Silly Indians?

Indians don’t know anything about cricket.

Really.
Cricket is an awfully English game.
A bunch of good-for-nothing Lord types would hang around all day
Tossing a ball around and taking care not to get their hands very dirty.
Of course, the game was appropriated by the effete ruling classes in India during the
Brit Raj.
The real good sports like football or like Kabbadi, where men get themselves rough and dirty, were of course shunned by the elite in India who wanted to mimic their white masters.

The Brits have packed up and vamoosed in 1947.
But the whole of Bureaucratic India would stand still whenever the cricket tests were on.
A poverty steeped nation losing several thousand man-days listening to the princes like Pataudi knocking the willow.
Then, of course came TV and the one-day cricket
And this World Cup thing.

And now you have Indians behaving most ridiculously.
Wanting to tonsure their team!
One day this Dhoni chap’s a hero, the next they want to lynch him!
Ha, Indians don’t know the first thing about cricket
That it’s supposed to be a gentleman’s game.
That it’s only a game.
They’re acting if the Indian army has lost a major campaign.

Silly, really.
After all, what’s in a game of cricket.
Except big business and big advertising.
And inflated egos…..