If you are desi, you will know that the Indian cricket team is currently touring Australia. And things have not been going well for India. Australia have been their usual efficient selves while the Indians, hampered by a mind freeze by their own board that pooh poohed the lack of preparatory games before the test matches and some horrific umpiring, have since crashed to successive twin defeats at Melbourne and Sydney. While all the chatter on and off the field was animated, the actual play by the Indian team has been anything at that. The interactions between the teams during the two games have been anything but amicable with a lot of bad blood, with the poor umpiring playing no small part in keeping tempers high.

The media circus off the field has been working feverishly too. While the lack of a media manager has continued to bite the Indian team’s posterior (with comments, clarifications and denials flying left right and centre), the partisan Aussie media have done their job too.

The latest inflammatory media contribution has been this. In an analysis that runs slipshod over cold hard facts and contradicts itself in more than one place, Andrew Stevenson attempts to analyze the caste divide in the Indian cricket team. Honestly, the attempt falls flat on its face right from the first word of the byline to the article. Read the rest of this entry »

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