Good lord, cricket madness all over the globe.

First off, India star bastman Sachin Tendulkar is going to be the hero of a new comic book, called “Sachin Tendulkar — the Master Blaster”. Really? The Master Blaster? That’s the best they could do? Oh well, there’s no saying if the comic will even be all that popular after India’s loss in the World Cup, which aggravated fans to the point that they trashed wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s house and chanted “Dhoni die, die”, which is just silly because you are supposed to chant “die, Dhoni, die”… just foolish.

Protesters chanted, burning effigies of the long-maned player, who has scored 1,958 runs in 68 one-day international matches and is counted among India’s most aggressive batsmen, an AFP reporter at the site reported.

They burned effigies of Indian captain Rahul Dravid and screamed slogans against out-of-form batsman Virender Sehwag, who scored just two runs before being bowled out.

What’s funny is the cultural differences between the United States and India. We riot and destroy when our team wins, they do it when they lose. I also don’t feel that we in the U.S. fully utilize the “effigy” as they do abroad… let’s try to work on that.

The other story floating around from the World Cup is that of England’s best player, Andrew Flintoff, and his Bode Miller-like dedication to his sport:

British newspapers had reported that Flintoff was seen inebriated in the small hours of Saturday morning having lost to New Zealand the day before. Reports said he had to be rescued from the sea after falling off a pedalo.

According to a furious Hussain, captain of England between 1999 and 2003, this was not the first time Flintoff had run into trouble for his drinking.

“There is a history to this story. It is not the first time. In Australia he had three or four warnings about his drinking,” Hussain said on Sky Sports while commentating at the ground.”

“Is that the best preparation to go out drinking till 3 am in this heat?”

Well, if its so hot out who wouldn’t get a bit parched. With the pace of your average cricket match rivaling only golf for intensity and game speed, I think there lucky enough to keep their players sober during the contests, let alone afterwards.

• India’s Tendulkar to be featured as comic superhero (Reuters)
• Cricket: Wicketkeeper Dhoni’s home attacked after Indian loss (AFP)
• England former captains queue up to condemn Flintoff (Yahoo! Sports)