The "Biased" Guardian

The problem with The Guardian newspaper is to spread a story which will earn them more clicks.

Recent article in The Guardian by Barney Ronay on Cricketer M Shami "Mohammed Shami the outsider in full bloom for India’s final World Cup fling"

The author has clearly stated Shami is the outsider. This is ridiculous. Since independence Muslims have played in this game at national level at various capacities. Azharuddin was captain of the cricket team for many years, Kirmani was the main wicketkeeper for many years. Zaheer was the main fast bowler.

Does the author knew about it or deliberately titled it so that a rift can be created and get click for his writing from a particular community. It appears this article is written for a particular section of readers only.

Disgraceful.

Further the article states:

Before this becomes too much of a feelgood story there are two things that stand out. Shami is also India’s most prominent Muslim cricketer, at a time of rising Hindu nationalism. He was abused relentlessly online, called among other things a “Pakistani traitor”, after the T20 World Cup defeat against India’s neighbours last year.

The abuse was so sustained that Virat Kohli was moved to defend his teammate, stating that “attacking someone over their religion is the most pathetic thing that a human being can do”, a significant intervention given Kohli’s profile. This week it felt like a moment of cultural significance to see Narendra Modi of the BJP party posting “well played Shami!” on social media. Sometimes sport actually can send a grappling hook across the divide.

The author does not have knowledge regarding how to address the Prime Minister of a nation. He stated Narendra Modi of the BJP instead of Prime Minister Modi, which he has earned by way of getting elected.

Pathetic writing.

The article is a politically motivated, revengeful and jealous oriented write up and not a sports write up.  

As a Bhartiya, it appears the writer is jealous that England ended at the bottom four of the table and can't digest that fact that India is rising economically and in all spheres.

In India we refer to as a Burnol moment.

The labelling of the article should be Politics, Motivated, Biased , Sports.