Indian Cricket Fans: We Just Want to Bully Someone, Even if We Also Lose

Dann Khan by Analyst Written on June 29, 2009
NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND - JUNE 16:  Ravindra Jadeja of India is congratulated by his team mates after taking the wicket of  AB de Villiers of South Africa during the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights match between South Africa and India at Trent Bridge on June 16, 2009 in Nottingham, England. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
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In fact, it is already showing. Bullying makes a person lose his self-confidence. And this is exactly what is happening with the party in question. They have been given such a hammering by their country that now they are actually believing that the t20 loss has marked the start of the low for them.

And when a person believes that he or she is on a low, then he is definitely on a low.

The result of this is being seen in the current series India is having with West Indies. The players are actually finding it difficult to regain the same confidence that they had a few months earlier.

Another example of the stupid bullying is talking about how Indian players should not have played the IPL.

Tell me something, would even half of India have watched the matches if the likes of Dhoni and Yuvraj would not have played? And don't say "then they should not have held the tournament" because you yourself would have then complained that such a lovely thing is not happening. 

So the whole idea is to enjoy something done more or less exclusively for you and later complain because soon after that, things did not go our way. If nothing else, I thought life has at least taught people that you don't get everything. 

But I cannot complain. This is the whole idea behind bullying. Get the pleasures of everything. And enjoy the pleasures of nothing so that you get more.

It does not help anyone in the end, but still no one understands.

All this is the reason why India are still not regarded as world beaters for more than a year or so.

But I think bullying has become a sport more popular than cricket in the country. Thank God I only follow the second-most popular sport of the country.

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