Michael Atherton quizzes Eoin Morgan - One of the finest interviews

[SK_IH]

 

[SK_IH]

So many forthright, crisp & legitimate questions, which I am sure English fans wanted to ask England TM as well.

There is no mollycoddling of the English "captain", the like we are used to in India. 

 

[dilliboy]

Mike Atherton is undoubtedly the best cricket pundit on television... Articulate and informative throughout

[sage]

Interesting response on Hales

[Sandeep99]

I'm so jealous.. So forthright and great questioning and honest and straight answering. Compare it to our culture where captain doesn't even want to answer and says the question doesn't have logic

[Lone Wolf]

1 hour ago, Sandeep99 said:

I'm so jealous.. So forthright and great questioning and honest and straight answering. Compare it to our culture where captain doesn't even want to answer and says the question doesn't have logic

Can you imagine VVS asking these kinda questions to Lolli?  Forget about media even our ex players have zero guts.  That's why there is zero accountability in Indian cricket. 

[dilliboy]

Thing is the more you put cricket on a pedestal and treat Cricketers as gods, more unlikely for you to ever seriously question them on failures. Sadly this culture will only get worse in India as things are currently going.... 

Edited March 12, 2021 by dilliboy

[neel roy]

Bhogle got sacked for just uttering few bits and pieces ( which were all logical). If this interview would have been done any indian , next day it would have been his jouranalistic obituary 

[Sandeep99]

13 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Can you imagine VVS asking these kinda questions to Lolli?  Forget about media even our ex players have zero guts.  That's why there is zero accountability in Indian cricket. 

No chance in hell. Indian cricket runs on sycophancy. To be honest, none of our ex cricketers have the level of intellect of Mike Atherton. Also, very few of them have integrity. Kumble and Dravid to name a few. When they have integrity, they get booted out of the team.

[sage]

I think England has similar problems with their football which they put on the pedestal like we do with cricket.

[Sandeep99]

1 minute ago, sarchasm said:

I am all for robust criticism wrt how our cricket is run but got to be careful not to allow this to turn into self-flagellation.

Not really. I'm just stating the facts. I've never seen our ex cricketers masquerading as analysts ever speak anything sensible laced with any deserving appreciation for the opposition. At least the English have guts to ask the right questions.

[Sandeep99]

10 minutes ago, sarchasm said:

This is not the same as saying our cricketers don't have the intellect of Atherton.

 

Well, apart from maybe Dravid and Kumble and possibly Ashwin, that still stands.

[dilliboy]

27 minutes ago, sage said:

I think England has similar problems with their football which they put on the pedestal like we do with cricket.

But footballers aren't treated like gods who are unanswerable to everything.... Have regularly seen pundits question even the topmost English and PL footballers

[Serpico]

20 hours ago, sarchasm said:

What was so intellectual in this very interview aside from Mike regurgitating questions that every english cricket fan was asking?

It should just be common sense to ask these questions but how many sport journos do it? So yeah when most indian journos lack this basic common sense mike appears intelligent, it's all relative

[jf1gp_1]

On 3/12/2021 at 11:00 AM, SK_IH said:

So many forthright, crisp & legitimate questions, which I am sure English fans wanted to ask England TM as well.

There is no mollycoddling of the English "captain", the like we are used to in India. 

 

Kohli specially has the habit of snapping back ; dont know why our journos dont give it back. 

[Tattieboy]

On 3/12/2021 at 9:52 AM, Sandeep99 said:

Not really. I'm just stating the facts. I've never seen our ex cricketers masquerading as analysts ever speak anything sensible laced with any deserving appreciation for the opposition. At least the English have guts to ask the right questions.

I saw Gautham Gambir yesterday give  a full analytical critic . . Always a fan of his , gutsy batsman and not afraid to speak his mind , really about only ex Indian cricketer I have time for, not a BCCI stooge . Even I as a Scotsman nearly blushed on the praise he was giving on how England were playing White ball  cricket 

[sage]

1 hour ago, Tattieboy said:

I saw Gautham Gambir yesterday give  a full analytical critic . . Always a fan of his , gutsy batsman and not afraid to speak his mind , really about only ex Indian cricketer I have time for, not a BCCI stooge . Even I as a Scotsman nearly blushed on the praise he was giving on how England were playing White ball  cricket 

Do you have a link for the gambhir interview

[Tattieboy]

1 hour ago, sage said:

Do you have a link for the gambhir interview

Saw it on you tube , it was cricinfo him and Ian bell were chatting 

[goose]

This is a standard interview style in the English media. There is an acceptance the interviewer is going to take a polar opposite view to the interviewee, and there is no need to take it personally.