Cricket and the Crowd?

Impatience is at its best when the crowd on an Indian ground see their great players fail to deliver. I get sometimes irritated on the crowd behavior when i see people of our country turning on our own players when the support is very much required for them. This is happening from the day i remember in 1996 when Vinod Kambli walked out crying as the Indian Crowd rioted the play just because we are down to 120/8 from 98/2. Match Referee Clive Llyod awarded the match to Sri Lanka, what a shameful way to end a World Cup semi-final Match at Eden Gardens. I know there is very less chance that we would have won that match, but still my mind was still looking for a miracle for us to win. I was frustrated to see crowd behave like this without bothering what the people around the globe will think about the country and thier people.

And now it again happened on the final test against England, the crowd turned against my favorite player Sachin, that too on his home ground. I don't say i was not bothered when the same crowd turned against Ganguly sometime back, but it bothers me much when it comes to Sachin :-). I don't want to see Sachin as a "Outstanding" player like Ganguly now. Then came the statements like "Sachin joins the list of mortals"..c'mon who said Sachin is immortal...he is a very good player just searching for a right time to be among runs. I still feel that he has lot of stuff to do for Indian Cricket..Why is that the crowd which enjoyed watching his scintillating play, cannot stand by him when it really matters for him now. For this matter why is that the crowd never stands by a struggling team and support the players when they fail on the ground. Is it just that we have paid 200 bucks and the player there should win the match? Its not going to happen all the times. Criticisms ..yes they are very much needed ..but it should be constructive otherwise its never gonnu help anyone...and doing stuff like this not only takes the confidence out of the players but also takes away the dignity out of our country.....