of the 2007 Word Cup, he said he may not play the 2011 WC... But here he is ready to play that too!!!
Even the IPL 2010 final match versus Chennai Super Kings, he played with an injury... I don't see it as heroic. Instead if he hadn't played, some youngster who would've played better perhaps, or Jayasuriya/Bravo could've been given a chance!
Even his captaincy in that match is questionable... Sending Bhajji at 4, Pollard at 8!!!
Anyway, Pollard and therefore Mumbai Indians and Tendulkar too got their due... Everyone saw how Pollard did not give Rayudu a chance to bat, because he wanted the strike all the time... And then Rayudu's wicket... Rayudu got out just because Pollard forced him to... I believe if Rayudu had stayed on, MI would've had a chance! Teamwork, anyone?
And as to Sachin's credentials about being a world class player: any cricket player (even a gully-cricket playing one) will tell you that when a fielder takes a catch close to the ground, he knows if it has bounced on the ground before landing in his hands or if he has directly taken the catch... In the semi-finals of the 2010 IPL against RCB, everyone saw the (missed) catch he took of Dravid... He appealed for a wicket, when I, who was sitting in the confines of my living room, could see that it was grassed before he took the catch... How could he even appeal for a catch?! Disgusting! I say it's proper judgment that he tore his webbing on that catch itself!
3. It's Bombay, not Mumbai! (Just my way of revolting in a small way against the local fascist political parties)
4. (Which I made up right now) Their team name reeks of groupism! I understand it's an Indian tournament and all but what about the global implications? You don't see other teams with such 'selfish' names (if I can call it that!) It's as if MI is not recognising the presence of the foreign players at all! Mumbai Indians indeed... If you play so greedily and selfishly, I believe the team name is an insult to all Indians!
I know very well that I may be called an anti-national or even a traitor for this post... Well... You can call me what you want!
k...leme tell u sumthn bout sachin...y is he hyped....he deserves to be....
ReplyDeleteSachin Tendulkar made his international debut in ODIs and Tests at the age of 16 against Pakistan and the fiery pace of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. He then went to England as a part of the national side, and has not looked back ever since. Born on 24 April 1973 in Mumbai, he is the star of the Indian cricket team.
The greatest batsman in the world today, Sachin Tendulkar has the cricketing world at his feet. Immensely gifted and blessed with an impeccable technique, Tendulkar´s batting is a dream, combining timing, elegance and power.
The first batsman to score 10,000 runs in one-day cricket, making the record in the third game of a five-match series against Australia on the 31st of March 2001. He reached the landmark when he scored 34 runs in his 266th match and 259th innings. Tendulkar, 27, in his amazing 12-year career, has scored a world record 28 hundreds and 50 half-centuries in his 10,000 runs.
i thnk u shud b proud of him....cz he's the frst indian.......sorry frst evr palyer to do so dat to frm india...
i wud rathr hv more n more sachins frm india...make my country proud...
and bout the captaincy..c'mon evn god makes mistakes...u dn alwaz get wat u wan....so dat dsnt mean u stop wrorshippn him....d same way thn happnd yest...bt u cant deny the matches wer he looked aft his team so welll...
ReplyDeleten how can u hate d team only coz u hate d owners..aftr all itz a crcket so well i thnk match shud talk nt the owners...i dn evn kno d owners of half of the teams....
plz let the match talk nt d owners...
n bout mumbai...its name...
ReplyDeleteThe city was called Bombay for much of the last four hundred years. The origin of the name is obscure, but is often said to come from the Portuguese phrase bom bahia meaning "good bay". The name Mumbai has been used in the main local languages for as long, and is ascribed to the local goddess, Mumba (ai means mother in Marathi). The name of the city was changed to Mumbai by an act of the parliament in 1997.
so wen wer r indians y to we need a portugal name...
for me n my fellow indianz it MUMBAI....
n M a prud MUMBAKAR...
:)
n pollard wanted a strike coz he wanted to score...isnt selfishness bt juz to win...n rayadu gettin out was juz a matter of undrstandin....dats cald s team spirit...
ReplyDeletehattsoff to him...
thns obv went wrong like pollard sendin in late n raina's drops...
bt dats a part of a game...u cant alwaz expect evrythn to go ur way....
well m disappointed with MI performance too ... i think Sachin took a couple of bad decisions with the batting line up [pollard sud have been sent to bat straight after his wicket] ....
ReplyDeletehowever as far as Sachin as a player and the issue of he being a overrated played is concerned ... i feel Sachin is indeed the best of all times. Why sud he retire when he still possess the skill and ability to hit a double 100 in a 50 over format of the game??... he still plays like any other youngster ... prabably better.
oh and as far as pollard and Rayudu goes.. i guess we all know who can hit the ball harder out of the park .. yeah it does look kinda selfish when u watch it.. cz after tht run out pollard cudnt add to the total trying 2 chase 12 rpo! :)
U know Not one of Ur best blog Post .. It wasnt very convincing ....
ReplyDelete@Zena: I know, it was very biased and prejudiced... Wrote it on subjectivity rather than logic!
ReplyDeleteI know But Like I said earlier even if it was prejudiced it was not convincing !:P
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