Hats-Off to English Selectors!

Yet again people are complaining that South African born Stuart Meaker is selected for the English team and that England is nothing but a South African rejects XI. Well despite Cricket being a religion in the country Indian fans atleast a majority of them are the most uneducated lot and their arguments are ridiculous with at times bordering insanity!

They are sore losers and cannot take a criticism on one particular batsman while a true legend of the game Rahul Dravid is being treated by toilet paper by the selectors. Rahul Dravid is by far the greatest team man cricket has ever seen and he is a true sporting hero like Ryan Giggs! But then there was not even a little fanfare when he despite scoring over 10,000 runs retired from ODI cricket while another cricketer’s house warming ceremony gets a bigger coverage.   

Funny that we protest against the selection of South African born cricketers but again it is actually legally wrong to discriminate a cricketer’s selection based on where he is born. If he is English qualified and available for selection and has performed, then English selectors have every right to pick him. Same time in India where the fans go up in arms for selection of South African born cricketers in English teams, the same fans knows nothing about international citizenship laws while at the same time remain quiet when the selectors son who struggles to make it to Tamil Nadu first class side make it to the Emerging Players Tournament!

We are a society which claims to be the most democratic in the world but in reality a family has been ruling the country for over 50 years while the cricketing board is a cozy club of Politicians and Industrialist who run it like a mafia unit. In a land where quota system is ruining any progress the country is making and with corruption at every corner, where you can pay money and get into sports team, the fans better look at their own skeletons rather than look at others.

There is nothing wrong in guys like Meaker playing and succeeding for England. If that is the case who many Indians ply their trade in countries like UK? The very Indians make a living there and it is ridiculous to see English passport holders supporting the Indian team. If they are so patriotic why don’t they resign their citizenship and passports? They wear an Indian jersey but then they won’t come back to India!

And people who support English teams in India are called traitors while it is actually cool to support Sri Lanka and Pakistan! Two countries that have caused enough problems for us in the last 50 years! England is free society and it is great that there is no racial discrimination in selection basis and we should try to emulate their system rather than just keep taking pot shots at them for every other thing.