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George Bernard Shaw once mentioned that “Cricket is a game where eleven fools play and eleven hundred fools watch”. We at Dalitnation have changed Mr. G.B.Shaw’s words a little bit to reflect the modern Indian reality. We say “Cricket is a Game where eleven brahmins and upper castes play and eleven million sarvajan and bahujan fools watch and eleven hundred fools in the upper caste media comment and analyse this stupid Game.”
One look at the teams will clear up all your doubts. How the pappati pot bellied Brahmins have injected the caste system. Look at the list of Brahmin Indian cricketers: Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Vinoo Mankad, Ajit Wadekar, G.R.Vishwanath, EAS Prassana, Ishant Sharma, Yashpal Sharma, Chethan Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar, B Chandrashekar, K Srikanth, L Sivaramakrishnan, Dilip Doshi, Sunil Joshi, Rohit Sharma, Venkatesh Prasad, Ashok Malhotra, VVS Laxman, Murli Karthik, Sreeshashant, Dileep Sardesai, Sanjay Manjrekar,ML Jaisimha, Sudhakar Rao, TA Shekar and many many more. The 4% brahmins in India have on an average more than 70% representation in the cricket teams. The rest are occupied by other upper caste fellows like the jat Kapil dev, Yuvaraj Singh, Mongia, Rajputs Ajay Jadeja, Chethan Chauhan, Upper caste khatri sikhs Sidhu, B S Bedi, Harbhajan Singh. Out of fear of the muslims the sacred threadwallahs reserve some places for muslims like Azzarudin, Irfan Pathan, Pataudi, Kirmani, Munaf Patel. The indian cricket dressing room is virtually a Brahmin Agraharam. Even the recent under 19 team is full of Brahmins with surnames like Kauls and Sharmas. Based on the analysis we have found six Brahmins in this team of eleven and the rest are upper caste and one muslim.
We dalits can be rest assured that in the next few decades our youths will spend their productive time watching and worshipping the pot bellied Brahmins and upper caste
Interview: How the first ‘All India cricket team’ of 1911 has left its mark on Virat Kohli’s boys
When India take on Pakistan in a much-anticipated qualifying match in Manchester in the cricket World Cup 2019 tournament on Sunday, it will be “war minus the shooting”. Already, the political tensions between the subcontinental neighbours have been reflected in a debate about an advertisement aired by the official broadcaster: Pakistan’s top cricket official this week criticised a Star Sports spot promoting the match for being unnecessarily jingoistic.
For Indian fans, that wasn’t the only instance of nationalist sentiment beyond the boundary invading the pitch. Indian wicketkeeper MS Dhoni stirred controversy when he went into the opening game on June 6 wearing gloves bearing a winged-dagger Indian Army insignia. When the International Cricket Council told him he couldn’t do that in the next game, die-hards complained that the organisers had “disrespected the Indian Army”.
India captain Virat Kolhi, meanwhile, was presented with a glass case of mud from the grounds of his old school in Delhi – a gesture that seemed to embody the 19th-century notion of nationalism being anchored in “blood and soil”.
These antics would have left Team India 1911 perplexed. They were the first “All India” cricket team ever assembled. They were brought together to tour England precisely so that they could “make possible the idea of India on the cricket pitch”, said Prashant Kidambi, the author of a fascinating new book titled Cricket Country: The Untold History of the First All India Team (Penguin/Viking).
But, as Kidambi, an associate professor of colonial urban history at the University of Leicester, told Scroll.in, “the idea of India that the team’s promoters hoped to project was very different from what today’s hyper-nationalist Indian cricket fan might easily recognise or be reconciled with”.
Ahead of Sunday’s India-Pakistan Word Cup game, he discussed his book, nationali Amar Singh (Image: Wikipedia) When the number of Test-playing teams doubled in the 1920s and 1930s through the admission of the West Indies, New Zealand and India to the “top table”, the newcomers took time to find their feet. For the West Indies, promotion came a little too late as several very good players had just passed their peak; New Zealand were solid but unspectacular, drawing nine out of twelve games against England before the Second World War. In that same period, India played seven Test matches and lost five without recording any wins, but that does not quite reflect the team’s quality. Despite very brittle batting, India were formidable opponents owing to their exceptional fast bowling attack of Mohammed Nissar and Amar Singh. Only the West Indies had better pace bowlers — and perhaps only just — in the pre-war period and there was no better indication of their quality than England’s failure to reach 300 in either innings of India’s inaugural Test in 1932; the same English batters went on to dominate in Australia the following winter. Only within the last ten years has the Indian team had a fast bowling attack to match those two. Mohammad Nissar was the faster bowler but Amar Singh was perhaps more skilful and certainly more feared by the opposition. Allied to his potentially devastating batting, Amar Singh’s talent made him one of the best all-round cricketers in the world and an almost unrivalled attraction for crowds, an appeal recognised by Colne, the Lancashire League club that signed him to play in England from 1935. Perhaps more importantly, he became the first Indian cricketer to become famous for his performances for India, not for playing in England. Ladhabhai Nakum Amar Singh was born at Rajkot, Gujarat on 4 December 1910. Very little is known with any certainty about his early life. Several stories circulate about him but few that can be pinned down; all that survives are various vague myths. But .