Indian journalists, print and media, in general keep watching, writing and talking about cricket all through. The don’t seem know there is world outside cricket. But, all those souls all of a sudden come alive once in two or four years.

To put it straight when the Asian Games or Olympics around the corner the wake up.

In the process, precise information is the casualty.

See for instance what the gentleman talking about hockey in DD Sports channel informed us:

It is a great thing for our hockey, four of our best coaches are now in Beijing. The will be watching all these games so that our team can improve, blah blah blah and then went on roll out the name of coaches who are in Beijing.

Dear friend, all those four coaches you referred to, are in India, three of them in Delhi from where you are enlightening the whole nation.

Why did the commentator say so? Let us make a guess. Because, coaches yet not going to Beijing was not reported in any print media. The last the papers mentioned was the Ad-hoc committee’s decision to send the team.

By all means, most of those commentators who talk sports nowadays hardly visit any stadium when the tournaments take place. How will they talk about sports day in and day out?

A serious media culture is must for Indian sports to excel.

A distant dream the way things are going on now.