Welcome to Australia

Sharda Ugra takes a hilarious potshot at a section of the Australian media. Read the piece in the India Today.

... Australia, rather parts of its press-pack, have, in a stirring show of loyalty, already opened the bowling. It's just that this--the weeks before a tour of Australia--is such a nostalgic time, it can make you all dewy-eyed. It has become such a part of the Australian touring experience, it's a mystery that Channel9 has no memorabilia around it. It is almost like the first stirrings of spring. When the first waves of hot air and echoes of ritual chest-thumping reach distant shores. When the designated trumpet-masters for the Australian team observe a time-honoured tradition. To present all visiting cricketers as worthless, gutless, talentless and technically and mentally inadequate.

It's a wonder that when touring teams first land in Australia, they are not met by large crowds at Sydney's Kingsford Smith International demanding they go home.