England's Ashes win is bad news for India

England's Ashes win is bad news for India. A safer word would have been performance in place of win, because one more Test is yet to go, but I don’t think Australia is going to win that Test. Even if Australia wins, it is not going to alter what I have to say about why victory for England is bad news for India. My views have got nothing to do with cricket because a victory in the Ashes series does not guarantee a series win against India (ask Ray Illingworth) India still is a formidable team under home conditions. Moreover, England has already committed the blunder that other cricketing nations do not commit anymore. England play both against Pakistan and India during the winter; since England play Pakistan first India will have the advantage of playing an already tired or tiring team.

When it comes to tour of the Indian sub-continent, England is the champion whiners. Its amazing the number of things they find to whine about; heat, sun, dust, crowd, playing conditions, ground conditions, practice pitches, test wickets, match scheduling, hotels, transport, toilets, tissues, water, cutleries, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Ashley Giles, bananas, guavas, oranges, sight screens and on and on goes the regular staple list of things to whine about. Be sure every hack accompanying the team, every member of the team, every visitor from that country coming to watch cricket and all the others and sundries are sure to find a cockroach in their soup, (amazingly the cockroach is always found in the soup and not in any other food), in the kitchen (amazing again why every one of them needs to raid the kitchen at the dead of night, are they habitual freeloaders? Members of Spot the Cockroach Club) and in their hair.

The Ashes victory is going to bring out in full bloom the haughty, supercilious, conceited, puffed up nature of the British behaviour. Even if England beats India, which they might for at the end of the day they are a good team at the moment, Indian crowd will find it very difficult to respect the team. Flintoff, Pieterson and Harmison can still build up fan following though.

That is why England's Ashes win is bad news for India. A boorish England (and sulking as well, if they start losing early) is going to spoil all the fun of a full cricketing season. How sad.