5 things Indian cricket fans should stop doing

Cricket is a passion in India, a passion that no other country can match. The fans are at once knowledgeable and prone to emotions when they talk about the game and the Indian cricket team in particular. However, there are a few things that the fans must and should stop doing, for it not only brings a bad name to the sport but also gives the wrong perception to the fans of other countries.

#1 Stop looking back at the 90s

For a majority of the fans, the 90s were the golden years for Indian cricket. Granted, there were many good players during that time, and with Sachin Tendulkar in his prime as well, it made for great tv. However, one has to remember that the team itself was never complete and there was always something missing from the team.

For all of Sachin Tendulkar’s heroics in the 1996 World Cup, we couldn’t get into the finals, and celebrated players like Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja had less than clean connections with all the match-fixing allegations. 

Sometimes this look back to the 90s even extends to the other countries, with fans claiming the Australian and South African sides of the 90s being a lot tougher and filled with talent. Irrespective of whether that is true, it is insulting for the present generation to be beaten with the bat of a past player, pardon the pun.

Nostalgia is a funny thing and makes us sees everything in rose tinted glasses and makes us forget all the things that were bad then. While we might want to believe that things were better in the past, it is never the case, and if you look hard, you’ll find you complained a lot back then too.

So lets just enjoy the game and the entertainment value that all the talented players of this generation are providing us rather than longingly look at a time of which we have a very unbalanced memory of.