Caste, region, religion and Indian cricket. National icon and the architect of the Indian Constitution, Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar, bowls to 1another national icon and the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. These two cartoons were used to illustrate Mr S Anands article hosted on Ambedkar. Both cartoons are inoffensiveand even sweet. However, is it necessary to drag caste and politics into cricketunless the case is that the selection process for the Indian cricket team deliberately overlooks the claims of other castes and, therefore, the team does very badly nternationally. Vithal Palwankar c. November 1. 97. 1, who belonged to a scheduled caste, was not only a star player, he was the first captain of the Hindus cricket team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition. Vinod Kambli. Karsan Ghavri. Lalchand Rajput never mind his surname, Mr Rajput has been claimed by a caste tribe website as belonging to what might be a scheduled caste. Doddanarasiah Ganesh Born June 3. Karnataka, Ganesh was a right arm seam bowler and lower order batsman who played in 4 Tests and one ODI in 1. Eknath Dhondu Solkar arguably Indias best fielder ever. Rohit Sharma is a Brahmin cricketer in Indias squad for the 2. World Cup. Mr Anand argues that Brahmin fielders do not chase the ball to the boundary and are not capable of playing a physical sport. Mr Anand says that Brahmins have soft bodies and some top Brahmin cricketers have priest like paunches. Like Rohit Sharmas, perhaps Mr Anand writes about the brahman priest like paunch of the Brahmin Sunil Gavaskar, creator of several world records. Mr Anand also writes about the brahman priest like paunch of G. R. Vishwanath which probably helped him score his legendary test centuries. And look at Tendulkars Brahminical paunch. And what a soft, Brahminical body and priest like paunch filmstar Arjun Rampal has. Filmstar Kamal Hassans soft body and pot belly are an even bigger disgrace. He is not just a Brahmin but, worse, a pappati Tamil Brahmin. International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' title='International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' />The racist and pejorative term pappati has been used to describe the pot bellied Brahmins 3Biddo Brahmin c. Yes, he does have a pauncha Sumo wrestlers paunch. He was a great wrestler because he was from Gujranwala, a town known for producing champion wrestlers Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. Religion and caste were not what made great wrestlers the great Nurewala school did. Cricket is a batandball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22yardlong pitch with a. Vista, the annual business summit of IIM Bangalore and one of the largest Bschool summits in India, is a cornucopia of finance, marketing, operations human resources. International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' title='International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' />Just as Bombays cricket nurseries produced Scheduled Caste as well as Brahmin, Muslim as well as Parsi cricketers. Pahelwani. Manohar Aich born in Dhmati, a remote village of Comilla, East Bengal, in 1. Brahminical priestly paunch at age 4. Bliss 2 Bold Font here. Mr Universe crown in 1. Photo David Gentleand the paunch grew bigger and bigger still. Manohar Aich at age 1. Like other rural champions Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Brahmin, Yadav or other castehe learnt his ropes at village gyms, in his case the Ruplal Byayam Samiti. How proud and wealthy his Brahmin family was can be gauged from the fact that he joined the Indian Air Force as a technician i. Nero 6 Dvd-Video Plugin Free Download more. For the record, he lived in grinding poverty 4, which stunted his growth to 4ft 1. Photo The HinduWrestler Yogeshwar Dutt is a Brahmin 5 and a vegetarian 6. Therefore, he i has a soft body, ii has a priestly paunch, iii is one of the very few Indians to have ever won an Olympic medal, and iv stays away from physical sports. No wonder he chose a soft, non contact sport like wrestling. He comes from what Mr Stevenson might call a proud and wealthy family his grandfather and father were rural schoolteachers, as his younger brother still is. They belong to a village called Bhainswal Kalan. This is a screenshot from Mr Sriyavan Anands article 7 in which he shows Ghavri and Parkar as upper caste and Doshi as brahman sicThis page is an examination of the validity of thehypotheses of Mr S Anand and Mr A Stevenson. The sources of this page include. International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' title='International Cricket Captain 2010 Editor' />The Times of Indialt S. Anand Outlook India In case the Outlook link does not work, Mr Anands article can be read on Indpaedia itself at Cricket and the Brahmans bodies. FP Sports First Post Aug 1, 2. Salil Tripathi, ESPN Cric Info. The debate. Mr Siriyavan Anand set the ball rolling with his article Eating with Our Fingers, Watching Hindi Cinema and Consuming Cricket Ambedkar. Andrew Stevenson of The Sydney Morning Herald, smarting under the fact that India was often the greatest cricketing team in the world, in all formats, and the team for Australia to beat, caught the ball from Mr Anand and tossed it further. Mr Stevenson, who cited Mr Anands article extensively, described Siriyavan Anand as a Dalit the caste formerly called untouchables who has written provocatively and critically of the Brahmin domination. Mr Anands hypothesis. Mr Siriyavan Anands hypothesis has been reproduced in toto by several websites including Indpaedia see Cricket and the Brahmans bodies and publications. It is difficult to say where Mr Anands article was first published, but in all likelihood he gave this honour to the India baiting Himal, as indicated by his original text 8 Foreigners whose countries have been defeated by India sought solace in Mr Anands articles by citing it extensively. Dalit Nation hailed Mr Anand as The upcoming and budding Dalit Intellectual Siriyavan Anand who has analyzed this caste and cricket so well. We hope brother S Anand continues to write on engrossing Dalit issues. Zelda Wind Waker For Pc. One of the most respected cricket authors, Ramchandra Guha, has cited it even more extensively in a scholarly book. Therefore, Mr Anands hypothesis demands to be examined, point by point. Mr Anands facts include showing an OBC Muslim as an upper caste Hindu, showing a Jain as a Brahman, a Ghavri as upper caste and a Rajput hockey player as a Brahman, not to mention talking of meat eating Jats and not explaining the present as well as centuries old Brahmin proficiency in body building, wrestling and weight lifting or perhaps those sports are not physical enough. Mr Anand writes, I am not a historian of the game How we wish he were one, but it does not require much disciplinary training It does to infer that cricket is a game that best suits brahmanical tastes and bodies. It does. It does. How else do you explain why the Australians, West Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, too, have done well in cricket Do they, too, have brahmanical tastes and bodiesAnd do the Parsis, Muslims, Christians and Sikhs in the Indian team, too For those who do not follow cricket, these countries have often beaten the Indian Brahminswho in turn have beaten them all. As I begin this, I feel weighed down by the burden of addressing the liberal readers on the regressiveness of a film like Lagaan, and even more weighed down by the prospect of convincing them that cricket in India has been a truly casteist game a game best suited to Hinduism, writes Mr Anand. Mr Anand continues. No sport will tolerate such neglect of bodies as cricket in India. Anil Kumble resigns as partnership with Virat Kohli becomes untenable Cricket. Play. 03 1. 9Bal Kumbles exit sends bad message to next coach. Hours after resigning as India coach, Anil Kumble has said he was informed for the first time yesterday Monday by the BCCI that the captain had reservations with my style and about my continuing as head coach. While stating that the cricket advisory committee CAC charged with deciding on who will be coach had backed him for the job, Kumble said it was apparent the partnership with Virat Kohli was untenable, and I therefore believe it is best for me to move on. Kumble stepped down as coach four days before the limited overs tour of the Caribbean begins, even as the team was mid flight to the West Indies. Kumble had remained in London after the Champions Trophy which ended on Sunday as chairman of the ICCs cricket committee, he will be attending the chief executives committee meeting there. Two days before the Champions Trophy had kicked off in England, it emerged in the media that India captain Kohli had told BCCI officials that some players were uncomfortable with the intimidating style of Kumbles man management. As a result, despite Indias success in Kumbles year in charge, during which the team climbed to No. Test rankings, the board advertised for fresh interviews for the head coachs position instead of extending his contract. Kumble, whose original contract ran till the end of the Champions Trophy, had already reapplied for the job and only last week accepted the BCCIs offer to extend his contract to include the West Indies series. However, Kumble said, in light of the reservations he came to know about through the board, he could not continue. It is understood that, on Monday, before Kohli departed for the West Indies, he met the BCCIs top brass in London, as did Kumble in a separate meeting. The meetings were attended by BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhary, board chief executive officer Rahul Johri and MV Sridhar, general manager of cricket operations. The meetings were necessitated after the three member CAC, comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman, informed the BCCI that it had failed to resolve the impasse between Kohli and Kumble. The BCCI had received six applications including that of Kumble for the fresh interview process. But, considering it was the CAC that had recommended and shortlisted Kumble as the final choice last year, it still felt he remained the first choice for the head coach position going forward. However, given the current relations, it is understood that the CAC did not meet Kumble at all after it was asked by the BCCI to make the final decision. Play. 01 0. 6How the Kohli Kumble saga played out. Kumble confirmed he had the CACs backing in his statement, which began thus I am honoured by the confidence reposed in me by the CAC, in asking me to continue as head coach. The BCCI was left not much choice other than accepting Kumbles resignation, given that the efforts of board officials, the CAC and the Committee of Administrators had failed to bridge the divide between Kohli and Kumble. Officials well versed with the meetings with Kohli realised that the differences with Kumble could not be resolved and the relationship could not be sustained. The differences seem irreparable, a board official, who is privy to the discussions, said. He said that Kohli was not ready to take a step back. Once the CAC realised the relationship was beyond repair, it asked the BCCI to take the negotiation process forward. It was not a pleasant meeting, the board official, who has knowledge of Mondays meetings, said. According to this official, Kohli remained adamant about his stand, which might have helped Kumble make up his mind. The CAC is likely to have told BCCI that the differences were not cricketing related but more of a personal nature, the official said. If he were to stick on, it would be very awkward on Anils part. It is not good to handle someone as big as Anil in this manner. The BCCI said that MV Sridhar will travel to the Caribbean to supervise the team management, while batting coach Sanjay Bangar and fielding coach R Sridhar will continue in their roles. Besides Kumble, the other people who had applied for the India coach job were former India opener Virender Sehwag, former Australia allrounder Tom Moody, former Pakistan coach Richard Pybus, former India medium pacer Dodda Ganesh, and former India A and current Afghanistan coach Lalchand Rajput. Nagraj Gollapudi is a senior assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. ESPN Sports Media Ltd.