Is the Indian cricket team having some sort of bizarre competition to see who can be the biggest arse in the media at the moment? First it was Virender Sehwag calling the Australian team “scared” of India. Now our next contestant, Harbhajan Singh reckons he loves the boos coming from Australian crowds:
“To be very frank I don’t really mind when people boo me,” Harbhajan said. “It gives me a lot of pleasure that everybody knows me in the ground and they are just going for me. That inspires me to do well. The more they do it, I am going to play more hard.”
Well, I guess something needs to inspire Harbhajan, given that he’s had a pretty ordinary tour, and his biggest press clippings have come from sledging Andrew Symonds, rather than doing something worthwhile on the playing field.
2 Comments
February 13, 2008 at 4:15 am
Well, everybody is trying to play mind games these days and use the media to sound off warnings to opposing teams . Australia have perfected it. Because they back up their words with action on the playing field.
Indians talk sounds pathetic because they talk big words like Sehwag and then end up looking like bunch of amateurs like they did today after losing to Sri Lanka.
February 13, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Yes, you’ve got to be able to “walk it like you talk it” as the expression goes!