Jelly beans and the english media......

After India’s thumping victory yesterday, as an enthusiastic Indian fan I was browsing through some of the articles of the British media to read their comments on the match. Though every other site was praising India for their win there was one thing that caught the limelight in every one of them. It’s something totally irrelevant to cricket that’s the JELLY BEAN.

I have always thought that the English media was one of the most hyped ones. After reading those articles yesterday it just reiterated my view on them. It’s amazing to know how they can hype up a simple (rather silly in this case) issue out of proportion. The media conference after the match was filled with questions about the jelly bean rather than cricket.

Guess had Beckham been from any other part of the world he would not have been as popular as he is now. No I am not trying to pull down his capabilities but it’s just that the English media played a HUGE part creating a BRAND BECKHAM. Freddie was all over the place in the media after their ashes victory couple of years back. Images of him sneezing and coughing would make it to the 1^st page for almost 6 months after their ashes victory.

Anyways let me not be like one of them trying to take the limelight away from India, hail India for one of their rare victories in England. Come on India go and get the series.