I take no issue with India being the dominant market for cricket and creating the stronger teams or winning. Quote me if I said that.
I take issue with the killing off of bowling, test cricket, and test cricket player in favour of T20 high entertainment slogs and sloggers. I take issue with the ridiculous sorts of rules and regulations against bowlers.
Field restrictions, growingly ridiculous ones too. Limiting things like number of bouncers bowled in an over, which again is like taking a bowler's key tool away, it's like asking a batsman not to play a front foot drive more than once in an over, it's utterly stupid. Free hits on no balls. Dead pitches and short boundaries. Powerplays. Limiting number of players allowed outside the circle, keeping a certain number in at all times.
Granted these changed seem to make the game more exciting with big hitting, high scores and what-not. But it's killing the traditional game of cricket. Bowlers increasingly becoming less effective and the ICC in turn works against this aiding bowlers against this trend.
And like I said, most of these rules are very suited for the Indian market, where this sort of stuff is in demand, but it is killing certain aspects of the old game.
Also, I can be quite sure, with IPL around, the next generation of Indian batsman will be nothing like Tendulkar or Dravid, they will have been inspired by meat necks at the IPL, better suited to playing baseball than cricket.
That's what I take issue with.
Our BD bros are by far the funniest when it comes to controversies like this. No offence to the them, but the responses are entertaining for the winning team and the third party.