India-Australia- The Hidden Truth

I continue to be long but will cut my long positions and go short if Nifty futures trades below 5178. This should really be the beginning and the end of my note. But then who would open this note daily if that is all I said. More importantly, would I want to write this piece of information (not data) daily if I was not allowed to generally rant about everything under the sun in the guise of a morning note on markets?

So I have to do something that I have been deliberately avoiding for the last few weeks. I have been reading and hearing a lot of criticism of the poor Indian cricketers. I have kept quiet because what I have to say might not be completely palatable to everybody. But then not everybody knows the truth of this tour like I do. Every game lives and dies by its legends and stories and with this single tour, the Indian team has collectively helped to restore the pride of one of crickets finest son.

Until the beginning of this tour, even his countrymen were asking for the head of Ricking Ponting. Now he can leave with his head held high. Their cricket captain Michael Clarke was a hated personality even at home. Indians did him a great favor by allowing him to develop into a leader of men in a short span of 2 months. All this and more the Indians did in this tour. It takes a great amount of humility and a lot of sacrifice to do something for a fellow human being. Our Indian cricketers proved that they had it in them to put the game above narrow considerations like personal achievement, team glory and even the country pride. For them, the game and the legends of the game were more important than any of this.

You mock me and ask me why doing all this meant that they had to also lose all the matches. You ask me why not allow Ricky Ponting or Clarke to score runs and do the same ourself? You ask me why not bat well and also score equal to or more than Australia? As an answer, I ask you what would have happened if we scored more or less equal to Australia? The matches would have been a draw. All four of them. And what do you think, it would have done to the great game of Test cricket? Destroyed it further. Do you think, Indians are so selfish that they would put personal pride over the great game that has given them so much? Do you think that they would ever do anything to even harm the reputation of cricket? Why do you think we insist of banning DRS in our matches despite knowing that it is fair and consistent. We do not want to do anything that destroys the culture and history of this hallowed game.

Now let me ask you one question in return. For all these sacrifices, do you think that the cricketers deserve the blame that we have heaped on them. Will we allow them to be kicked around by the media who does not go beyond the obvious and see the incredible deep thinking that Dhoni and his brave men displayed in Australia. I say NO. I say that the unknown and unsaid story deserves to be highlighted for the sake of our sacrificing heroes. I say that to prevent a repetition of the current mistakes of the media we should insist that all cricket commentary for Indian matches be done only by Shastri and his trusted band of fellow commentators who have the ability to see beyond the obvious and bring forth the glory of Indian cricketers to the general Indian public and not the former foreign cricket greats who only highlight the flaws of our batsmen and bowlers.

I also say that if Australia and other countries do not return the favor and lose badly to India in India and help to burnish the reputation of our own legends (who sacrificed their own reputations in this tour) then we should stop playing those countries totally. No point casting pearls before swine. We can continue to play within India and with all those countries who understand the deep beauty of our scheme of things like West Indies, Zimbabwe and yes Sri Lanka.

Back to the game of stock markets. I am long and will continue to be long until 5178 is broken in Nifty futures.