Batsmen, Bowlers & the Bedis
Dating back to the Neanderthal era when primitive man took a rock tossed it into the air and whacked his club on the sloping head of his opponent; mankind is still nuts about sports.
What inner spark made that primitive athlete AND the the team of Lagaan seek out such sport…. You guess is as good as mine, maybe your guess is better since you haven’t drunk as many beers as I have.
As Sunil Gavaskar, not the most likeable person in the world but certainly one of the most obnoxious puts it: “As for Mankind and sports, bla bla bla bla bla and when I played in 1983….”
Both Sunil and I used the word “Mankind” since Womankind does not really seem to be into sports in the same way. Sports hasn’t changed too much in ages and was considered unfeminine when I was in high school, when most of the girls hockey squad stayed on the sidelines, claiming it was “that time of the month”.
Ok, chill! I realize that today you have major league athletes like Sania Mirza, Anju Bobby George and Monica Bedi (www.india-station.com/monica/ for you pervs out there) who can run like antelope and look good at the same time. But by way of being totally and brutally frank; as a whole, women have light years to go before they achieve the levels of dedication and intensity for cricket that allows men to be such incredible jerks about it.
Women know this, which is why you almost never hear them mention the 1976 use of Vaseline by bowler John Lever (no he was not gay, this is related to coating the balls – CRICKET BALLS you cretin!), whereas you take any male over 40 and even if he can’t remember which of his children is asthmatic, he can remember how India’s ace batsman Bishan Singh Bedi (not related to Monica) with his zest and passion for the game, strongly objected to such slippery tactics.
See that! Right there, all you women just read through those last lines nodding vaguely, some dreamily reminiscing about Kiran Bedi the actor, but you men jumped up, spilling your beer, shouting: “Bishen Singh Bedi was not a BATSMAN! He was a SPIN BOWLER!”
Every Indian male has a major portion of his brain dedicated to information like this. We can’t help it, we just have no perspective. Although to make a case in silly point; what has fielding a slip through a gully and two fine legs got to do with Cricket?
Dating back to the Neanderthal era when primitive man took a rock tossed it into the air and whacked his club on the sloping head of his opponent; mankind is still nuts about sports.
What inner spark made that primitive athlete AND the the team of Lagaan seek out such sport…. You guess is as good as mine, maybe your guess is better since you haven’t drunk as many beers as I have.
As Sunil Gavaskar, not the most likeable person in the world but certainly one of the most obnoxious puts it: “As for Mankind and sports, bla bla bla bla bla and when I played in 1983….”
Both Sunil and I used the word “Mankind” since Womankind does not really seem to be into sports in the same way. Sports hasn’t changed too much in ages and was considered unfeminine when I was in high school, when most of the girls hockey squad stayed on the sidelines, claiming it was “that time of the month”.
Ok, chill! I realize that today you have major league athletes like Sania Mirza, Anju Bobby George and Monica Bedi (www.india-station.com/monica/ for you pervs out there) who can run like antelope and look good at the same time. But by way of being totally and brutally frank; as a whole, women have light years to go before they achieve the levels of dedication and intensity for cricket that allows men to be such incredible jerks about it.
Women know this, which is why you almost never hear them mention the 1976 use of Vaseline by bowler John Lever (no he was not gay, this is related to coating the balls – CRICKET BALLS you cretin!), whereas you take any male over 40 and even if he can’t remember which of his children is asthmatic, he can remember how India’s ace batsman Bishan Singh Bedi (not related to Monica) with his zest and passion for the game, strongly objected to such slippery tactics.
See that! Right there, all you women just read through those last lines nodding vaguely, some dreamily reminiscing about Kiran Bedi the actor, but you men jumped up, spilling your beer, shouting: “Bishen Singh Bedi was not a BATSMAN! He was a SPIN BOWLER!”
Every Indian male has a major portion of his brain dedicated to information like this. We can’t help it, we just have no perspective. Although to make a case in silly point; what has fielding a slip through a gully and two fine legs got to do with Cricket?
