For Indians, cricket is a passion.Its strange that people get so carried away by just a game, in which they might not even be playing,that they begin to do weird things. Things which they might not even mean. The past few matches against Australia have been an example of this. The racial taunting of Andrew symonds has left me quite disappointed. People were actually been photographed making monkey-like gestures,they abused him and made animal noises.
What is this? Is this the India that preaches secularism? Why are these people so set on destroying the spirit of game?
The game is seen as a symbol of tolerance, team spirit and diversity.
I mean,Symonds (fantastic player) was booed at when he went to receive the Man Of The Series award. The poor guy didn't even come to the media conference later. I'm happily surprised at how he handled himself. Any other person would have been quite furious and have done some thing to get back. These people were all adults, yet they could not behave sensibly.They were guests in our country, and how amazingly we treated them...(wow. ME, 15-year-old ME, preaching).
The racial aspect of this taunting was being denied earlier by the Indian authorities. But in the last match, they could not ignore it. Thankfully, they evicted some of the trouble makers. Indians have anyway never been known as polite, and now, this is further demolishing India's image internationally. What is symonds fault? That he plays well? Or that the Indian team can't beat them? That he's better than some of our players?
Apparently, some Aussi youths are planning to get back at the Indians (read: the Indian team) in the same way when they come to tour Australia. I don't think they'd succeed as the Australians don't hesitate to enforce their laws unlike the Indians who prefer to turn the blind eye until forced to do something.
I actually won't mind a lot he they do that. Some of the players themselves behave quite childishly. Take Sreesanth for eg. He taunts, screams and makes some rather unappealing gestures while in the field. He's aggressive and stupid. When asked (after the 20-20 world cup was over) about how being aggressive had become his identity and if he'd continue yelling his guts out (this is not in direct speech) I was irritated by is reply. He said that there was more good coming out of it than bad (don't ask me how) and that he'd continue doing it. He didn't regret being fined. He said that the loss was only of money and that the gain was more (of what?).
What the hell, man... Its just a game...
Monday, October 29, 2007
Spirit Of Cricket, huh?
Put up by Midnight Sun at 1:42:00 PM
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I agree, sport is something much beyond my feeble comprehension I mean what is so entertaining to see a bunch of guys slug it out in a field? Whats the whole point in the first place and why exactly is it entertaining at all, shouldn't we be discouraging it(I do not mean this from the standpoint of obvious health benefits, I mean it as a widespread addiction), as it does lead to several social problems and divisions.
I personally think that sport appeals to the primitive being inside us, direct competition as in gladiatorial combat does indeed satisfy the hunter in us. Think about it.
Which isn't surprising for most of our tenure on this planet we have been hunter gatherers, the types of reflexes, design etc must have over time been evolved due to this fact. The most successful hunter wins and of course spreads his genes.
So I guess that in this "civilized" day and age, sport is it's natural successor and I guess that it appeals to most humans due to this fact. How boringly redundant isn't it?
u know, games also encourage team spirit and make ppl feel like they belong to a country more than they cause divisions.
No, sport throughout history has been sadly abused to show dominance and the nature of sport itself, the ruthless competition is what I am against.
As long as such things are in the popular psyche do you think peace is possible, aren't several sports like war games? The point is though it may be good for the health, sport isn't really required as it unites a few people and divides the rest of them.
Anuj, what would YOU know?? You apply the Chaos Theory to basketball games.
I do NOT apply the chaos theory to basketball games it wouldn't make any sense for heavens sake, as it wouldn't serve any real purpose what will you do find out with it's application (I am not sure, it is after all a nonlinear dynamical system).
Whereas it can be used in swarm robotics to analyze changes in the swarm behavior as time progresses,I am not sure about how it is done. However, I don't know enough to continue or elaborate on this topic, it has been left by me for future review and study, I must get the basics right first.
All I know about this is from what I have gathered from various lectures and books-nothing too deep I am afraid, hey I am human after all-unfortunately.
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