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Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Australians really suck...

First of all accept my apologies if anybody got offended. But yes I literally mean this.
We all have been watching the recent developments in Australia. These A(u)ssies are literally getting to the nerves now.

Someday Symond has problems with the word 'Monkey', and Harbhajan gets punished. Some other day Hayden calls Harbhajan as 'Obnoxious weed', no action taken.
Ishant bowls Symonds, utter few words, Ishant gives back in Symonds style, but again Ishant gets punished. Guys this is getting too much now.
Today I read Hayden calling Harbhajan as 'Obnoxious weed'. He is also asking Ishant Sharma to focus on his game as he is just 21, meet him in the boxing ring. Mr. Hayden not sure what you meant by all this,but you are undermining Harbhajan for being from small time village, or for his not so important contributions, then you should think twice. But do you know your worth in IPL and do you know how much Harbhajan/Ishant cost? They will purchase 5-6 more Haydens with Harbhajan and Ishant's worth. Jtake it lightly, no offense please. Also did you forget your (Australia's) own roots? Do you know about your anscestors? I heard you people are descendents of all thugs, robbers, slaves which Britton wanted to get rid a long time agao. You thiefs survived and yes you are somewhat better in sports field. But has the success gone to your heads now? Why do you have to use this intimidating tactis against the opponents? You use the same dirty tactis almost against everybody and all the time. It almost became an habit. Yu almost ruined muralidharan. Nobody even gave it back to you. But interesting thing is you have issues when others (india) started giving it back to you in your own style. SORRY folks...
During the Sydney test match, Harbhajan patted Bret Lee, which was objected by Symond(key). You very well said it is not allowed on the field. We accepted.
During the Sydney one day match, on your dismissal you uttered few words. Ishant Sharma like everybody assumed that you were not happy and uttered abusive words. He simply showed you the place. Now you are saying you had praised him for his fine bowling. Come on Symonds, showing double standards.
One more thing Symonds, do you have any real problem in your life. I mean anything happened in your past. Because why you have to be part of every controversy. may be with harbhajan, Ishant Sharma, with Indian crowd. Also I sugget you are perfect fit for the WWF matches. I guess you chose wrong profession. You should have been facing KHALI and not Harbhajan. Think mate think...
India, guys please give them back. Be aggressive. Start sledging. I know bit difficult for you to win matches, but let's atleast win this game of sledging.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Saren Zameen Par...

All those who saw yesterday's match will definitely agree with me that this blog deserves no better title. Australians literally crushed us. I was praying if there was any possibility of Rain @ MCG.
I had one preplanned meeting at 3.00 PM. I just postponed it for the India - Australia 20-20 match.
After the so called superb performance of our GREAT Indian Team in the recent test series, like everybody I also had big hopes from our stars. Why not, after all they are the so called world champions of the shorter version of the game. Sorry they were the champions of the game. But yesterday I saw the very champions coming down one after another from the cloud NINE. All the super(stars) came down to earth.
Mr Gambhir, Mr. Uthapa, Mr. Rohit Sharma, Dhoom dhoom Dhoni, And the big mouth Shrisanth just landed straight on earth.

Guys what I was saying,I had post poned my 3.00 PM meeting to 5.00 Pm so that I could enjoy the cricket match. Thought of having the lunch while watching the match and had other big plans. But what plans.Like the Indian team, my plans also came crashing like a pack of cards.
I had left my desk at 2.10 PM. By the time I reached for lunch, switched on TV I had imagined something like 5 overs 100 runs. But to my surprise (actually I should not have been surprized), it was 5 overs some 5 wickets and 32 runs. I quickly switched off the TV. Somehow grabbed my lunch and was back to my desk again 2.45 PM. At 3.15 PM Somebody from my team yelled 'India all out for 74 and Aussies are well on course of reaching the target'. I tried to neglect and tried to concentrate on my work.
I was still repenting why the hell did I postpone my meeting? Don't know. I knew Aussies will win this time. But atleast I was expecting a good game of cricket. Few big hits, few sixers. Nothing more. Forget big hits, there were only 3 boundaries in the whole innings. I didn't watch the world cup (except the final). After the world cup exit earlier, I had drifted away from cricket and our inconsistent players. But the world cup win again pulled me back.
I always wonder why this happenes only with the Indian team. Look at Australia, whenever they lose (hardly I remember any matches they have lost), but they lose in style. They they will try till the end. They never give up. They win 16 matches in a row. They try to break their own record of consecutive wins. Whereas our team, we win few matches and lose many. We win matches only against Bangladesh, Zembabwe, Kenya. We will only in India (where the pitches help us). We don't lose only when rain GOD is happy.
Moreover these 1 or 2 wins are sufficient to make our players the heroes over the night. Then again no guarantee if they will repeat the same performance in future. Mr Joginder Sharma, Mr Yusuf pathan our 20-20 World Cup heroes where are they? I heard Joginder got married immediately after the world cup final. because he himself was not sure if he will ever get an opportunity to play again, forget performance . ha ha ha.

India's performance is really disappointing and frustrating. I have decided, I will not waste my time again. But again soemewhere I know, that is not possible...

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

And BCCI had the final laugh...


It's not that common to see that India flexing the muscles of superpwers and getting the things done the way SHE wants.

But if it's cricket, it's possible. We have seen the same recently. People just can't neglect India. Australia may be the world champions on the field. But India is the superpower in cricket and dictates the game. Otherwise who in the world will dare to take panga with ICC and the Aussies . As said by somebody , here cricket is religion and cricketers are Gods (as long as they perform). You just drop the heroes from the team and then see the streets of Kolkata, mumbai, jalandhar ... No need for me to write anything here. Basically it's all linked with our pride, self esteem and insult.
This is what happened during the recent test series in Australia during the Sydeney test. This time it was Ponting and his men (where victories have gone to the heads). They thought of using the typical aussie sledging tactis against the Indians. Poor kangaroos, little idea they had about the whole episode backfiring at them and putting them in poor light.
For India it was a question of pride. Here Tendulkar is our GOD. And Honorabe mr. Procter has neglected our very own tendulkar's testimony. ha ha. How in the world was that possible. And how millions of Indian fans were going to accept the same. On top of it Mr. Bucknor added enogh fuel to keep the fame burning with intensity. And then... it was a big drama in India as you know, also it had created enough sympathy for us. What best one could have imagined. Support poured in right from common man, politicians, cricketers across the world, the very own Australian media. Mr. Ponting might have won the test match in Sydeny, but the battle was started which eventually he was going to lose.
First signs of ICC taming down came when BCCI took a very tough stand on halting the series. I read somwhere about 2.2 M USD penatly being imposed on Indian board, had India decided to discontinue with the series. Let me tell you it's peanuts for the BCCI. Though everybody was well aware that India would never have discontinued with the series. It had put enough pressure on the ICC and first signs of ICC getting bogged down started showing. Finally Mr. Sharad Pawar who is heading the BCCI is a seasoned politician after all. :-). Mr. Bucknor was sent back to Jamaica, the other gentleman had to pack off his bags. This was enough. India had a moral victory at that point of time. The tension relieved to some extent.

Then India went ahead and almost dominated the remaining 2 matches. Inbetween some other enquiry commission was appointed. Guys, I believe it was all drama. Finally we all were aware what the result was going to be.
Again Mr. BCCI applied the pressure tactics and finally all racial charges against Harbhajan were dropped. SO final victory came India's way and has definitely put Australia in poor light. We are not still very sure what mr. Bhajan said. Whether he said or not said that's also a big question. It all was possible because BCCI has the money, India has the viewers. I doubt if Bangladesh or Zimbabwe would have been successful. :-)
Aussies some advice for you as well. By now you must have realised that you may be winning 16 matches in a row, but you have a long way to go. First try to behave yourself. Your tactics may work against few but not all. You will agree that this time your selection proved wrong. Aussies we may not be as good as you on the field, but we have enough power. So please don't take panga. Think twice next time.

Winning matches may be simpler for you, but winning hearts is not so easy and that's what you need to learn. Look at West Indian team. they dominated in the last 70th and early 80s. They were also world champions. But they were down to earth. The victories didn't reach the heads.

It's a long way to go for you...

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