Hmmm…
Date is 26, Day is Sunday, Month is July and Year is 2009. Nothing special. Just FYI.
Quite a few interesting things have happened in last few weeks.
A glimpse of those “interesting” things
• I have moved on to a new project (not really a new one but new to me).That makes my visit to Johannesburg in Feb-March this year as the last one for me, to that palce. After 2.5 yrs and 5 visits to Johannesburg, I’ve realized that it was not a bad place at all. There is more to Africa than the crime and poverty that gets highlighted in rest of the world.On professional side, it was getting kinda repetative to me but I’ll forever remember the experience that I have gone through in these visits. After all, it was my first visit to a place outside India.
• Dell finally said that they couldn’t recover data from the “crashed” hard disk from my office laptop. Damn!! Lost chunks of data both official and personal. Sad!
• I finally got to put on an original Manchester United jersey. Courtesy of Venkata Srinivas Kishan’s colleague who had been to England. A dream come true. Next one on the line would be to be in Old Trafford (Manchester United’s Stadium) for a match against Liverpool. Haha. I laugh at it myself. Lets see if I can make this dream come true, somehow!!
• Rahul Dravid has been selected among the 30 probables for Champions Trophy to be held in South Africa this year. Woohoo. Now, that is what I term as “pleasant surprise”. Finally, some sense has got into selectors’ head. Hope the sanity continues and RD plays for team in the tournament.
• Michael “Amazing” Owen has landed in Machester United and has been handed over the coveted No.7 Jersey. MO7 is what he’ll be known as from now on. :-) It was David Beckham and this guy who captured my attention and made me get stuck to the football mania way back in 2001-2002. To see him in my club is like brilliant, effing brilliant!!!
• I watched the worst Akshay Kumar movie ever (watched by me in a theatre).Such a sick movie.Pathetic.Irritating to the core. I mean, what was the producer thinking when he agreed to make a movie on such a story or the lack of it ??!! I was disappointed, to say the least.
• My quiz team has been torn apart by the cruel world of of of, I don’t know what!!! Chaitanya(CDya, pronounced as “seedya”) has relocated to Pune and that leaves only me and Santu(Savanur that is) in the concrete jungles of Bengaluru. Sad!
• Damn these Congressis.They said that the Kargil was NDA’s achievement and the 10th anniversary of the victory in the WAR should not be a nationwide celebration. When will politicians come out of this petty world of theirs where their acts are achievements and others achievements are mere actions with no worth ?!?!?! I feel sad for the people who lost their relatives and friends in the war.They would have been really hurt by this kinda behaviour of the government.Sad!
• Beckham is open to a plan of coming back to Manchester United. Brilliant. I mean, that is where all the football started for me, Beckham at Manchester United. I know that this news is as if it has come out of a story book. But, one can’t completely rule out the possibility.
Can’t think of anything else right now!!
Anyways, I wasn’t expecting to write about these many things. :-D
Cool.
The power is back now and I can post this on the blog.
Couldn’t think of a better timepass with the laptop’s battery staring at me with a wicked smile.
July 26, 2009
June 20, 2009
Bits and Pieces : 20-Jun-09
Long time, no see!
Its been almost 8 months since the last post.Pretty long!! Long enough to make me forget about actually having a blog.But, I somehow remembered it.
Right then , without much ado lets get to the bits and pieces that are in a marathon in my head right now :
Its been almost 8 months since the last post.Pretty long!! Long enough to make me forget about actually having a blog.But, I somehow remembered it.
Right then , without much ado lets get to the bits and pieces that are in a marathon in my head right now :
- 24-May-09 : Royal Challengers Bangalore were defeated by Deccan Chargers in the finals of Indian Premier League 2009.Sad! Ridiculed by many(including Bangaloreans) for following a team that languished at last but one position in the last year's tournament.I always knew the team had all the abilites to lift the cup but wasn't getting things in the right place.Was proud by the performances of the players in the team but was devastated in the end as we just lost by ridiculously low margin of 6 runs.Ridiculous because the way the batsmen goofed it up in the end.Almost got a chance of witnessing Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble lifting a trophy at an international tournament.(I know the name is Indian Premier League but still...)
- 27-May-09 : After the IPL devastation ceremony 3 days ago, I was looking forward to witness Man Utd lifting the Champions League by defeating Barcelona in the finals.Almost all pundits(including me) predicted a tight match and a close finish.That didn't happen!! Barcelona stamped all over Man Utd and made them look like School kids!! The loss was frustrating,irritating,insulting!! This lead to the 2nd loss in the finals for my teams within 4 days!! (RCB was the first if you have forgotten it already)
- 05-Jun-09 : My dear camera Canon S5 IS's flash was on strike for last few months.I begged my Dad to take it to the service centre thats pretty close to his office(well, realtively..).He obliged and got the job done.But, as the service took time, I couldn't carry it along with me in Goa trip that happened in between this post and the last one(dates, I mean).Never mind!
- 12-Jun-09 : It was 1.30am and serenity surrounded me! Then, I almost screamed my heart out when I read this on my laptop screen - "Internal hard drive not detected".I was thinking of the dreaded "C" word.The Air France flight 447 from Rio De Janeiro to Paris met the same fate and since then this word was hovering around in my head.A #^&@ CRASH!! My hard disk had crashed!!! The sys admin at my office confirmed the next day that It was indeed a crash and would send it to Dell service centre to check if the data can be recovered. I was doomed.It took me a day to regain my senses.I hadn't taken a backup of the data even once since I put my hands on the lappie and was in risk of losing all the official mails, project info, lotsa personal stuff and etc etc.As it stands today, I'm still waiting for the final word from Dell guys on the Data recovery.I'm praying day and night hoping to get the data back.
- 15-Jun-09 : Was listening to music on my Nokia 5800 phone and all off a sudden it threw some memory card error and stopped playing music.Thought it would be a regular glitch with memory cards that I had experienced in my earlier phone.I then restarted my phone to see if it would change anything.What an idea, sirjee!! I couldn't see a single piece of data that I had saved on the memory card.I turned towards "File Manager" and saw the dreaded "C" word(not the same one)!!We curse our politicians and cops and govt officials sunk in this.And now, I was looking at my phone that had a memory card whick took the same path.The memory card was CORRUPTED!! Nokia shop guys told me half an hour ago that I would need to hit the Service centre to get the problem sorted out.Lets see if I can sort this out at the earliest!
Thats the story so far! Uff, took me a while to type.
Also not to forget the disastrous campaign of Indian team in T20 WC.Its better left unsaid.They have disappointed more than a billion people, more with their attitude than their cricketing skills.
Sad but true! The last 5-6 weeks have been disappointing.Every time I look for something to cheer for, it turns sour and leaves me shattered.
Never mind!!
Hoping for better things in weeks/months/years to come.
Hope kills none as someone said!
:-)
October 31, 2008
Bits and Pieces : 31-Oct-08
Hmm..What to write ??!!
Yes, here they go in a systematic manner :
Yes, here they go in a systematic manner :
- Congrats to Gauti and VVS for the wonderful double centuries!! Man, were they brilliant.I couldn't catch any live action but cricinfo did convey the msg that Aussies were torn apart.Way to go guys!! This series has been great so far.Dada started it,Sachin took it over from him and now VVS.Critics are shaving their head and going for plastic surgery, thats the last thing I heard.
- Vishy does it again.Hes the world Champion.Gets 10-15% of the appreciation he deserves.For sure one of most neglected sports personalities in the history of India along with people like P.Gopichand and Dhanraj.Pillai.
- Yuvraj songs are too good.A.R.Rahman the genius does it again. "Tu meri dost", "Mastam Mastam" and "Dil ka Rishta" are brilliant strokes. "Shano Shano" and "Tu Muskura" that did not excite me in first few rounds are sounding better now.Typical ARR ishtyle.I wanted to do a detailed Music review but then dropped the plan as I would have written 1000s and 1000s of words about ARR's music and would have still left the review incomplete.I hope the movie does justice to this music.Ghai has Karz,Taal on one side and Yaadein,Kisna on the other .One unpredictable guy he is.All the best to him anyways.
- Chandrayaan has been a great success so far.Thumbs up to this mission. Amazing job by the ISRO.
- Manchester United did a good job against West ham utd yesterday.Wonderful display of skill by Berba and Yes, Ronnie is back!!I can't stop myself thanking heavens for making Fletcher and Rooney perform so good so far in the season.I pray that their golden run continues.Glory Glory Man Utd!!
- Romania has treated me well for last 2 weeks.Nice place, friendly people and loads of work.Did not get a chance to go around the place but hoping to do it in future visits, if any.
Ok, done with this for today.Gotta get my bag ready as my flight is in few hours from now.
Bye Bye Romania.Hope to see you again.:-)
Happy Birthday LogBlogs!!!
Something great happened on Oct-17 last year.I dont rememeber what it was!!
I also started blogging on that auspicious day.Yes, I did.Its been an year since I embarked on this journey into blogosphere!! Makes me feel that I'm too old :-D
The journey has been interesting, literally from India to South Africa to Iran and now to Romania.Topics varying from movie reveiws to travelogue of sorts to current affairs and to random crap.
I couldn't make many people read this crap though I tried out many kinds of topics.:-) Never mind, I did not step out and start this blogging activity to get high hits and inspire people and create a revolution!!
Enough of cynicism.Let me try to make some sense now! I thought I'll start blogging bits and pieces of events going around me rather than penning(keying) my thoughts on one particular topic as I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep myself awake during the bloggathon. :-)
Will present a trailor right away.Once again, Happy birthday LogBlogs, belated wishes though!!
I also started blogging on that auspicious day.Yes, I did.Its been an year since I embarked on this journey into blogosphere!! Makes me feel that I'm too old :-D
The journey has been interesting, literally from India to South Africa to Iran and now to Romania.Topics varying from movie reveiws to travelogue of sorts to current affairs and to random crap.
I couldn't make many people read this crap though I tried out many kinds of topics.:-) Never mind, I did not step out and start this blogging activity to get high hits and inspire people and create a revolution!!
Enough of cynicism.Let me try to make some sense now! I thought I'll start blogging bits and pieces of events going around me rather than penning(keying) my thoughts on one particular topic as I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep myself awake during the bloggathon. :-)
Will present a trailor right away.Once again, Happy birthday LogBlogs, belated wishes though!!
August 30, 2008
JOKER mania!!!
The Dark Knight wasn’t just another random Hollywood movie. There was more to it than other “superhero” movies.
Reason??? Was it due to one of his kind Superhero who doesn’t possess any super powers like most of his colleagues but still manages to finght against crime?? I don’t think so. It was JOKER who captivated people’s attention. By far, the best ever villain I’ve witnessed in any movie.
Saying that Joker was brilliant in the movie would be an under-statement. He simply rocked the party. His look, expressions, dialogues every bloody thing related to him was just perfect. Of course, Heath “The legend” Ledger was outstanding in his rendition. I had watched bits n pieces of Jack Nicholson’s version and it wasn’t all that bad. But Heath took this character to another level altogether.
Each and every dialogue of his ,stamps his class over and over . This wasn’t a case of having a villain just for the heck of it. Just because Hero has to save his heroine from the clutches of villain and then end up smooching her with credits rolling. It was serious business in this movie. He wasn’t a stereotyped, conventional 2 murders, 3 kidnaps,10-15 smuggling deal expert!!!
I came out of theatre and for 2-3 hours was still trying to find my way out of Joker hy
steria. Needless to say I was unsuccessful, pathetic at that! Of course the Batman was supposed to be the show-stealer but look at what Joker has done. He is all over the internet, media, people’s mind!!! This post dedicated to him shows he has been able to impress me also. What this means is that even a just ordinary English movie fan who doesn’t watch every single English movie on the cards is mightily impressed. Simply astounding!!!
Just to add, my favourite pastime activity for last few weeks has been to discuss and say out in “Joker’s ishtyle” all his dialogues from the movie.Santu lola and Ashwin Menon have been vibrating on the same wavelength as mine and are more than proud to be in the “Joker fanatics” club.
It’s a shame that Heath Ledger isn’t with us today to savor the success of his portrayal. This success is sweet. All hail Chris Nolan, Bale and other team members for such a masterpiece. They have just raised the standards by quite a decent level. Lets see how other cliched film makers reach to that level, if at all possible.
Least that people of English cinema can do towards honoring Heath is by posthumously giving him with an Oscar. Not that this award is the ultimate reward but just that people around the world think so!!
Weeks,months,years may pass by but Heath ledger and his legendary depiction of Joker will stay forever in the history of world cinema.Hail the Legend!
To end this with a Joker class act dialogue,” If you are good at something, never do it for free”[Now there are not many chances of me using it in my next appraisal discussion but will try to get inspired from this :-)]
Reason??? Was it due to one of his kind Superhero who doesn’t possess any super powers like most of his colleagues but still manages to finght against crime?? I don’t think so. It was JOKER who captivated people’s attention. By far, the best ever villain I’ve witnessed in any movie.
Saying that Joker was brilliant in the movie would be an under-statement. He simply rocked the party. His look, expressions, dialogues every bloody thing related to him was just perfect. Of course, Heath “The legend” Ledger was outstanding in his rendition. I had watched bits n pieces of Jack Nicholson’s version and it wasn’t all that bad. But Heath took this character to another level altogether.Each and every dialogue of his ,stamps his class over and over . This wasn’t a case of having a villain just for the heck of it. Just because Hero has to save his heroine from the clutches of villain and then end up smooching her with credits rolling. It was serious business in this movie. He wasn’t a stereotyped, conventional 2 murders, 3 kidnaps,10-15 smuggling deal expert!!!
I came out of theatre and for 2-3 hours was still trying to find my way out of Joker hy
steria. Needless to say I was unsuccessful, pathetic at that! Of course the Batman was supposed to be the show-stealer but look at what Joker has done. He is all over the internet, media, people’s mind!!! This post dedicated to him shows he has been able to impress me also. What this means is that even a just ordinary English movie fan who doesn’t watch every single English movie on the cards is mightily impressed. Simply astounding!!!Just to add, my favourite pastime activity for last few weeks has been to discuss and say out in “Joker’s ishtyle” all his dialogues from the movie.Santu lola and Ashwin Menon have been vibrating on the same wavelength as mine and are more than proud to be in the “Joker fanatics” club.
It’s a shame that Heath Ledger isn’t with us today to savor the success of his portrayal. This success is sweet. All hail Chris Nolan, Bale and other team members for such a masterpiece. They have just raised the standards by quite a decent level. Lets see how other cliched film makers reach to that level, if at all possible.
Least that people of English cinema can do towards honoring Heath is by posthumously giving him with an Oscar. Not that this award is the ultimate reward but just that people around the world think so!!
Weeks,months,years may pass by but Heath ledger and his legendary depiction of Joker will stay forever in the history of world cinema.Hail the Legend!
To end this with a Joker class act dialogue,” If you are good at something, never do it for free”[Now there are not many chances of me using it in my next appraisal discussion but will try to get inspired from this :-)]
July 13, 2008
Another day!!
Its been about a month since I came to Johannesburg .Have been at work place all the while. Exploiting my latop to the core and making it wonder as to who the bigger idiot is, the one who has the keypad or the one who taps it continuously. Had not dared to take a break for a single day. I’m occupied with lot of work would be an under statement. But, as an anonymous (I don’t know the level of brilliance this guy has. I have seen many quotes by this guy) fella said and I quote :
“The day you realize that you are working day in, day out then just understand that you are on the right track. Keep moving!!”
Just a foolish way of consoling myself that I’ve not become a workaholic!!
Finally, got a chance to breathe some fresh air when one of my colleagues here invited me for lunch at his place. The plan wasn’t final till yesterday thanks to the busy schedule. But, I had to oblige when he said, “You can’t give a miss to the lunch plan, I’ve asked my wife to get all the vegetables and prepares some nice vegetarian dishes!!!”Trust me, people here consider eating vegetarian as a punishment and food without meat is an event of rarity for them!
It was really nice of my colleague to arrange for the lunch at his place and stupid of me to have made him and his family to eat vegetarian food!!!
It was a pleasant surprise that he had planned to take me out for a movie with his family. I got to know about the plan only few hours before. I had mentioned quite a few times about this movie which was a big hit back home and was being liked by most of its audience. The movie was “Jaane tu and something”, as my colleague prefers to call it.
We went to this place called Monte casino that has cinema halls which usually screen all the latest hindi movies that get released worldwide. He and his family planned to go for a animated movie, so that their kid can be kept entertained. So, here we were at the ticket counter and lo, I started hearing words being spoken in a familiar language,” Are yaar, theatre toh almost khaali hai”,”Corner seat lete hain jee”,”Beta jaldi toilet jaake aaja”,”Mummy,I’ll buy a fanta and a coke for didi”.I just couldn’t help but look at them and smile and get a smile in return!!Though spotting Indians,Pakistanis anywhere in the city is not that tough.But, So many familiar looking people being around at a time, made me feel I was at home!!
The start of the movie was 15 mins away and here I was seated comfortably and listening to the conversations of people around me.Most common topics were related to Visa, Diwali, Marriage.Their talks slowed down as the lights were being dimmed down.
The movie was nice. Not really a breath of fresh air but of stale air with some freshener sprayed!! Story wasn’t new but the narration and treatment was. So, were the faces. Movie worth a watch.
After my friend dropped me back to the hotel post movie, here I’m staring at my laptop again. This small black case should be relieved that I gave it some time off to relax during the day!!
One month into my visit and still at least 2-3 weeks left before I can get back to base. Its going to be an eventful period of time. Loads and loads of work to do and also a bleak chance of my dreams of few years coming true!!(keep an eye on this space for coming few weeks to know more about what I meant here)
I go to sleep with mixed feelings tonight. No, nothing about the movie!! Fletcher denying his links with Evertoons made me feel good but Selectors continuing to be Rejecters for RD and Dada has left a bad taste. This is definitely not the way the treat the legends. We should be more than thankful for the sheer contribution they have done to world of Cricket. Never mind, they have a very good chance to prove that they are still the best and no better way to do it than with their bats!!
Hmmm..Too sleepy to write anything that make sense (as if I’ve done it in the past) right now. But as they say, All is well that ends well.Lets hope a happy ending to all the turmoil surrounding my idols!![I know I’m trying to be selfish here but I don’t give a damn!!!!]
I’ll try to come up with something more interesting in the future and not to make writing itself boring for me ;-)
“The day you realize that you are working day in, day out then just understand that you are on the right track. Keep moving!!”
Just a foolish way of consoling myself that I’ve not become a workaholic!!
Finally, got a chance to breathe some fresh air when one of my colleagues here invited me for lunch at his place. The plan wasn’t final till yesterday thanks to the busy schedule. But, I had to oblige when he said, “You can’t give a miss to the lunch plan, I’ve asked my wife to get all the vegetables and prepares some nice vegetarian dishes!!!”Trust me, people here consider eating vegetarian as a punishment and food without meat is an event of rarity for them!
It was really nice of my colleague to arrange for the lunch at his place and stupid of me to have made him and his family to eat vegetarian food!!!
It was a pleasant surprise that he had planned to take me out for a movie with his family. I got to know about the plan only few hours before. I had mentioned quite a few times about this movie which was a big hit back home and was being liked by most of its audience. The movie was “Jaane tu and something”, as my colleague prefers to call it.
We went to this place called Monte casino that has cinema halls which usually screen all the latest hindi movies that get released worldwide. He and his family planned to go for a animated movie, so that their kid can be kept entertained. So, here we were at the ticket counter and lo, I started hearing words being spoken in a familiar language,” Are yaar, theatre toh almost khaali hai”,”Corner seat lete hain jee”,”Beta jaldi toilet jaake aaja”,”Mummy,I’ll buy a fanta and a coke for didi”.I just couldn’t help but look at them and smile and get a smile in return!!Though spotting Indians,Pakistanis anywhere in the city is not that tough.But, So many familiar looking people being around at a time, made me feel I was at home!!
The start of the movie was 15 mins away and here I was seated comfortably and listening to the conversations of people around me.Most common topics were related to Visa, Diwali, Marriage.Their talks slowed down as the lights were being dimmed down.
The movie was nice. Not really a breath of fresh air but of stale air with some freshener sprayed!! Story wasn’t new but the narration and treatment was. So, were the faces. Movie worth a watch.
After my friend dropped me back to the hotel post movie, here I’m staring at my laptop again. This small black case should be relieved that I gave it some time off to relax during the day!!
One month into my visit and still at least 2-3 weeks left before I can get back to base. Its going to be an eventful period of time. Loads and loads of work to do and also a bleak chance of my dreams of few years coming true!!(keep an eye on this space for coming few weeks to know more about what I meant here)
I go to sleep with mixed feelings tonight. No, nothing about the movie!! Fletcher denying his links with Evertoons made me feel good but Selectors continuing to be Rejecters for RD and Dada has left a bad taste. This is definitely not the way the treat the legends. We should be more than thankful for the sheer contribution they have done to world of Cricket. Never mind, they have a very good chance to prove that they are still the best and no better way to do it than with their bats!!
Hmmm..Too sleepy to write anything that make sense (as if I’ve done it in the past) right now. But as they say, All is well that ends well.Lets hope a happy ending to all the turmoil surrounding my idols!![I know I’m trying to be selfish here but I don’t give a damn!!!!]
I’ll try to come up with something more interesting in the future and not to make writing itself boring for me ;-)
July 7, 2008
Look, what have we done!!
I heard Vengsarkar's term as the Chairman of Selectors will be ending sometime soon.He is planning for a mega bash where he'll be releasing his semi-pseudo-autobiography, "How to turn Hindustan into Kabristan in the name of Youngistan"
Great job Colonel.Mission accomplished.[people may say that it was his team that won us T20 WC and the CB series in australia.After IPL, we all know how methodic T20 is and the win in CB series was due to classy Sachin and few sparks of briliiance from others]
Vegsarkar has one final chance to restore his pride(tending to zero) as he'll be selecting a 30-men probables list for ICC champions trophy ,sometime soon.Lets see what he does before stepping down, correcting his past mistakes or continuing them.
Its been long time since I posted anything.Blame it on work,hectic schedule or whatever!!I just couldn't hold myself back from posting this, India losing 2 consecutive finals under MSD and he shamelessly says in the post match interview, I quote,"We atleast reached those 22 finals" on being asked about the shabby form of India losing 18 of the last 22 finals since 1999.
[It was a treat to watch King Fed vs Rafa in wimbeldon final and hearing their post-match comments.Sportsmen to the core!!]
Great job done MSD.Ordinary performance,Pathetic attitude,Irritating behaviour and on top of it as a cherry comes his shameless public comments.He might have tried to be funny as he can't be too critical at that time.But, come on, more than 1 billion people back this team and spend their days and nights watching them,praying for them,discussing about them.As a captain, I would have expected a mature response.But as Vengsarkar says, its a young team and they will take some time to settle down.All the best MSD!!
We have lost two finals in succession.These were the matches that we should have won.But we still managed to get defeated.
What does retrospection shed light on ??What is it that we could have done differently in this match that to have made us end on winning side ??
We should have batted well!!
No doubt that Gambhir, Viru,Yuvi and others are all highly skilled and are match-winners, the records speak for themselves but they faultered at the wrong time.And this is not first time that we have seen this .
I know that this debate has been sparked every now and then and seems to be the favourite of every cricket follower in this nation and outside...But, what we needed today was someone like Sachin,Sourav,Rahul to have been on the batting line-up..
The time is running out.Bring back Sourav and Rahul into ODIs.Its now or never, this is the last chance we can give to Dada and RD to help resurrect their and Team INDIA's fortunes...These guys are legends already and they have nothing else to prove to anybody.But I feel, more than themselves its the TEAM which needs them.
We can have them in the team and play 2 out of big 3(Sachin,Sourav,Rahul) on a rotation basis and get some stability in the team..THe highly skilled youngsters can gain more experience with them and get ready to hold the mantle of the team in big matches.
I'm not saying that this would have guaranteed a win(in ASIA cup finals or Kitply cup)but definitely the probability would have been higher..We needed somone with enough experience to handle the big match situation and face challenges like facing the mystery bowling of Mendis,other veterans like Vaas and Murali and to pace the chase well.
May what happen,my undying support to Team India will continue.But it hurts when we lose like this because of some Mohd.Tughlaq strategy :-)
What is life without retrospection and correction??Just a boring family drama!!
Lets hope things change and we rule the world of cricket again(actual sport, no the money world ruling it)
ALL the BEST to Team INDIA!!
Great job Colonel.Mission accomplished.[people may say that it was his team that won us T20 WC and the CB series in australia.After IPL, we all know how methodic T20 is and the win in CB series was due to classy Sachin and few sparks of briliiance from others]
Vegsarkar has one final chance to restore his pride(tending to zero) as he'll be selecting a 30-men probables list for ICC champions trophy ,sometime soon.Lets see what he does before stepping down, correcting his past mistakes or continuing them.
Its been long time since I posted anything.Blame it on work,hectic schedule or whatever!!I just couldn't hold myself back from posting this, India losing 2 consecutive finals under MSD and he shamelessly says in the post match interview, I quote,"We atleast reached those 22 finals" on being asked about the shabby form of India losing 18 of the last 22 finals since 1999.
[It was a treat to watch King Fed vs Rafa in wimbeldon final and hearing their post-match comments.Sportsmen to the core!!]
Great job done MSD.Ordinary performance,Pathetic attitude,Irritating behaviour and on top of it as a cherry comes his shameless public comments.He might have tried to be funny as he can't be too critical at that time.But, come on, more than 1 billion people back this team and spend their days and nights watching them,praying for them,discussing about them.As a captain, I would have expected a mature response.But as Vengsarkar says, its a young team and they will take some time to settle down.All the best MSD!!
We have lost two finals in succession.These were the matches that we should have won.But we still managed to get defeated.
What does retrospection shed light on ??What is it that we could have done differently in this match that to have made us end on winning side ??
We should have batted well!!
No doubt that Gambhir, Viru,Yuvi and others are all highly skilled and are match-winners, the records speak for themselves but they faultered at the wrong time.And this is not first time that we have seen this .
I know that this debate has been sparked every now and then and seems to be the favourite of every cricket follower in this nation and outside...But, what we needed today was someone like Sachin,Sourav,Rahul to have been on the batting line-up..
The time is running out.Bring back Sourav and Rahul into ODIs.Its now or never, this is the last chance we can give to Dada and RD to help resurrect their and Team INDIA's fortunes...These guys are legends already and they have nothing else to prove to anybody.But I feel, more than themselves its the TEAM which needs them.
We can have them in the team and play 2 out of big 3(Sachin,Sourav,Rahul) on a rotation basis and get some stability in the team..THe highly skilled youngsters can gain more experience with them and get ready to hold the mantle of the team in big matches.
I'm not saying that this would have guaranteed a win(in ASIA cup finals or Kitply cup)but definitely the probability would have been higher..We needed somone with enough experience to handle the big match situation and face challenges like facing the mystery bowling of Mendis,other veterans like Vaas and Murali and to pace the chase well.
May what happen,my undying support to Team India will continue.But it hurts when we lose like this because of some Mohd.Tughlaq strategy :-)
What is life without retrospection and correction??Just a boring family drama!!
Lets hope things change and we rule the world of cricket again(actual sport, no the money world ruling it)
ALL the BEST to Team INDIA!!
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