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Showing posts with label abuse. Show all posts
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Mohammad Asif is a cartoon
Little did Mohammad Asif know that his addiction
will ultimately catch up with him on the cricket field
The center of Maa-Ki Cricket: Saadi Dilli!
The most distinctive thing about Delhi cricket was the language. The expletives. The sheer brilliance and the inventiveness of the cursing out there in the middle. Thats why I so loved the Gambhir/Afridi spat. Watching a Delhi boy launch into an MC followed up by an MKL was a thing to behold, a flashback to the days when fast bowlers would yell out a BDL as they let go of the ball in an intra-university game.Heck, I once saw a bowler pull a stump out of the ground and go after a batsman (no, not in a college game, in a local park game). And the less said about the Ferozeshah Kotla crowd, the better. They almost reduced Shastri to tears during an India-West Indies test and turned my ears blue in the process. Nice. Sledging your own team? Was it because he was a Mumbaikar? No, just because he was a boring bat. But the cursing tradition ensured that all the Delhi boys knew that it had to be one of them that would go toe-to-toe with the Pakistani lads when it came to handing out the BCs.
Many years ago, Jaspal Singh, a young fast bowler and student at our college, younger brother of Gurcharan Singh, played against the 1986-87 Pakistanis in a tour game. When he returned to college, we all clustered around him eagerly to ask him how it went. He said "Kya yaar, gaali pe gaali padi match mein". And so, we asked, did he give it back? Grinning, he said, "Aur kya, sunta rehta saara time?"
Precisely. It's that Delhi mood that seems to have gotten into the current crop of lads. Perhaps they didn't go all to Delhi University. But they sure as hell learned some of those same lessons. Some, like Sreesanth, seem to have gone overboard. But the gaali-galoch of the Delhi tradition lives on.
by Samir Chopra
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KhufiaBaaz:Bhajji on bad language
"I thank you all for your feedback on the book of the great coach. I have gone through each of them, and apologise for not having been able to respond to each on your post. I had expressed my views, and appreciate the same expressed by most of you. However, would request you to not abuse anyone. One has all rights to criticize someone’s thought but its unfair to use abusive language.
As children read this blog, request you to refrain from using unparliamentarily language."
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