This time around all the cricket fans must be hooked on to the IPL 20-20 series. Personally I am not a cricket crazy fan but I do enjoy the game. Last Sunday I managed to get tickets for the KKR vs. DC match to be held at the ever famous Eden Gardens Stadium. I was pleasantly surprised to see that not just the so called youngistan but the whole of
Anyways, things weren’t very pleasant after a while. Some elements in the crowd couldn’t stop staring at the cheer girls. I mean all right, that’s fine; guys are guys. So stare and do whatever. But they didn’t just stare. They sat there passing the lewdest comments I had ever heard. It continued for as long as I can remember. They were a bunch of despos who lacked any kind of civic sense coz they didn’t care that there were people around who weren’t very appreciative of the foul language being used.
And then how can we all forget the city’s display of mismanagement skills. Shortage of water half way through the game and then the flood lights go off for about 30 minutes right in the middle of a nerve wrecking game. Being a SRK fan, I was certainly disappointed coz he couldn’t shake a leg as promised because the concerned authorities didn’t set up the stage.To add to the series of unfortunate events, was the lack of respect being shown by a certain segment of the crowd who yelled out the “M” word every time they saw Andrew Symonds. The more rational part of the crowd was dumb struck to see these people call out “Monkey” over and over again in unison. And we say we are not racists. I am not sure as to how Monkey qualifies as a racist term, but if the International Cricket Board Authorities say so, then it is our duty to respect it. I wonder what satisfaction they got by doing that except for showing how uncouth the Indian crowd is.
On second thoughts, it wasn’t all that bad. KKR won after all. So like they say, “Alls well that ends well”.
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