"sorry paaji!!!" That was sachin tendulkar’s comment when the greatest indian allrounder broke down in front of the cameras during a bbc interview.and..
..and that is precisely what i feel when i see people pointing fingers at him,those very same people who went crazy about him when he brought the world cup which is still our biggest claim to cricketing fame. Sometimes i wonder how do people manage to change their heroes as often as they change their clothes. For me paaji was a hero, and will always be inspite of whatever darkside u may present about him .
I mean why don’t u judge people according to the heights they have reached rather than to the depths they fall. Inspite of what they say about wasim akram, i will still pay to watch him anytime, anywhere rather than any of the “cleanest” bowlers around. Sometimes i really feel that we love to bring down our heroes, maybe this instinct is buried somewhere deep in all of us. Well i have never managed to rekindle this instinct. Maybe because i don’t go by the book when it comes to choosing my heroes, i guess i have never gone by the book in anything i have done, but that doesn’t really matter.
We were talking about a man who led a team which was pretty ordinary to say the least. And led he did, taking us all the way to our most glorious triumph and that probably made cricket what it is today in India. So where do we go from here, suppose a guy comes and tells u Sachin has made some wrong decisions in team selection in lieu of his close association with Kambli(though the probability of this happening is about 1 in a million), what would u do.. would you sell your story to rolling stone, would you take away his glory and leave him alone. I won’t be surprised either way
..sorry paaji!!!!
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No! No! No! Sports freak, I do not agree with you at all this time.If some one is a vetren in his field or has attained glorious heights, then it does not imply that he gets liberty to flout all laws,not exactly laws but ethics. They were no doubt great cricketing heroes and still are ,like them for their goodies, but being rational don't be blind not to see through their weaknesses. what these people have done? Made a mockry of the cricket,which is virtually a religion in this country . this is equivalent to treason and it can't be forgiven on the basis of their past contributions. I want to drive home the point that all humans are both the saint and the devil within them and we should be fair enough to see both sides without prejudice
look ,first of all i would like to make it staight that nothing so far has been proved against kapil and thus we have no right tyo talk bout him in this manner.and look at the credibility of the man who has made this allegation,the same player who was thrown out of the team for deliberately losing a match so that he could get to a personal milestone.how can u believe such a person so quickly and distrust a man of such stature as kapil.that is my only greivance,our penchant for the spectacular..how we want to believe so strongly that all is not well with this world..and there are remarkable conspiracies goin behind virtually every closed door.. and remember not everything can be fixed,the damage people are causing to kapil can probably never be fixed though u may repent in ur future,but it will be too late then...
another fucking report clears paaji and people are happy..wow how people suck ..cant u guys see truth unless u strip it naked ..how pathetic can people be..where are the guys who doubted him..where are they,probably the old photographs of paaji that they hid whilst the controversy was on have been spruced up and are back on the showcase..I M STILL SORRY PAAJI!!!
Yes what u r trying to convey may b partially correct. But don't u think that there cannot b smoke without a fire. And if it could b, then instead of Kapil sachin might as well b named. Why only selected Cricketer are only being named. Besides i stongly believe that one should not trust anyone lest the chances of betrayel are maximum. As for in the case of Kapil its very early to say what will turn out. Our dicussion will progress as the case will progress.
just because kapil is an icon doesnt give him a licence to betray millions of people who not only watch cricket and adore them who play it but follow cricket as a religion and worship those who play it.if kapil was indulged in fixing matches (i will be the happiest man if he is proven innocent) could u concieve of the scenario with kapil in the field and thousands of fans in the stadium and millions fixed to the television sets watching their god in action and not knowing about the fact that their god has already stabbed them at their back , he has already sold their faith ,their passion,their dreams in return of a few rupees.did all this not occur to kapil when his ethics plummated to the lowest,or he overlooked all this because the drive for money was much stronger..if that is the case then he definitely needs to be taught a befitting lesson.... even yudhisthira was not spared for a single lie that he spoke in his otherwise impeccable lifespan why do u thind kapil be spared if found guilty
hey cool it guys i think my article has been groosly misinterpreted,at least thats not the way i intended to sound that kapil can get away with murder..but man doesnt he deserve to be trusted until proven guilty,thats all i want to say. in fact personally,he can get away with anything...
hey guys if u have read the cbi report..i guess the message is clear..now tell me as paaji been wronged or not..I"M STILL SORRY !PAAJI
Surely has been. Strange are the ways of media - and gullible people bite everything offered.
hey guys..i guess we all owe an apology to paaji for ever doubting him..kudos to sportsfreak whose faith was unshaken... i hope we get a message from this and learn to trust our own instincts rather than fall in the media trap.. 0KB (0 bytes)
Well now that Paaji has been conferred the greatest honor, may the critics please shut up. This just in "Very much like his champion team on that historic day at Lord's in 1983, World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev Nikhanj upstaged more fancied rivals to be adjudged the greatest Indian cricketer of the century"
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