Ishant Sharma trolls are all over the internet. Some asking him to retire, other asking him to commit suicide while others simply have lots of adjectives around his name.
This is a typical cricket fan's outrage that you see. Its widespread and instant thanks to Whatsapp, Twitter and other social media. I got my first Ishant meme minutes after the match got over. It was the Ishant asking kaun bola target 360 tha forward. I was bemused for a little while but after that it was pure torture. With people imagining what might have happened inside the dressing room, while some poking fun at how how his mother and sister would be the two most popular people who were being remembered, etc.
It reminded me of what happened during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa where India started off on a bad note. There we effigies being burnt of cricketers, houses being attacked and the whole situation was almost as if some religious sentiments had been hurt. I felt as if we had gone back a decade and decided to behave as hooliganistically as we could.
Let me assure you here that I, as much a cricket fan as the paan wala you see at the nukkad who decides to delay your pan/cigarette only to hear the commentary of Sachin hitting that boundary off a Brett Lee scorcher. I, too, was as disappointed in Ishant when he bowled those howlers one after the other, seeing how effortlessly Faulkner rocked on the backfoot and pulled each one of those short balls for huge sixes. What was baffling me at that moment was that how come no other bowler/fielder came up to him to suggest something or may be just give him a tap on his shoulder telling him that they believed he could still pull off this one. The fact that he kept bowling balls half way down the pitch even after being dispatched like the luggage thrown on the baggage carousel of an Air India flight was prof that he was completely clueless. May be a session with Stuart Broad on how to recover from such blunders could help him cope up! But I am pretty sure Broad did not have to bear the brunt of the insult, the kind Indian fans dish out.
So to summarize I just wanted to post this as an opinion that Ishant Sharma may not have played his last match in the Indian jersey as may be the suggestion but the thousands of whatsappers. He still is India's leading wicket taker and the most experienced One Day bowler in the current squad. Agreed that Ishant hasn't done anything of great significance lately to keep him here for too long but take a look at the options at your disbursal and you will know why I say that.
A mentally unfit - Praveen Kumar
A perpetually injured Varun Aaron
A mysterious injury-prone Umesh Yadav
An average medium pacer Shami Mohammad
The big-leap-but-pace-no-line-no-length Ashoke Dinda
A bowler who Wasim Akram hails as the best left-armer in India but Dhoni doesn't think so Jaidev Unadkat
Yet to be tested Ishwar Pandey and Siddharth Kaul
And last but not the least
Where the fuck did this guy go after the World Cup Munaf Patel!!
Who do you think should make a comeback? Should we ask Sir Ajit Agarkar to may be re-think?
This is a typical cricket fan's outrage that you see. Its widespread and instant thanks to Whatsapp, Twitter and other social media. I got my first Ishant meme minutes after the match got over. It was the Ishant asking kaun bola target 360 tha forward. I was bemused for a little while but after that it was pure torture. With people imagining what might have happened inside the dressing room, while some poking fun at how how his mother and sister would be the two most popular people who were being remembered, etc.
It reminded me of what happened during the 2003 World Cup in South Africa where India started off on a bad note. There we effigies being burnt of cricketers, houses being attacked and the whole situation was almost as if some religious sentiments had been hurt. I felt as if we had gone back a decade and decided to behave as hooliganistically as we could.
Let me assure you here that I, as much a cricket fan as the paan wala you see at the nukkad who decides to delay your pan/cigarette only to hear the commentary of Sachin hitting that boundary off a Brett Lee scorcher. I, too, was as disappointed in Ishant when he bowled those howlers one after the other, seeing how effortlessly Faulkner rocked on the backfoot and pulled each one of those short balls for huge sixes. What was baffling me at that moment was that how come no other bowler/fielder came up to him to suggest something or may be just give him a tap on his shoulder telling him that they believed he could still pull off this one. The fact that he kept bowling balls half way down the pitch even after being dispatched like the luggage thrown on the baggage carousel of an Air India flight was prof that he was completely clueless. May be a session with Stuart Broad on how to recover from such blunders could help him cope up! But I am pretty sure Broad did not have to bear the brunt of the insult, the kind Indian fans dish out.
So to summarize I just wanted to post this as an opinion that Ishant Sharma may not have played his last match in the Indian jersey as may be the suggestion but the thousands of whatsappers. He still is India's leading wicket taker and the most experienced One Day bowler in the current squad. Agreed that Ishant hasn't done anything of great significance lately to keep him here for too long but take a look at the options at your disbursal and you will know why I say that.
A mentally unfit - Praveen Kumar
A perpetually injured Varun Aaron
A mysterious injury-prone Umesh Yadav
An average medium pacer Shami Mohammad
The big-leap-but-pace-no-line-no-length Ashoke Dinda
A bowler who Wasim Akram hails as the best left-armer in India but Dhoni doesn't think so Jaidev Unadkat
Yet to be tested Ishwar Pandey and Siddharth Kaul
And last but not the least
Where the fuck did this guy go after the World Cup Munaf Patel!!
Who do you think should make a comeback? Should we ask Sir Ajit Agarkar to may be re-think?
