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“I have been working a lot on short deliveries with my coach Deepak Sharma in the Lucknow sports hostel. Last few weeks I’ve been batting on the Astroturf surface of the hockey stadium present within the hostel premises. It offers good bounce and ball travels faster. We have also been using hockey balls for the same reason,”
raina said on asking what he was doing to prepare against short bowling...
cricketers just don't only relax in the off season... they do lots of things to keep themselves refreshed... and work on their short comings... delhi boy aakash chopra has come-up with yet another insightful article on
how cricketers use off season...as he says in his article...
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."
very true aakash... are you listening rohit...?
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Gaurav Sethi
Happy B'day Blair Pocock, you may ask who's that? Just like some may ask, who's Akash Chopra. Cruel. Blair's witch project took birth at Perth, and it faded away at Perth too. He scored no test hundreds, but like Chopra, hung around, and got himself that test avergae of 23. Approximately. On him, Jatman would have said, "nobody remembers 50s"
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A return flight from South Africa to India entails checking in your identity, and becoming the fake. Especially if you belong to KKR and can read, write, and are bitter.
Earlier today, as reported here, Akash Chopra (Shakespeare?) and Sanjay Bangar (Lordie’s run-out partner) were told to buzz off to India.
Chopra is literate, Bangar I cannot say. When it comes to the IPL however, neither has read the script well. For that matter, neither has SRK.
Computerjee, what is the correct answer? 1) Chopra 2) Bangar 3) Khan 4) None of the above
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Gaurav Sethi
There's a new blog on the run, it's called Fake IPL Player and its written by IPL Anonymous.
It could be an insider in KKR, or then again, it could be one of us. Who knows who is who, and which is which.
Sampler:
Lord not opening
Just out of the team meeting held in the Coach's suite. Skipper did most of the talking. He is opening with the Calypso King. Lord Almighty is at No. 3. Some bull-shit about using his experience to guide the middle order, similar to what the other 2 of the troika did yesterday. Lord sat there straight faced. Didn't say much. Didn't smile at all. I was standing at one corner straight across the Lord. And given my height and stature I can go quite unnoticed. I was observing the Lord carefully, each twitch of his eyes, every movement of his thumb, his gaze. He is very unhappy and uncomfortable. Being treated like this in front of his bacchas.
The Coach talked about strategies to contain the opposing captain and opening batsman whom I will refer to as the Pedophile Priest. Why? Priest, because the world thinks he is one. Pedophile because I saw him at the party day before yesterday. And I shall not elaborate any further.
Btw have you read Beyond the Blues by Akash Chopra, former Indian test opener, and middle order player with the Knight Riders, hear it's an excellent read.
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Every time Gambhir misses one, why do we miss Chopra?
Clearly, Akash is the limit.
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After their no-show in the Irani Trophy, Kaif, Badrinath and Akash Chopra will be collectively called Blewett. (pronounced as Blew-it)
When spoken of in isolation, Akash Chopra will be referred to as A.C. Pre-Irani, because of the window of opportunity, he’ll be called window A.C. Post Irani, split A.C.
What’s your call?
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by Naked Cricket
Even before I could see Delhi’s 27/1 this morning, my thoughts zig-zagged to Gautam Gambhir (GG):
How he is not a long-term solution as a Test opener. Without getting into the annals of his technique or stats, let’s just leave it at a hunch.
After being the runniest Indian batsman (after Sehwag) in the Sri Lankan test series, this sounds almost idiotic. Correction: It is downright idiotic.
While I’ve been amazed at GG’s comeback, my doubts with him opening in tests still linger.
By the way, this was way before I read Akash Chopra’s incredible interview.
It was documented at the incredible team selection here.
Incredible !ndia. Yes. Once they get Chopra in the mix. And shake it up a bit. With GG in the middle. Instead of Malcolm.
PS: When a hunch comes back it’s called a hunchback.
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