Sooda Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Just listened to this today at 6.30, worth checking to see if it is availible on iPlayer for UK based ICFers. Not sure about availability overseas. I think it is a two-parter... Paul Sinha is a pretty funny comic, and this is a nice analysis of why he supports India despite being British born and bred, and the contradiction of supporting Eng at football but not cricket etc...summing up that effectively its a game and no reflection of how patriotic or not one is. The Name of the show is of course a take on the famous 'Tebbit test' http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012fs6y In April 1990, Norman Tebbit suggested that immigrants who supported their country of origin over the England at cricket were unpatriotic. The "Tebbit Test", as it became known, was always an over-simplification; there are lots of reasons why the immigrant community in Britain may not support England: apparently racist selection policies; leading players taking part in sanctions-busting tours of Apartheid-era South Africa; Britain's complicated and not always flattering colonial history; the fact that for fifteen years, England were simply rubbish. But is any of this still relevant? In July 2011, the Indian cricket team will arrive in England as the number one ranked team in the world. Over the course of five weeks an ageing but brilliant team containing the likes of Zaheer Khan, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and possibly the greatest batsman to have ever played, Sachin Tendulkar, will compete against the young, improving team that includes Alistair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Kevin Pietersen. In The Sinha Test stand-up comedian and cricket obsessive Paul Sinha - born in London to Indian parents - examines why he has been a lifelong India fan, despite considering himself "as British as a pub fight". Between the jokes he speaks to experts - a sociologist and a former Test cricketer - to see if he's alone in not always cheering on the country of his birth when it comes to cricket. Paul Sinha was nominated for the if.Comedy Award at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival, and more "Best Headliner" at the 2009 Chortle awards. His 2010 Edinburgh show, Extreme Anti-White Vitriol won five five-star and six four-star reviews. He is a regular guest on Radio 4's The Now Show and 5Live's Fighting Talk. Written and performed by Paul Sinha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Cheers Sooda, someone at work was telling me about this today, but he was quite vague and I was unable to find it :two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboysfan Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 whats percentage of Britain born desis support India over england? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punjabi_khota Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 whats percentage of Britain born desis support India over england? 100 :dontknow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Tragic Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Cheers. Just listening to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 No probs Sach, CT...hope you liked it whats percentage of Britain born desis support India over england? Ha, PK is pretty much right. One of Sinhas best lines in the show is - Tebbit was wrong it is not most British Asians who support India when the play England, it is ALL of them. (words to that effect) You might get the rare guy who supports Eng, very rare though. It is hard to explain why. India is in many ways a foreign country to me, I struggle to speak to Auto Rickshaw drivers in Chennai things just work differently. Still theyre the team I support. One of the things he says is its because of Sachin that he supports India and that its like 'being married' in that you support who you parents choose lol. Also I thought he ends it by sitting on the fence a bit...effectively England have grown on him by being far more inclusive, racially speaking, with guys like Hussain and Ramprakash. He was also at the 83 WC final!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Tragic Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Interesting to listen to someone like Min Patel saying that he also supported India. I still remember Tendulkar smashing him for a six to get to a century in 1996. I'm pretty sure that Bopara and Monty would have also supported India when they were growing up. I've not met a person here with an Indian background who supports England in cricket. Pretty much everyone supports India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 ^Interesting that,I know an Indian living in India that supoorts SA :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cricket Tragic Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 ^Interesting that' date='I know an Indian living in India that supoorts SA :cantstop:[/quote'] :cantstop: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooda Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 Interesting to listen to someone like Min Patel saying that he also supported India. I still remember Tendulkar smashing him for a six to get to a century in 1996. I'm pretty sure that Bopara and Monty would have also supported India when they were growing up. I've not met a person here with an Indian background who supports England in cricket. Pretty much everyone supports India. I thought that yknow. Its not that surprising I guess, but on the face of it youd expect players playing for England to have grown up supporting them. Im trying to Imagine Nasser Hussain supporting India as a lad, his dad used to play for Tamil Nadu. A good point Patel raises is that when playing sport nationalism is not that big a deal, youd take the chance to play Intl cricket and the money that comes with it whoever it is youre playing for. Im not sure how big a deal 'pride at representing your country' is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggot_brain Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Link for non-UK users https://rapidshare.com/files/1678702872/The_Sinha_Test_-_The_Sinha_Test_b012fs6y_default.m4a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedrus Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 ^cheers mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachinism Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Thanks maggot brain. I was having issues with iplayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboysfan Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 This might be more an isolated thing just for Britain because this will never happen in the US or any other country for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 This might be more an isolated thing just for Britain because this will never happen in the US or any other country for that matter. So desis there, support US kirkut team over Indian kirkut team? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboysfan Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 So desis there' date=' support US kirkut team over Indian kirkut team? :blink:[/quote'] they have no idea about cricket,my cousins dont even know the rules:((. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishra Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 It is brilliant. I think Sinha gets it exactly right. There is both fun and serious message. I know a arseeehole desi family who doesnt watch cricket and supports Liverpool. We are neighbours but I intentionally dont talk to him and other desi neighbours dont socialize with him. :finger: One thing is yet to be seen. What happens after Tendulkar retires? Will there be some realignment in desi brain? What if ECB finds some kid like Tendulkar to play for Britain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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