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Dubbay Boys : Delhi Daredevils openers and Whistle man of Pakistan

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Happy Dubbay to Daredevils skipper and India opener Gautam Gambhir.

Happy Dubbay to Dilscoop Dilshan Tilakratne Daredevils Delhi wale.

And happy dubbay to Rashid Latif, the cheapest Pakistan ex-player and the fallback guy to keep wickets for them whenever the team was swept following some defeat.

He was the whistle blower for match fixing. Surprisingly this time he is backing up Younis Resign Khan.

6 days later Beeru celebrates his 31st dubbay.

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October 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Hold on Younis

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If for this catch drop a career ends nothing would be more disgrace for their cricket. They dont have anybody who could lead them in Tests. And temparamental players like Afridi cannot go for long to be successful as a captain. A man who loses patience after 10 dot balls or without a long hit cannot be expected to cope up with the madness that grips Pak cricket off the field thanks to the likes of Dastis, Shahs and the other elite ex players.

For Pakistan, Younis Khan is the man of the hour to sail them to their glory of 90s.

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October 14, 2009 at 8:43 am

Sreesanth

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……..finally is warned and rightly so. Its time his antics are clipped and for his benefit it has come at right time.

When you scoff at a batsman who has taken a single off an ordinary ball, then there is some trouble on the top floor.

And its just getting frenzier and crazier.

Even then he doesnt understand and doesnt mend, then kiss him goodbye.

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October 14, 2009 at 4:16 am

Posted in BCCI, Sreesanth

Resignation

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So the madness in Pakistan cricket goes even messy.

Just one word for this. Fucking idiotic behavior from the Dasti (Gloveman).

And even so from the Butt who met Afridi for whatever reasons. If he has to take the account of the performance of the team, the best men to do so are the coach and captain.

Its like Shashank Manohar meeting Rohit Sharma and asking about the poor performance in World T20.

Lol.

The blame for this would be coming to the poor TOI reporter who so called planted the story of match fixing.

He was jerk, but before going off the boil Mr Dasti should have enquired or kept quiet. Its ICC’s job to find out. Not his.

Meanwhile Afridi would / could lead the ODI team too.

What about Tests ? If YK doesnt retract his resignation, Yusuf could well be t he captain, precisely for which he did the U turn.

I just hope that this gets resolved soon, Butt bhai is kicked out and sanity restores.

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October 14, 2009 at 3:53 am

Fake IPL Player returns!!

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…………….returns this time in form of a cross over from Kings XI Punjab to Wayamba. He was pissed off of not getting any hug or a warm look from Preity in Kings XI. And plus he was not to be playing in CT as KXIP were knocked out in 1st round itself.

So he decided to change his loyalties to Wayamba and come to India. He also got his good friend and skipper to comment in the T20 league. And what they usually wrote in the newspaper columns or post match presentations is now being uttered in commentary.

FIP is now a Wayamba player and he is Mahela Loserwardhene.

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October 13, 2009 at 3:45 am

RCB through to Eights.

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Alrighty. The Challengers are through to the next round. The so called pathetic Indian iPL teams went through. The flat track bullies of Uthappa and Kohli along with super Kallis and peerless Bumjo (AK) powered RCB to 2nd round albeit with no points.

2 Indian IPL teams now in Super 8. One Aussie.

Tomorrow one more Aussie team would be in the Super 8s. SL and NZ would end their campaign soon.

Character kings would have got some experience in India, so lets see how they play in their upcoming tour to this country.

Uthappa should find his way back to the team in Blue to play his original scoop shot which was hijacked by Dilly Billy.

Great stuff. Robin should play now in place of Yusuf Pathan in the ODIs and prolly in T20s too. Its just 6 months for the T20 WC and for India to regain their title. 😛

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October 13, 2009 at 3:34 am

India and Pakistan cricket are same except…………

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Indian borad have had crap administrators.

They have it too.

Sharad Pawar’s group is no saint.

Ijaz Butt hardly speaks sense.

Ex players make noise here too.

Ex players have license to rant shit there too.

Indian media makes a mole out of a mosquito like for T20 or CT exit.

Pak media does the same too.

Indian bloggers reel their team too. With Tendulkar too being no exception.

Their bloggers reel their own team too. Some keep hope, most question the integrity of few playyers they dont wanna disclose.

Indian umpires are no more worthy enough to be in ICC elite.

They have 2. One of them won the umpire of the year.

Indians were knocked out in the Super 8 of WT20 and in first round of CT.

They won WT20 n knocked out in the semis.

Indians wished that Pakistan win their game against Australia.

They thought that Indians could influence umpires to give wrong decisions. How ridiculous. Can that be plotted before and stage managed ?

One difference negates all the bullcrap this side of the border has. The Indians never take up the topic of match fixing when their team loses. 2 losses in ICC tournaments and even India TV or Aaj Tak or Bishen Singh Bedi didnt speak that.

They did and they became the matter of laughters and Butt jokes. My question is that doesnt their players and true fans get pissed on non stop crap of match fixing allegations?

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October 12, 2009 at 3:30 am

Posted in BCCI, Match Fixing, PCB

Devils get in to Super Eights

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Indian batting coupled with Australian – Dutch bowling makes it an unbeatable combo. Finger spinners, mysteries demystified and the legend of the Pidge is established. What the world is missing.

He didnt bowl or train in 8 months. Didnt bowl in a game for close to 17 months, yet when he picks a bowl he is back to his self, we all know.

Pidge has just been a fantastic bowler over the ages. What do I say about him. He is just awesome.

And Sehwag has now cleared the fear about his injury. His absence was the prime reason India bowed out in the first rounds of back to back ICC tournaments.

Dinesh Karthik, the dancing babe, today slog sweeped Mendis to 3 sixes in 3 before evoking Yuvraj comparisons and putting Sangakara on mute who had just praised tough character of Mendis.

Oodi baba. Sangakara mention. And mention of character. Japanese would be pissed off.

Good to see Pidge playing and Veeru demolishing bowlers after 6 months. And yes Delhi Daredevils were 2nd team to be in the Super Eights. Ding dong 🙂

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October 12, 2009 at 12:11 am

Challengers

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He was impressive in IPL this year. He did it in the finals of the not noticed Challengers in the hype and hoopala of the ongoing CT20. He could be the answer to the falling and fading what was once an impressive limited overs attack for the team.

He took 5 wkts in the Challenegrs but he did it for 18 runs an over and just 4.5 runs an over. Took wkt every 24 balls. The culprits of the CT exit did excel too. The offspinner took 8 wkts, the lanky KKRed bowler took 6 wkts in 3 games. But lets not get fooled by this occasional success. And so with the batters too. Jaffer and Vijay aint ODI players. And wont be. At least not Jaffer. I doubt why was he even playing Challengers.

Now with the ongoing youth wave in everywhere here are few who could be tried on the basis of the showing in Challengers given the fact the next 12 ODIs India play are at home :

Shikhar Dhawan
Tanmay Srivastav
Abhinav Mukund

Out go this players :
Ishant Sharma (not sure really)
Yusuf Pathan (he didnt excel in home conditions too).

The first player in contention was Sudip Tyagi.

I dont know how good this Challengers were cos the usual players either failed or missed it or were busy elsewhere.

Raina, Nayar, Jadeja flopped.

Dhoni didnt get much chance. He played just 3 balls in CT.

Yuvaj, Tendulkar are injured. Zaheer too.

Sehwag, Gambhir, Dravid are in CLT20.

So cant really know how Challengers would help selectors in forming a pool of new players with the fact that the original set of young players have failed.
And yes Sangakara mentioned (or some other SL commentator) in the CL20 game today that Manoj Tiwary evoked Sourav’s memories. Hold back guys. He is just in the contention. Hasnt got the chances. Dont put the pressure on him.

Badrinath lifted the trophy. 40 runs in 3 games with 34 in one game making his average look high. I know there would now be talks to get him in the team in ODIs and Tests too. And I would be branded anti-TN to have written this. Lol. I wonder how emotions rule large in subcontinent. Writing about one or two players of a region or an idiot administrator of a cricket board or a couple of players who have fixation with huge words make me anti–<>.
Emotional crap.

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October 11, 2009 at 11:30 pm

Posted in India

Delhi Daredevils

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Opening with Dilshan isnt a good idea for Viru. Just on the basis of few Dilscoops and a few ODI innings here and there, very successful Viru – Gambhir partnership at the top was broken.
Well for whatever reasons.

And dancing baby runs out Sehwag. What the fuck.

A brilliant innings cut short. 61 off 40.

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October 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm