Hearing English commentators during Eng-Ire game made my day :)

[Watson87]

X 2 Indians are far too sensitive and emotional. If the opposing commentators mention India's bowling is not up to mark, the Indian cricket fans get all emotional and rile the commentators. If the opposing commentators heap praise on their team then they are extremely biased while we have the likes of Ravi Shastri, Gavaskar and the likes that just can't see beyond India. If India loses a game, it's down to conditions, umpiring decisions and several other reasons unthinkable and no credit given to the opponents meanwhile if India wins it's because India is too good for the rest. BTW I'm an Indian too, please don't get me wrong. I'm not quite ashamed to say we are one of the most emotional and sensitive cricket followers. We are always sore losers, just can't see beyond our batsmen, our team and our performance. For us, cricket is there because India plays cricket not the other way around :winky: I think the English commentators did wonderfully well last night, Naseer and Bumble were great. Ian Botham on the other night was good to listen to. I'm not sure what you guys expect from them? There are certainly whingers on the other side too and in aplenty particularly the Aussies and the Poms but we are no less than them. We are as poor as them. We always like to see others lose, doesn't matter who loses we rejoice. In fact we tend to rejoice others' loses than our wins :haha:

Quite true, agree with you completely. :two_thumbs_up: Smart minds think alike:fishing:

[ravishingravi]

pwnt! Forced him to do a Zakir Naik there! :hehe:

What does Zakir Naik do ? I mean I don't want interrupt your Miss California moment. But can you pls. clarify ?

[Ranjha]

There is nothing wrong with what english commentators were saying. What they said about Indian bowling and fielding was correct. What they were saying about associate nations was correct. They were quick to congratulate Ireland and Naseer sounded really enthusiastic about irish win. We dont need politically correct commentators like pak ***** licker manju. Banter is good. I love English and Australian commentators (though aussies are very biased but I love it, I dont like ***** licking).

[Gunner_Mania]

We must be from parallel universe then. In my universe' date=' they can't stop boasting about their team. In fact,[b'] if a new comer were to listen to Sky panel during the Ahes in England, he would be underthe impression that England have been dominating world cricket for last 20 years and Australians are just manging to stay in the hunt. They are atrociously biased to say the least. As for yesterday, O Brein left them no choice. You have to bite the bullet and praise the opposition.

Of course they would. sky's primary audience is England and they are pandering to what their audience would like to listen. sky has a monopoly over English cricket broadcasting and they would like to keep it that way. they are not going to antagonise the ECB by keep saying the English team is rubbish. For all their praise, one Bob Willis is enough to whine about the English all the time. Even yesterday here in the studio when they lost, Bob just said I hate to say it but England have never been good in ODI for the last 20 years. Nasser when he spoke to sky from Bangalore after the game just stopped short of calling KP stupid and then there is Boycott on the BBC, he just gets into the English when they poorly..mind you he rips into everybody when the poorly .

[ravishingravi]

Of course they would. sky's primary audience is England and they are pandering to what their audience would like to listen. sky has a monopoly over English cricket broadcasting and they would like to keep it that way. they are not going to antagonise the ECB by keep saying the English team is rubbish. For all their praise' date= one Bob Willis is enough to whine about the English all the time. Even yesterday here in the studio when they lost, Bob just said I hate to say it but England have never been good in ODI for the last 20 years. Nasser when he spoke to sky from Bangalore after the game just stopped short of calling KP stupid and then there is Boycott on the BBC, he just gets into the English when they poorly..mind you he rips into everybody when the poorly .

And I am not denying it. It is their right to present an "English" perspective and it my right to say that it is devoid of any sense of reality. I think the same would be true of Indian panels at Neo. But the point raised was they are "unbiased", which they are not by a long shot. They are extremely prejudiced when it comes to certain players and teams. Hussain and Atherton have had been more than vocal about the Indian team, about "slow and low" pitches of India, emphasizing "in their home condition" as a caveat to almost every thing, about BCCI gagging them in commentary box. Hussain's feelings about Ganguly is pretty well known. So, they all come with their own baggage. Take the current match for example, Hussain has mentioned 3 times in first 5 overs how the pitch is "crumbling". Fact is this not Bangalore, bit on the slower side, but there is very little Pietersen has done and English players have just been awful. Pietersen has yet again been exposed to left armers. But apparently the narrative here is "pitch is crumbling". I have nothing against it. Just that "unbiased" is not the word I associate with it.

[ravishingravi]

Oh really! Then this must have been written by someone else: Link And this poll?: Link Here are the England supporters: coffee_rules, jf1gp_1, panesarv, Rajiv, ravishingravi, Serani

Bump Chandan

[achilles]

Bump Chandan

:hysterical: Funny boy, you are.

[CG]

They were just stating the facts. Our fielding is not world class and our bowling is quite ordinary. We only have one wicket taking bowler, Zaheer Khan. They even bashed their own bowlers, heard Nasser saying England's bowling and fielding has been rather ordinary. English commies are the best for me, they are less biased than Indian commentators who I think are the worst.

Ordinary bowling attack ??Last I Checked the rankings we are the best test team and 2nd best odi team ,Please do think before typing.

[CG]

X 2 Indians are far too sensitive and emotional. If the opposing commentators mention India's bowling is not up to mark, the Indian cricket fans get all emotional and rile the commentators. If the opposing commentators heap praise on their team then they are extremely biased while we have the likes of Ravi Shastri, Gavaskar and the likes that just can't see beyond India. If India loses a game, it's down to conditions, umpiring decisions and several other reasons unthinkable and no credit given to the opponents meanwhile if India wins it's because India is too good for the rest. BTW I'm an Indian too, please don't get me wrong. I'm not quite ashamed to say we are one of the most emotional and sensitive cricket followers. We are always sore losers, just can't see beyond our batsmen, our team and our performance. For us, cricket is there because India plays cricket not the other way around :winky: I think the English commentators did wonderfully well last night, Naseer and Bumble were great. Ian Botham on the other night was good to listen to. I'm not sure what you guys expect from them? There are certainly whingers on the other side too and in aplenty particularly the Aussies and the Poms but we are no less than them. We are as poor as them. We always like to see others lose, doesn't matter who loses we rejoice. In fact we tend to rejoice others' loses than our wins :haha:

Bro if we make funs of opposition bowlers after our bowlers got hammered for same amount of runs that too in another match any sane person world call them biased.Also Please prove indian bowling is weak?we are best test side in the world and i reckon with out bowlers you do not win testmatches.

[CG]

Quite true' date=' agree with you completely. :two_thumbs_up: Smart minds think alike:fishing:[/quote'] Or Foolish minds:hysterical::hysterical: