Comments on: Silly Gilly

By: prabukarthik

prabukarthik — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:42:22 +0000

Lets see what he comes up with as his version.

Someone might have more direct experience (for e.g the parties themselves) than you or me… Just like Harbhajan and Symonds will have more direct exp. than Gilly himself…

Seri freeya vidunga!

By: BNB

BNB — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:27:20 +0000

I said he is in a much better position to judge Tendulkar, never said anything about your right to draw conclusions based on your own observations or hunches. The analogy about IT companies just doesn’t hold. Because we have direct experience in this case.

By: prabukarthik

prabukarthik — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:30:40 +0000

BNB

Tendulkar is not beyond criticism. I would ‘ve criticised Tendulkar if he say he preaches something about ‘Walking’. Gilly is much better there and more entitled to talk. He is the only one to walk in a cup final as i mentioned.

But I would’ve thought twice about writing about sportsmanship if I were in an Australian team which took part in that Sydney test - Jan 2008.

Maybe he is in a much better position than you or me. That does not mean you or me should not have any viewpoints about it, nor write about
it.
The same can be said about the movies that you and me criticize, the IT companies that we crib about, right?

I think I have enough context to write what I’ve written based on the excerpts I’ve read. It does not matter if he does or does not talk about other players.

By: BNB

BNB — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:00:02 +0000

Has the book been published ? Steve Waugh’s autobiography contains quite a few paras about the Australian team politics. Unless Gilly’s book is out his remarks on Tendulkar can never be placed in context. Is he critical only of Tendulkar in his book ?

Anyway why is Tendulkar beyond all criticism ? Gilly was in far better position to judge Tendulkar than you or me.