The thing is, if you have grown up in a cricketing environment, it's almost impossible to turn your back on the cricketing team.
It's an arduous task for me to follow cricket matches in the Aus/Nzl timezone but I still do for the love of cricket. What irks me the most is that we aren't moving forward with the times and are absolutely happy with the total mediocrity that we have become.
We have one world class bowler and one top 10 batsman in ODI cricket and we are happy with it.
The captain cannot be criticised without people labelling you as a racist and someone who is part of a major population demographic within the country.
The problem is plain and simple, we do not have the quality to be considered as a good side anymore in any format of the game.
In 96' when Sri Lanka won the world cup, that was the last time any team won the world cup that wasn't really expected. That shows how difficult it has become to win a major tournament for teams that aren't consistently over and above the cut. T20 was different when it started, some teams took time to understand the format but even that has now become a format where tournaments will be won by consistently strong teams and that's why we aren't making the last 4 let alone the last 2.
The Champions Trophy win was great, and it made all of us very happy. It cannot however remain the only quality moment for the next 25 years.
That's where the problem lies. I want our team to go to Australia and not get humiliated. I want us to go to New Zealand and play cricket that's good to watch. If that's turning the back on the team, then there's no harm in saying that yes, I and many like me have turned our backs on the team.
