'Aaj Tak' se 'India TV' tak!!!

15 June 2009...Proved to be a bitter day for Indian cricket fans. India lost by 3 runs to England in a close fought contest and England successfully threw the former world champs out of the T20 world championship. The unpredictability of cricket again overshadowed the predictions of all the masters & experts of the game as the 1st ever T20 champions could not even reach semi finals & were collapsed into super eight round. Some really lethargic play and wrong decisions made by Captain Mahendrasingh Dhoni lead the team out of the tournament. But the hell-bells had to start ringing and the news reporters in India were on the fly!
“Kal ke sher, aaj dher”
“Sabak sikho maahi”
“kya Dhoni maafi ke layak hai?”
“Team India ,sharm karo”
“Hero bane Zero”
These were the headlines being telecasted on every news channel in India like India TV, star news, zee news, Sahara news, aaj tak and more on. WHY THE HELL? Who the hell is a news reporter to judge a cricketer? And why the hell he tries to dare so without even knowing abcd of cricket? It is much simpler to report such absolutely idiotic and pathetic news, sitting in an air conditioned studio than going in a foreign country and playing on the green ground for our nation. Cricketers are not god; they are also human beings as we are. Agreed, India lost due to their bad play and some inconclusive decision making of the captain... But one must not forget that the captain Dhoni and his knack of decision making has proven to be a key factor in various Indian triumphs since he was made captain for the 1st T20 world cup.
Immediate results were obtained after making him captain of the side and India won the inaugural T20 trophy. Later he was made captain for one day side and India thrashed away the kangaroos on their home soil in the VB series. Also, the world no 2 ranked South Africa were defeated against Indian Tigers. The tradition of winning matches in foreign countries which was set up by India’s most successful captain, the Bengal Tiger “Sourav Ganguly”, was followed by M.S.Dhoni and India started registering series wins one after another, irrespective of the venue. India then went on to win test as well as one day series in Sri Lanka, New Zealand and even Australia. We can’t also forget the dominating 2-0 victory against the kangaroos on our home soil to clinch the prestigious Gavaskar-Border trophy back. Please don’t forget that India hasn’t lost any series till now under Dhoni’s leadership.
So who are we to blame and forgive not only Dhoni but the whole team? Folks, we just can’t rub off these many triumphs by considering just one loss... It is always said that cricket is a religion in India. Then how can one blame his religion? And at the end, victories and defeats are nothing but parts of any game and we can’t expect our boys to win always.
Besides all these things, we Indians are always said to be krrazy for cricket, may it be test cricket, one dayers or T20. But this craziness should not be turned up into idiocy all the way which is seen when we burn statues of cricketers and throw stones on their homes. Because we are the same people who make them heroes when they win any series, even if it is against Bangladesh... We should also accept defeats gracefully as we do when India wins. I am writing this blog when India has already won their fifth series consecutively on West Indian soil.
But the question about absolutely low grade reporting by news channels still remains unanswered. These are the same people who reports hopeless and totally non value adding news such as “ 14 feet ka mahamanav” , “Salman aur Shahrukh ke beech hathapaai”, “Swarg ki seedhi”, “Mrityunjay Baba”... and some amply non-sense stuff like this. The height of totally useless news reporting could be seen on India’s favourite funny bald reporter Rajat Sharma’s India TV where they call some doctor who tells us using a funny plastic or body or some decayed skeleton of Hitler’s era about how autopsy of Michel Johnson was carried out.
These are the people where renowned(?????????) 50 + old cricketing people tell us how Sachin Tendulkar should have played a ball which got him out.
At the end, it is my polite request to every Indian that please don’t take these news reports seriously and do not believe them at all. These are the jokers superior to yesterday’s circus jokers whom you can laugh at, especially India TV (Mrityunjay baba my foot!). But do not change your channel if some news channel is being telecasted. It could serve you a great comic entertainment, even better than “RAKHI KA SWAYANWAR”!!!!!!