Sep 27 2009

Burn Kirsten, burn

Looks like Gary Kirsten is a bit of a prude. He doesn’t want any ownership of the ‘sex dossier’, even though it essentially went out in his name and was the biggest talking point at the tournament until everyone cottoned on to the prospect of India playing Pakistan. Perhaps Kirsten doesn’t have much of a sense of humour.

Or maybe the atmosphere of sanctimoniousness and self-rightous piety is so rarefied in certain sections of India that a public official, even the coach of the national cricket team, can’t mention s*x without getting a bollocking. Apparently supporters of the BJP, India’s foremost nationalist party, burnt effigies of Kirsten. That’s a pretty aggressive reaction for such a trivial matter. Looks to me like the BJP members have been getting too much sex.


Sep 24 2009

Gary Kirsten’s vision in words

I’ve managed to obtain a copy of a ‘vision document’ prepared by coach Gary Kirsten for the Indian team. It outlines the coach’s plans to improve the performance of the Indian players in their drive to be the best team in the world.

It’s four damn pages long. I don’t have time to read that sort of epic. So I put it through Wordle to get the gist of the document:

Vison Wordle

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