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a test match is over in three and a half days in india... still nobody from the icc has come knocking on bcci's door... no hue and cry from savior-of-test-cricket-nations media about the dust bowl...
c'mon... give me some scathing sound bytes... spit some venom on paper... hurriedly issue some alarming notices to the bcci office... over this minefield of a pitch...
or i will think this match didn't happen at all...
Showing posts with label Kanpur test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kanpur test. Show all posts
its weirdly strange!
chat with sehwag...
during india's opening partnership of 233 runs... gambhir played a rash stroke... that's when sehwag stepped in...
"I told him to think big. You are good enough to score four successive centuries. Stay three hours and you will automatically get a hundred,"
i asked... but then what about you...?
if gambhir can stay three hours and get a hundred... you will agree that you can get a double hundred... then why don't you follow the advice you offer others... and look to stay at the wicket...?
sehwag snapped... "then how will you call me jatman...?"
Show me the funny!
Move over Motera, the drama queens are here. Sree and Bhajji will play the field an arm’s length away. At some point, they could be closer, in a huddle.
Both will ham, pose for pictures, flash cheesy smiles, god help us if Sree takes a wicket new ball early – Bhajji will go for him like you don’t wanna know. I don’t put it beyond Sree to become an emotional mess, breakdown right there. And put any good performance down to Bhajji’s encouragement. He will reach below his glasses to attend to a tear of joy in one of those well orchestrated post match cons.
It’s obvious, they both deserve each other. Both had some skill as cricketers, might still do. But it’s obvious their calling is elsewhere.
I don’t put acrobats, somersaults, piggyback rides, walking on broken glass, shoving wickets into each other beyond them.
One wears spectacles, but face it, both are a f**king spectacle. They are the only reason I want India to be bowled out by lunch. To watch them bowl, and throw at us one of those IPL shows. Look out for Bhajji and Sree in minis.
If it’s anything less than that, bring in Farooq Engineer to grease them some.
There’s another mouth watering prospect, Bhajji-Sree in a batting partnership. Now if only Andre Nel and some assorted Aussies could be brought on to bowl. Full tosses outside off will do fine.
There’s only one thing in cricket that beats a delusional all rounder's batting – two delusional all rounders batting together.
Anyone for cricket, wouldn’t it be nice?
Silly questions: why was Amit Mishra dropped
His bowling average shot from less than 30 (29 point something) to 37.90 in just one innings. The selectors locked Mishra in a panic room, safe from any more test cricket. If he plays more, even Agarkar’s test bowling average of 47.32 will be threatened.
And as Shastri will tell you, Agarkar may go for a few, but he has the knack of taking wickets.
Mishra has already played 6 tests, Ojha hasn’t even played one, to quote a selector, “everyone should get a fair chance”
Mishra is shorter than both Bhajji and Ojha. Also Bhajji and Ojha smile more than Mishra.
Sachin Tendulkar is closing in on another milestone, 13k runs. Everything must be just so, and that so and so Bhajji must play.
In Motera, Mishra’s 58 overs cost 203 runs; Bhajji’s 48 cost only 189. Anything over 200 runs even at a lesser run rate is not acceptable. This is test cricket. Wickets and not run rates count.
Bhajji’s 2 wickets were impressive; one wasn’t even out while the other was a freebie. Mishra only had one freebie to his name, that too the tired double centurion.
look what jatman can do...
when he decides to apply himself...
at the time of writing this post... jatman was on 57 from 64 balls...
to all those who say jatman can bat in one mode only should see his intent today... after being dropped when he hadn't even opened his account... he has applied himself better... curbed his attacking instincts for the initial part of his innings... was looking to leave the ball and give some respect to the bowlers and early morning conditions...
the result followed... now that he is settled, he is scoring at a brisk rate... but playing the ball on merit and not trying to manufacture shots...
he is such an explosive batsman that even if he let go of some quiet overs... he is bound to make up for that later once he gets his eye in... i hope sehwag uses this innings as a template to his future innings not only in tests but in odis too... for he is even more talented than he let's us believe...
Where is Kanpur?
If you’re bored like I’m bored
Got nothing happening but for the cricket
Why don’t you come on over
Come on over to me
Bring me your childhood memories
From those Kanpur tanneries
Bring me your adolescent meanderings
Through those tea gardens of Darjeeling
Bring me your sepia toned games
From places that had, had different names
Kanpur finds mention in the Bored Anthem, above.
Kanpur also finds mention in Bored Member Som's list of 'How 7 cricketers are preparing for the Kanpur Test.' Dear to us is Jatman's preparation:
3. Virender Sehwag: Toying with the idea of visiting any of the tanneries. You can't have a better place to hone your butchering and skinning skill.
On another train of thought, the man of the match should be called A suitable boy. That stinks, but then so do the tanneries. And test cricket off late.
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