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Showing posts with label Spinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spinner. Show all posts
What else can Ravindra Jadeja do?
He bats, bowls, fields-throws-runs batsmen out, grows hair, cuts hair, how about Test cricket for Jadeja? Ashwin needs a kid brother (who can teach him how to run 2)
Watch White Bored (9), shot on location at the Bored Room, Yawn T Roads.
Watch White Bored (9), shot on location at the Bored Room, Yawn T Roads.
One more batsman please
At the team selections there was just one question that clinched it for the bowlers – does he bat? No, does he really bat? If India needs 9 runs of the 20th over in the semi finals, can he hit two boundaries under pressure?
Yes, I’ve seen him hit two fours under pressure.
Pick him, nothing more to ask.
Ok, and what about exhibit No. 2 – in addition to bowling how many runs has he scored in the IPL?
I remember, on one occasion he hit Ishant Sharma for 2-3 fours in an over.
In the IPL?
Yes, yes, in the IPL.
So, that means if India needs even 12 runs in the finals, and he’s in – he can do it.
Yes, yes. In fact there’s another batsman, even he hit Ishant Sharma for a lotta runs in one over.
Pick him also.
Problem, he’s retired from T20 internationals.
But he hit Ishant, yaar – convince him.
He’s a very big player.
Ok, pick the other one, the boy who bowls – even he can hit Ishant.
No one asked about his bowling form, his IPL run, when he last played for India, why he was dropped.
You can’t blame Piyush Chawla for making it the Caribbean. He’s just in the right team at the wrong time. As for Mishra and Ojha, there’s the IPL, and the odd ODI they play, the occasional test.
And they must work on their batting to be picked as the second choice spinners. Or is it third, fourth? Does Angad Bedi bowl, bring him on while you’re at it. Areh yaar, uske baap ko...
Bhajji the batsman versus Chotu the #@$%
In the Daredevils vs. Victoria game at the Kotla, Mishra hit what should have been a six, then some spoilsport did a MI3 manoeuvre and stole Chotu of a six. That could have been the highpoint of a lowly game, not to be.
Mishra can bat, he wants to bat; and if he makes it as a batsman he will be a compact batsman for more reasons than one.
Big bro Bhajji meanwhile is the real deal lower order resident all rounder for the Aussies. He is a mascot first, then a player.
On the basis of Bhajji’s charge against the Aussies, you’d think he has some stratospheric first class batting average. It’s a charming 19.11. Point to be noted milord. 11 fifties too. That’s how he always makes the 11.
Poor Chotu’s first class average is merely 19.50 – only .39 more than Bhajji’s.
Also, he has played 86 to Bhajji bhai’s 141 games. And to Bhajji’s 11, he only has 9 fifties.
But a moment of batting beauty, both Bhajji and Chotu have a first class high of 84. What a magical number, 84.
I rest my case, both should play for India. One always will, the other, by the grace of Bhajji.
(I’ve chosen to compare Bhajji and Chotu’s first class batting numbers for two reasons 1) Chotu has only played five tests to Bhajji’s three million, and Chotu is yet to register an ODI average in his five games. Another day, we will pack some sandwiches and talk first class bowling numbers)
Tale of two spinners
One Spinner moaned “I am being forced to bowl in the power plays with the field up”.
The other one – he doesn’t talk, his bowling does – simply took up cudgels against the most destructive batsman of the tournament in the FIRST over, and what’s more bowled him fair and square.
Who do you wish had retired and stopped playing for India?
by Raj
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