In this nuance lies the greatness of this sport.. and the understandable frustration that a lot of people feel about its length… As a contest it is a different class of contest from the usual race-like contests.

Sure the Indian team plays and competes at the highest level possible. Sure F1 is not a “national team”. And yes, the man on the street will not listen to logic. My “repetitive” logic, that is. Or to the fact that the Indian team is to my mind, no great shakes. Whatever matches I catch glimpses off, I see the team losing. Don’t throw statistics at me. I get enough at home. What irritates me about the game is the fact that I see the game not as a real sport but now as an indulgence of the country. I’m glad Mr Mallya’s got his own F1 team. Will that bring more interest in this fabulous sport ? It’s truly an edge of the seat thriller. And you cheer for teams. Made of guys who’re working with and against machines. Drivers, Team directors, Technicians..Sure some teams have more money power than others. So am I to assume that the Bangladesh team has the same monetary backing as the Indian cricket team ? Such disparities of budgets are prevalent in every sport.
And by the way, an F1 race never gets rained out…and rarely are laps reduced.
And as for being repetitive, I have just one request. STOP THIS GAME. Till then, the anti cricket flag will fly high…

Karthikeyan won what?..Umm…excuse me..A1 GP for race fans is like ‘The Sunfeast Open’ for tennis fans around the world

I know..I know…he still won in a sport played (though not popular) in more than a handful of countries. But that is not cricket’s problem. We play this sport, and compete at the highest level possible.

Lets have Karthikeyan or any Indian perform at highest level. Although, even then, the problem with Tennis and F1 is the missing concept of ‘team’ and that too a ‘national’ team. I know..Indian cricket team is actually BCCI team…but still..try telling that to man on the street.

Anyways…nice concept for a blog. Try to be less repetitive, though.

Ferrari technicians v Mclaren technicians v Some-Other-Technicians-On-A-Fraction-Of-The-Budget-Of-The-First-Two” is real sport”? Even in the College of Engineering here at UC Berkeley it would be considered a boring sport (Unless you were on the third team)

Besides, did you watch Yuvraj Singh bat on the first day Bangalore Test? It was a performance worthy of the greatest stages of the world…..

The letter to Garyji was pure gold…….