http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/series-tournaments/india-tour-of-sri-lanka/top-stories/Crowd-fingers-waterboy-Yuvraj-Singh/articleshow/6254083.cms
Do you see it? I don't. But I'm also severely myopic.
Yuvraj was called 'waterboy' after he got agitated when the Sri Lankan fans asked him why he was carrying the water. Rather than worry about being called 'waterboy', Yuvraj should be wondering why he isn't on the team for the third Test.
Then again, Yuvi's anger is understandable. Imagine Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel and Suresh Raina getting cheered on while you're running around with bottles of Gatorade.
Why are cricketers such pansies, always complaining about someone abusing them? Look at football - Nigel de Jong's 'kung fu' tackle on Xabi Alonso during the World Cup Finals in South Africa didn't even put him out of the game, and he made official complaints after the match, saying it was one of the worst tackles he'd ever received. Notice if you will, that Alonso did nothing to provoke the police to come in and intervene.
Alonso: "I have probably broken a rib, although I am not too worried about that."
Ahahahahaha.
From Times of India website:
The ICC has laws in place for banning spectators guilty of racist taunts, but here officials didn't seem to know what to do. Indian team manger Ranjeeb Biswal said the team management was considering filing a police case against the fans who jeered Yuvraj.
Biswal defended Yuvraj, saying: "The crowd was trying to misbehave with the player. The police was asked to intervene and the situation was brought under control. Yuvi was not at fault, he didn't try to provoke the crowd at all. I was sitting next to Yuvi when it happened and I can tell you they were trying to provoke the player."
Biswal defended Yuvraj, saying: "The crowd was trying to misbehave with the player. The police was asked to intervene and the situation was brought under control. Yuvi was not at fault, he didn't try to provoke the crowd at all. I was sitting next to Yuvi when it happened and I can tell you they were trying to provoke the player."
How exactly is calling Yuvraj 'waterboy' a racist taunt? I should have been hanged to death several times over for each Sardar joke I've made. Thankfully, I'm not a big cricket fan and don't join people in choruses.
Calling a black person a 'dirty negro' on the other hand, qualifies as a racist taunt.
He (Narcisio, player at ASD Nuova Casteltodino) shrugs off racism as something that happens, admitting that in Italy, black people are still "treated like outsiders and it's difficult to integrate fully".
Talk about taking things with a pinch of salt and pizzaiola sauce.
Maybe if people didn't complain so much about every single thing that happens on the field I would watch a little more test cricket - or if I had five days of nothing else to do.
Thomas should go to Italy, i say. :)
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