Politics with Sports never mix

I do not understand the weirdness of the Pakistani Cricket Board, Al most after every big tournament, they try to be harsh on their players for no reason, most of Pak's key player retire after the end of the 2003 world cup, notably Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Saeed Anwar and a few more. It was only Inzamam ul haq who was left unharmed, and he was supposed to flourish the new team, he did it quite well, but after 2007 world cup, PCB gave the same treatment to Inzy as well, this time they  approached Shahid Afridi to the repair job, he was doing it superbly, the team he led beaten South africa and England, and New zealand on their soil, He helped Pak reach the Semis of the latest world cup, scalping 21 wickets, but PCB did it again, grabbing the captaincy from Afridi and dismissed a few players. I respect Afridi's decision to quit from International Cricket and will only play if the board changes.


Politics plus Sports is a bad combination...

taking the guard...

Aggression and spunk is what it takes to transition a mediocre team to a champion one... back in 2008, Mumbai Indians were as ordinary as anything, they evolved in 2010, being the favorites of almost every cricketing soul and now they are living their legacy of a superpower in IPL, after beating Kolkata Knight Riders out of nowhere, they had made a statement that actually its the self-belief which should be the ultimate goal of any sportsman. James franklin, being quite a mediocre batsman led his team to victory is simply the best example of "grabbing the initiative", its not one player that helps a side become like this, its the responsibility that must be sensed, even for a pure bowler like harbhajan, who needed to bat at that particular situation of the match and he did not disappoint, Ambati Rayudu did his cameo of the six ball in style ruining every chances of a "red Chilli" victory... 


hats off Mumbai Indian...

The World Cup: An Indian Edition: part 3

I would apologize I had been a lazy blogger in the recent past, I wanted to write a lot on the world cup... but I just could not make it, my friend Anshul  Agrawal complains a lot.. that I take a lot of time to write the "to be continued" post... at least he reads my blog in that process... very thank you for that...

as a matter of fact, India are the world champions of ODI cricket officially, and everyone have followed it as I have done, so I am gonna put some unseen photographs of the CWC final between India and Srilanka

The World Cup: An Indian Edition: part 2

FEB 26: Another big match, Pakistan vs Srilanka, Till now, most of the people have anticipated a srilankan victory, because the pakistani squad looked as ordinary as anything else, Pakistan put a 277 despite having a weaker batting lineup, and defended this score with their strength which is their bowling, Afridi was at his rustic best, Pakistan stopped srilankans just 11 runs short, and now we had a new favorite in the road to world cup victory and thats PAKISTAN.

FEB 27: India vs England, not a big match, if you trust me, because England is not a great team, but a country where great cricketers are born, they are miserable all together, which is why they have not won a world cup after its 9 editions, India put a mammoth 338, and were looking safe, but as we know, the Indian bowling side is one of the worst in International cricket, england came closer to victory, and ended up in a tie. what a match to watch..full paisa vasool.

to becontinued....

The World Cup: An Indian Edition.

Hello People...

  The Hottest substance right now is the Cricket World Cup, which is happening in India, "the land of Cricket Insanity", Well, the league matches are done, we will look forward to the Quarter finals, One reason for not discussing anything on the world cup on my blog is that most of the matches included associates teams and I found nothing much interesting about them to post on my blog except a few which I will talk about in the coming sentences.

I strongly support Ricky Ponting for his take on "who should play CWC",I too believe that its a tournament only for the test playing nations.

Here we go,

FEB19 :to start with we had Virender Sehwag... who kept his promise to thrash Bangladesh, he out played everyone with his huge 175, bangladesh showed some responsible batting but at the end lost momentum, India started up with a comfortable victory.

FEB24: It was this world cup's first big match, means the match where both teams are test playing nations, SA and WI, but WI disappointed the spectators with their play, SA demolished them first and chased a mere 222 in style and won this one sided game.

....to be continued...

The Charming Big B

"तीन बार आप सब लोगों से हिंदी में बात चीत करने के बाद , गलत बटन दबाने से सारा लिखा-जोखा मिट गया . अब हिम्मत हार चका हूँ क्यूंकि jet lag की वजह से अजीब अजीब समय पे नींद आ रही है और शरीर टूट रहा है . तो सोचा सोने से पहले आप सब से संपर्क कर लूं और फिर - निद्रा रूपेण संस्थितः !! नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः !!!!" : Amitabh Bachchan in his latest blog post, I wonder how a 65+ old man can still be so charming that whatever he writes connects with the junta's hearts... if Tendulkar is the God of Cricket, Amitabh is the god of Cinema...

Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians

Yesterday was one of my favorite IPL matches because I dont have to show affinity to either of the teams, it was a clash between SRK and Sachin and I am a huge fan of both, and I was hoping for an interesting match only, but it was an easy take for SACHIN, he played brilliantly for his team and led to the victory, Tendulkar is at his best at the present time, the only thing he knows is to bat better than his previous inning, and it wont be surprising if he goes to play 2 more world cups. No doubt he is the god of the game. As for GANGULY I feel like he is a worm in the KKR team, he opens the innings and fails to even stroke the ball correctly and the team comes up in pressure and later he is found behaving harsh to much talented players than him, Ganguly fields miserably and sets no example of great leadership which once he used to show either with the bat or ball but that is past now. Athough I used to be a great Ganguly fan once upon a time but as for now I think he just needs to pack up with sports. SHAHRUKH looks upset not only for the loss but for Ganguly who is just not co-operating with the team, despite I support both the teams but I would have been happier had it been a KKR's win.

KOLKATA Knight Riders : My Favorite IPL team...

HI... Well, this story goes about my favorite IPL team... thats the Knight Riders... [only because I am an out & out SRK fan] In 2008... when the IPL started its 1st edition, people made lots of hype over the Knight Riders team, they said SRK has the Midas Touch, Riders are already champions and more, and the KKR even lived upto these hypes & expectations in their 1st ever IPL match with Mccullum scoring a 158... but later all these bullshit preoccupied my team to perform well and they failed incompetently... I hated the disappointed SRK face... King Khan became a loser, because of his team, only for the first time.

IPL 2: The IPL venue immigrated from India to RSA... The Dada and his boys performed miserably, even SRK refused to come to SA. I felt like a loser too with every loss of the Knight Riders, because I betted too for my favorite team.

IPL 3: well the latest IPL have started and with sheer patience, I am supporting my team again... hope everything goes right... KKR have won 2 matches already... I am happy..

My Name Is AMRITT and I am with KHAN...

India-Srilanka Bilateral Series (Highlights)

1st ODI: Another run riot after the historical wanderers ODI between aussies and the proteas where ponting's 164 went in vain because of amazing batting display by Herschelle Gibbs. Similarly despite of T Dilshan's 160, SL didn't managed to post a win at Rajkot trailing by 3 runs to India's 414. Sehwag made a decent 140 some thing to lead India to the 400 mark. Tendulkar and Dhoni contributed with 69 and 82 respectively.

2nd ODI: SL came back in the series by defeating India in the 2nd ODI. Dilshan in top form, smashed another blasting century. Dhoni is banned for 2 ODIs for a slow over rate offense.

3rd ODI: Dilshan being too ambitious, tried to put a 500 something on the board but failed and the team collapased from 175 for 2 to 239 all out with 9 overs spared. India chased in style with Tendulkar made a handsome 96. Hats off to R Jadeja who bagged up 4 wkts before.

4th ODI: Srilanka put a heavy 315 in style with Tharanga scoring another 50 plus score of the series, this time a century indeed. India lost Sehwag and Tendulkar with just 23 on the board, then came Kohli and Gambhir, and the Delhi duo partnered each other for a huge 224 run stand. With 247 on the board and almost completing the job, kohli departed on 107, his career best, Gambhir went on to play further and hitting the winning shot, he completed his 150 that too unbeaten.

5th ODI: Zaheer strikes with the first ball castling Tharanga's bails, with just 63 on the board and Srilanka were 5 down, the match referee and other authorities decided to abandon the match due to unfit playing conditions, Earlier Jayasuriya, Dilshan and Pushpakkumara were provided blows from the Indian bowlers. Bad luck for Dhoni, no cricket since 10 days.