<img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/may/nanjappa.jpg" align="left" border="0" />The boys in blue have redeemed themselves. The poor fellows. They come from little towns where the height of excitement is the weekly ringing in of the icecream cart selling mango lolly. They fight for the first gola, and then go back to swatting mosquitoes and milking the cows. Until the icecream cart comes around again. Now you take these guys and you throw them into a cricket team. You surround them with blonde cheerleaders, Bollywood actresses and screaming fans. Then you throw parties for them that go on into the wee hours of the night. The hapless little boys! How can they not party through the morning? How can they not drink all that free booze that's flowing? How, how can they not dance the bhangra with the Ukrainian girls who've been imported to egg them on? The only option they have is to go back to their hotel room ufffd where they see empty, fluffy beds that scare them ufffd they're so used to the charpoys on the terrace. The matches and the late parties and the early morning flights are pale in comparison to all those draining ad shoots that need to be squeezed in too. Do you know how strenuous it is to hang around, say a few inane words and count all those crores going into you bank balance? You'll never know if you aren't there in the spotlight!u00a0 Just when they get used to the hectic life; playing cricket-partying-ad shooting-partying-ad shooting-playing cricket-partying, the entire country expects them to fly across the world to the Caribbean, and actually sweat it out for the nation! Really! How unreasonable can India, and Indians, get! Now we ungrateful Indians are implying that Clubs are more important than national teams. Please! How can we think that cricketers like the crores they get paid for IPL, better than wearing that Sahara India uniform? Is someone implying that if Sachin's fingers were lacerated at the World Cup, he wouldn't go out and play the next game? Of course he would! He honestly wasn't angling for cheap popularity with his home crowd, or counting the extra bonus coming to him from the Ambanis when he returned to play, injured, at the IPL.u00a0u00a0 Really! Why are all these cricket fans quibbling? India did win against Afghanistan, didn't they! They can't be expected to win every match - especially two weeks after partying so hard at the IPL finals!u00a0 For someone whose idea of being wild is mixing ganne ka juice with fresh lime, toping the rum and coke, grinding with Deepika-look alikes, and sleeping in eiderdowned beds, can get their bodies really shocked. Chirayu Amin, for the next IPL, is cancelling all the parties and the cheerleaders, we hear. Perhaps he also needs to ensure the cricketers get enough rest ufffd in environs their bodies are used to ufffd like the closest stables.

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The poor fellows. They come from little towns where the height of excitement is the weekly ringing in of the icecream cart selling mango lolly.

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