Moin Khan – The New 'Critique'

During the current India-Pakistan ODI and Test series, one persons name has been flashing across newspapers, news channels and sport reviews. Its Moin Khan.

His first statement claimed that the Indian basting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was scared of Shoaib Akthar. The comment created ripples across the country, but Sachin let his bat talk in response. He scored a century in the first ODI, which India lost eventually.

His next comment was that Indians appealing against Pakistani captain Inzamam’s in the first ODI was against the ‘spirit of the game’.

I happened to read an article by Harsha Bhogle in Indian Express. He had the answer for Moin Khan.

The funniest was still to come: Moin Khan thought that India’s action in appealing against Inzamam was ‘against the spirit of the game’.

I must confess I am a bit wary of former cricketers talking of the spirit of the game and that is why only a few names are respected. I believe that the moment a cricketer is willing to appeal against a batsman he knows is not out, he loses all right to talk about the spirit and the culture of the game. And if he has sledged at a cricketer, made personal remarks in abusive language, then he is a threat to this so-called spirit.

The full article can be accessed here.

In today’s papers Moin has made his third comment, that the Indian cricket team is not a perfectly balanced team.

I sincerely hope that by the end of the series, the new critique of cricket eats his words and is rechristened as Loin Khan!!!