Monday, October 1, 2007

India Twenty20 champs!

Finally a day of celebrations for indian cricket. India wins the twenty20 world cup in South Africa!..The fans rejoiced so much that made one feel as if it had rained after ages on a desert. Cricketers made demi-gods...pics of shirtless dhoni everywhere. Sponsors and State govts immersing them in pool of wealth as our humble Ganpati bappa was beng immersed in that polluted so-called lake or shore in your neighbourhood. Its really insane to see a full page ad from indian-oil to congratulate Rohit Sharma...and the very next day..after all hue and cry by hockey players you see an ad almost 1/8th the page congratulating the whole hockey team. This shows the equation between the national game and cricket clearly. I guess its high time that the BCCI takes a big-brother status and takes care of other sports in India too rather than churning out cricketers born out of politics of states. That mercedes-benz or porsche gifted to yuvraj and RP Singh could have bought decent hockey sticks or may be even good pairs of shoes to many underpreviliged sportspersons of India.