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It takes silicon to save the whale penis. It takes cricket to save animals.
Not a post goes by where Bored Member Som doesn’t engage us with his animal love for cricket.
If he isn’t Grrrrring with Symonds, he’s Boooooing with Bhajji.
Frankly we’re zapped the bear hugs came from the Telegraph and not the WWF.
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Animal activist prevails.
Happy Bored Day to the elusive cricket blogging city.
Nobody knows whether Bored Member Scorpicity is for real or some blogging code that's activated every 90 days – his appearances at both Bored and his own backyard, Cricket Fizz have been Sachinesque, can’t say when he’ll play. But how we want him to to. Play it again, Scorpi! He could appear today or during the next blue moon test series.
Scorpi’s one of the early Bored settlers, came on the Mayflower he did. I think he was bored even before Bored was born. Here are a dirty dozen and some – Scorpi at Bored. Do read Match Fixing at Book Cricket. Top draw.
Indians in a FIX to MATCH up with the Aussies
I have been reading a lot today. As I was reading, I just realised how timeless Indian cricket had been, apart from knowing how a certain Marquee can offend a person. I also read a great congratulatory for Pakistan on the T20 win, and add to that a sincere bashing of MSD’s tactics.
I capped off my knowledge acquisition by finding out what a Characters XI would look like.
To cut a long story short
HAPPY BORED DAY BHASKAR KHAUND
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Now to something far less important.
It seems that I was shouting out the words “fix” and “match”. In fact, I was. In the past 2 days, ever since a man who could Singh took to the Aussies and showed what anger and a little bit of Praveen Kumar can do.
Everyone has been talking of the match being fixed and the Aussies were paid off to bowl Watson (crap outside off) and Siddle (shit round the wicket). Brett ‘Shukriya India’ Lee could also have bowled, but then he would have had to bowl full tosses at head height. Just 3 of them.
So what is cricket all about? Is it about fucktards believing in theories, or about questioning the moral fibre of the players and authorities. I am not talking about the moral fibre of the bookies here. Or, is cricket about how it makes us feel.
When Harbhajan was teri-maa-keeoing the Aussies to all parts of Vadodara, what if Ponting was grinning from the inside? Was Shane Watson assured of a place in the next game that he was bowling his ‘natural’ deliveries? Was Peter Siddle hyptonised into believing that hitting the back of Harbhajan’s knee would stop the world from being destroyed on Dec 21st 2012.
I don’t care.
What I care about is the game was a treat to watch. Fans loved the excitement, Sehwag showed the bowlers how to get him out if the ball is swinging away, Sachin reiterated his commitment to temporary mediocrity, Students of the game got to know about a lot of skills to be learnt and not to be learnt, and Gambhir proved why he is the new Dravid.
The only people who seem to have a problem is those of a thick moral fibre and a thicker vacuum of attention. So let them be, and let us enjoy the game. If there is something wrong, trust me the ICC knows more than you guys. And if the ICC can’t do anything about it, no petition will.
If you really care about cricket, talk about how beautiful it is, not what is supposedly wrong with it. All that will get you is more pageviews. Oh, I forgot, you are happy with just that.
Ankit also blogs at the Brand New Paddlesweep
Not a fast one.
As a batsman, you see the dust clouds long before the bowler descends on you. Though I never measured the run-up, the bowler ran from the far end of Hauz Khas Park, and at times, from the road behind it. He ran so fast, that by the time he hurled the ball at you, such was the bustle, that smokes, lights, coins, confessions, all disembarked, all at once. Looking back, I now know this was a distraction, guerrilla cricket warfare.
The action was slingy, possibly even chucky. But damn, it was fast. This bowler had put the sum total of his cricketing disgust for Venki's faster one into that one delivery.
And it was one such delivery, on the Hindu grounds, in the mid nineties, in speed and year that felled Ajay Jadeja. Hope the ball was not fixed.
It became part of DU folklore, he sings Dylan, he sinks Jadeja.
It has taken me all these years, but I now know it takes an Irfan to laugh, it takes a Pathan to cry. Here’s to the grey areas of cricket. Here’s to you, Happy Bored Day Bhaskar Khaund.
Paging Bored Member Q
Q is AWOL. Last seen, he dropped in for the Bored Day Party in August. Not long ago, he fired his boss to follow cricket. Now he has fired cricket to follow an MBA. Can you follow that?
Q once famously said, cricket is in our blood. So if Q fails to return anytime soon, we will speak to his siblings. What are they called? Q2, Q3, Q4.
There’s an India-Pakistan Champions Trophy game on 26th September. Surely Q will answer to that.
(In the meantime, you can read Q's previous posts here)
See how the Bored Members Voted on Election Day!
Achettup
Rajasthan Royals
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A Bisht
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Rajasthan Royals
Ankit Mishra
Delhi Daredevils
Kolkata Knight Riders
Ankit Poddar
Mumbai Indians
Delhi Daredevils
Trideep
Mumbai Indians
Deccan Chargers
Homer
Mumbai Indians
Mumbai Indians
John
Bangalore Royal Challengers
Mumbai Indians
RajaB
IPL? What IPL??
ICL Rocks!
Bhaskar Khaund
Delhi Daredevils
Kings XI Punjab
Straight Point
Delhi Daredevils
Rajasthan Royals
Ottayan
Chennai Super Kings
Deccan Chargers
Scorpicity
Soooperkings
Raju's than Royowls
VM
Bangalore Royal Challengers
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Som
Rajasthan Royals
Delhi Daredevils
K
Delhi Daredevils
Kings XI Punjab
Q
Rajasthan Royals
Delhi Daredevils
Naked Cricket
Delhi Daredevils
Bangalore Royal Challengers
Dear Bored Friends, Do tell us who gets your vote this Election Day!
Talk to the world’s best cricket expert. LIVE.
Right now instead of reading this, you could be talking to yourself in the New Bored Talk – that’s a Live Chat number. Yeah, LIVE!
And while you’re enacting that Macbeth soliloquy, who knows which Bored Member you will run into -
It could be Achettup, who’s short of a length, or RajaB, who’s very full. It could be a well pitched Q or the journal-inclined watcher, Soulberry. It could be the cartoonist A Bisht or the realist Homer. It could be one of the two Ankits or maybe even both of them. It could be a fizzy Scorpicity or an icy Ottayan. It could be a rambling VM or the stoic John. It could be Bhaskar Khaund 1 or Trideep too. It could be Nikhil Kalaan the first or Som the Doosra. It could be Bored Peon or Bored Neon. It could be Yawn T Roads or Jatman. It could be a linear Straight Point or a stark Naked Cricket.
Tell you what I just had a fine time talking with that Naked Cricket.
Bored Meeting
In defiance of the terrorist attacks, a Bored meeting was convened at Defence Colony, New Delhi. From here we travelled to New Zealand, Pakistan, and back to India for beverages. Bored Members present: John, Straight Point, Naked Cricket. Rohit Sharma’s future and Raina’s past were discussed among other non-cricketing issues.
Bored to the Bone 13
Bored Member: who all are batting at stumps?
Bored Peon: Dada and Ishant
Bored Member: Whaareyousayin we're 9 down
Mystery of the stuck ball.
Bored Member: 50 rupees if you get that ball down
Bored Peon: 100 rupees if you tell me how it got up there!
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VM
The cricket couch
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Purna
Raj
Raja Baradwaj
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Prafs
Q
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Namya
Naked Cricket
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Krish
K
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John
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Achettup
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A Bisht
Overheard: Conversation between a bored member and a bored peon
Bored Member: Is the glass half empty or half full?
Bored Peon: Either way I have to fill it…does it matter?
That could have been MSD speak, when he stepped in to captain fresh daisies for the one-day series. 2-1 up, the glass is nearly 2/3rds full: time to exorcise Mendis’ demons, and with it one or two from the test squad?
In the next few days, Indian cricket can either turn the corner, or be cornered yet again.
bored peon prediction: If Ganguly goes, then Rohit Sharma will be fasttracked into the test team vs Oz. Btw what’s your test XI vs. them. Play now. Pay later.
PS: a bored member doesn't imply that
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