{"id":125294,"date":"2023-11-25T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=125294"},"modified":"2023-11-25T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T06:02:08","slug":"just-desserts-for-india-at-cricket-world-cup-modis-curtness-by-michael-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/just-desserts-for-india-at-cricket-world-cup-modis-curtness-by-michael-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Just DESSERTS for India at Cricket World Cup \u2026. & Modi\u2019s Curtness-by Michael Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just DESSERTS for India at Cricket World Cup \u2026. & Modi\u2019s Curtness-by Michael Roberts<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Tunku Varadarajan,\u00a0in The Wire,\u00a020 November 2023\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0where the title reads thus:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cCricket Mata Ki Jai: Jingoism Lost in Ahmedabad on Sunday\u201d\u00a0… while highlights\u00a0in blue\u00a0have been imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That India lost in the final was karmic payback for the BCCI\u2019s sins against the game, and also for the Ahmedabad crowd\u2019s unwillingness to be sporting and civilised.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"elanka\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Narendra Modi walking away from Pat Cummins after handing him the trophy. Photo: Screengrab from video Tunku Varadarajan<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The most remarkable thing about Sunday\u2019s World Cup final was not that India lost. Many of us had seen the defeat coming for days, and some foresaw it as the inevitable fruit of hubris, of \u201cghamand<\/em>\u201d. For those inclined to Sanskrit, a couple of lines from the Bhagavad Gita define perfectly the nature of the BCCI (the Board of Control for Cricket in India), whose best-known face is Jay Shah, the semi-literate Gujarati Billy-bhai Bunter in whose unathletic body nepotism and administrative blight have attained their most perfect form.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Verses from the Gita:\u00a0\u0906\u0924\u094d\u092e\u0938\u092e\u094d\u092d\u093e\u0935\u093f\u0924\u093e:\u00a0\u0938\u094d\u0924\u092c\u094d\u0927\u093e\u00a0\u0927\u0928\u092e\u093e\u0928\u092e\u0926\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0924\u093e: |\u00a0\u092f\u091c\u0928\u094d\u0924\u0947\u00a0\u0928\u093e\u092e\u092f\u091c\u094d\u091e\u0948\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0947\u00a0\u0926\u092e\u094d\u092d\u0947\u0928\u093e\u0935\u093f\u0927\u093f\u092a\u0942\u0930\u094d\u0935\u0915\u092e\u094d\u00a0|| 17||<\/span><\/p>\n

Such self-conceited and stubborn men, full of pride and arrogant in their wealth, perform ostentatious sacrifices in name only, with no regard to the rules of the scriptures.\u00a0\u0905\u0939\u0919\u094d\u0915\u093e\u0930\u0902\u00a0\u092c\u0932\u0902\u00a0\u0926\u0930\u094d\u092a\u0902\u00a0\u0915\u093e\u092e\u0902\u00a0\u0915\u094d\u0930\u094b\u0927\u0902\u00a0\u091a\u00a0\u0938\u0902\u0936\u094d\u0930\u093f\u0924\u093e: |\u00a0\u092e\u093e\u092e\u093e\u0924\u094d\u092e\u092a\u0930\u0926\u0947\u0939\u0947\u0937\u0941\u00a0\u092a\u094d\u0930\u0926\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0937\u0928\u094d\u0924\u094b\u093d\u092d\u094d\u092f\u0938\u0942\u092f\u0915\u093e: || 18||<\/span><\/p>\n

Blinded by egotism, strength, arrogance, desire, and anger, the vile men abuse Me, who is present in their own body and in the bodies of others.\u00a0Let us assume here that \u201cMe\u201d in the last verse refers not to God, or the Supreme Being, but to Cricket, our most beloved game (and secular national religion).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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To me, as a man in his seventh decade of life \u2013 who watched his first Test match, at age 7, in 1969 \u2013 the most remarkable thing about Sunday\u2019s final was that\u00a0so many neutrals everywhere (by which I mean cricket fans who weren\u2019t Indian or Australian) were cheering not for India but for Australia.\u00a0<\/strong>This is not because India weren\u2019t the underdogs in the final, which is usually why neutrals don\u2019t back a particular competitor. But being better doesn\u2019t necessarily put neutrals off. Few non-Englishmen cheered for England in the 1979 final, preferring the West Indies, then favoured so heavily to win that their losing would have been a cosmic shock (as it was in 1983, when they lost to India, back then a kinder country than it is now, more self-effacing, less triumphalist and ugly).<\/span><\/p>\n

Neutrals cheered Australia on Sunday, a team that has historically been unloved outside its own shores, because\u00a0most cricket fans worldwide<\/strong>\u00a0are thoroughly sick<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 fed up, pissed off \u2013\u00a0about India\u2019s bully-boy dominance of world cricket<\/strong>.\u00a0I don\u2019t mean sporting dominance, which neutral fans can live with (as was the case with the West Indians of the Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards era, or Brazilian football in the time of Pel\u00e9).\u00a0It\u2019s the wholesale takeover by the BCCI of cricket\u2019s financing, values, and calendar, giving them a grip over the game that is stronger, more ruthless and vice-like, more absolute and remorseless, more self-serving and mercantilist, than that once exercised by the game\u2019s original overlords in England\u00a0<\/strong>(who might, at some level, have been forgiven their assertion of ownership over cricket because they did, in fact, give us the game).<\/span><\/p>\n

The BCCI has warped cricket, distorted it, making it so India-centric that other proud nations \u2013 some with better pedigrees than India\u2019s \u2013 have been reduced to bit-part players, mendicants, petitioners for match-time. Everything is now about India: the crowds, the songs, the scheduling, the pitches, the money.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one element the BCCI cannot control, mercifully, is the outcome of a match. Try as the BJP might \u2013 for the BCCI is now the BJP in cricketing form \u2013 the result of a match cannot be influenced to suit its needs the way an election can. International umpires are not the Indian judiciary. The ICC is not (yet) the Indian Election Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n

That India lost in the final was karmic payback for the BCCI\u2019s sins against the game<\/strong>, and also for the Ahmedabad crowd\u2019s unwillingness to be sporting and civilised, to appreciate cricket as something other than a jingoistic exercise in which India must win every game to the chanting of \u201cJai Shri Ram\u201d and \u201cBharat Mata ki Jai\u201d.\u00a0Let us never again hold the final of a World Cup in such a city, a place in which cricket is but the means to petty nationalist ends, where few stand up to applaud an opposing batsman who scores a magnificent, match-winning hundred.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Stay with Chennai, with Mumbai, with Kolkata, where the crowds love cricket (and not just winning)<\/u><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, justice was done. Australia won. Narendra Modi did not get his heavily scripted opportunity to strut on stage at the stadium named after him.\u00a0Instead, we saw the most graceless presentation of a cup to a winning captain, in which Modi \u2013 sulking like a spoiled child who hasn\u2019t had the celebration he\u2019d thought was his birthright<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 handed over the trophy to Pat Cummins and then turned his back on the Australian captain. The latter was left bemused and sheepish on the stage, alone with the cup that his team had won but feeling, nonetheless, like a gate-crasher at a party-gone-wrong. For India, it was a moment of national embarrassment.\u00a0The prime minister had reduced an ancient land to a boorish place, ill-mannered, inhospitable, uncivilised, nouveau-riche.<\/strong>\u00a0Let us give thanks to the God of Cricket that the BCCI lost on Sunday, even as we embrace our gallant boys in blue. Maybe some of them will be emboldened now to push back against the BCCI in private.\u00a0Repeat after me<\/strong>:\u00a0Cricket Mata ki Jai.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Tunku Varadarajan is a writer at the\u00a0<\/em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0in New York. A fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, he is also a fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University Law School. He has written frequently for\u00a0<\/em>Wisden.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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