Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Bhajji Hullabaloo & Tait's one-way ticket to the cleaners

On the Harbhajan issue it ends with a victory to India.. Lack of evidence? check.. Muscle flexing? check.. Pissed off racist Oz players? check.. CA and BCCI laughing all the way to the bank? check... Players feeling like prostitues for being pimped by their boards rather than being taken care of? check..
Apparently Bhajji, the Punjab da Munda (son of the soil), said the words "Maa ki", and Hayders jumped on the wagon going "I'm gonna tell - you are looking at a champ (drunken monkey boxing?)" apparently referring to Symmo. Anyway Bhajji's disclosure of the "Maa ki" sent the Indian contingent into raptures, and left the Ozzies fuming - "If he insulted my white mother, it has to be racism, ban the brown bastard (this is not a racist word in Australia)!!"
In non-contact sports, there are fewer ways of gamesmanship (i.e. another english word for pissing off the opponent mentally). The best way to outdo an opponent is to get to their minds through your game. If that doesn't work, its quite fair to rattle them with a few choice words.. family? country? race? no holy cows here. How many of us do not play the race card - when we complain about outsourcing to the starving East India slave labor capital Bangalore? Or when an MNC supplants the seemingly nice but naive & eager to please Indian manager with his 'white' counterpart, "He is going to take us to task" sighs the chips and cookie face-stuffing softie.
Sledging is an important aspect of the game. Man for man, most teams are pretty equal on ability. The X-factor often lies in getting under the skin of the opponent. I want concrete example of best-loved winners in team sports - The West Indies? Hogwash - who is the dooce who can't remember them bowling at the heads of batsmen with 4 eccentrically tall and equally hostile quickies? Don't remember Michael Holding kick the stumps out of the ground for getting a bad decision in NZ? A few of their charming exploits are available at cricinfo.com.
Meanwhile, in an act of awesome stamping of superiority, the amazing comeback Indian team just sent Shaun Tait to the looney bin. The almost-170kmph-touching almost-quickie who was dragged through the Perth pitch like a nigger in 1700's Alabama, is going AWOL on cricket for a while citing mental and physical exhaustion. The Indians have put their money where their mouth is... The only thing seen dangling from the fat racist mouth of the Ozzies is their own smelly foot.

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