The murky dealings of Indian cricket are coming out in the open. It is amazing how India’s top cricketers who are making so much money and enjoying so much public adulation can behave like this.
The reason for India's relatively good performance in cricket in recent years has less to do with the greatness of our players and more to do with the loss of interest in the game in case of countries like England and I would argue even Australia. And in the recently concluded Champions trophy, we have seen that we can lose to so called ordinary teams like Sri Lanka and Pakistan by big margins. In fact, in the tournament, we played 5 games and lost 2. This only goes to show that India is not the world champion that many are loudly proclaiming.
Indian cricketers should consider themselves fortunate that they are living in a country where there is an irrational craze for the game. It is because of this craze that so much money is to be made through tickets and advertisements.
Our cricketers are today perceived to be spoilt brats. The least they can do is to be disciplined and work hard. Only then they can remove this perception.
