ravinderpannu
Active member
Respectfully disagree.
Neither am writing for Cricket , nor am against other sports. While considering candidates for awards , one must take in account the contribution of players. Not to degrade the medalists ( and I do know that the conditions are not in favour of them without the govt support and money and media coverage , but that is no fault of a cricket player
314 wickets in test matches and 202 in one day internationals , 1400 runs in tests and 911 in ODIs ( and off late he has really been more than Ok with the bat !! )[[ See these runs in light of we loosing ODI in 99 world cup in Olonga's over when our tail enders could not make up 4-5 runs and when Saqlain rushed through the tail at Chinnaswamy after Tendulkar got out to him ( which Sachin made in great back pain, those memories very distinctly itched in my memory
Hat-trick against Aussies , blowing aussies up in 2001 test series , RPO of 4.2 in 180 odd ODIs is certainly not bad in the age of short boundaries and flat pitches. Great athlete , good fielder and long spell bowler ! You are degrading sports as a whole if you say the award come for free.
He is also 1 out of those privilged 20-30 who get to play for India in this cricket crazy nation , and that is no mean achievement.
Of course Sushil and Vijender deserve accolades and praise and attention and acknowledgement and appreciation but just because they are not getting that , it is certainly not Bhajji's mistake!
Dear Dalal Saab,
starting from ur very first line that "Neither am writing for Cricket , nor am against other sports"
you have written the whole thing in favour of criket...PLZ DONT FEEL OFFENDED..you wrote that he 's been playing for so long time etc etc...can u just tell me that how many years of life an wat depth of dedication is recquired to be an OLYMPIAN,..dont u think that he also might have played in a series of International events for a long time before participating in Olympics (and WINNING A MEDAL ) where i m sure that there are more numbers of countries or teams participating as compared to the total number of crikect playing nations in world. He is also a playing this sport for more than a Decade at Senior level....It is obvious that we are a criket crazy nation and we have placed them at a very very high position in society as compared to any other sports player/athlete. Cricketers already have name @fame with hell lot of money..so we need to emphasise and execute the things which certainly motivates others sportpersons,and i.e at least these national awards to a deserving and outstanding player, and making a PODIUM finish in OLYMPICS is really and truelly outstanding (,....beating the players from round the world....).