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Showing posts with label Ramesh Powar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramesh Powar. Show all posts
Real IPL Player: DC vs KXIP match
Winter is setting in here but the giant IPL billboards across the city scream ‘Heat Is On’. Two hours in the hospitality area of the Wanderers Stadium and I know what they meant.
It was a Sunny day, even if Gavaskar wasn’t in the vicinity. There was a cushion on the chair but the sun was beating down on my thinning thatch, resulting in a dilemma, whether to pamper the bum or protect the head.
“All depends on what part of your body you love more,” volunteered my next-chair neighbour from left.
Turning right, I suddenly realised I was in august company, that too in May! Two ladies, including the head-turner just next to me, separate me from Banjo Casssim, the man in the eye of the 2000 match-fixing storm!
A journalist colleague of mine identify him and try to remind him of an old interview he had done with him. Banjo doesn’t really jump in joy after being traced, even though he does force a smile. Seconds later, he leaves in a huff.
Worse, with both the ladies in tow.
I hope the incident irrefutably establishes the sad fact that journalism remains essentially a dog-eats-dog world.
The match was okay but I actually was more eager for the strategy break. I was dying to know what the players do in the first five minutes of the seven-and-half-minute break that make them unwatchable on television for that period of time and has to be replaced by commercials.
To my relief, they don’t do anything obscene. Trust me, Yuvraj Singh doesn’t molest any cheeleader, spank Sreesanth or abuse Preity Zinta.
During the strategy break, the roller buzzes into action, smoothening the track. Seconds later, Ramesh Powar charges in warming-up.
Now, had they requested Powar to do the loosening up on the 22-yard track, that would have surely saved the organisers of rolling out that petrol-guzzling monster. But then few really care about energy conservation.
can bhajji be considered a spinner...?
in T20 format i.e.
last night i saw powar bowling his classical off spinners with flight...loop and all...when batsmen were looking for runs...in a T20 format...
in fact he bowled the slowest ball of the IPL @68.2 mph...the ball took almost an eternity to land on the pitch...and it spun! and i am still wondering...had he fielded anything like yesterday earlier...he would have been still playing at the international level...
anyway...this brings me to my original question...
can bhajji be considered a spinner...in T20 format...?
his avg bowling speed in T20 format is about 90-95...
he does nothing but shoot the ball at the batsman's pads...
he does not bowl doosra...arm ball...or any other variation...
he never dares to flight the ball...
to sum up all traits of spinner missing from his armory when he bowls...in a T20 match...
so why call him spinner in T20 format...?
i think a new category should be created for bowlers like him...
right arm fastish dart bowler...?
Q Moment of IPL Match #20
The final 2 deliveries of the match that resulted in 2 diving stops by none other than Ramesh Powar!
Bhajji and Sreesanth hugging at the end came close but another slap would have sealed the deal.
Why does Priety choose who to hug and who not?
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