What's in a name - Part II

The Super Eights are finally here. The grand circus that goes by the name of "Cricket World Cup" has come alive now that the clowns (read as India and Pakistan) have finished their act and the tightrope walkers have taken over.
Somebody had the bright(pun unintended) idea of staging six matches in Guyana, popularly known as the "Chennai of the West Indies" - It never stops raining here when a cricket match is scheduled. Of course, the matches in Guyana and Antigua are to be played at brand-new stadia. The aptly named "Providence Stadium" in Guyana, as I hear, is not even 100% complete. So you'll probably have the Lankans and South Africans wearing hard-hats on the field - "Safety First, Sports Next". The other stadium is the majestic Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua. Ah!...finally, the King gets his due. I remember during my school days, when West Indies had toured India after the 1987 World Cup, we used to dread seeing this guy bat, demolishing everything that came his way. Unfortunately, the kids of today have never seen anything of his like (Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting please excuse). By the time, the World Cup comes back to the West Indies, I hope they have stadia named after Sir Gary, Joel Garner, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding etc.

The master-blaster now has a World Cup stadium named after him! Now how many guys can boast of that? We have the MCG, SCG, the Wanderers, Newlands, Eden Park, Basin Reserve, Headingley, Edgbaston and all those. Thomas Lord (after whom Lords is named) is the great exception...unless you are in the Indian subcontinent!! Over here, every other stadium is named after somebody! Have a look:

Bangladesh: Bangabandhu Stadium
Srilanka: R. Premadasa Stadium, P. Saravanamuttu Stadium
Pakistan: Gaddafi Stadium (that's the height!), Faisal Stadium

...and how many international centuries or wickets do these guys have on their name?

Oops! Did I forget India? Perhaps Mr. S.K. Wankhede, Mr. MA Chidambaram and Mr. M Chinnaswami are the greatest international cricketeres this country hs ever produced. And the biggest irony is that every other frigging city has a cricket stadium named after the biggest idiot of all - Mister Jawaharlal Nehru!

Rahul Gandhi might disagree:

"If the Nehru-Gandhi family had been running the BCCI, India would have won all the World Cups so far"

Someone should send him that e-mail which is doing its rounds nowadays about how his grandmom was responsible for India's defeat in the 2o07 World Cup - after all, it was she who created Bangladesh :)

Perhaps they can take a leaf out of the West Indian book, and name some stadia after Kapil Dev or Sunil Gavaskar - never mind how big a prick he is. But strangely, I feel that future events might get slotted to the Sharad Pawar Stadium or the Lalu Prasad Yadav Stadium