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    Peter Roebuck sledges India

    By Scott 3 years ago, mid-December Leave a comment on this post

    How to win friends and influence people:

    IT’S ABOUT time the Indian cricket community grew up. Inflammatory remarks, burning effigies, blocking roads and messages of hatred are not the sort of conduct expected from mature adults committed to their country and versed in the ways of life.

    Seasoned observers understand that the world is a complicated place.

    Obviously, the dropping of a beloved son from the Test team has been the hot topic of conversation. At least the fury confirms that cricket still matters in this country. Unfortunately, it also confirms that it’s at the mercy of the mob. Worse, recently elected officials have fanned the flames.

    Roebuck is of course talking about the fuss being made about the dropping of Ganguly. While he is actually right in what he is saying, I do not agree with the condescending way in which he has said it. People in India are sensitive to being talked down by Oxford-educated white people. No doubt, Roebuck would consider himself to be a ’seasoned observer’, and should know better.

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    2 Responses to “Peter Roebuck sledges India”

  • Mike wrote:
    March 3rd, 2007 at 4.23 pm

    Roebuck is just a jealous racist blinkered fool. Hayden will always be Shoaib’s bitch :D

  • Saat wrote:
    March 5th, 2008 at 1.49 pm

    Hey pete,
    you obnoxious bastard…u talk abt money power of the bcci,then slam harby..say that to big monkey and his teammates…….

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