When in Surat do as the Surti does ...
Well it is a Sunday, I had a class in lieu of prepration for the big CAT, which get everyone purring for cover. I just missed a date with a Swiss Miss, the most delicious chocolate pastry you will have. It is a sheer delight. It is so lite, and the pocket just feels lighter before you have one. Well now that I am earning it doesn't count much.
Plan of the coming evening ...
There are colleagues which are coming in. I stay just outskirts of Surat, from where office is nearer. MY parents have shifted back to Mumbai so bit more fun freaking out.There is a lot to do, you can have some great Ponk, thats amercan born, boiled and all ready to be eaten. There is a new sizzler join, or a tradtional food at Gangaur where India junk food can be eaten. Then there are Sandwiches waiting in other corner of the city. Then there is the famous "Khau Galli" where u get everything of quantity. There is a close thelawala who coks some great dishes from scrambled, boiled, omlettes, just awesome, must eat needless to say. Then there are falooda to be had once evening turns night. If nothing beckons it will be chicken at Sugar n Spice.
Movie.
Thinking of Johnny Gaddar, I hope people follow suit and think of seeing a movie, it has been a wekk since I last saw Bourne Ultimatum. I have seen all the three bourne series. I love it. Matt Damon you rock. Thats was in Mumbai.
Surf.
The orkut and the blogging bug. I had to come it was days since I last saw what an Orkut login looks like. I just enterd a cyber cafe to catch up with the virtual world and kee myself in check as to whats happening. After getting thru to scraps and checking out the latest Spam on my email accounts looking for something on Yahoo!
It is Yo Yo! happening.
It is not exactly a Yo Yo is happening but I see a bubble in the market thats happening and when things get to rosy u get a bit thorn in your flesh. A thousand points without a correction, I see a big slump. I hope it does, just for your attention Stocks like RNRL climed 35% in one day. My friend put forward an interstig fact, although the markets are marching forward, reliance stocks across the board are correcting. I thnk it is high time people booked some profits. It is a the right time.
There are stocks like Tata Power who have climbed from Rs 640 something to a mighty Rs850.
I over heard joking buying Ispat stell for a 100 shares, it is quoted at just Rs 28. I am tempted to buy something as well, but then things are two awry right now, lets see, I need to buy a few things more. The CAT formsare up for sale, the MBA colleges just should hand a pdf file on their sites and ask for CCHeque or Demand draft that will make forms a bit more accessible, only thing is just the form number but then people in IT field would have more than one ready asnwer for this one. It is no rocket science.
I am contemplating a laptop. But the made a few investments and markets just soared.I just wish to keep a tab on it. But buying a laptop at this point in time will perhaps not be a hole in a pocket, I will stipped of all my earning to date. So lets see, but one eye is on a nice lapy for sure.
See it; buy it.
A trip to Biz Bazaar is must, u just want to go their to check out a few things only to come out a few trolleys full. I tneed to but some detergents. My mom use to say U will come to know everything when U start earning, she was right. God .
A few cakes of detergents, a few pakcets of eatbles, achar ki bottle, some farsan for emergency stock of midnite supper. I am dearly in a modd to have Maggi Noodles.I just bought a pair of denims and sport shoes a while back. :)
I hope I get time to write more coz a big weekend is coming up. the secondof october marks birth anniversary of two great men. A cousin of mine is also celebrating his birthday. I havent meet him in years. I will catch up with him once I get to Mumbai.
30.9.07
28.9.07
Cricket: India conquer 20-20
It was a cliff hanger. I just remember the burst of crackers and pyro the moment Sreesanth held to Misbah catch at short fine leg. He held on it it for dear life and Dhoni lifted the T-20 World Cup. India dismantle some good teams on their way to the world cup, proving that best of abilities wont get you much, but best of performance surely will. India performed well. They won coz the beat the best teams in business. It included, Pakistan (twice) England (not highly rated, obviously) South Africa, Australia.
South Africa being the best balanced they always seem to have more than three all rounders. Boucher will always bat, Kallis,(did not play in the Cup!) Pollock, Morkel, Hall, Kemp and I may add Gibbs coz he is a damn good fielder.
Aussies well they know to win in every format on that can be played, their team hardly changes be it Test, ODI, T-20. They are a very good team but surprisingly there are not too many all rounders, only specialist, there is scope to get into their fifth bowlers but you seldom see it coz their planning is so good, along with the execution.. So when India scored big there is every chance of a team defending if two of the bowlers fire.
India missed a big heart bowler.
I felt Zaheer Khan should have played this series. India looked way out. It is taxing this format coz couple of bad balls just can give the momentum to the opposition. India at the moment doesn’t have a bowler who can sent shiver into the spine, forget the shiver, they may not even send a cautionary note. It is not about the pace but place too. Bret Lee and Shane Bond were dispatched all over the park, they were the fastest, but it is normal to see couple of Indian bowlers go above six an over in ODI. I think the better thing would be to bowl to a set field, I mean why bother too much, being a pro bowl to your strength sert the field coz batsmen men will always give a chance if he is tied down, by setting an offside field and bowling full on leg stump will only help the batsmen to score runs.
Catch ‘em ma’an
Did u have a look at the fielding? Indian fielding and they bowling extra’s is the indication of whether India is playing well or not. They some how manage to put a decent show if they field well which is not something they do regularly. India fielded well in general. The youngster inclusion perhaps added to this but there was a discipline for one and all to see. There was also a sense or urgency in cutting down the angles. The running between the wickets was a treat to watch. Sehwag I think did well in this, but I am still far from impressed with his batting. He looks to play only a cut shot which is causing him to get in and get out before you can say “I”.
Vice Versa.
I think T-20 will influence the game of cricket for sure. It will directly impact the 50 over game or it may out shine it. But tighten up your seat belts as cricket will hasten up and may quicken up the pace. The scope of stopping runs will go on increasing and teams will be separated by the way the field coz there would be close finish between the international teams. We had hit over 200 and England matched us only to go down fitting. West Indies had butchered SAfs only to be butchered by Gibbs and they lost defending 200! WI have forgotten how to win. I hope they remember what is it too win a cricket match. I mean by now I think there would be middle aged won cooking up stories of what a potent force WI use to be. Well across the Atlantic in England there would be mythic going around with stories of English knights braved dragons and winning cricket tournaments. It is a sorry state.
But there is enough seen in t-20 where an old folk may ask u to go back to the basic, run hard, be quick on feet, stick around for partnerships and look for percentage cricket. The T-20 perhaps will keep this game of cricket, a game of glorious uncertainties.
A cricket match will never be over until the last run is scored of last wicket is taken.
Flying back home.
So the ministers and BCCI officials were given the first row seats, Dhoni was there too, he was felicitated and so were his over the moon hyped “Daredevils”. India won a World Cup 24 years later … well that caught my cricketing mind spinning. I mean come on can u ignore truth and still hold onto to your conscience. If I am not wrong, under Dada’s captaincy we won the Mini World Cup, the knock out, actually we shared it along with Sri Lanka but we were winners of the tournament and there too we beat good teams, wonder no ones mention that. I hope no one noticed that ever, coz the eye see what they want to see.
Cash in on T-20
It is a money spinner for everyone, hosting board, participating board, spectators, betters and also cricket players. The news channels hyped in so did the broadcasters. The government poured some money over players who played exceptionally well. So all in all it was an enriching experience.
Bottom Line.
I got a forward in which which quoted former president, respected APJ Abdul Kalam, “India will be a super power in 20-20”.
:P think about it.
South Africa being the best balanced they always seem to have more than three all rounders. Boucher will always bat, Kallis,(did not play in the Cup!) Pollock, Morkel, Hall, Kemp and I may add Gibbs coz he is a damn good fielder.
Aussies well they know to win in every format on that can be played, their team hardly changes be it Test, ODI, T-20. They are a very good team but surprisingly there are not too many all rounders, only specialist, there is scope to get into their fifth bowlers but you seldom see it coz their planning is so good, along with the execution.. So when India scored big there is every chance of a team defending if two of the bowlers fire.
India missed a big heart bowler.
I felt Zaheer Khan should have played this series. India looked way out. It is taxing this format coz couple of bad balls just can give the momentum to the opposition. India at the moment doesn’t have a bowler who can sent shiver into the spine, forget the shiver, they may not even send a cautionary note. It is not about the pace but place too. Bret Lee and Shane Bond were dispatched all over the park, they were the fastest, but it is normal to see couple of Indian bowlers go above six an over in ODI. I think the better thing would be to bowl to a set field, I mean why bother too much, being a pro bowl to your strength sert the field coz batsmen men will always give a chance if he is tied down, by setting an offside field and bowling full on leg stump will only help the batsmen to score runs.
Catch ‘em ma’an
Did u have a look at the fielding? Indian fielding and they bowling extra’s is the indication of whether India is playing well or not. They some how manage to put a decent show if they field well which is not something they do regularly. India fielded well in general. The youngster inclusion perhaps added to this but there was a discipline for one and all to see. There was also a sense or urgency in cutting down the angles. The running between the wickets was a treat to watch. Sehwag I think did well in this, but I am still far from impressed with his batting. He looks to play only a cut shot which is causing him to get in and get out before you can say “I”.
Vice Versa.
I think T-20 will influence the game of cricket for sure. It will directly impact the 50 over game or it may out shine it. But tighten up your seat belts as cricket will hasten up and may quicken up the pace. The scope of stopping runs will go on increasing and teams will be separated by the way the field coz there would be close finish between the international teams. We had hit over 200 and England matched us only to go down fitting. West Indies had butchered SAfs only to be butchered by Gibbs and they lost defending 200! WI have forgotten how to win. I hope they remember what is it too win a cricket match. I mean by now I think there would be middle aged won cooking up stories of what a potent force WI use to be. Well across the Atlantic in England there would be mythic going around with stories of English knights braved dragons and winning cricket tournaments. It is a sorry state.
But there is enough seen in t-20 where an old folk may ask u to go back to the basic, run hard, be quick on feet, stick around for partnerships and look for percentage cricket. The T-20 perhaps will keep this game of cricket, a game of glorious uncertainties.
A cricket match will never be over until the last run is scored of last wicket is taken.
Flying back home.
So the ministers and BCCI officials were given the first row seats, Dhoni was there too, he was felicitated and so were his over the moon hyped “Daredevils”. India won a World Cup 24 years later … well that caught my cricketing mind spinning. I mean come on can u ignore truth and still hold onto to your conscience. If I am not wrong, under Dada’s captaincy we won the Mini World Cup, the knock out, actually we shared it along with Sri Lanka but we were winners of the tournament and there too we beat good teams, wonder no ones mention that. I hope no one noticed that ever, coz the eye see what they want to see.
Cash in on T-20
It is a money spinner for everyone, hosting board, participating board, spectators, betters and also cricket players. The news channels hyped in so did the broadcasters. The government poured some money over players who played exceptionally well. So all in all it was an enriching experience.
Bottom Line.
I got a forward in which which quoted former president, respected APJ Abdul Kalam, “India will be a super power in 20-20”.
:P think about it.
24.9.07
Cricket: High octane performance.
T20 is fast it is so fast that before I decided I would blog of it and India were reeling at that time and in couple of days times, Aussies have been tamed as India beat Aussies in a close encounter. It was a high octane performance. Indians started cautiously before
Sehwag’s principle of batting/ Law of (Sehwag’s) Marginal Return.
Virender Sehwag who has now convinced everybody that run must be scored only behind point. He plays on the principle of higher risk-quicker returns but sadly it is just high risk cricketing shots and Sehwag’s quick return to the dug out. It is atrocious, it is sad to know that he “can” play in the straight direction but moving away and losing balance of or not shift/getting in the position for optimum of balance, necessary to play a jumping ball is perhaps he is missing the plot. Sehwag may not play I think coz of a pulled muscle in the thigh/groin, there is a small asterisk labeled “conditions apply”. He is deadly coz is he starts firing Pakistan/any team will go on an extensive leather chase of Dhoni will pull his flocks out of his head. The only positive coming out is perhaps rotating the strike and taking sharp singles.
All said and done just coz India has had a decent opening partnership, makes middle order really potent. Yuvraj has lambasted the attacks by getting big runs in double quick time. I just have one inhibition of big hitting, the player must be good enough to carry it through to the end over or else if one wicket may cause a slump which may be tough to recover.
I would love to see Utahappa opening along with Gambhir.
Princely Yuvraj.
Well this is format tailor cut for people like Yuvraj. The ball wont do much coz pitched will be flat, white ball losses shine early and there aren’t many spinners bowling to him. Anyways his six sixes were an absolute delight. Stuart Broad looking to heavens every time he bowled. Flintoff antics of jeering Yuvraj proved too good for Broad. Gibbs has done that in WC this year and Yuvraj himself gulped the insult when h was stuck for five sixes. He is the best finished in limited over cricket. If he hits a fit India invariable (9 out of 10 times) goes on to win the match. Yuvraj, Dhoni, Razzaq, McCullum, Symonds, Hussey, Boucher, these names come to mind when you talk of finish. The hit it and they remain a hit. They all are good runner and hitters so even if they are not hitting it they can clearly getting close to eight an over playing what I call “Percentage Cricket”.
Well fielded.
The Indians have picked themselves up in the field. It has definitely improved. It is less patchy with coming in of youngsters. It is good to see them saving singles and pulling of some neat catches. The catch that came to Kart hick of Smith’s edge off RP Singh was a smack down and triggered a collapse for Safes who not only lost the match but also failed to get into Semis. Poor chaps. Ravi Shastri said on air,” Indians have caught Safes pants down in their own den.” ROFL.
Success hides a few blotches.
I am not convinced that Pakistan and India are matched man to man and it is all evens. Pakistan top order looks fragile, they may not always fire. But when they play India it is not another match, it is “the” match. They don’t have bowlers of Agarkar’s class who gifts boundaries at will and makes a decent captain look naive. Pakistan is a mind of fast bowling. They have enough of them to cause any team a trouble. Let me cite an example Kiwis whacked Indians in ending over when they played, I mean the conditions were so bad that being stuck for just 3 fours in an over was considered economical. If u shifts focus towards Pak bowlers they gave nothing away to Kiwis and Aussies it was amazing to watch nothing came by for either team and scoring 6 an over in last five over bowled by Pak bowlers could be considered good.
We lack good bowlers who can bowl to take wickets. There aren’t many and they don’t have that quality too. I don’t see any bowler in the present line up coming onto bowl and not being carted for boundaries. There is enough testimony; Aussies almost blasted us out couple of over more of Symonds and Hayden and who knows. Agarkar is always a burden coz if nothing he will come into is own by bowling short and wider and following it wait way outside middle stop line of attack. He did not impress much in England. Either. Zaheer is being missed. A good team always has an exceptional bowling attack. It is about getting right combinations of fast bowlers who are willing to toil luckless and wait till they woo success over. I don’t exactly see em coming. There have to be at least two bowlers who can bowl tight and carry on the good work that the opening bowlers or control the damage that the opposing batsmen would have caused. I think our bowling has been exposed, Pakis almost won the last time, NZ took us to cleaners, Aussies left no stoned unturned and England also canned the India bowling only to loose out too much too soon.
Kara Bhajan, Harbhajan.
Well he is doing a very good controlling job. A better field setup and may be he attacking for couple of balls may not be anything Dhoni would look into. If Turbunator keep things in check, wickets may follow. it is the only way to knock the wind of the sails. He has to be little for miser one believes for him to be more effective.
Dream final
India vs. Pakistan can it get any bigger? It will be a fight of the big hearted, Pakistan hold the upper hand coz they have better bowlers. India would do well to score anything over 150 batting first and may be if they have a top order bowing out then there may be a chance, but Pakis start famous to win.
Sehwag’s principle of batting/ Law of (Sehwag’s) Marginal Return.
Virender Sehwag who has now convinced everybody that run must be scored only behind point. He plays on the principle of higher risk-quicker returns but sadly it is just high risk cricketing shots and Sehwag’s quick return to the dug out. It is atrocious, it is sad to know that he “can” play in the straight direction but moving away and losing balance of or not shift/getting in the position for optimum of balance, necessary to play a jumping ball is perhaps he is missing the plot. Sehwag may not play I think coz of a pulled muscle in the thigh/groin, there is a small asterisk labeled “conditions apply”. He is deadly coz is he starts firing Pakistan/any team will go on an extensive leather chase of Dhoni will pull his flocks out of his head. The only positive coming out is perhaps rotating the strike and taking sharp singles.
All said and done just coz India has had a decent opening partnership, makes middle order really potent. Yuvraj has lambasted the attacks by getting big runs in double quick time. I just have one inhibition of big hitting, the player must be good enough to carry it through to the end over or else if one wicket may cause a slump which may be tough to recover.
I would love to see Utahappa opening along with Gambhir.
Princely Yuvraj.
Well this is format tailor cut for people like Yuvraj. The ball wont do much coz pitched will be flat, white ball losses shine early and there aren’t many spinners bowling to him. Anyways his six sixes were an absolute delight. Stuart Broad looking to heavens every time he bowled. Flintoff antics of jeering Yuvraj proved too good for Broad. Gibbs has done that in WC this year and Yuvraj himself gulped the insult when h was stuck for five sixes. He is the best finished in limited over cricket. If he hits a fit India invariable (9 out of 10 times) goes on to win the match. Yuvraj, Dhoni, Razzaq, McCullum, Symonds, Hussey, Boucher, these names come to mind when you talk of finish. The hit it and they remain a hit. They all are good runner and hitters so even if they are not hitting it they can clearly getting close to eight an over playing what I call “Percentage Cricket”.
Well fielded.
The Indians have picked themselves up in the field. It has definitely improved. It is less patchy with coming in of youngsters. It is good to see them saving singles and pulling of some neat catches. The catch that came to Kart hick of Smith’s edge off RP Singh was a smack down and triggered a collapse for Safes who not only lost the match but also failed to get into Semis. Poor chaps. Ravi Shastri said on air,” Indians have caught Safes pants down in their own den.” ROFL.
Success hides a few blotches.
I am not convinced that Pakistan and India are matched man to man and it is all evens. Pakistan top order looks fragile, they may not always fire. But when they play India it is not another match, it is “the” match. They don’t have bowlers of Agarkar’s class who gifts boundaries at will and makes a decent captain look naive. Pakistan is a mind of fast bowling. They have enough of them to cause any team a trouble. Let me cite an example Kiwis whacked Indians in ending over when they played, I mean the conditions were so bad that being stuck for just 3 fours in an over was considered economical. If u shifts focus towards Pak bowlers they gave nothing away to Kiwis and Aussies it was amazing to watch nothing came by for either team and scoring 6 an over in last five over bowled by Pak bowlers could be considered good.
We lack good bowlers who can bowl to take wickets. There aren’t many and they don’t have that quality too. I don’t see any bowler in the present line up coming onto bowl and not being carted for boundaries. There is enough testimony; Aussies almost blasted us out couple of over more of Symonds and Hayden and who knows. Agarkar is always a burden coz if nothing he will come into is own by bowling short and wider and following it wait way outside middle stop line of attack. He did not impress much in England. Either. Zaheer is being missed. A good team always has an exceptional bowling attack. It is about getting right combinations of fast bowlers who are willing to toil luckless and wait till they woo success over. I don’t exactly see em coming. There have to be at least two bowlers who can bowl tight and carry on the good work that the opening bowlers or control the damage that the opposing batsmen would have caused. I think our bowling has been exposed, Pakis almost won the last time, NZ took us to cleaners, Aussies left no stoned unturned and England also canned the India bowling only to loose out too much too soon.
Kara Bhajan, Harbhajan.
Well he is doing a very good controlling job. A better field setup and may be he attacking for couple of balls may not be anything Dhoni would look into. If Turbunator keep things in check, wickets may follow. it is the only way to knock the wind of the sails. He has to be little for miser one believes for him to be more effective.
Dream final
India vs. Pakistan can it get any bigger? It will be a fight of the big hearted, Pakistan hold the upper hand coz they have better bowlers. India would do well to score anything over 150 batting first and may be if they have a top order bowing out then there may be a chance, but Pakis start famous to win.
16.9.07
Cricket: Catch 20-20
The catch 22 will soon gave cath 20-20.The only agony is adds, i thionk they have to still formulate a way to show the action live and dont let ads screw up the fun ... thats why i feel at times football serves well.
Too many things are likely to happen in twenty twenty before u bat an eyelid.
A complete cricket fan story.
India vs Pakistan has to be a sell out. I heard Hussain joking that atleast coule of people would watch that one, it was a good one while wtahcing the watch i turned my head behind my back ad the count was 15, me excluded. It has to be a pack house anywhere.
Anyways I was a bit late afta dinner, the score card read 9-2, i thought well lets see whats happening.
Asif ......... tere bin ....
He is good, he has got pace and amazing thing called control. He can take it both ways and bowls a line which is really nagging, as nagging as a mother in law. ANyways he bowled three dot balls and Gambhir felt the pinch. One must know that Asif holds the distinction of bowling the first maiden in 20-20. Anyways the flood gates opened... i mean flood gates for wickets. Sehwag played what he played best, a nothing shot. I mean u facing someone with great control and pitching is making the ball dart around, doesn't it make sense to see what it is like spenidng time in the middle. Sehwag can shred any attack to bits provided he puts sense to what he is upto ... I mean doing anything blindly is insane.
I am not a big fan of Karthick, cause he has to be consistent. The ball that got him was a beauty and would have tested anybody, he couple of gutsy blows got Utahappa going. One over extra was a beauty.
Uthappa on his own.
Gutsy is the word for him. He is a very good hitter down the ground and thats class. A couple od sixes if hanid really turned the tide is not for some rain India looked well to getting some more.
Give it to the Pak bowlers.
India vs Paak has always been India batsmen vs Paki bowlers. Pak will have no dearth of bowlers, thay just come from nowhere and mean bussiness and have a lot of flair. The new bowler Tanvir who bowled of the wrong foot kept Dhoni and Utahappa in check. It was for him that Utahappa was out following a number of rain intervention ...
Pathan vs Pathan.
Irfan Pathan beltwe to towering sixes and wallopped Afridi out of the park. Those were huge stuff, something what India may have been missing off late.
Bang bang and gone. He was bowled following two sixes.
Indian bowling.
Agarkar has sleepeless lint is he doesnt give up easy hit me balls, man come alive, dont srew it up. I think there is not dearth of talent we have to find someone who is a bit more tidy then Agarkar coz he goes plenty. I thought he have a bright chance before he came in and screwed it up big time last four overs gone for 54. can u believe it? I mean some expierenced Pak player would have creamed it. I for once thought of giving sehwag and Yuvi a ball in the middle.
Harbhajan on a bhjan.
He bowled beautifully to Afridi and fooled him twice and then got him the second time to restrict Afridi is no mean task. Afridi went and then it was a Pak show.
In the end.
India played the right card Harbhajan Sehwag and Utahappa pulled it of for India. I thought Pak bowlers would cream it up but they couldn't enforcing India to come on top of the group. Well done.
Too many things are likely to happen in twenty twenty before u bat an eyelid.
A complete cricket fan story.
India vs Pakistan has to be a sell out. I heard Hussain joking that atleast coule of people would watch that one, it was a good one while wtahcing the watch i turned my head behind my back ad the count was 15, me excluded. It has to be a pack house anywhere.
Anyways I was a bit late afta dinner, the score card read 9-2, i thought well lets see whats happening.
Asif ......... tere bin ....
He is good, he has got pace and amazing thing called control. He can take it both ways and bowls a line which is really nagging, as nagging as a mother in law. ANyways he bowled three dot balls and Gambhir felt the pinch. One must know that Asif holds the distinction of bowling the first maiden in 20-20. Anyways the flood gates opened... i mean flood gates for wickets. Sehwag played what he played best, a nothing shot. I mean u facing someone with great control and pitching is making the ball dart around, doesn't it make sense to see what it is like spenidng time in the middle. Sehwag can shred any attack to bits provided he puts sense to what he is upto ... I mean doing anything blindly is insane.
I am not a big fan of Karthick, cause he has to be consistent. The ball that got him was a beauty and would have tested anybody, he couple of gutsy blows got Utahappa going. One over extra was a beauty.
Uthappa on his own.
Gutsy is the word for him. He is a very good hitter down the ground and thats class. A couple od sixes if hanid really turned the tide is not for some rain India looked well to getting some more.
Give it to the Pak bowlers.
India vs Paak has always been India batsmen vs Paki bowlers. Pak will have no dearth of bowlers, thay just come from nowhere and mean bussiness and have a lot of flair. The new bowler Tanvir who bowled of the wrong foot kept Dhoni and Utahappa in check. It was for him that Utahappa was out following a number of rain intervention ...
Pathan vs Pathan.
Irfan Pathan beltwe to towering sixes and wallopped Afridi out of the park. Those were huge stuff, something what India may have been missing off late.
Bang bang and gone. He was bowled following two sixes.
Indian bowling.
Agarkar has sleepeless lint is he doesnt give up easy hit me balls, man come alive, dont srew it up. I think there is not dearth of talent we have to find someone who is a bit more tidy then Agarkar coz he goes plenty. I thought he have a bright chance before he came in and screwed it up big time last four overs gone for 54. can u believe it? I mean some expierenced Pak player would have creamed it. I for once thought of giving sehwag and Yuvi a ball in the middle.
Harbhajan on a bhjan.
He bowled beautifully to Afridi and fooled him twice and then got him the second time to restrict Afridi is no mean task. Afridi went and then it was a Pak show.
In the end.
India played the right card Harbhajan Sehwag and Utahappa pulled it of for India. I thought Pak bowlers would cream it up but they couldn't enforcing India to come on top of the group. Well done.
9.9.07
Cricket: India lose series
Flintoff is the difference between joy of victory and grimace of a series loss. India won the test, needless to say Flintoff was injured, Flintoff played more than half the series and India lost.
Writing is on the Wall.
Dravid sometimes make shocking declarations followed by honest addmissions. India did well so did Dravid, but that declaration is test was never to be.One more rocking thing, y wasnt yuvaj, now almost slated for a fixed position for ODI was asked to come in at three down. I think Yuvraj deserves to be 2 down, at number four. If yuvraj finishes playing the 50 overs no matter where he comes in, India will look to be in a decent competitive postion if not a winning one. Thats the magic of Yuvraj.
There is no point saying Aleem dar gave in some cocky decision, India could be more than competitive if people stuck to task and played the full 50 overs. It is a crime not to play the full quota of overs. India fell short of playing 15 deliveries, imagine 25 runs more.
Jewel in a dust
Seeing Piyush chawla ripping it across Pietersen, with latter having no clue was mesmerising it was edge of the seat stuff. He and powar bowled well all series. Thi send marks perhaps a battle which may rage on in times to come. Piyush Chawla vs kevin Pietersen, keep a track on that.
Why is Vaughan not there is a puzzle? I mean he will score better than Matt prior even with his eys close. Cook Vaughan to open KP one down Collingwood two down Bell next followed by Shah or Wright next, Flintoff and Prior and then the bowlers, Prior, Collingwood and Flintoff giving very fexibility along with some more spinners a decent batsmen, looks good for NEgland provided they play more.
India I think Sachin and Sourav are in way of some serious talent. Gambhir, Uthappa, Sehwag, and some more known and unknown players would be praying for doors to be opened soon. I mean I would not mind Tendulkar retire or atleast be selective in the games he play.I hope Tendulkar retires one year down the line. He must focus on test and thats where a bit more fun is missing.
India did well to come up 3-3. The oval match was a edge of seat stuff ...
Twetny 20 is up next, hopefully India wont crash out before the cup really gets underway.
Writing is on the Wall.
Dravid sometimes make shocking declarations followed by honest addmissions. India did well so did Dravid, but that declaration is test was never to be.One more rocking thing, y wasnt yuvaj, now almost slated for a fixed position for ODI was asked to come in at three down. I think Yuvraj deserves to be 2 down, at number four. If yuvraj finishes playing the 50 overs no matter where he comes in, India will look to be in a decent competitive postion if not a winning one. Thats the magic of Yuvraj.
There is no point saying Aleem dar gave in some cocky decision, India could be more than competitive if people stuck to task and played the full 50 overs. It is a crime not to play the full quota of overs. India fell short of playing 15 deliveries, imagine 25 runs more.
Jewel in a dust
Seeing Piyush chawla ripping it across Pietersen, with latter having no clue was mesmerising it was edge of the seat stuff. He and powar bowled well all series. Thi send marks perhaps a battle which may rage on in times to come. Piyush Chawla vs kevin Pietersen, keep a track on that.
Why is Vaughan not there is a puzzle? I mean he will score better than Matt prior even with his eys close. Cook Vaughan to open KP one down Collingwood two down Bell next followed by Shah or Wright next, Flintoff and Prior and then the bowlers, Prior, Collingwood and Flintoff giving very fexibility along with some more spinners a decent batsmen, looks good for NEgland provided they play more.
India I think Sachin and Sourav are in way of some serious talent. Gambhir, Uthappa, Sehwag, and some more known and unknown players would be praying for doors to be opened soon. I mean I would not mind Tendulkar retire or atleast be selective in the games he play.I hope Tendulkar retires one year down the line. He must focus on test and thats where a bit more fun is missing.
India did well to come up 3-3. The oval match was a edge of seat stuff ...
Twetny 20 is up next, hopefully India wont crash out before the cup really gets underway.
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