Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
soccer n football all the way :D
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
‘Jaa tera moon kaala’…Indian fans venting their anger like only they can!
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
lolllllllllll @ the juttiyouN ka haar
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
emotional asian fans ... this is unacceptable under any circumstances
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
^ well pakistanis are gettin calmed down a bit b/c of Bob's death ..
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
^ well pakistanis are gettin calmed down a bit b/c of Bob's death ..
true... but i was just mentioning the over all affair is quiet sad
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
This reaction in India is just so over the top!
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of cricket fans across India burnt effigies, defaced posters and held mock funeral processions of the national team, a day after their defeat to Sri Lanka in the World Cup match in the Caribbean.
Winners in 1983 and finalists in the last tournament, India suffered a 69-run defeat in their crunch Group B match against Sri Lanka and their slim hopes of progressing now hinge on an unlikely defeat for Bangladesh by debutants Bermuda on Sunday. But on Saturday, furious cricket fans in towns and cities across India taking to the streets to show their outrage at their national team’s defeat.
In the northern city of Kanpur, dozens of residents held a mock funeral procession where people dressed as the 11 cricket players were carried on stretchers through the streets!
In other places, fans burnt effigies, stamped on glossy posters of players and daubed their faces with black paint. Others lashed out at pictures with their shoes. Security has been stepped up outside the residences of some of the cricketers, including captain Rahul Dravid’s home in the southern city of Bangalore, for fears of an attack or stone pelting by fans.
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
they are millions of fans in india who even being poor support their team. But when the men in blue dont care about them and do not give their full hundred percent, they need to be disappointed and should make it very clear to their team their displeasure. I dont find it anything wrong with what these people did.
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
If anyone deserved the above in the Indian team, it was Tenchoker.
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
imagine if we get the best players from every south asian country and create a super cricket team that has the best bowlers, best batsman and best fielders from each country…:hinna:aahhhh me and my crazy ideas:D. 
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
Yes…It will be like ICC XI. 
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
^^ why not?
we can also let south africa + kenya + zimbabwe combine and australia and new zealand and west indies + bermuda + canada and england + holland +sxotland + ireland
for a charity tournament
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
This match proves once and for all that stats and averages in Cricket are useless. You need match winners and match winners only.
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
‘Pathetic’ India deserve World Cup exit, says Kapil Dev
Former Indian great Kapil Dev lashed out at Rahul Dravid’s under-performing team, saying they did not deserve to progress in the World Cup.
Another great Sunil Gavaskar hinted coach Greg Chappell’s future was on the line after India were virtually knocked out of the World Cup following the 69-run defeat against Sri Lanka this morning.
Only an unlikely victory by first-timers Bermuda over Bangladesh will ensure India’s back-door entry into the Super Eights, a prospect Dev did not welcome.
“It is shameful that we have to rely on Bermuda to stay in the tournament,” the 1983 World Cup-winning captain said on Aaj Tak television.
"I hope that does not happen because Bangladesh deserve to go into the second round since they had also defeated India.
“All credit to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. India were pathetic and not good enough to remain in the tournament.”
Gavaskar, speaking on ESPN, said he **doubted if former Australian captain Chappell’s contract as India coach would be renewed after the World Cup. **
“I think there is a big question mark on Greg’s future,” said Gavaskar, who was on the panel which appointed Chappell for a two-year term in 2005.
“He was brought in with the specific aim of taking India to the top two teams in the world and that has not happened. His position will be debated.”
Gavaskar urged the Indian Cricket Board to act quickly since India are due to tour Bangladesh for two Test matches and three one-day internationals in May.
Gavaskar, however, hoped that Dravid would remain captain despite the World Cup debacle.
“Rahul is 34 and you do not sack captains at 34 when they are peaking,” he said.
“I don’t see any reason for a change because Dravid has not shown any sign of pressure. His batting has not faltered.”
Disappointed Indian fans did not react violently as they had done last week after the defeat by Bangladesh when miscreants attacked wicket-keeper Mahendra Dhoni’s unfinished house in the eastern town of Ranchi.
“Of course I am disgusted by the way the team played, the whole lot should be sacked,” said Delhi student Shaumik Bose. “But damaging homes is no way to go about it.”
Dev blamed lack of commitment by the senior players for the defeat, while Gavaskar said the team did not have the temperament to deal with crunch situations.
“To raise the game when it matters most requires discipline and temperament and the players did not show it,” said Gavaskar.
“This is nothing new. Indian cricketers have lacked these qualities since a long time, ever since I began playing in the early 1970s’.”
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200703/s1880582.htm
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
Yes people have a right to express their discontent when their team goes down without a fight but burning effigies, beating posters with chappals, pelting houses/property with stones, carrying out mock processions of players etc. is not justified under any means
And I think its’s the fault of the media and the public in India that they give such unnecessary exalted status to their team and expect wonders from them before every WC knowing fully well the mediocrity of their bowling/fielding and in particular the tendency of their main batsmen to choke in pressure games. It’s this overhype that leads to over-reaction by the public when India fails.
Even Lalu (read lalloo) thinks he could have played and scored more than zero. "I would have scored a *chakka *or a *duckka *(either a sixer or a duck)!‘’
Who is he kidding?
Re: Game 20, Group B - India vs Sri Lanka - Friday March 23rd
U should also agree that these players who have been chosen in the team knows how to play cricket. Now they go and loose to teams who have half the experience of this indian team.
I always believed that we as a nation are very emotional. They have no problem in getting all endorsement and love of the people when they do well, but when they are criticized and when their effigies are burnt then it becomes a law and order problem. They should know that failure is unacceptable in India.