Shame on you Mr.Gavaskar

MR. Sunil Manohar Gavaskar,

This is what you said to Ponting, "The reason the walk-off took place was simply because I was abused by the Australians. Someday, a more hot-headed guy might actually get down and whack the one who abuses him. If the Australians use this kind of language in a bar, would they get away with it? There's the example of the late David Hookes."

Was that necessary, Sir?

Shame on you!

Whatever is your opinion on the Aussie team and its sledging etc., it is not fair to bring a dead man's name, who cannot defend himself, to justify your argument.
Do you know the vilest thing is, making deregatory remark on a dead person? The minimum courtesy you could have shown to a dead man, Whatever he was, whoever was, is to leave him alone.

My memories of Mr.Hookes is, he was a good commentator and a very hyperactive person. He was to cricket commentary like Steve Irvin was to wild life photography.
Let us remember him for that, Mr.Gavaskar.

How low you can go to sell your wares?

God and late David Hookes only know the exact circumstance of Mr.Hooks death. Who are we to pass judgement on that, Mr.Gavaskar?

Because, like a proverb in Kannada, where there is a town, there is a cesspool. The people from the gutter don't change. Look at their cricket and leave them alone. They are there because of their cricket and nothing else.

Have all the niceties in the world and don't know how to face Bret Lee or Murali will not keep you in the team for long.

Cricket is supposedly a Gentleman's game. But cricket never was and is not a gentleman's game while players like Steve Waughs, Gavaskars, Javed Miandads, Andre Nels are around.

There were, are and will be gentlemen in cricket. Like Sachin Tendulkar, Gundappa Vishwanth, Kapil Dev, Brian Lara, Adam Gilchrist, Wasim Akram, Sanath Jayasurya to name a few.

But generalising cricket as a gentleman's game is wrong.

What were you Mr.Gavaskar, in your playing days?

You were a great player of your time is a given thing.

Apart from that, what were you?

I remember you scoring 36 runs of 60 overs in a world cup game in 1979 to spite your captain, Venkataraghavan.

I remember you making the selectors drop Kapil Dev for the Chennai test without any reason, when Kapil was at his prime form, to satisfy your bloated ego.

I remember you almost dragging Chetan Chouhan from the field of play, just because some umpire gave you out wrongly. If every player who is given out wrongly follows your method we cannot have a full days match nowadays.

You were a great player, a good captain. But in your hey day you were playing the cricket politics on the gullible illiterates like Kapil Dev.

Ricky Ponting rightly said, "don't behave high and mighty"

Face it Mr.Gavaskar, you were never a role model like Sachin is, Dravid is, Kapil was or G.R.Vishwanth was.

Then who are you to judge the Australian team in general and Late David Hookes in particular?

Are you so desperate to be in the limelight and garner your share of the World Cup bootie?

In your days cricket was just a game. It is not now. Cricket now is life and death, for the players and the spectators.

And when the stakes are so high, you expect the Aussies to behave?
Be reasonable Mr.Gavaskar.

If they can get away with it,.Australian would kill to lift the Cricket World Cup.

Aggression is in their blood, because their country was built by convicts!

If Team India shows half of that attitude, aggression, passion and hunger, we will beat Australia hands down. You know why?

Man to man we have double the amount of talent they have.

So go for it India with fire in the belly and pride in your stride, because we are Indians.

Let the song "Suno gaur se duniya walo..." be on your lips and come back with the trophy.

Cricket is great leveller. Who knows, with such a pool of talent this time around we may surprise Aussies and other teams to lift the Cricket World Cup.

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