World Cricket II

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Exclusively hiring from outside 'for' cricket when we can't/don't do that for any other field (Kingfisher aeroplane pilot??) is odd to me. You are saying why can't cricket-led immigration happen. I don't see it as 'true' immigration. People coming here, not making it their home and doing it for - as wizzy says - 'mercenary' reasons. Whereas a KP or a Trott could be like any other Londoner.

What kind of idiotic argument is this? If an Englishman has to qualify for India, he has to stay in India 183 days for 4 consecutive years. That's what the ICC requires - ofcourse, they'll relax it for themselves but surely when they see reverse-brain=drain, they'll uphold this law to the word - which means if an Englishman qualifies per ICC requirements for India, he'd have soaked India in him sufficiently. That should be enough, Ofcourse, except in your mind - which is just your personal idiosyncracy. I have my own idiosyncrasies - atleast, i dont argue that those idiosyncratic beliefs are "national character" or "natural trait".

Mark Tully is an odd case working in India - before and after him, no British journalist has made India his home. Per your logic, he should never have been allowed to stay on in India and make India his home.

Basically, if you think even one-inch deep, your position is untenable



Reviving the Dr Vijay analogy, I dont like Vijay movies, I wish a flop for him every time he releases a movie but if a DMK government resorted to unfair means to prevent release of his movie, my sympthies would be with him. I wouldnt crow and celebrtate that releasing a Vijay movie was prevented evne if by unfair means.

That is how it should be - infact, I believe you are also fair enough in that manner. It is just that you are resorting to vidhandavaadham in this issue and are unwilling to back off.

(Bertie Wooster: "We may be biased but we are fair".)