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Showing posts with label India Australia test series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India Australia test series. Show all posts
Time for TERI MAA KI!!!
Promo for India-Australia series
Music: Pink Floyd’s Mother
The Indian cricketers in their homes, blessed by their mothers. Each player touches his mother’s feet and is handed a bat or ball by his mother. The mother then wipes a tear as she commands her son to battle.
Music Changes to: Maa ka ladla
The Indian cricketers in their homes, blessed by their mothers. Each player touches his mother’s feet and is handed a bat or ball by his mother. The mother then wipes a tear as she commands her son to battle.
Music Changes to: Maa ka ladla
Elsewhere the Aussie cricketers are in their homes, patted, hi-fived and handed a bottle of Victoria Bitter by their mothers.
Music mix of Mother and Maa ka ladla goes under
As MSD and Ponting stick their faces into each other and snarl: TERI MA KI!
Bhajji forces himself into the frame, doing his Bhangra, fluttering the tri-colour.
look who is whinning already...
aussie media has already started whinning about the upcoming two test series in india as bad preparation for the ashes... here is a sample clip...
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has conceded that playing Tests in Mohali and Bangalore in October is hardly ideal preparation for the first Test against England at Brisbane’s Gabba on November 25, it said.
The newspaper said “pancake-flat” Indian pitches were probably the worst place to try to recalibrate misfiring spearhead Mitchell Johnson, who returned a woeful bowling average of 72 in the two Tests against Pakistan in England.
the last time aussies visited india... they lost the series 2-0 playing on “pancake-flat” indian pitches and on one of those pitches... mohali... they were steamrolled by zaheer who cut through their middle order like a hot knife cuts through butter...
are they sure they are referring to the same 'pancake-flat' mohali...? or is this just an excuse to avoid another thrashing before the one they will receive in the ashes...?
Just say NO!
In its quest to maintain India's No.1 Test ranking the BCCI has sent a proposal to Cricket Australia to convert the seven-match ODI series in October to two Tests and three ODIs. India had climbed to the top spot in 2009, after drubbing Sri Lanka 2-0 at home, and then retained the ranking by fighting back to level the two-Test series against South Africa in February.
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Upon reading this, I had an "I Told You So" moment. And yet, there was a certain inevitability to this. Ever since the Test Match Nazis started carping from the sidelines that the BCCI is not interested in Test cricket, pointing to the 2009-10 season to emphasize their point, it was only a matter of time before the BCCI caved in.
First it was South Africa and the two test series. Now it is Australia.
Without dwelling too much into why a Two Test series is no series at all, I would like to take this opportunity to point out, once again, India's schedule starting December 2010 - 24 Tests between Dec 2010 and Mar 2012. 15 months 24 Tests and if that does not indicate that India is a serious Test playing nation, held hostage to the vagaries of the ICC FTP, then nothing else will.
Now, coming to the Australia series and why it is imperative for India to "kindly withdraw" its rather generous offer.
For starters, it is a two match series.
Secondly, what purpose does it serve India playing the third rank nation in the world in a 2 Test series? Its not going to make a huge difference to the points table unless we sweep, and there is always the danger that we might slip if we either draw or lose the series. Its not like playing Australia in a 2 Test series in India will have a huge bearing on our away tours to South Africa, England or Australia. In fact, the Champions League in South Africa will have a greater bearing on our Test performances there. So, other than keeping the Nazis at bay, how does an hastily announced Test series help us?
As far as Australia go, their itinerary over the next 6 months looks like this
5 ODIs versus England in England
2 Tests and 2 T20 versus Pakistan in England
7 ODIs versus India
3 ODIs and 1 T20 versus Sri Lanka
The Ashes
So, in the lead up to the Ashes, Australia have very little by way of competitive Test cricket. And if the 2 Test seres against Pakistan is discounted, Australia have no Test cricket under their belt since February 2010, when they played New Zealand away.
India offers them a trifecta
1. Playing the #1 Test nation in the world in their back yard and the hard fought cricket that guarantees.
2. The opportunity to move up the ICC rankings
3.The sham of a 2 test series and the deniability it brings
Win or lose in India, Australia stand to win. If they lose the series, "it was an away series", "it was against the #1 team in the world", "the pitches were doctored" and "A two test series proves nothing", "a hastily ordered series" and "The Ashes are the real deal". If they win , the confidence boost in the lead up to the Ashes coupled with a change in the rankings coupled with the bragging rights.
And in both cases, a good, intense workout in the lead up to the Ashes. Which is basically what the Australians need, more than anything else.
And there are additional benefits, as enunciated by Malcolm Conn
"Firstly, they will need to be played on pitches with reasonable pace and bounce because slow, low, turning pitches could prove counter-productive.
And the BCCI would need to wipe out the seven one-day matches Australia owes it even if the number was reduced to fit in two Tests."
Add to it the debt the BCCI will owe the CA for "acquiescing to their request" for a 2 test series.
So, for now, JUST SAY NO!
Teri Marquee
As far as rebranding the BG series goes , I vote for "The Marquees " ...this is what Ind and Aus will battle for - provided of course that Aus have a team left anymore and Ind manage 10-12 spectators on the ground
Anyway , so the losing captain will hand over the trophy to his counterpart at the end of the series with the following words : " Yeh le , yeh ab teri Marquee"
They got the Ashes, WTF have we got: Border Gavaskar Trophy?
The Ashes. Soaked in tradition, baked and fried in tradition, and then, a toast to tradition. If you were a doubting Thomas, you’d be canonised by the Ashes. Just because they’re called the Ashes.
You know the two teams. England and Australia. If anything, today, when they play each other, it doesn’t seem right to say they’re playing for the Ashes. Better if you said, they’re playing for crumbs.
Look at England. They have fight in them, when it comes to No. 10 and 11. Look at Australia, they whine. And can’t get No. 10 and 11 out for 11 overs. And then they whine some more.
Then you have India and Australia. It’s a dog fight. That too between two rabid dogs. And what are they playing for: The Border Gavaskar trophy.
That’s right: you ever heard a soldier saying to his Ma, “I’m going to battle, to fight for my country, to win the Border Gavaskar Trophy.”
No way. And now we’re talking about the death of test cricket.
We need a war cry, war paint, war!
A war waged to save test cricket and tell the world what matters – it’s not the Ashes. It’s not Australia South Africa. It’s not India Pakistan either, anyway, that’s not happening.
It’s India Australia, damn it.
It’s in you, it’s in me, and it’s in them.
Feel it. Feel it bad enough that you want to pull their eye balls out.
Feel it so f**king deep that you’ll lose it all to win the series.
What series? What will you call it?
Not the Border Gavaskar Trophy. That’s just etched on the silverware.
What’s tattooed on your heart, brother?
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