Why not Indians?

IPL can't be as clean as it seems!

Yesterday while I was busy with playing with television's remote, at one instance I had to stop as SRT was on TV saying his heart out on this current match fixing issue faced by Pakistani cricket team! Although he has been limited with media recently and apart from some advertisements he has not been found giving his own opinions on cricketing matters off-late!

So for me it was something worth listening too, and while listening to his press-conference, he struck a point which dazzled me too, apart from that those who're guilty should be punished, but his one statement that none of the Indian Cricket team players were contacted by bookies! That thing DID hit me, that right apart from India, Pakistan Sri Lanka and Bangladesh players had accepted that bookies had tried to contact them and going as far as the Tasmanian Side, Aussie player Brad Haddin and Shane Watson had revealed that during Pakistan Australia Lord's test and previously Aussie England's Lord's test, bookies had tried to contact them...

So this thing is making me suspicious about betting offices around Lord's and secondly none of the Indian cricketers weren't contacted by any means. Probably the one reason is that money has been so much involved into Indian cricket that they don't need to indulge into such things!

But this is a fact too that I personally feel that majority of IPL matches which I watched on YouTube looked to be spot-fixed itself! The mode and the way they gave their wickets did created some suspicious in me being a cricket follower! Because the way most of IPL players play in their national sides and the way they play in the league differs alot! So one might have suspicions of those IPL matches being fixed as well!

Praises to Tendulkar, but...

Being a sporty person, I admit that yesterday's innings played by Tendulkar against the Proteas at Gwalior, was one worth watching innings of all time, no doubt about it and I also admit that records are meant to be broken, so this time its for Tendulkar next time it would be someone else! and I also admit that the great record by the great Saeed Anwar was broken by another great Sachin Tendulkar.

But last night when I was watching a Indian Cricket Channel (don't wanna mention channel's name) they were praising Tendulkar (I don't mind that anyways) but on the other hand overshadowing Saeed Anwar's brilliance! Thats where I object, because it was eminent that whenever Saeed Anwar scored Pakistan benefited and won the match, including the famous 194 inning against the same team in Madras almost 13 years ago. Secondly Saeed Anwar steadied the ship and played a chance-less inning. Thirdly it was a inning played on opposition's homeground, so opposition at that time had the home-advantage, in that scenario he played that inning, it should be praised in that manner too,

What I want is to praise Sachin Tendulkar for his brilliance but do not over-shadow the brilliance of Saeed Anwar because Sachin's most marvelous innings for India went in vein, including the 175 against the Aussies when they toured India, so record says for it self, this batsman literally played for personal milestone i.e. personal landmarks first than country... What a shame!

Peace!