It's only a game

It's a country of extreme reactions and benevolent genuflections. Hero-worship and instant demonising are nothing new to the millions here. More so when cricket is the riding passion. And everyone seems to have an opinion.
Two mammoth defeats in South Africa and the tounges have started wagging again. Failed-players-turned-commentators, journalists by the sheer weight of their misguided words, and the public in general are on a witch hunting exercise. Everyone is after the wretched team. So much for the tolerance that our tradition teaches us.
Then you have the proverbial Mahisasura, Greg Chappel, who loves to talk his heart out. His zeal for experimentation, the last thing that the conformist politicians would prefer to emabrk upon, has won him many enemies. The entire Bengal and the Red land is against this White man and his belief in the capitalist thought of entrepreneurship. The Bengali bhadralok is deeply disturbed for he has shown the door to their own babu moshai Saurav Ganguly. I too feel that Ganguly was given a raw deal but there are enough reasons for me to believe that the Tiger would again claw his way back into the team.
Well, when will we learn not to take ourselves too seriously? Can't we just take the losses in the spirit of the game? I know it's difficult but then it's only a game and not a war. Let's stop becoming experts and just hope that our team will be more professionally equipped to take on the best. Let's give them their due.