A case of spectacular overreaction
An incident of monumental triviality — the Randiv no-ball — has been turned into one of earth-shattering importance, writes Nirmal Shekar in the Hindu .
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
An incident of monumental triviality — the Randiv no-ball — has been turned into one of earth-shattering importance, writes Nirmal Shekar in the Hindu.
The tragic humanitarian crisis in Pakistan caused by floods, the continuing mindless carnage in Afghanistan, the snowballing crisis in Kashmir and a dozen other things that sane, rational human beings might have considered serious enough to warrant print space and air time have had to compete desperately, but mostly unequally, with the l'affaire Randiv ...
... If the Indian media had had its way, Randiv would have by now been rueing his life-shattering moment of folly on the field over a pot of poorly cooked gruel in a six by eight prison cell.
The editorial in DNA says that the brouhaha over the Randiv no-ball reflects India's obsession with personal glory rather than team performance.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo