The world's richest board, BCCI is angry, former Indian cricketers hurt and the Indian media is having a field day. Why all because of a comment by Nasser Hussain in which he called a couple of Indian fielders donkey. Nasser Hussain who was one of the commentators during the T20 match, said that the Indian team had a few donkeys when Parthiv Patel misjudged a catch of Munaf Patel. He said,
So now who is to blame? Nasser Hussain of course! I'm sure he didn't mean the statement as the Indian cricket board and the public sees it as but the fact remains that he called a couple of Indian players as donkeys. Surely Nasser could have used a better term but the fact that he used the word donkey to describe the players is quite demeaning. Yes, the Indian fielding is only average, and not world class and yes England are the fielding side, but does that mean the Indian fielders are donkeys?
I guess someone should remind N'ass'er Hussain that it's not very polite to call anyone a donkey, least of all on live television with a world wide audience watching. I hope that he would be a gentleman and come out and apologize for his comments and admit that he said the wrong thing. All these uncalled for comments and fights between the Indian and English commentators really irks me, and it surely does not portray the game in proper light.
The BCCI might be over reacting here a bit, but they are not wrong in wanting to protect their players and the team's image, are they?
So with Nass donkeying around and passing childish and immature comments, it reminded me of an Ural proverb. The proverb says,
"I would say the difference between the two side is the fielding. England are all-round a good fielding side. I do believe that India have few...3 or 4 very good fielders and one or two donkeys in the field still."
So now who is to blame? Nasser Hussain of course! I'm sure he didn't mean the statement as the Indian cricket board and the public sees it as but the fact remains that he called a couple of Indian players as donkeys. Surely Nasser could have used a better term but the fact that he used the word donkey to describe the players is quite demeaning. Yes, the Indian fielding is only average, and not world class and yes England are the fielding side, but does that mean the Indian fielders are donkeys?
I guess someone should remind N'ass'er Hussain that it's not very polite to call anyone a donkey, least of all on live television with a world wide audience watching. I hope that he would be a gentleman and come out and apologize for his comments and admit that he said the wrong thing. All these uncalled for comments and fights between the Indian and English commentators really irks me, and it surely does not portray the game in proper light.
The BCCI might be over reacting here a bit, but they are not wrong in wanting to protect their players and the team's image, are they?
So with Nass donkeying around and passing childish and immature comments, it reminded me of an Ural proverb. The proverb says,
"In the forest, the wolf lives for three years, the donkey for nine."Don't get it? Ask Nass!
2 Comments:
The term donkey isn't that offensive to me.
It's just an innocent term used regularly in England, although in the world of football where I believe it originated from, you would never hear a commentator use it.
In cricket it's different though, you hear commentators laughing at the (lack off) batting ability in No.11's like Chris Martin, etc. I don't see it as any different to that really.
I'm sure you remember how Ashley Giles was known as the wheelie bin by certain TMS commentators. That was hardly flattering, it's just a cricket thing.
It isn't offensive to many and many people said to me that this was cricket commentary and not international diplomacy, and I agree with them to an extent. This is very trivial or even nothing, but with India under-performing comments like these does irritate the public and we're seeing the aftermath of that.
Nass was in the right to express his opinions but I feel he could have used a better word to describe our bad fielding and perhaps avoided all this. Thar's pretty much my take. :)
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