Then Came Tigers

Bob Woolmer gets into the Asian obsession with tigershttp://content-usa.cricinfo.com/rsavpak/content/story/277453.html
I don't know where this obsession comes from but here is something I wrote on it a while back:
In the twilight of the sultans Tipu slayed a tiger with his sword. His emblem also had a tiger. Even though this event was fatal for this particular tiger, with the advent of the British killing off the sultans this is when tigers in the subcontinent started to rise to eminence, with mixed results.First there was General "Tiger" Niazi who lost Bangladesh. Did I say that right: I meant founded Bangladesh. Then there was Mansoor Ali Khan "Tiger" Pataudi who was also a pseudo sultan (Nawab, which in connotation is now no different from khalifa and shahzada which basically means someone useless). He married Sharmila Tiger... er I mean Tagore. Then came Tiger Khan and his crouching tigers ( and they had a lot of hidden dragons) to take the world cup who by the way was also a Niazi. Something about Khans and Niazis and Tigers and cricket. And now the Bangladesh cricket team is Bangla Tigers whose capitulations are not unlike those of the original Bangla Tiger, General Niazi.Cheetahs got a bad rap as in, "tu to cheeta hay (derisive as in my my aren't you the great one)".