AUSSIES DON'T PLAY FAIR - PART II

Since declaring my intention not to do a fresh post on this subject, I have had some very interesting thoughts concerning the Australian. Like not letting the guests in their country win. Even once in a while. But a full blown post on this subject would tantamount to breaking my own promise which, since I am not a government, is sacred to me. Governments not only regularly break promises, but they are required to do so by their constitutions. Despite all this, it looks like it is PART II time after all....

This brilliant flash I have had is that one of the reasons the Aussies win is that their team is not truly representative of their society. They choose just the ones capable of winning. Show me an Aborigine in their team; show me a Greek or a Serb of a Croat or Vietnamese or our  own Anglo-Indians who migrated to "back home". Or a Chinaman. On the last noted item I could be on shaky grounds. There have been many Aussie left-arm bowlers some of whom could have bowled the Chinaman. I just cant recollect who.Aussies regularly bowl China-women, though. What the Chinese women find in the Aussies beats me. There is no accounting for taste.....

Aussie team has no diversity. They do nothing to advance the case of the Aborigine or the Christmas Islander, or the Bougainvillain or the Papuan.

But look at us: we strive very hard to uphold the principle of diversity and give a chance to everyone. We would ideally like to have a team much expanded beyond the 11 players the International Cricket Council permits so that every region, ethnic group, minority, and linguistic group is included. The ICC is a throw-back to the old imperialistic days when MCC (the Marylebone Cricket Club, another name for England) used to rule the roost. Mr Dalmia of Kolkata sent the imperialists packing. Right now it is run by a coconut (brown outside and white inside), one Mr Lorgat. Despite making concessions to the majority community in his native South Africa (yes, you read that right: it is the majority that needs concessions in SA. The minority rules the roost), there is not much diversity in his native team. They even all have the same English accent like they were all  male Charlize Therons. They are not as good looking though.

On the subject of diversity, the English are equally bad - in fact worse. No Welsh, no Scot, no Irish. Only proper Englishmen. But it is okay because they don't make winning such a big habit like the Aussies do. And they all don't have criminal ancestry - only some.

The Aussies are also biased against the "differently abled" . We Indians on the contrary do not only accommodate those who cant run, those who cant throw, those who cant see very well, those who cant think straight, mentally sub-normal, the overweights, the underweights, we actually seek them out.  Our Cricket Board chairman is a fine portly fellow who perhaps only runs when he gets the runs. One Selector ( named after a kind of nut used as a shampoo in the South) actually has a magnificently violent twitch of the nose which was fun to watch on the TV  and some other officials of the Board who cannot tell one side of the bat from the other. But all part of a wonderfully diverse collection.

It is easy to win when you only recruit the elite

But remember we are winning the game of Diversity......