I hate the game. This blog is dedicated to all those women (and those right thinking men) who hate the game. My other half sits in front of the telly and can watch the game ball after ball, for 7-8 hrs at a stretch. Sometimes the men in white play on relentlessly for 5 days only for the match to end with a pffffthhhh. And thousands have wasted 35 hrs watching this ? My walls have more personality than this game.
All ye women out there…get to your keyboards and write out against this highly over rated game where a country’s mood swings to the fortunes on the field.
keep your eyes on this site. I’ll come back with more vitriol.
4 Comments
November 27, 2007 at 6:03 am
You don’t understand, the 30-35 hours (more than 40 if you choose to watch the pre-game, lunch-time and post-game shows) that you watch in a game that ends on the last day as a draw is pure heaven. The feeling of joy of escaping defeat or the pain of not being able to achieve victory – only a true fan can appreciate that. It’s like women with their cooking/shopping shows…
November 27, 2007 at 7:07 am
Ah an Indian cricket fan ! Apart from the name, you gave yourself away with the “escaping defeat or the pain of not being able to achieve victory”…What a compelling reason to watch the game. By the way, women have moved on. We’re beyond the shopping/cookery shows. We watch real sports. Like F1…
November 27, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Ah, F1 – another example of what some people (men and women) might call a waste of time. Like so many of my friends (and my mother) tell me, it’s just a bunch of cars going around and around. But the strategies, the sound of the engines, the sight of a driver on a purple lap – these are the things that I wake up at 2 in the morning here in LA to catch up on. Cricket has similar joys.
Good writing, BTW. You’ve got yourself a regular reader…
December 9, 2007 at 1:40 am
i must salute to the wives of these cricketers!@