Cricket: Cricket Again

Well cricket followers would be gleefully accepting the gifts offered to them this Diwali and Eid. The team is churning out key performers and match winners. One can take a gauge from the fact that it’s been just thrice in seven years that Team India has continuously won four matches.
There are players like Ganguly and Kaif who are struggling to get a place into the side. Well done Team India. I think Ganguly needs to have a reality with life and let go of India captaincy. I think he has some important innings to play in ODIs as well as Test. He has to make a big transition from being a drag especially in Test Matches where he seems lost, to a performing asset like Tendulkar. There were a many that had sounded death knell for Tendulkar and almost sent him packing in history. But cricket is a weird game it throws up things which were never expected.
As expected as Devon Smith, an opening batsman in a struggling West Indies team. They called shots for over two decades in cricket and now everyone just shoo them away. They have been decline for decade now. A prime example of cricket being a bunny of politics. Lara is the only player of some repute; others are just too mercurial and too flashy to be sought after. Lara is mercurial too; he too has been dumped by his critics some where down the test series he too will hit a blistering tonne stamped with class and authority of a Brian Charles Lara. It doesn’t get any mercurial.
Ponting is some what an antonym of mercurial. He is a key and dependable member of the great Aussie decimating machine that picks up Test wins as easily as picking up rose buds from my backyard. Ganguly are you reading take a look at Ponting. He has century in each inning, five centuries in as many innings against West Indies. The series has just started and he already has two tonnes. There is not much the West Indies can do except pray. Pray is a key word that’s what the Lankan would be doing for the next few days.
I have been praying a lot too. There is a big test coming on for me too which promises to change my life. It called CAT. It is not for the faint hearted. There are people who say, if a problem is like a bull then take it by its horns. What should one do if the when the problem is a cute as CAT, where the answers are given as options to weird looking questions.
Life is like a walk on a beach. The longer one walks there more refreshed he gets the more wonderful sights can be seen. No point in walking back because there are no footprints to trace your way back.
“Keep walking”…. Punch line of Johnnie Walker.