Cricket fans question the quality of Women’s Cricket 

The Mithali Raj-led team had to play two matches in 14 hours, when was the last time men’s cricket team had to do that? Even after 40 days of cricket, men cricketers are able to score only 84 runs in 20 overs. Way to raise the level of the game. Women cricketers are doing their best to take their game to the next level and they are doing pretty well at it by having exciting contests, the most recent of which was the world cup, which had the whole cricketing fraternity on its feet. These kinds of backlash only put extra pressure on these cricketers, who need the support of their fans to grow. Collapses happen at every level, just that we should have the context before criticizing anyone. 

As the news of Virat Kohli missing few Tests is doing rounds, Dilip Vengsarkar opined that if Rohit Sharma makes a comeback in the absence of Kohli it will create confusion for the leadership position as Ajinkya Rahane is the vice-captain. 

SC Take: Although Dilip Vengsarkar is a veteran cricketer who knows a lot about cricket and has terrific inputs time and again, this time he was way off the mark with his comments. He opined that if Virat Kohli will be missing the last few Tests and Rohit Sharma makes his comeback at the same time, Rohit should be at the helm of affairs instead of Rahane, questioning Rahane’s place as the vice-captain. To elevate this further, Vengsarkar wants Rohit to play in the middle order in Tests. Seems like age has finally caught up to Vengasrkar. 

Danny ‘my dear’ Morrison 

Danny Morrison got thrashed for addressing Mithali Raj as “my dear” during an interview, after her team’s loss in the Women’s T20 Challenge in Sharjah.

Interestingly, Mihali didn’t have any problem with Morrison. In fact, she didn’t even react to it, must have not even heard it, but Twitterati showed that they care for the legendary cricketer a lot more than she does for herself. Political correctness is one thing, but context is very important when it comes to things like these, and the context for this incident is that Morrison has used such words for legendary men cricketers as well. Now even if you think that context doesn’t matter, how can ‘my dear’ be disrespectful? Maybe people need to chill out a bit and let the man live in peace. 

Gautam ‘supportive’ Gambhir

SC Take: 4 0 0 7 10 9 0 - These are the numbers of Prithvi Shaw in his last 7 matches, which looks like some phone number. After such a display I don’t think this question should even come to the mind of any player, fan, management, or selector that the player should be picked or not. Because if a player has put up such numbers, it means that he needs to get some time off to work on his game and maybe get some pressure off him. However, Gambhir seems to be thinking in the opposite direction, opining that Shaw shouldn’t have been dropped for the few matches he was dropped along with berating Ajinkya Rahane in the shortest format of the game. Now that’s called hitting two targets with a single arrow. 

There’s no denying the fact that Shaw is brilliant and he should be provided with enough chances to make his mark, but with such performances, even he would be thinking to take some time off. Gambhir needs to understand that every player is different and all the players can’t be the same.