tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134440631193335724.post7499482228435599695..comments2024-03-15T12:58:41.305+05:30Comments on Bored Cricket Crazy Indians (BCC!) - play with cricket: The Kar that drives Indian cricketGaurav Sethi http://www.blogger.com/profile/04330224127597873431noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134440631193335724.post-19714397693093955972009-07-15T14:42:32.290+05:302009-07-15T14:42:32.290+05:30Forget the past guys. The question is, what does M...Forget the past guys. The question is, what does Mumbai have to offer in the future or even the present. After Tendulkar is done and dusted, who next?<br /><br />Did I hear Rohit Sharma? The guy who struggles with the short ball, a problem that top Mumbai batsmen of the past never faced.<br /><br />Thankfully, the over-rated Agarkar is finally out of the reckoning. The Bombay Duck's presence in the national team for so many years was one of the biggest mysteries of Indian cricket. Well done Chika.<br /><br />Besides Tendlya, Zak is the only cricketer representing Mumbai in the current squad but he is not a Mumbaikar. He only started playing for Mumbai about four years back.<br /><br />Now Munaf, another converted Mumbaikar is always on the fringe of selection.<br /><br />So who next(home-grown Mumbai cricketer)?Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09680918606804736265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134440631193335724.post-89351360863502637392009-07-13T17:12:27.728+05:302009-07-13T17:12:27.728+05:30Its not about the numbers. Can anybody imagine Ind...Its not about the numbers. Can anybody imagine Indian Cricket without SMG and SRT? Also, on that Top 20 list, there are 7 batsmen from 1 city, Mumbai, and then 3 each from Delhi and Bangalore. If one city contributes 35% of your top batting, thats a dynasty any way you look at it. The fact that there is even a Mumbai v ROI comparision is a telling fact in itself. With any other city in India you do not need to make that comparision.Yenjiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049272172636251016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134440631193335724.post-22752654763994628332009-07-12T06:53:02.006+05:302009-07-12T06:53:02.006+05:30"I would beg to differ with those who say tha..."I would beg to differ with those who say that the Kar’s drive Indian cricket. For they have been lucky enough on two counts.<br /><br />a) Being born in Bombay or Mumbai<br /><br />b) Being part of a golden or at least a bronze era of Indian cricket where there were a couple of others (bowlers or batsmen) who would support them"<br /><br />Lucky to be born in Mumbai, yes but there is that tiny little fact that you missed - Mumbai batsmen are taught since the first time they hold the bat that they have to value their wickets.. "Khadoos" is not a term associated with any other school of batsmanship in the country.<br /><br />And golden or bronze or platinum, how does that argument not apply to the rest of India's batsmen?<br /><br />One other thing - Manjrekar played for India, Andhra, Bengal, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh.Borde never played for Mumbai.<br /><br />"<br />It is not the Kar’s who drive Indian cricket, it is the Indian cricket which drives everyone" - quick questiuon - tell me how many Mumbaikars are plying their trade for other teams in the Ranji Trophy and how many non MUmbaikars are playing for Mumbai. <br /><br />And isnt it shameful that 30 square mlles of territory with a combined population of around 20 million trumps a geography many magnitudes that and a population of a billion plus. <br /><br />And I haven't even mentioned where we stand on the Ranji stakes..Or how often we have beaten RoI in the Irani.<br /><br />Maybe it is time for the rest of the country to do its bit.. Or is the country so used to propping itself on Mumbai's back that it is incapable of doing so?Homerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13949049044524078820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5134440631193335724.post-41606005740002307952009-07-12T01:32:26.317+05:302009-07-12T01:32:26.317+05:30Raja, leave the numbers aside, in that list are tw...Raja, leave the numbers aside, in that list are two names, they run cricket in India. That’s both perception and reality. Then look at the numbers, and there are again two names, that are the most prolific. Guess there's a tad more perception there, but that is the reality. <br /><br />Y'kno more than the batsman in there, like Jumbo’s appearance at 20, who would have thought.Gaurav Sethi https://www.blogger.com/profile/04330224127597873431noreply@blogger.com