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Indian cricket press catch the Aussie disease of bias

The predatory sharks are out for the touring South Africans in the guise of wall-to-wall criticism on the back pages. But the Proteas will have the last laugh according to one Sportingo writer.

by Greg Smith on 02 April 2008

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Of all the positive things one could glean from Australian culture in a virtual eternity of 15 minutes, the Indians have aspired to and picked up the tail-end of bad Aussie traits and become wannabe media spin-doctors.

Australia has traditionally been the home of a particularly loathsome brand of a biased press and it seems this may be outsourced to India, soon to be known as the new haven for double-talk in triplicate.

Cricketing fans are concerned. The DTT Virus (double-talk in triplicate) has mutated and a strain has found its way to India from Australia apparently somewhere towards the end of the 'season of spite.' This runaway epidemic sees the Indian media replicating Aussie-style slant at an unstoppable rate. There is no cure in sight and the prognosis is desperate.

'Proteas' fans have witnessed some dreadful spin in India and unfortunately it has been of the off-the-field variety, normally the mainstay of Australian sport'

South African cricket fans have witnessesed the rapid spread of the illness and have been shocked by the horrid nature of this dreaded disease.

Proteas' fans have witnessed some dreadful spin in India and unfortunately it has been of the off-the-field variety, normally the mainstay of Australian sport. Examples of this spin have included: psycho-babble that Paddy Upton (the Indian team shrink co-opted from the Proteas' camp) was spilling precious doctor-patient Protea phobias; that the Proteas and not India were to blame for stale draws on designer bore draw Indian pitches; that the Proteas are not using commercial airlines to travel around India; that pitches are being 'juiced up' and equally favour the quicks; that a head-to-head player comparison has an Indian player valued approximately equal to three South African players when it comes to skill, talent and ability; that South Africa deserved to forfeit their entire match fee for a slow over rate when they were just two overs behind in the first Test; that Paul Harris is a useless spin bowler and that Dale Steyn hasn't any pace at all.

We South Africans are bemused. Fans normally expect partisan support from local fans but the myopic fanatical spin from the local press hasn't been seen in this virulent form outside of Australia.

It is beyond a joke, however, when one scans the international media horizon to see this DTT-infected Indian media contingent joining the international effort, led by Australia and England. However, judging by the number of (more than all the international cricket journos put together) Indian journalists spewing their bias around the internet's favourite cricket news sites, Proteas' fans should prepare for a pandemic.

A South African proverb frames the prospects: “Until lions have their own historians, heroic tales of the hunt will always favour the hunter!”

The underdog South Africans are currently ranked No.1 in ODIs and are stalking the top Test spot, just like man-eating lions up against their foe.

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Comments (4)

by Soma Rajan on April 02, 2008

I doubt how ICC ranking system is done. Australia win most of the series, many matches bar any one per year. South Africa beat Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, West Indies most of the time and gain No 1 status always which sounds stupid. There is no doubt that Indian players are far better than SA players and SA never deserve to be no 1 in one dayers or no 2 in tests. They are a team maybe on par with the POMS and nothing more

by Greg Smith on April 02, 2008

You are speaking total hindi...

by n n on April 04, 2008

im pretty sure he was speaking English

by Sanjeevs Sharma on April 04, 2008

I am an indian , and i totally beleive in greg smith's openion , india had got stars , except , tendulkar and yuvraj , u can see with an closed eyes that , other indina stars don't hav , fight , tecnique , courege to face straight bowling at 140+ on true pich (forget about green top) After kumbe , india will struggle to bowl out teams twice in a test . soooo called allrounders like irfan , can't penetrate thew bat , ,people like steeshanth are overactor , then hard workers . india won't had manage to win odi series in aus , if indian media , won't had put tremendous pressure to calve down aussies killing instinct giving excuses of moral and cricketing spirits. on the otherhand , SA is hardest fighters like gladiator once they enter the ground , they are ready to get killed for each run . there fighting spirits is inmatched in world , on flat track too there they can produce something , by shoulder effort and ability to keep coming at u (makahya nitini) fielding -- india's fielding is not even better than bangladesh IT IS TOTAL INJUSTICE THAT AT AUCTION LIKE IPL PEOPLE LIKE DHONI , IRFAN , SREESHANT ,HARBHAJAN WERE SOLD OUT BETTER THAN GILCRIST, KALLIS,STEYN ,MURLI. THE MEDIA IN INDIA IS PTHATIC , CHANNELS WANT TO SHOW THERE PETROTIASM BY HIDING REALITY ,EXAMPLES ARE LIKE AS 1) REMOVAL OF BUCKNOR - PRESSURE OF MONEY OF BCCI 2)HARBHAN GOT AWAY , WITH SUCH A BIG CRIME - JUST BY MEDIA PRESSURE , SOME CHANNEL SUD REALY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES , WHEN THEY CALL HIS MOTHER ON TV TO JUSTIFY HER CUTE CHILD'S BIG CRIME , FOR THE LOVE OF GOD , PLEASE TELL ME ANY MOTHER WILL SAY THAT MY CHILD HAS COMMMITTED CRIME , ABILITY WISE , DHONE IS PTHATIC ON TRUE WICKET ,HIS TECNIQUE IS JUST LIKE TAILENDER , People like shreeshanth , i don't know what is wrong with this guy , execp in one test he has't produce scare in any country's mind , still shows agression and gives a glare after every delivery as if he is akthar , stey, lee , see steyn lee , its is the agression that's lies in mind which produce results , not ur eye agression Come on india , its time to wake up , see the truth and it is unfortunately bitter , they are not our shoillders of country , but are over actor of bollywood DON'T DESERVE TREATED LIKE GOD!