Navjot Singh Sidhu’s commentary is as aggressive as his
batting. Since he started his role as a commentator, it has become a subject of
irritation for many. At times his commentary crosses the limit of decency and
insulting remarks simply hurt the feelings of cricket fans.
As usual Sidhu is giving his expert opinion in Star Sports
and ESPN’s cricket show regarding this year’s ICC World Cup. The show is hosted
by Harsha Bhogle and along with Sidhu there are other renowned names like are
Ian Chappell, Tony Greig, Sourav Ganguly, Tom Moody, Patrick Symcox and many
other ex-cricketers.
Now, in that show, Sidhu made a derogatory comment about the
Bangladesh
cricket team.. Sidhu’s such remarks annoyed the local cricket fans and for
which a Bangladeshi cricket fan named Dipon sent an email to the ICC stating
Sidhu as “racist.
Dipon in his email said that according to ICC’s code of
conduct, any person insulting a nation or religion during an international
cricket match deserves to be punished and Lorgat in reply said that the ICC
have taken the matter with great importance and after investigating they have
really found the evidence of violation of the ICC’s code of conduct.
The ICC’s CEO Mr. Haroon Lorgat gave Dipon’s email enough
importance and went through those video footages in which Sidhu gave his
derogatory comment about the Tigers. Mr.
Lorgat assured Dipon that the ICC has strongly told Star Sports and ESPN to be
careful in future. Mr. Lorgat also sent this email to the BCB chief Mostafa
Kamal and ICC’s Managing Director David Richardson.
So what did Mr. Sidhu do?
During investigation it was found that, before the match
against West Indies Ian Botham said that the Tigers were ahead of the West
Indies in race for the quarterfinals. But Sidhu replied in the
most insulting manner saying that both the birds and cockroaches can fly but
the cockroaches are not birds and thus, with this opinion he compared the Bangladesh
cricket team with a cockroach.
I think that the ESPN and Star Sports team too should avoid a mean-minded person like Sidhu.
Thank You
Faisal Caesar
Thank you very much for this timely write up. Sidhu is a freak and biased (expert) about his team India. He always tries to find out the mistakes of the losing team which ensured victory for the winning team (in his view), specially when he was supporting the losing team. And why he does that? He tries to settle his mind saying all these. Look, it's clear on the screen. Why he interrupts other real experts on the show? He's so talkative and has no idea on cricket. He can only talk and that's it. That's acceptable as broad day light. He is no expert but a very under-classed cricketer, yet over valued. Just put him beside Tendulkar or even Ajit Agarkar (who's not playing now) and you'd never find Sidhu's dust in the wind. He has never done anything remarkable for India, but he slapped a person to death and when a killer is free and can talk only in proverbs and silly idioms, then we think there's something urgently needed to be done. Sorry for being so aggressive, but hey, you can become aggressive against one of that kind, can't you?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your valuable thoughts
Dear Brother, whoever made this video I appreciate on taking the serious notice. We Pakistanis as a nation support you on this. Bangladesh has a lot of talent, just need to be polished. This is just a beginning of cricket in Bangladesh, soon in future Bangladesh will be beating all the teams.
ReplyDeleteJust don't give up and keep working hard. Be united as a nation and support your team.
In know they couldn't play good against WI and SA but this is not the end of world.
Keep your moral high and support your team.
We Pakistanis as a nation are with you.
Rise Pakistan, Rise Bangladesh.
Stand United.