The Dream Ends Again!!!! :(

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The T-20 WC dream ends again!! :(

Donno what the hell the in form Rohith is doing in the dressing room when the Indian batting order is struggling in the middle to make atleast 8 an over in last 10 overs!Thanx to Dhoni for such "WONDERFUL" batting order!And donno Why Vinay Kumar was not there in the team in the bouncy and Chinnaswami,B'lore equivalent pitch of Barbados and suddenly appeared in the team yesterday!!!!!!!

Many a time Dhoni was advised to bring Yusuf up the order and use his batting skills,But he repeats the same mistake again and again and Thanx to Dhoni,his batting skills are also gone!!!The lame excuse he gave for not promoting Yusuf is that he can't play in opener slot!LOL!He played as an opener in the Final in Inaugural T-20 Tournament against Pakistan hitting 2 sixes and 2 fours!And he is the Opener of Baroda!!!!!! And donno why the selecters hadn't selected Uthappa!He is also an opener!The lame excuse for Vijay in the team is that he is the opener!Well,Then Uthappa and Yusuf are also openers,Why do we need him??????

And for God's sake it is better not to discus about the bowling department(Who can't restrict a team to atleast 160)!God Knows where the form of ZAK went??? :-o And Nehra the supposed speedster cant even bowl 140kmph!!!!

And I think Yuvraj came to Windies to enjoy beaches and not for playing!Donno what is he doing in the team?????? :-o

And hail the standout performers of the IPL and T-20 WC:Raina and Rohith!As I am telling from the starting that these are the players we have to look out.But alas Rohit hadn't even got a chance to play in the match against Srilanka and not even a single batsmen supports the player when he plays well when Suresh hit 63 or when Rohith hit 79*!!! And the batters are also to blame who can't play shortpitched balls(Oh!I can see that they can't even play normal deliveries against the Aussies)!!!

And I know our chief selector "CHEEKA"(krish Srikanth) will now enjoy the blame from fans for selecting Vijay from Chennai and leaving Uthappa!And also for selecting the ordinary leggie Piyush Chawla ahead of Purple cap winner of IPL-3,Pragyhan Ojha

And last but not the least the so called Mr.Cool remained cool even after losing two straight matches :X Shame on him for Blaming IPL.How did Rohit and Raina performed well both in IPL and in T-20 WC!!! :X

Whatever we are out of WC!!!We should again wait for the next T-20 WC in 2012!!!

Anyway Hope Master Blaster will bring us the cup in the next 50 overs WC on our home soil.

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1c

STILL ON THE TOP!!!

Well,so India the team India is still on the top of the world in test rankings. But one thing is that most of the critics and players commented that(donno which category bagladeshi captian M.r.Shakeebul will come :D) India do not deserve the top spot.

They said that their bowling is weak.Batting is not consistent.Without dravid Safaris would easily defeat Men In Blue(of course they are men in white for tests :D)

Even I also feared the same after the first test on seeing our batting and bowling.Except sehwag no one tried to bat well in first innings of the first test.But the full credit must be given to the proteas for their damn good bowling.And even their courage in playing the pacers on the spin favouring pitches of India must be appriciated first and the pacers didn't let down the expectations of management and captian. Steyn bowled some stupendous deliveries to the relatively kids of test cricket,Murali and Saha(And just see the reply of the first test first innings esp. the ball which Murali got out.Murali was searching for the ball!!!!) And in the second innings we saw the God's batting again with our SRT(Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar) hitting century and bad that sehwag dismissed for low score in second innings.And of course Indians lost the match by Innings and 6 runs! And kudos to Amla for playing like the wall Dravid.Donno how come he played so well when all the Indian batsmen were trying so hard to hit runs.And Amla was awarded with MOM trophy.

And then came the second test to the Cricketing God's own playground the EDEN.And laxman also returned to the team for playing in his favourite ground.But once again the same story repeated for Indians as Amla again trashed Indian bowlers for runs and at ne stage SAF stood at 220/1.But things changed dramatacally and they lost another 8 wickets before the play was called off on the first day and they were all out for relatively low score. Harbhajan again came handy taking wickets at his fav ground.(Good that he finally came to form.).Indian batsmen showed agian why they were the best in the world with 100s from Viru,SRT,Laxman,Dhoni.And I think most of you know how SAF fought well with Amla once again fighting for his team(and rain Gods also playing their part).And finally they were all out in penultimate over of the test and losing the match by Innings and 53 runs.

And the highlights of this series:

1)Steyn,who got 10 wickets in first test got only 1 in second that too conceding 120 odd runs :D

2)SAF team right from the start of the seires kept on saying that they have plans for restrcting sehwag and sehwag who don't believe in plans showed how planless hitting would hurt.(Well here it reminds me of a telugu movie dialogue:orey meeku kottalante plans geensu kavali.Manaki avanni telavadu.tikka tikka ga kottestarai!I donno the exact version the dialogue but this is the meaning which you wil get)

3)Well neither proteas nor Indians won the test series but only one man won the series Hashim Amla.

4)And God of Cricket again showed his class with centuries in both the test taking the total toll to 47

5)Bhajji's and Very Very Special's lucky ground proved to be lucky agian!

6)Dhoni's record of not losing a single match was broken :(

7)Indians won by innings and 53 runs while Saf won by Innings and 6 runs only(Now you decide who won with more authority :D)

This test series clearly showed the bowling weakness of India.The bowling level was below the standards.And I think South Africans had once agian showed their bowling skills. And many of you might have one doubt now!Why will they be best bowlers when they conceded 650 odd runs in one innings???But I think they haven't conceded but rather it would be correct if you say that Indians grabbed and taken runs from them. This test series became a stage for the battle between Supernatural Batting skills and Damn Good bowling skills.

Whatever it may be we are STILL ON TOP!!!!! Go India Go! :D This test series gave the real spirit and entertainement of test cricket.

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1C

2011 worldcup@INDIA

I fear if BCCI people will make this a damp squib!Any way as a lover of cricket waiting for this world cup to arrive coz this is the final world cup for our master "SACHIN" and of course this would be held in India itself(along with other countries like pak,sri kanka,bangladesh) after 1996 world cup!

And Here's the schedule for 2011 world cup!

1 19-Feb Bangladesh vs INDIA Dhaka
2 20-Feb New Zealand vs Kenya Chennai
3 20-Feb Sri Lanka vs Canada Hambantota
4 21-Feb Australia vs Zimbabwe Ahmedabad
5 22-Feb England vs Netherlands Nagpur
6 23-Feb Pakistan vs Kenya Hambantota
7 24-Feb South Africa vs West Indies New Delhi
8 25-Feb Australia vs New Zealand Nagpur
9 25-Feb Bangladesh vs Ireland Dhaka
10 26-Feb Sri Lanka vs Pakistan Colombo
11 27-Feb INDIAvs England Kolkata
12 28-Feb West Indies vs Netherlands New Delhi
13 28-Feb Zimbabwe vs Canada Nagpur
14 1-Mar Sri Lanka vs Kenya Colombo
15 2-Mar England vs Ireland Bangalore
16 3-Mar South Africa vs Netherlands Mohali
17 3-Mar Pakistan vs Canada Colombo
18 4-Mar New Zealand vs Zimbabwe Ahmedabad
19 4-Mar Bangladesh vs West Indies Dhaka
20 5-Mar Sri Lanka vs Australia Colombo
21 6-Mar INDIA vs Ireland Bangalore
22 6-Mar England vs South Africa Chennai

23 7-Mar Kenya vs Canada New Delhi

24 8-Mar Pakistan vs New Zealand Pallekele

25 9-Mar INDIA vs Netherlands New Delhi
26 10-Mar Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe Pallekele
27 11-Mar West Indies vs Ireland Mohali
28 11-Mar Bangladesh vs England Chittagong
29 12-Mar INDIA vs South Africa Nagpur
30 13-Mar New Zealand vs Canada Mumbai
31 13-Mar Australia vs Kenya Bangalore
32 14-Mar Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Pallekele
33 14-Mar Bangladesh vs Netherlands Chittagong
34 15-Mar South Africa vs Ireland Kolkata
35 16-Mar Australia vs Canada Bangalore
36 17-Mar England vs West Indies Chennai
37 18-Mar Sri Lanka vs New Zealand Mumbai
38 18-Mar Ireland vs Netherlands Kolkata
39 19-Mar Australia vs Pakistan Colombo
40 19-Mar Bangladesh vs South Africa Dhaka
41 20-Mar Zimbabwe vs Kenya Kolkata
42 20-Mar INDIA vs West Indies Chennai

43 23-Mar First Quarter-final Dhaka
44 24-Mar Second Quarter-final Colombo
45 25-Mar Third Quarter-final Dhaka
46 26-Mar Fourth Quarter-final Ahmedabad

47 29-Mar First Semi-final Colombo
48 30-Mar Second Semi-final Mohali

49 2-Apr Final Mumbai

RIP @ Kotla

Come on!I am not saying that,Srilankan batsmen are saying that they played 23+ overs in Kotla in Newdelhi.Wait don't misunderstand RIP to be "rest in peace",they might be saying that "Rest In Pavilion":D
BCCI-The richest cricketing borad in the whole world,but I think it is better not to comment about the standard of facilities they provide to the domestic cricketers!Ok!Ok! I think it is better not to bring out the truths.
Now talking about the Kotla pitch in today's ODI,our Indian bowlers after so many days bowled some out swingers,in swingers etc..But the problem here is that even our bowlers donno what they have bowled and the worst case is with the Srilankan batsmen as they didn't know if the ball passed before them or swinged and bounced and fell in some unknown place!That was the fate of the pitch today!
Hmmm...,I think actually srilankan batsmen were first time afraid of the Indian bowlers in this series.And the most mysterious part even to Dhoni is that how come the Indian bowlers bowled at such a pace????But the answer finally came from the mouth of sanga that actually it is the pitch which had done the trick!
And our BCCI now holds excellent record of spoiling two ODIs in a row @Eden where the flood lights went off and here at Kotla!!!!!
But eventually ICC's dream came true today!!!They dreamt that all cricketing nations should be more competitive so that the cricket would be lively!And our BCCI today made thier dream come true by competing with nations like afganistan in proiding pitches.

Whatever mera dil says that Srilankan batsmen will definitely say it is definitely better to RIP(Rest In Pavilion) than RIP(this time the true meaning) @Kotla!

BY:
1C