Cricket

I was conversing to my friend who had gone for the India-South Africa ODI at Eden Gardens and had asked him who he was cheering for..as in Dravid or Dhoni or whoever, and he promptly said - "SA of course!!The whole ground supported SA and they were confused whether they were playing in Kolkata or Cape Town" All this in regard to Sourav's exclusion from the team..and he defended it vehemently..saying that they were fully aware that supporting a foreign nation on home ground is wrong but they did it nonetheless and will do it again!!And not only are the bengalis at fault here..the whole stadium was a party to it.Now that is a curious situation indeed,the general opinion seems to be in the lines that Sourav does not deserve to be thrown out when the big guns like Sachin et al keep on ensuring their postions in the team by scoring a first innings hundered and failing to cross the twenty's in the next eight innings.The more serious statistics lover objects to the manner in which he was..usurped - shall we say? But what everyone failed to think was that what message would the city give out to the foreigners.If our country involves itself in a war and the most popular leader gets usurped we shall not be expected to support the foreign nation involved.The question seems to be that should the public be emotionally motivated into going against its own team or blindly support the team because it is the 'own' team in the first place.There is some food for thought.