Players without Joonoon - Uff BCCI

Heartbreaking 💔 loss against Australia

After the World Test Cricket Final 2023, it took time to come out of shock, but it's really alarming. Being the biggest fan of the Indian cricket team, I feel sorry to say this. But the bitter truth is really stranger than fiction (the fantasy universe of IPL).

BCCI is not an Indian Government organisation; it's a for-profit private organisation.

And now feels that this team is not an Indian team.

They never played like an Indian team. Earning money from IPL and commercial ads, they are private businessmen. Win or lose is part of the game, but here they never played.

It's shameful

We make them feel like God, and the truth is that God didn't exist; it's one's actions and efforts that give relative results.

Leagues like the IPL were introduced to explore new talents, but the dark truth is that they are just making money. They wasted two months, and people were fooled into waiting for RCB to win the IPL trophy.

Kohli scoring centuries, Sharma winning matches, Shami holding the purple cap, Cheteshwar playing County in England, Umesh Yadav selected because of speed and experience, Jadeja in the team instead of Ashwin, and the hero of the last test series, Axar Patel (I really feel bad for Axar), all played like a non-rated team.

Rahul Dravid as coach is totally failed to put Josh and hunger to win in the team. They were very well aware that they had to play in the finals against a world champion team, and there was no practising or planning. They were busy shooting ads for sponsors in the IPL.

Cricket is religion, and players like Kohli and Sharma are gods of cricket, which is ridiculous.

Sportspersons who really worked hard to get medals for India internationally were about to immerse their medals in the river as a protest. They were fighting for their respect at Jantar Mantar; we were busy watching IPL matches and making teams on stupid online fantasy gaming platforms.

Now there are hardly any expectations from this team that they can pose any challenge to other world-class teams coming to India to play the World Cup One Day International later this year.

If cricket is a gentleman's game, then where have all manners gone from these players who missed "जुनून the passion" to play for India? Because losing is understandable, but putting zero effort into winning is not acceptable.