Mahanama's Pathetic Show!

To the millions of meek, pliant and spineless character which inhibit this world, there is one more addition – Roshan Mahanama.

Why blame the ICC? As long as there are people like Mahanama to serve its interests in safeguarding the supremacy of a chosen few, it will get away with anything it wants.

Match referee Mahanama’s comments (in his report to the ICC) on a ‘substandard’ Kanpur pitch are all the more disturbing as he belongs to a country (Sri Lanka), which has won most of its battles on tailor-made home tracks with the help of Murali. Imagine the state of Lanka cricket (their win-loss record) if they had to deal with bouncy tracks at homes as well.

Probably Mahanama has forgotten that on a ‘substandard, under prepared pitch’ South Africa had upper hand on most of the first two days and but for a fighting last wicket stand in India’s 1st innings, the eventual outcome could well have been different.

Even on a so called ‘perfect pitch’ of Ahmedabad, the match was over in three days. Then why blame the pitch at Nagpur? Playing on an under prepared track too requires a different kind of skills, which South Africans lacked in the end. Period.

It must be understood by all and sundry that preparing same kind of tracks will take away the home advantage and make the game very dull. It will take the fun out of the game. Imagine a world where all women were blonde! But people like Mahanama, with their playing careers over and refereeing at the mercy of ICC, will forget all that for a cosy job and some quick bucks.