I've often wondered on this issue. Every time a sub-continent team loses in Australia, England, New Zealand or South Africa, we hear the international media go on about about us being tigers at home, and losers in "sporting conditions".
I guess that means the teams from these countries should be winning in our conditions.
Look at the most forgiving cricketing format. Its called T20. Its supposed to blur the gap between teams with varying talent. What happened today? Netherlands licked England by over 50 runs after scoring less than 150. And Sri Lanka? Half way through their match with NZ, they looked like "poor Sri Lanka". At the end, it proved to be poor NZ. And Australia's match vs India yesterday. They didnt make the 100 run mark etther.
So what's happening to England, Australia and New Zealand? In the last 3 matches, none of them could cross the 100 run mark to win against modest totals. Are these the epitomes of international cricket?
My take is that we in India will tend to support the view of the caucasian, and what are sporting cricket conditions, because we dont believe in ourselves till the "gora" validates us. Get over it boys! The gora is about as good a cricketer in sub-continent conditions as the sub-continent boy is in gora conditions! Its even. Its equal. Nobody's any better than the other.
In case you're wondering about what the "right thing" is, and you're gora oriented, then it is the gora who introduced the home conditions concept. And is now getting licked at it!
I guess that means the teams from these countries should be winning in our conditions.
Look at the most forgiving cricketing format. Its called T20. Its supposed to blur the gap between teams with varying talent. What happened today? Netherlands licked England by over 50 runs after scoring less than 150. And Sri Lanka? Half way through their match with NZ, they looked like "poor Sri Lanka". At the end, it proved to be poor NZ. And Australia's match vs India yesterday. They didnt make the 100 run mark etther.So what's happening to England, Australia and New Zealand? In the last 3 matches, none of them could cross the 100 run mark to win against modest totals. Are these the epitomes of international cricket?
My take is that we in India will tend to support the view of the caucasian, and what are sporting cricket conditions, because we dont believe in ourselves till the "gora" validates us. Get over it boys! The gora is about as good a cricketer in sub-continent conditions as the sub-continent boy is in gora conditions! Its even. Its equal. Nobody's any better than the other.
In case you're wondering about what the "right thing" is, and you're gora oriented, then it is the gora who introduced the home conditions concept. And is now getting licked at it!
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