It is time to wonder what some of our cricketers are doing after they came back from South africa
1) Virender Sehwag : He just hit a "blazing" century in a small ground between a sugarcane field in Delhi and according to the reporter "He has announced hisclear intentions to the selectors for a comeback". It is to be noted that after the match he drank some sugarcane juice and shouted Pongalo Pongal.If u don't believe check out this link http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/11/stories/2007011109502200.htm
2) Tendulkar visited Sania Mirza and consulted her on how to get rid of his Tennis elbow...on the way he bought some strings from Walmart to tie up all the loose ends on his hamstring
3) Dravid celebrated his birthday in style by cuttinga 8 kilo cake...however since the cake was very delicate and fragile Dravid very mindful of the situation was ultra cautious in his approach and by the time he finished cutting the cake it took 8.0 hrs and when he turned around, everyone who had gathered for the party had already left!
4) Dada alias Ganguly who cameback with a bang in South Africa said that he watched 1) Pather panchali(satyajit ray movie), 2) read newspapers, 3) drank lot of tea and send an email to Nagma and Dalmia. Whenqueried further he said that the first three activities are common to most Bongs and the next two are his daily routine :)
5) VVS Laxman has just been taken under her wings by P. T. Usha, who will be guiding him in the running between wickets without thinking. Lakshman said thatUsha has told him something he didn't know before that is "When u think don't run and when u run don't think"
6)Mohammed kaif who came back much earlier has been busy whitewashing his house. This he said was to remove all the cow-dung stains as protestors led by some Mehtaji in his colony had thrown cow-dung at his house in appreciation of his batting. When asked whatwere his plans for future he said he plans to start a GOBAR GAS plant.
7) Our new boy Sreesanth will be doing an item number in a Prabhu Deva directed Gult movie tentatively titled " Nuvvosnane Nuvossnanu-part2".
8) Dhoni was found milking some cows in Lalloo Prasad Yadav's cow-shed..This he said would later help him to milk the runs in Windies during the world-cup...Apart from that he said "100% whole fat milk is the secret of my energy".
About the rest no word yet!
Friday, January 12, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Wonderful Display of India in South Africa One-day Series
I don't think there is any need to be critical of thisIndian team...
In fact statistics show that they haveclearly improved with every game. After losing the second ODI by more than 150 runs and the third by morethan 100, the boys cut down on the losses a bit in thefourth, bringing the margin down to 80!Unfortunately according to this calculation we will have a win possibility only after 30 matches but the stupid board has made it just a 5 match series...
Moreover you can see that the south africans arereally scared of this team as you can see that fortomorrow's 20/20 they have dropped Jacques Kallis,Shaun Pollock, Mark Boucher, Mkhaya Ntini, Andre Neland Andrew Hall and taken some fresh blood in theteam...
Above all we are also going to have the great short-pitched bowling playing expert or own Pyare DADA joining the team shortly. I am sure Dada will give sound advice to all the current members who need to know the right DADA way to play such bowling which is both the legs in the air,eyes completely closed, head swayed away from the line of the delivery but the bat hangs out in front of theball so that the ball can decide whether to kiss the edge of the bat or the gloves before it decides on a slip fielder.
Apart from all these positives another thing to look forward to is the great GULT Veerapandya VangipurappuVenkatasai Laxman who will be the new vice-captain who is an expert in running between the wickets and 100%of the time makes the decision to run or not in the middle of the wicket....So even if we lose some(pls read all) matches it willbe an experienced loss and not some stupid inexperienced loss...
Jai Ganguly
In fact statistics show that they haveclearly improved with every game. After losing the second ODI by more than 150 runs and the third by morethan 100, the boys cut down on the losses a bit in thefourth, bringing the margin down to 80!Unfortunately according to this calculation we will have a win possibility only after 30 matches but the stupid board has made it just a 5 match series...
Moreover you can see that the south africans arereally scared of this team as you can see that fortomorrow's 20/20 they have dropped Jacques Kallis,Shaun Pollock, Mark Boucher, Mkhaya Ntini, Andre Neland Andrew Hall and taken some fresh blood in theteam...
Above all we are also going to have the great short-pitched bowling playing expert or own Pyare DADA joining the team shortly. I am sure Dada will give sound advice to all the current members who need to know the right DADA way to play such bowling which is both the legs in the air,eyes completely closed, head swayed away from the line of the delivery but the bat hangs out in front of theball so that the ball can decide whether to kiss the edge of the bat or the gloves before it decides on a slip fielder.
Apart from all these positives another thing to look forward to is the great GULT Veerapandya VangipurappuVenkatasai Laxman who will be the new vice-captain who is an expert in running between the wickets and 100%of the time makes the decision to run or not in the middle of the wicket....So even if we lose some(pls read all) matches it willbe an experienced loss and not some stupid inexperienced loss...
Jai Ganguly
End of Sachin Tendulkar
Flashback: In sharjah against Australia 1997-98 Tendulkar hits 143 against the Aussies giving Warne nightmares. During that amazing innings one of the many times Tendulkar danced down the tracks and thrashed every bowler around him, I just froze with wonder at the amazing sight of perfection with elegance, beauty par excellence, drowning in the flood of unbridled joy, a single tear drop crept down my cheek, creating a calming silence unaware of the high decibel levels created by friends watching the game in the same room.
Forward 10 years to Present: In South Africa 3rd test Test Tendulkar hits 14 rugged runs in 62 balls. During this innings I am sitting on a chair, slowly lying down then getting into a comforter and trying to fall asleep to get way from this misery of having to see ball after ball deadpanned. Even though it is way late into the night, I am not able to sleep not b’coz the game is not boring enough, but b’coz of the frustration creeping through my head reaching to a height of full-fledged irritation encompassing every atomic unit of my human body. The dead bat of Sachin giving even the weakest bowler an elated feeling of being the most threatening!!!
Even recently Shane Warne said it is better to retire when somebody asks why are you instead of when somebody asks why don’t you…
Especially when an outcast like Ganguly has to come in your support to say everyone goes through this decline in this form of game…..Sachin you don’t need this…U want people to remember you the way you were years ago giving the bowlers and audience sleepless nights of joy and not sleepless nights of frustration! And if you have any intention of repeating one of these boring innings you may as well bid good-bye to the game so that we may remember you as a master blaster and not a master grafter…
Final piece of advice to sachin…Stay away from the blind fans of yours and try watching you own innings (14 of 62) at 4.00 a.m. in the morning staying awake and make your own judgement!!!!
Forward 10 years to Present: In South Africa 3rd test Test Tendulkar hits 14 rugged runs in 62 balls. During this innings I am sitting on a chair, slowly lying down then getting into a comforter and trying to fall asleep to get way from this misery of having to see ball after ball deadpanned. Even though it is way late into the night, I am not able to sleep not b’coz the game is not boring enough, but b’coz of the frustration creeping through my head reaching to a height of full-fledged irritation encompassing every atomic unit of my human body. The dead bat of Sachin giving even the weakest bowler an elated feeling of being the most threatening!!!
Even recently Shane Warne said it is better to retire when somebody asks why are you instead of when somebody asks why don’t you…
Especially when an outcast like Ganguly has to come in your support to say everyone goes through this decline in this form of game…..Sachin you don’t need this…U want people to remember you the way you were years ago giving the bowlers and audience sleepless nights of joy and not sleepless nights of frustration! And if you have any intention of repeating one of these boring innings you may as well bid good-bye to the game so that we may remember you as a master blaster and not a master grafter…
Final piece of advice to sachin…Stay away from the blind fans of yours and try watching you own innings (14 of 62) at 4.00 a.m. in the morning staying awake and make your own judgement!!!!
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