Unpopular opinion : Spare our players of political mudslinging contests on ground

[IndianRenegade]

4 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

There is no point trying to make this non existent distinctionand uttering useless platitudes like this, not unless you're living under a rock. 

There is not for Indians & Pakistanis, but for the rest of cricketing world particularly SENA countries you still need to come out as being reasonable.

 

i am seeing posts recently by cricket journalists from SENA which aren’t very sympathetic, they are directly the result of crude messaging like there is no rivalry.

[rollingstoned]

6 minutes ago, IndianRenegade said:

There is not for Indians & Pakistanis, but for the rest of cricketing world particularly SENA countries you still need to come out as being reasonable.

 

i am seeing posts recently by cricket journalists from SENA which aren’t very sympathetic, they are directly the result of crude messaging like there is no rivalry.

They are not the ones at the wrong end of Pak sponsored terrorism, we don't owe them an explanation. Whatever 'narrative war' needs to be fought with diplomacy can eb handled by govt. Bcci or players don't have to feel obliged to be a part of it. 

It's not like any of them show any sympathy when we are subjected to the usual 'Pakistani-isms' on the field which throw this need for political correctness out of the window anyway or need for us to take any moral high ground. We can assume they don't like us and just move on. 

[putrevus]

2 hours ago, singhvivek141 said:

One more thing we can do.

Anyone who coached Pakistan or remain affiliated with Pak cricket, will not be given any contract with Indian cricket.

 

I know likes of Morne, Hesson who dont understand the gravity of the relations between the two teams yet. But probably, after this incident and if BCCI takes the above action will put some amount of seriousness.

That should be given even now , I don’t know how Morne became the coach.

[putrevus]

2 hours ago, goose said:

the whole messaging from India is wrong in my view. ruthlessly go after anyone and everyone connected to the Pak army and ISI terror apparatus while saying we have nothing against Pakistanis. the only country doing the hyphenating is India!

The problem with that approach is endless war as we are seeing in many places. 

 

I had same thoughts like you but that is going to be very very expensive both in lives lost and money spent. You simply cannot eradicate the problem, it can only be controlled to some extent .

 

 

What Indian players have done is bring this issue on front burner again. This approach has told everyone involved in Pakistan, they will not be tolerated further.
 

Let us see if it helps even a little bit.

Edited September 29, 2025 by putrevus

[goose]

2 minutes ago, putrevus said:

The problem with that approach is endless war as we are seeing in many places. 

 

I had same thoughts like you but that is going to be very very expensive both in lives lost and money spent. You simply cannot eradicate the problem, it can only be controlled to some extent .

 

 

What Indian players have done is bring this issue on front burner again. This approach has told everyone involved in Pakistan, they will not tolerated further.
 

Let us see if it helps even a little bit.

 

dont think we've seen my approach yet. i'm advocating israel levels of retribution against pak whilst saying we have nothing against pakistanis (even if you do!). even netanyahoo doesn't antagonise gazans - he just kills them by accident.  antagonising 200 mln pakistanis on your doorstep is not clever. 

[pkmmamks]

If anyone thought Asia cup will go away. Next 3 have been finalised in Ban Pak  SL resp . 

[putrevus]

22 minutes ago, goose said:

 

dont think we've seen my approach yet. i'm advocating israel levels of retribution against pak whilst saying we have nothing against pakistanis (even if you do!). even netanyahoo doesn't antagonise gazans - he just kills them by accident.  antagonising 200 mln pakistanis on your doorstep is not clever. 

I understood you were refering to Israel. But IMO Isreal levels of retribution is inhuman and Israel is getting scott free with their crimes and genocide.We all know why they are getting away with their crimes.

 

I hope India never does anything like it.That will create more problems as hungry 220 million people will nothing except retribution in their mind.