Wednesday 25 May 2011

7 Reasons Why Tennis Is a Better Sport Than Cricket!

1. Tennis players don't crib about pitches despite made to play on all kind of surfaces;

2. They don't look like offspring of a Michelin Man and a mummy;

3. Women players get equal – in fact more -- attention;

4. Umpires at least get a chair to seat on, are not treated as cloth-hangers and don't have to do funny things with their hands to earn their bread;

5. Players refrain from unhygenic practices, such as applying saliva to the ball;

6. There is no recognised skullduggery called Duckworth-Lewis system to determine the outcome of rain-hit matches;

7. Lalit Modi has no role in it.

(P.S. It's the sight of Maria Sharapova in yellow treading on French Open’s red clay that provoked this post which can alternatively be called Why Tendulkar Attends Wimbledon but Federer Does Not Care About IPL).

19 comments:

Santosh K Joy said...

Amlan..any chance of changing the name 'Doosra' to some tennis lingua.

Govind Raj said...

Most important reason why Tennis is better:

Tennis is a Law-abiding game. Cricket encourages violence, law-breaking and even murder. You don't win Tennis matches by hitting the ball outrageously all over the park and into the orbit. You win it by keeping it within a Court ! A Real Gentleman's Game :-)

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Som said...

Govind, spot on. It's not about power -- to hit the ball into orbit -- but skill and control to land it inside the court.

Btw, did you notice cricket's effort to malign tennis by calling that ailment tennis elbow?

Do tennis players suffer from, say, Cricket Ankle? Perfectly obnoxious!

Govind Raj said...

Some, Cricket ankle is a killer :-P

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Som said...

Govind, does it kill indeed!

Som said...

Sumit, don't take this blog that seriously! Even housewives can have this I'm not. And cricketers have not discovered anything, apart from various source of moolah :)

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