Don’t Behave Like Indian Spectators, Arjuna Ranatunga Tells Sri Lankan Fans

[vvvslaxman]

3 hours ago, Trichromatic said:

Dunno whether it's incompetence of CAB or spectators but Eden Gardens has been in trouble multiple times. 1967 incident, then WC semifinal which was very poor considering it was WC and 1999 test match against Pakistan. Then we have Cuttack and Jamshedpur incidents. 

 

Although this isn't entirely eastern problem. Match was stopped at Rajkot when India were on course to win and someone threw paper missile in ODI against WI in 2002.

 

I remember reading about an exhibition match in Pune(?) where authorities allowed extra spectators in newly constructed stand it collasped. Boards have shown incompetence along with unruly behavior from people. But situation is much better now.

In Eden Gardens Same happened in 1985 when Kapil was dropped for disciplinary reasons. Against SA even the curator created a pitch favoring SA since Ganguly was dropped. 

[CoverDrive]

This kind of attitude is what works against honest assessement of your own side. Blaming and railing against other perceived big bad neighbour is a the lowest trick pulled by all standard politicians who are themselves incompetent and corrupt. 

 

He is trying to normalize the fan behavior in a way by saying we are better than others. This kind of thing has been going on in SL for past few year and it is not an isolated incident. 

[Zero_Unit]

3 hours ago, Temujin Khaghan said:

This is how Pak, bang felt when sehwag opened his mouth.

Comparing apples with oranges. At least try to be relevant to the topic ...

[TheWall]

Also that fatso should suggest his players to learn to play cricket...

[rtmohanlal]

Ranatunga should remember his own team's fate of getting seriously attacked  in Pak a few years ago.Terrorists or not , it happend in PAK .Another instance is the one in India's tour of PAK in 89  when an 'one day match' as a whole was  rejected due to crowd behavior.What not a psychic spectator came to the crease and tried to attack Indian captain Sreekanth.All these are worse than what happend any where in India.So Ranatunga just appears as a sore bitter jealousy loser.Nothing else.

[Vilander]

16 hours ago, Gollum said:

Well he isn't wrong here. Remember my dad telling me how once the Eden crowd burnt a stand down(killing a few fans but I am not sure whether he was exaggerating) after we surrendered meekly to the WI in 60s or 70s, don't remember exactly when. We are easily among the bottom 3 as far as crowd behavior is concerned flanked by our eastern and western neighbors. 

i think pakistani crowd behaves well.

 

Worst is bangladesh and certain regions of India. Some regions of India are the most chilled to be honest. India like always is a kaleidoscope.

[Vilander]

3 minutes ago, rtmohanlal said:

Ranatunga should remember his own team's fate of getting seriously attacked  in Pak a few years ago.Terrorists or not , it happend in PAK .Another instance is the one in India's tour of PAK in 89  when an 'one day match' as a whole was  rejected due to crowd behavior.What not a psychic spectator came to the crease and tried to attack Indian captain Sreekanth.All these are worse than what happend any where in India.So Ranatunga just appears as a sore bitter jealousy loser.Nothing else.

lol yeah pak if you consider terrorists hehe thats whole diff level.  But terrorists cant be be considered as a subset of fans lol.

[Vilander]

11 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Chennai crowd always great.  Fatthunga should not stereotype.

felt Mumbai, bangalore and certain new cities Dharamshala have been good too. This is a malignant generalization from  Ranatunga nothing else.

[Vilander]

8 minutes ago, rtmohanlal said:

Ranatunga should remember his own team's fate of getting seriously attacked  in Pak a few years ago.Terrorists or not , it happend in PAK .Another instance is the one in India's tour of PAK in 89  when an 'one day match' as a whole was  rejected due to crowd behavior.What not a psychic spectator came to the crease and tried to attack Indian captain Sreekanth.All these are worse than what happend any where in India.So Ranatunga just appears as a sore bitter jealousy loser.Nothing else.

i remember a pic where srikanth was clutching his bat like a club against a rampaging crowd, yeah that was disturbing.

[rtmohanlal]

1 hour ago, Vilander said:

lol yeah pak if you consider terrorists hehe thats whole diff level.  But terrorists cant be be considered as a subset of fans lol.

the base of the matter is whether it affected  the opposition team  in any way or not, whether it be while playing in the ground or while being in the country. The base of the matter is that a set of people could create mental disturbance to the oppostion team while playing in a particular country.That is all it matters.

[AmreekanDesi]

22 hours ago, sourab10forever said:

Kolkata 1996 and cuttack 2015...

Unfortunately the facts are against us.

we're lucky media wasnt big in 60s and 70s

[Khota]

There is no need to bring that up. Mistake was made by India but Indians are not the only ones who behave like that. Pakistan, British all behave like that and there was no need to bring India in this context. Who cares.

[Sandeep99]

While it is true that Indian crowds were just as bad previously, this comment still comes in poor taste. You'd expect better from a world cup winning captain.

[MCcricket]

Poor guys ,his fat ass is one fire, cannot take the humiliating thrashing from India

[mishra]

Bengalis are guilty of bringing Mohun Baghan vs East Bengal passion into Cricket matches. Ranatunga has had first hand experience of that. So wont blame him for making such comment. Bengalis are far too passionate bunch. Dont know why