{"id":5745,"date":"2007-04-03T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2007-04-03T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:56:00","slug":"the-great-indian-soap-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-great-indian-soap-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Indian Soap Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline on NDTV says: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/ndtvcricket\/showstory.aspx?id=SPOEN20070007508&amp;site=ndtv\" title=\"Chappell unhappy with senior players\">Chappell unhappy with senior players<\/a>.&#8221; Read the story, worrying stuff.<\/p>\n<p>If this is a leak by Chappell, then I really don&#8217;t see how he can continue to play a role in Indian cricket any more. Either you say what you have to say in public, or you deal directly with the board, and keep your report confidential. Playing games through the media is simply not on, especially when it is so blatantly done.<\/p>\n<p>His allegations should be investigated, of course. But the substance in them is a separate matter from the issue of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>The other night I caught a few moments of <i>Viruddh<\/i>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.indiantelevision.com\/mam\/headlines\/y2k7\/mar\/marmam96.php\" title=\"much-advertised soap-opera\">much-advertised soap-opera<\/a> starring Smriti Irani. It was awful: the screenplay was overwrought, the dialogues were cheesy, the characters were caricatures and the acting was hammacious enough to be beyond parody. &#8220;It can&#8217;t get worse than this,&#8221; I thought. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d forgotten about Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1088598\" title=\"Chappell denies it\">Chappell denies it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I was watching NDTV a while back and one of their anchors, while chatting with Ajay Jadeja, said: &#8220;I can assure you that our source is very reliable.&#8221; Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline on NDTV says: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/ndtvcricket\/showstory.aspx?id=SPOEN20070007508&amp;site=ndtv\" title=\"Chappell unhappy with senior players\">Chappell unhappy with senior players<\/a>.&#8221; Read the story, worrying stuff.<\/p>\n<p>If this is a leak by Chappell, then I really don&#8217;t see how he can continue to play a role in Indian cricket any more. Either you say what you have to say in public, or you deal directly with the board, and keep your report confidential. Playing games through the media is simply not on, especially when it is so blatantly done.<\/p>\n<p>His allegations should be investigated, of course. But the substance in them is a separate matter from the issue of the leak.<\/p>\n<p>The other night I caught a few moments of <i>Viruddh<\/i>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.indiantelevision.com\/mam\/headlines\/y2k7\/mar\/marmam96.php\" title=\"much-advertised soap-opera\">much-advertised soap-opera<\/a> starring Smriti Irani. It was awful: the screenplay was overwrought, the dialogues were cheesy, the characters were caricatures and the acting was hammacious enough to be beyond parody. &#8220;It can&#8217;t get worse than this,&#8221; I thought. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d forgotten about Indian cricket.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1088598\" title=\"Chappell denies it\">Chappell denies it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I was watching NDTV a while back and one of their anchors, while chatting with Ajay Jadeja, said: &#8220;I can assure you that our source is very reliable.&#8221; Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Great Indian Soap Opera - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-great-indian-soap-opera\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great Indian Soap Opera - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A headline on NDTV says: &#8220;Chappell unhappy with senior players.&#8221; Read the story, worrying stuff. 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