These post match reminiscences are so boring.
Oh, I am so excited to be out here today ( once the Americans came on the scene this word has lost all its meaning. Being excited all the time and nothing else merely indicates a poor vocabulary)
The boys really played well ( always give credit to the boys. This cricketer was so used to this phrase that he said that when someone congratulated him on his child being born)
I thought let's bat and put some runs on the board, that was the need of the hour ( ya sure, that's what you do in cricket)
The first ten overs were crucial. So were the last ten. And the middle 30 overs were very critical ( I am waiting for the day when someone says these ten overs were not critical)
The dew being what it is, and with the lights coming on, it could aid swing...
The pitch was firm though without grass, and we thought it would start crumbling towards the end and aid our spinners..
( All this is pure mumbo jumbo designed to keep the non serious follower out of the conversation. Don't worry even they don't know what they are talking about)
And the newbie... I am grateful to Rohit Sharma for encouraging me, he is a great mentor ( smart chap, he knows whom to butter up )
I just went out there and played my game ( well obviously you nitwit, whatever you do you have to play your game)
And so on and so on.
Post match interviews are definitely not grist for the intellectual mill, and they tend to be boring, repetitive, full of stock phrases, in short they sound like a bunch of teenagers talking.
Which is to be expected. We selected our cricketers because they are good at playing cricket, not for their intellect, vocabulary and general knowledge.
What I don't understand is, why then do we insist on repeatedly asking for their insights and waste our time listening to them or reading their Gyan.
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