HNY’10

Happy 2010 to all the regular, accidental, critical and loyal readers of the blog.

May this year be happy for all of us.

First Australian 100

of the summer is scored by a hard looking but soft within bloke Shane Watson.

Applause please.

Msd keeping

Keep ranting about how bad ddca is or how unprofessional bcci is or how morally right is lankan team which chickened out seeing an impending defeat, but nobody says a word on the fact that not a single bye was conceeded by Indian captain and the fact that his team wanted to play n the rivals wanted to stop. Where are those critics who sit right ready to tear apart anything Indian team does. India is forever villians and the chickens are always romantics’ favorites. Sangakara hasn’t spoken a word on this fiasco and all speaking has been done by his sidekicks.

Abandoning a game when things don’t go per their plan is typical lankan habit. Ranatunga did it, blabba king wanted final scrapped and now vocab king got Delhi odi abandoned. They won’t ever win in countries like India Australia or south africa.

Eden 1996

Just a reminder to the Lankans who have been talking hugely about how their batsmen showed character in abandoned Delhi ODI , that 13 years back in a World Cup Semi final which the entire country wanted to win, Indians continued to play on horrific pitch and in the process lost out to whims of WI referee Lloyd who gifted the game to Lanka who then went on to win the WC (3 abandoned games vs Aus, WI and India).

Back then no Indian player moaned or groaned or howled about the dreadful pitch which saw Jayasuriya take 3/12 and the other lesser Lankan spinners turn the ball square.

No captain from Indian side rushed to the middle to stop the play or no ex captain gave an interview to Cricinfo that how ridiculous it was to see players who play spin well get stumped :(.

Little doubt that the pitch was treacherous and a blot on Delhi, but the way Lankans approached the game abandonment was horrendous. Why didnt Kandamby approach umpire right when he came to the middle ? Why did Jayasuriya and Dilshan not talk to umpires after Dilly was injured ?

No one would know the thinking process behind Sangakara’s surge to the field in 24th over. That saves him one more defeat, but its that “bakre ki maa kab tak khair manayegi”. Questions would be asked of him for failure to win anything significant on the tour to a country where they  havent won anything so far and wont win anything in long time to come.

Questions

The pitch was supposedly horrible and in the end it would have been a good one to abandon the match.

But the body language and attitude of Lankan captain has been like Ravan.

How many of  the 5 wikats that fell in SL inns fall to the nasty deliveries ?

Why did not the Lankan batsmen complain for 23 overs. An impending and humiliating loss coming made them complain ?

Why do always SL moan about everything ? Agreed its ridiculous to have such a pitch and Mr jaitley would have lot to answer on this, but have we ever heard any Indian player (captain) complaint about it ?

With the end of tour they go home with losers tag. Nothing in Tests, nothing in ODIs, nothing in T20Is.

Negativity ke baap he yeh log.

Dangerous Pitch at Kotla!!

Calling off the game due to bad pitch means more jargons and vocabs from Sangakara, the perennial loser.

He is storming out on the field.

Damn!!

Too quick to blame anybody or even ask questions.  And if pitch is bad then it could be trouble for DDCA and DD as it is home ground for them.  Sangakara would leave no stone unturned for banning the Kotla!! Bet

All we dont want is some garbage from Sangakara. Please!!

Who gets run out first ?

Two chances in 2 balls gone this time out for run out. No catches spilled  though.

Jaya and Dilshan competing with each other to get run out 😛

Suffocating England

England’s late surge on truncated day 1 of Boxing Day test have got so much of huge highlights on cricinfo that it virtually suggests that England have won the series and they are the only quality side around and have the rights to save the Test cricket.

Every day England plays Test cricket is a marvellous and goes the distance in saving the Test cricket, whereas the other teams are killing the Tests slowly and lowly.

Every day of Eng vs SA test series has been highlighted as the series of  the decade.

So much of focus on England is suffocating when they cant play that level of cricket to win a Test match.

20 yrs of Sanath

Today a month later than Sach, his MI opening partner Sanath Jayasuriya completes 20 years in international cricket.

And thats an awesome achievement for the Matara Marauder.

First true star of Lankan cricket, he spent 6 years in wilderness till 1996 when he took the world by storm with his explosive innings.

True that I have hated him going after hapless Indian bowlers and overjoyed when he was dismissed, but that cant take away the credit and the accolades the man deserves.

He is one of the modern day ODI greats.  He changed the way openers batted in those 15 overs of ODI field restrictions. However thats incorrect. It was Tendulkar in 1994 who first used those conditions in his favor against Kiwis by hammering 82 off 49. And before him it was Mark GreatBatch in 1992 world cup who batted explosively.

Such a poor thing that Sangakara does not value Sanath’s importance. Poor creature, GOD make him well soon

Aussie 100 this summer

This Australian summer is like Indian summer of England 2007 until Oval Test when Anil scored his maiden hundred.

No Australian has scored a 100 this summer.

Shane Watson is now on 90. Gayle would find new word  to describe the lad.

This is proving out to be end of summer for Pakistan even before it started for them. Just like 2003-04 Gabba for India.  2/262 on day 1 and  then all out for 326 on day 2. Zaheer.

Well this is Pakistan and they are T20 champs.  Test Cricket isnt their forte.

0 wkts in 2 sessions.

Not good omens for Pakistan.

Actually this sets stage for lop sided contest unless drug addict or Aamer Khan (3 Idiots hang over) pluck some wikats out of blue or green.