It has been an exciting series so far and it boils down to the 'last day' of the final test match. The series so far has contained all the 'masala' a bollywood pot-boiler would have. The stories and happenings both on the field and off the field has lifted the Aus-India series to a new level.
Now it comes down to this '5th day' battle and the million dollar question 'Will Indian batsmen survive the last day'. History on the same ground tells us all a different story. In 2004, India had pulled a stunning victory over Aussies when both teams had completed 500 runs in their respective 1st innings. In 2006, Australia had pulled off another Ashes historic win, when they beat England by 6 wickets. Again both teams had scored more than 500 runs in their 1st innings.
As things stand, this match happens to be in the same state as the Aus-Eng match in the 2006. England could not survive and Australia chased down the target.
Apart from the history of the Adeliade ground, we all know about India's vulnerability in the 2nd innings of a test match. Leave the umpiring decisions aside, Indian tail could not survive the last 10 minutes of the Sydney test match. Tail-enders have put up a great show in the 1st innings by throwing their bats around but when it comes to survive they have been found lacking. India do not have a big lead on the board, hence they have not alternative but survive all the sessions of the last day. Hence, it may boil down to how the top-order and tail stands up to the contest.
Moreover, Australians are all charged up and would like to give one of their greats 'Gilly' a resounding farewell. Adam Gilchrist changed the complexion of the 'wicket-keeper' batsman in the history of cricket. He has really given the best performance both in front & behind the stumps.
Oh boy....ODI has changed test cricket... gone are the days when we used to see similar scoresheets and give up on the last day as match heading for a draw....
Who knows what the 'crystall-ball' has in store for us tomorrow...
One placard in the Perth Test carried truely fits the bill today again...
" Heart says India, but Head says Australia"
From 'oracle' point, a T20 match scenario might just be on the cards..Australia trying to chase down 150-175 in the last 20-25 overs...
Indian blues...all the best 2-1 would be the score which would make us all happy..And a 2-2 result would send the INDIAN FANS index to a 'stock' high level
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Weekly Roundup - Perth Test
It has been a week where lots has happened.....
It has been a deja vu for the Indian Team...they have stopped Aussies in their tracks once again. They did the same in 2001 at Eden Gardens and have now done it in Aussies own backyard at Perth. It was hyped that India would not even last 3 days on a bouncy and fastest pitch in the world. Unfortunately the Aussies tasted their own medicine and lost the match.
Inspired India end Australia's streak - @ cricinfo.
Kumble would not have dreamt a better time to have his 600 wicket in the test match. A test match which is going to be remembered by all for a long time to come.
The master of nuances @ cricinfo
Immediately after the Test win, the Indian Selectors have announced the ODI team. And as usual have sprung quite a few surprises. The selection has the Bengal Tigers up in arm again. It is time Indian Seniors are treated with some dignity. The seniors have stood like pillar of strength during the crisis Indian Team faced during the past couple of weeks. They have shown dignity and solidarity in keeping the team as one unit.
Dada dropped, Raina goes over the Wall
And the most happy man of the week must be The comeback kid – Irfan Pathan....
Congratulations to Indian Team...hope they carry this performance to the Adelaide...
It has been a deja vu for the Indian Team...they have stopped Aussies in their tracks once again. They did the same in 2001 at Eden Gardens and have now done it in Aussies own backyard at Perth. It was hyped that India would not even last 3 days on a bouncy and fastest pitch in the world. Unfortunately the Aussies tasted their own medicine and lost the match.
Inspired India end Australia's streak - @ cricinfo.
Kumble would not have dreamt a better time to have his 600 wicket in the test match. A test match which is going to be remembered by all for a long time to come.
The master of nuances @ cricinfo
Immediately after the Test win, the Indian Selectors have announced the ODI team. And as usual have sprung quite a few surprises. The selection has the Bengal Tigers up in arm again. It is time Indian Seniors are treated with some dignity. The seniors have stood like pillar of strength during the crisis Indian Team faced during the past couple of weeks. They have shown dignity and solidarity in keeping the team as one unit.
Dada dropped, Raina goes over the Wall
And the most happy man of the week must be The comeback kid – Irfan Pathan....
Congratulations to Indian Team...hope they carry this performance to the Adelaide...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
New Tiny Laptop from APPLE - Unveiled
A slide of the MacBook Air, from the back.
(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)
Wow...Steve Jobs does have it in him to throw surprises Last year it was the IPHONE and this year he unveiled the slim laptop to world @ the MACWORLD in San Francisco
Read the details in this news article
"The new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost $1,799 when it goes on sale in two weeks, though Apple is taking orders now. The company's Web site is already touting the machine. The price is competitive with other laptops in its market segment."
Laptop is slated to be 3 pounds in weight and with 2GM memory.
Read the details at the following links
http://www.news.com/one-more-thing/8301-13579_3-9850085-37.html?tag=head
http://www.macworldexpo.com/
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Start of New Year - Nothing has changed
A new year has begun but the fortunes of Indian Cricket team do not seem to change.
The same old story, the top order is bundled out but the team cannot deliver the final blow. Let's give credit to Brad Hogg & Symonds for being ODI batsman and in the team for their all-round capabilities. BUT what about Brett Lee, Johnson.... they contributed approx 80 runs to the Australian total.
Everyone may be skeptical about the umpiring decision, but it is high time Indian Cricket team admit that they donot posses the killer instinct to be treated as world-class beaters.
Hope the diet change suggested by indian team management improves the team's hunger for doing well... Details are in this article
Hope things improve in the batting for the Indian Team and they can post a good total on board.
The same old story, the top order is bundled out but the team cannot deliver the final blow. Let's give credit to Brad Hogg & Symonds for being ODI batsman and in the team for their all-round capabilities. BUT what about Brett Lee, Johnson.... they contributed approx 80 runs to the Australian total.
Everyone may be skeptical about the umpiring decision, but it is high time Indian Cricket team admit that they donot posses the killer instinct to be treated as world-class beaters.
Hope the diet change suggested by indian team management improves the team's hunger for doing well... Details are in this article
Hope things improve in the batting for the Indian Team and they can post a good total on board.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Happy New Year - 2008
WISHING ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
HOPE 2008 brings lots of luck and blesses everyone with best wishes in their endavors.
HOPE 2008 brings lots of luck and blesses everyone with best wishes in their endavors.
Monday, December 10, 2007
India is 2-0 up in Mental Game @Bangalore
Bangalore seems to have a unique record of seeing Pakistan and Indian players getting into a swearing fight and unfortunately it has resulted in two pakistani batsmen getting out immediately. Both the incidents happened at a crucial time of the respective matches and surprisingly it involved the local 'karnataka' boys.
First incident happened in the Q'Finals match in 1996 WC between Venkatesh Prasad and Amir Sohail. Amir Sohail was playing a fantastic knock till he needled Prasad unnecessarily and that resulted in his downfall. He was bowled of the next delivery and was shown the doors of the pavalion rightly so by Prasad. This incident was highly talked about in the cricketing circles. View the video of that incident and Imran in his commentary rightly said ' pakistan has suffered due to insensible batting by Sohail'
Second incidient to happen was yesterday in the 3rd test match between India v/s Pak being played at bangalore. The players involved again are a Pakistani batsman - M Yousuf and a player from Karnataka - Kumble.
Read the article from George Binoy @ Cricinfo
" Distraction, destruction
The afternoon session was meandering along without much excitement when a bit of drama occurred in the 71st over. Mohammad Yousuf, visibly angry at something that had happened, walked towards Anil Kumble at gully. Yousuf was seething and gestured towards Kumble, who had a few words with him and patted him on the back. On returning to his crease, Yousuf wasn't becalmed and had a word with the umpires Simon Taufel and Rudi Koertzen. Three balls later, clearly irked, he had a chat with Harbhajan Singh. All the talking evidently disturbed his concentration because he drove loosely at the last ball of the over - a wide one from Irfan Pathan - and sliced it straight to Yuvraj at point. "
Though, Bangalore seems to be a good hunting ground for Pakistan, it somehow holds the unique record for Pakistan players getting out after an altercation with the Indian - Karnataka players.
Kumble will definetely be pulled up by the ICC Refree for the incident and being the captain of the team it would not go down well with the cricketing pundits. But who can deny the fact that the top team in the world - Aussies also have a captain who likes to needle the opposition players and get away with the word 'aggression'.
Let's hope we do not have anymore of this incidents in the last game of the tour and both the teams churn out some good batting displays.
First incident happened in the Q'Finals match in 1996 WC between Venkatesh Prasad and Amir Sohail. Amir Sohail was playing a fantastic knock till he needled Prasad unnecessarily and that resulted in his downfall. He was bowled of the next delivery and was shown the doors of the pavalion rightly so by Prasad. This incident was highly talked about in the cricketing circles. View the video of that incident and Imran in his commentary rightly said ' pakistan has suffered due to insensible batting by Sohail'
Second incidient to happen was yesterday in the 3rd test match between India v/s Pak being played at bangalore. The players involved again are a Pakistani batsman - M Yousuf and a player from Karnataka - Kumble.
Read the article from George Binoy @ Cricinfo
" Distraction, destruction
The afternoon session was meandering along without much excitement when a bit of drama occurred in the 71st over. Mohammad Yousuf, visibly angry at something that had happened, walked towards Anil Kumble at gully. Yousuf was seething and gestured towards Kumble, who had a few words with him and patted him on the back. On returning to his crease, Yousuf wasn't becalmed and had a word with the umpires Simon Taufel and Rudi Koertzen. Three balls later, clearly irked, he had a chat with Harbhajan Singh. All the talking evidently disturbed his concentration because he drove loosely at the last ball of the over - a wide one from Irfan Pathan - and sliced it straight to Yuvraj at point. "
Though, Bangalore seems to be a good hunting ground for Pakistan, it somehow holds the unique record for Pakistan players getting out after an altercation with the Indian - Karnataka players.
Kumble will definetely be pulled up by the ICC Refree for the incident and being the captain of the team it would not go down well with the cricketing pundits. But who can deny the fact that the top team in the world - Aussies also have a captain who likes to needle the opposition players and get away with the word 'aggression'.
Let's hope we do not have anymore of this incidents in the last game of the tour and both the teams churn out some good batting displays.
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Yuvi's Innings to be remembered
Is Yuvraj's innings going to help India break the Bangalore Jinx?
Wow....What an innings under pressure. Yuvraj has been knocking on the doors of the Test team for a long time now. Given the opportunity today @ Bangalore he sized it with both hands. India tottering at 61 for 4, the 2005 match definetely would have been running thru the minds of the most players in Indian Dressing room. Most of the players playing today were part of that match in 2005.
Yuvraj definetly had some different ideas of his own. He really turned the tables (atleast on first day) on the Pakistan team. He was in a fantastic form in the ODI and he has carried the same into the test match. He had the calm presence of 'DADA' on the other end who allowed this youngster to blossom while he himself kept another end ticking.
Ganguly and Yuvraj did enough to make Indian sniff the air of win here in Bangalore. But the match is not over yet rather it is wide open. If India fail to capitalize on this magnificent knock tomorrow morning, things may go the other way. India need to put up 500 plus on board and make sure they do not bat in the match or have very few runs to chase in the second knock. If Pakistan is able to knock out the rest of Indian wickets and put up a big score, then the B'lore jinx might still come back to haunt Indian team here.
As they say it is not over till the last ball of the match is over....
Wow....What an innings under pressure. Yuvraj has been knocking on the doors of the Test team for a long time now. Given the opportunity today @ Bangalore he sized it with both hands. India tottering at 61 for 4, the 2005 match definetely would have been running thru the minds of the most players in Indian Dressing room. Most of the players playing today were part of that match in 2005.
Yuvraj definetly had some different ideas of his own. He really turned the tables (atleast on first day) on the Pakistan team. He was in a fantastic form in the ODI and he has carried the same into the test match. He had the calm presence of 'DADA' on the other end who allowed this youngster to blossom while he himself kept another end ticking.
Ganguly and Yuvraj did enough to make Indian sniff the air of win here in Bangalore. But the match is not over yet rather it is wide open. If India fail to capitalize on this magnificent knock tomorrow morning, things may go the other way. India need to put up 500 plus on board and make sure they do not bat in the match or have very few runs to chase in the second knock. If Pakistan is able to knock out the rest of Indian wickets and put up a big score, then the B'lore jinx might still come back to haunt Indian team here.
As they say it is not over till the last ball of the match is over....
Friday, December 07, 2007
Bangalore Jinx comes back to Haunt Indian Team
Yours truely had written earlier about India might have left a golden chance of wrapping the series in Kolkata slip.
"That series in 2004-05 has several parallels to this one. India had dominated for the majority of the first two Tests. In Mohali, Pakistan ended the fourth day with a lead of 53 with only four second-innings wickets in hand. Akmal and Razzaq, who had begun batting on the previous evening, played nearly the whole of the fifth day to save the Test. However, in the next match in Kolkata, Pakistan conceded a slender first-innings lead despite hundreds from Younis and Mohammad Yousuf and were dismissed for 226 chasing 422 in the final innings to give India a 1-0 lead. "
The article by George Binoy at Cricinfo - India beware the Bangalore jinx clearly underlines the same story
At the sametime, Indian team seems to be down with the same 'non-fit' bug that infected Pakistani team in Kolkata. With Zaheer, Tendulkar & Dhoni the doubtful starters for the match, Indian bowling & batting put up a depleted look.
"The irony is that Pakistan was in a similar position ahead of the second Test in Kolkata. Their captain Shoaib Malik had twisted his ankle, Umar Gul flew home with a back injury and Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami were unwell. However, barring Malik, they have no injury worries at the moment. India, on the other hand, have had to call up Gautam Gambhir on the eve of the match as cover for Tendulkar, who did not practice on Thursday but had a light training session on Friday. "
Read up the article at Cricinfo
As things look India have their backs to the wall even before the start of the TEST match.
"That series in 2004-05 has several parallels to this one. India had dominated for the majority of the first two Tests. In Mohali, Pakistan ended the fourth day with a lead of 53 with only four second-innings wickets in hand. Akmal and Razzaq, who had begun batting on the previous evening, played nearly the whole of the fifth day to save the Test. However, in the next match in Kolkata, Pakistan conceded a slender first-innings lead despite hundreds from Younis and Mohammad Yousuf and were dismissed for 226 chasing 422 in the final innings to give India a 1-0 lead. "
The article by George Binoy at Cricinfo - India beware the Bangalore jinx clearly underlines the same story
At the sametime, Indian team seems to be down with the same 'non-fit' bug that infected Pakistani team in Kolkata. With Zaheer, Tendulkar & Dhoni the doubtful starters for the match, Indian bowling & batting put up a depleted look.
"The irony is that Pakistan was in a similar position ahead of the second Test in Kolkata. Their captain Shoaib Malik had twisted his ankle, Umar Gul flew home with a back injury and Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami were unwell. However, barring Malik, they have no injury worries at the moment. India, on the other hand, have had to call up Gautam Gambhir on the eve of the match as cover for Tendulkar, who did not practice on Thursday but had a light training session on Friday. "
Read up the article at Cricinfo
As things look India have their backs to the wall even before the start of the TEST match.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Did India drop a chance to win the series?
Has India dropped a golden chance to win the series at Kolkata....
Next match is at Bangalore and it happens to be a happy-hunting ground for Pakistan..
At the same time, Pakistan have given themselves an outside chance to square the series at Bangalore. Pakistan have done well in the past when test matches were played in 1987 and 2005.
Well...who can forget 1987 test match where Sunil Gavaskar played a memorable knock of 96 on a turner of a pitch. He almost single-handedly took India to victory.
While in the last test match played here in 2005 between these two arch-rivals, Pakistan had thrashed India by nearly 160 runs. It is a happy hunting ground for Younis Khan who had scored a double-century to help Pakistan post a mamoth score of 500 plus.
Hence, India would be definitely ruing the catches they dropped in both the Pakistan innings. Had they held on to their catches in both the innings the story line would have been different.
It looks to be seen how the 'Dravid - the wall' and 'Kumble - the jumbo' will perform in front of their home ground. This is probably going to be their last TEST match before the home crowd.
Kumble may be hoping to finish off on a high with a win and secure his first series win as a captain.
As a cricket fan, could just hope for an exciting test cricket and wish both the teams all the best.
Next match is at Bangalore and it happens to be a happy-hunting ground for Pakistan..
At the same time, Pakistan have given themselves an outside chance to square the series at Bangalore. Pakistan have done well in the past when test matches were played in 1987 and 2005.
Well...who can forget 1987 test match where Sunil Gavaskar played a memorable knock of 96 on a turner of a pitch. He almost single-handedly took India to victory.
While in the last test match played here in 2005 between these two arch-rivals, Pakistan had thrashed India by nearly 160 runs. It is a happy hunting ground for Younis Khan who had scored a double-century to help Pakistan post a mamoth score of 500 plus.
Hence, India would be definitely ruing the catches they dropped in both the Pakistan innings. Had they held on to their catches in both the innings the story line would have been different.
It looks to be seen how the 'Dravid - the wall' and 'Kumble - the jumbo' will perform in front of their home ground. This is probably going to be their last TEST match before the home crowd.
Kumble may be hoping to finish off on a high with a win and secure his first series win as a captain.
As a cricket fan, could just hope for an exciting test cricket and wish both the teams all the best.
Indian Cricket Team - finally has a coach
It is offical...the Indian Cricket team has a coach ... Gary Kirsten takes over during the Australian Tour
Read the cricinfo article for the masala
Read the cricinfo article for the masala
Monday, December 03, 2007
Interesting Finish in Offering
Let me begin with appluading the Pakistan team for putting up a spirited challange so far in the 2nd test @ Kolkata in the ongoing India v/s Pak Test Series in India.
Everyone had predicted that the India would roll-over the Pakistan in this test match. And with Pakistan not fielding its top 11 players and India chugging along nicely to a 600 plus score, the writing was very much clear on the wall. Misbah-ul-Haq, who is having a dream season since Twenty20 WC seem to have different ideas. He found an able partner in the Kamran Akmal who on the other hand is having his worst season behind the stumps. If Kamran had to wipe out all those bad memories, the only option was in coming good in front of the stumps and he answered to the prayers of the Pakistani fans in a fantastic manner.
Though this rear-guard action cannot be compared to the epic Laxman-Dravid partnership at the same ground against Australi (2001), it definetly will go down in the books of cricket as one of the finest 'survival act'. At the sametime we need to give credit to M Sammi who helped Pakistan to avoid a follow-on and probably escape with heads held high in this test match.
A Indian win or draw would be a predicted result in all the corners, but would not be surprised if Pakistan make India sweat chasing down the target.. Just a knock on the memories....it was here in 1998-99 series that Pakistan won a test match after being reduced to 26 for 6. No one knows till the 'last ball' of the match is bowled...
A very interesting finish is definetly in offerring for the last day...
Everyone had predicted that the India would roll-over the Pakistan in this test match. And with Pakistan not fielding its top 11 players and India chugging along nicely to a 600 plus score, the writing was very much clear on the wall. Misbah-ul-Haq, who is having a dream season since Twenty20 WC seem to have different ideas. He found an able partner in the Kamran Akmal who on the other hand is having his worst season behind the stumps. If Kamran had to wipe out all those bad memories, the only option was in coming good in front of the stumps and he answered to the prayers of the Pakistani fans in a fantastic manner.
Though this rear-guard action cannot be compared to the epic Laxman-Dravid partnership at the same ground against Australi (2001), it definetly will go down in the books of cricket as one of the finest 'survival act'. At the sametime we need to give credit to M Sammi who helped Pakistan to avoid a follow-on and probably escape with heads held high in this test match.
A Indian win or draw would be a predicted result in all the corners, but would not be surprised if Pakistan make India sweat chasing down the target.. Just a knock on the memories....it was here in 1998-99 series that Pakistan won a test match after being reduced to 26 for 6. No one knows till the 'last ball' of the match is bowled...
A very interesting finish is definetly in offerring for the last day...
Wow- New Culture of Workspace
Silicon Valley is bringing in a new of 'culture'...the bigwig companies are promoting the concept of open spaces and do away with the 'cubicle' culture
Read on in this mercurynews article http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7622029?nclick_check=1
Read on in this mercurynews article http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_7622029?nclick_check=1
Saturday, December 01, 2007
World Aids Day - 1 Dec
Today is the WORLD AIDS DAY ....lets join hands to eradicate this deadly virus from our lives
some usefull links
Understand HIV/AIDS
UNAIDS
some usefull links
Understand HIV/AIDS
UNAIDS
Friday, November 30, 2007
Innovative Idea to Fund Education
Guys I came across this article while surfing through the blog
this was posted on the http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/ by Rashmi Bansal
A Delhi College of Engineering grad (2005 batch) Ankur has some savings from a job as sr business analyst at evalueserve. And yes, he will apply for a scholarship. "Loan is not an option as I don't have collateral," he shrugs.
But Ankur has a 'plan'. He read an article which basically said,"You can earn millions from Adsense" and so he decided to put the theory into practice. Ankur has created a blog called http://milliondollarstory.blogspot.com. His plan is to write 1 short story, everyday, for 180 days.
Hope this guy is really able to achieve his objective and request everyone to visit his site
this was posted on the http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/ by Rashmi Bansal
A Delhi College of Engineering grad (2005 batch) Ankur has some savings from a job as sr business analyst at evalueserve. And yes, he will apply for a scholarship. "Loan is not an option as I don't have collateral," he shrugs.
But Ankur has a 'plan'. He read an article which basically said,"You can earn millions from Adsense" and so he decided to put the theory into practice. Ankur has created a blog called http://milliondollarstory.blogspot.com. His plan is to write 1 short story, everyday, for 180 days.
Hope this guy is really able to achieve his objective and request everyone to visit his site
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Anil Kumble - India's Test Captain
Finally, Indian selectors decide to hand-over the captain's crown to the most hardworking cricketer of the team. Anil Kumble is known to give his 100% on the field always and no one can deny the fact. He is one of many gutsy players who came on to the field even when injured and try his best to win India a Test.
Anil Kumble definetly deserves the crown as he comes to the end of his career.
Hope he gets the necessary support from his team members in the same fashion he did when playing under them or along them.
Definetly a "DIWALI" gift Kumble would cherish for a long time....
Wishing him and the team all the best for the Pakistan series
Anil Kumble definetly deserves the crown as he comes to the end of his career.
Hope he gets the necessary support from his team members in the same fashion he did when playing under them or along them.
Definetly a "DIWALI" gift Kumble would cherish for a long time....
Wishing him and the team all the best for the Pakistan series
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Indian Team needs to walk the talk
Indian cricket team needs to learn to walk the talk. All the aggression they show with their hands and glares needs to be put into action. Aussies are the true champions and they play aggresively which is defined in winning matches from a situation of 13 for 3.
Ponting rightly states in his article Some Indians misinterpreting aggression - Ponting
"Both teams can still play aggressively, but when the Australian team speaks about playing aggressively I think a lot of people get the wrong idea," Ponting wrote in his column for the Australian newspaper.
"I don't mean talking aggressively or showing aggressive body language. That's exactly the opposite of what aggressive or positive cricket is all about. A few of the Indians have reacted very much with aggressive body language and trying to force themselves upon us, and I think the way some of them are playing their cricket that they have also misinterpreted what aggressive cricket means.
"I suppose if some of the players don't understand it, a lot of people watching the game in the stands or at home don't understand it either. It's not jumping up and down, sledging, giving people send-offs and that sort of stuff. When the Australian team talks about playing aggressively, we are committing ourselves to playing hard: there's nothing given and there's nothing asked to be given."
The series till now has given the impression of 'history' repeats itself. After the 1983 WC win, WI the uncrowned champions had come to India and thrashed India 5-0 in ODI series. Now as things are progressing in this series the same result seems to be on card unless Indian team pull up their socks.
It is time, the stars of the Indian Cricket team live upto everyones' expectations.
And youngsters live upto the Twenty20 WC championship tag
Ponting rightly states in his article Some Indians misinterpreting aggression - Ponting
"Both teams can still play aggressively, but when the Australian team speaks about playing aggressively I think a lot of people get the wrong idea," Ponting wrote in his column for the Australian newspaper.
"I don't mean talking aggressively or showing aggressive body language. That's exactly the opposite of what aggressive or positive cricket is all about. A few of the Indians have reacted very much with aggressive body language and trying to force themselves upon us, and I think the way some of them are playing their cricket that they have also misinterpreted what aggressive cricket means.
"I suppose if some of the players don't understand it, a lot of people watching the game in the stands or at home don't understand it either. It's not jumping up and down, sledging, giving people send-offs and that sort of stuff. When the Australian team talks about playing aggressively, we are committing ourselves to playing hard: there's nothing given and there's nothing asked to be given."
The series till now has given the impression of 'history' repeats itself. After the 1983 WC win, WI the uncrowned champions had come to India and thrashed India 5-0 in ODI series. Now as things are progressing in this series the same result seems to be on card unless Indian team pull up their socks.
It is time, the stars of the Indian Cricket team live upto everyones' expectations.
And youngsters live upto the Twenty20 WC championship tag
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Pakistan Captains draws flak for his comments
No match between India v/s Pakistan can end without generating controversies off the field. The Twenty20 WC finals was no different. Pakistan captain's comments at the post-match ceremony has created uproar in cricket fraternity.
the reaction posted by Mukul Kesavan at the cricinfo blog site "Scenes from a final" are worth reading
"It is a world where Muslims, Hindus and a Sikh currently play for England, where Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and a Hindu play for Sri Lanka, where Hashim Amla turns out for South Africa, where a Patel plays for New Zealand, where Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Hindus play (and have always played) for India. Why would Shoaib think, then, that the Muslims of the world were collectively rooting for the Pakistan team or that they felt let down by its defeat? Did he stop to think of how Danish Kaneria, his Hindu team-mate, might feel hearing his Test skipper all but declare that the Pakistan team is a Muslim team that plays for the Muslims of the world? It is one thing to be publicly religious—Shahid Afridi thanked Allah and Matt Hayden and Shaun Pollock are proud, believing Christians—quite another to declare that your country's cricket eleven bats for international Islam. "
Pakistani captain is a good sportsman and probably should be given the benefit of doubt as this would be the comments made in the spur of the moment. He is definetely going to take this as a learning experience and lead Pakistan cricket into future.
Personally, this was a game fought between two good teams. The best team on the day won and in the end cricket was the winner.
the reaction posted by Mukul Kesavan at the cricinfo blog site "Scenes from a final" are worth reading
"It is a world where Muslims, Hindus and a Sikh currently play for England, where Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and a Hindu play for Sri Lanka, where Hashim Amla turns out for South Africa, where a Patel plays for New Zealand, where Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Hindus play (and have always played) for India. Why would Shoaib think, then, that the Muslims of the world were collectively rooting for the Pakistan team or that they felt let down by its defeat? Did he stop to think of how Danish Kaneria, his Hindu team-mate, might feel hearing his Test skipper all but declare that the Pakistan team is a Muslim team that plays for the Muslims of the world? It is one thing to be publicly religious—Shahid Afridi thanked Allah and Matt Hayden and Shaun Pollock are proud, believing Christians—quite another to declare that your country's cricket eleven bats for international Islam. "
Pakistani captain is a good sportsman and probably should be given the benefit of doubt as this would be the comments made in the spur of the moment. He is definetely going to take this as a learning experience and lead Pakistan cricket into future.
Personally, this was a game fought between two good teams. The best team on the day won and in the end cricket was the winner.
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