Controversies...controversies and controversies :D

The Sehwag- Randiv controversy has once again brought cricket in news for what its famous now –CONTROVERSIES....time and again various sports and sportsmen have been under the public eye scanner for the wrong reasons....

The irony with cricket is that it is termed as the “Gentleman’s Game” and yet hardly do we see any cricket tournament passing without a controversy ...Ranging from the age old Ashes to the newest form of the game of IPL twenty –twenty ..no form has been left untouched by some or the other news attached to it ...

Controversies know no language ,no boundaries and no limits ...there have been very few players on the list who have never been touched by one or the other “situation” as they term it .......we have the Harbhajan –Symonds controversy ,the Bhajji-Sreesanth dispute ,the Ashes series ...the list goes on..

We all as spectators see the problem as is shown to us and the controversy has already occurred....we see the after effects ...but what causes that kind of behaviour ....these players play for the country but off the field they are friends ....then what causes them to abuse each other even go the extent of slapping each other on the field??

Is it the national feeling or their pride??? What is it that the gentlemen behave in the most indecent of manners??? What drives them to the level that they forget that each and every one of their movements is noticed by the umpires, commentators and above all the media ??

Is it only cricket or does this apply to each game??? the answer is simple ..YES..this applies to each and every game .....just that it gets a bit over noticed by the media ....we have the head –butts of the Zidannes of football too :P ...but then why is it that games like table tennis, badminton etc are usually not the favourite halts for controversies ....

The possible explanation from my side would be that these players have their lives as these games .... its their passion ...its what they excel at ...but then these games are the ones that get them in the news , and the popularity of these games get the players under a lot of pressure ...loosing a number of matches in a row can cost the Indian team hard at the airport reception.... the winner is welcomed by open hands and hearts full of love and appreciation..the loosers are shown the door ...the winner is applauded , the looser is blamed at....

We say and preach that we all should possess the sportsman spirit ...we should take defeats in our strides ...but do we actually do??? Are we not the ones who blame the team of not being worth anything if they loose say five matches in a row??? The coaches of the football teams are fired if their team loses the world cup ....Is the media not equally responsible for building the pressure on the players and then blaming them if they loose ....making a player the headlines if he is out of form for say three matches ?? And don’t we watch that with keen interest ? Yes we do ...

So who is responsible??? We, they or the media??? actually none ....we are all made that way ...we judge people easily without going in the depth of the matter, we take an interest if anything wrong is going on in life of the other person and don’t pay any heed to him if his life is going good...and we definitely don’t take defeat easily....

The media cant be blamed ...as they are doing their business ...the media that used to be the fourth pillar of democracy has long disappeared ....and now what we have are just various channels fighting it out for the TRPs...

We love controversies , we love gossips, we love catfights(till we r the ones involved) ......so we should not be the ones complaining ....so next time a controversy pops up ...just sit back ,relax and enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!