is all i can say at this moment...
if only sachin would have listened to his son's advice seriously in 2007...but better sense prevailed in 2008 and he was out from that '90s zone' in two strokes...
he has around 40% stake in the total goes to show his dominance today...
india will be heaving a sigh of relief...coming from dooming 4/156 to 5 /300 odd...i am saying it particularly coz india have this habit of following great win with very ordinary performance on the field...recent SA tour is the case in point...
if only laxman played that pull shot...
and what has happened to aussies...its seems that as if they are behind in this series...
first gilly caught sleeping...and then gilly snorting had its effects on hayden...its to their credit that they still managed a smile...
ricky will be tearing his every disappearing hairs...
sehwag out on no ball goes to shows the consistently pedestrian umpiring in this series where they cant even pick the no balls...the very basic of umpiring!!
dhoni seems to have taken the form of dravid very seriously...i wonder if he is already eying that slot...he seems to go nowhere and should buy a drink to haydy for being there at this difficult time...coz otherwise india would have been in very precarious position...
its not that we are out of jail now...a fine spell tomorrow from lee & co. can be the difference between 330-340s score and 400+
...special mention of Lee...
no words can be enough to describe the transformation of this guy....Lee....
from going for bowlers infamous double hundred in last oz series to spear heading the attack relentlessly in this series...without even compromising on pace...is nothing short of remarkable...how silently but assuringly he has slipped in this role...is tribute to his mental toughness as well his physical fitness...his efforts with the ball deserves all credit and praise...
i would go on to say that Lee is the difference between aussie and indian team in this series...and i am not exaggerating...
Son is better than Father...
shared by straight point on Thursday, January 24, 2008
shame !! utter shame !!
shared by straight point on Sunday, January 06, 2008
or what you would call it...if there is better word...please don't hesitate to express here...i promise...all comments however explicit will be retained...
its an utter shame that this test match will be decided not by the skills of teams but the white men...in my entire life span of seeing test match i cant remember so many wrong decisions going against particular team...its almost as if they are on mission...
if india goes on to loose this match i will give men of match to these two gentlemen...
also i don't understand that why criticizing umpiring is taken on similar terms as criticizing australia...as some of our australian friends seems to react...
as i said in my previous posts we will see enough shockers in this series than in entire year...why these umps pee in this pants and sh@@t when the appeal is made against or in favor of aussies...
and what about some of appeals the replays of which are shown now...where is the much talked about game spirit...do the champs have to resort to this low??? look at ponting's appeal...
can we decide next match on perth at toss please???? head australia wins...tail we loose...
its over i cant write more...
Umpires Thrash India !!
shared by straight point on Wednesday, January 02, 2008
or what you would call it???
i am sulking big time...
if playing with aussies is the toughest task...what would you say when umpires lands their support and then third umpire too joins the party???
if they were embarrassed by giving ponting out (he was out before too but does that matter) they made india pay big time for their own laxities and how...
the buckner is becoming 'the burner' specially with india...he has gone past his use by date too long ago and i still don't know when ICC will SEE it...
these type of decisions are becoming quite a regulatory...players are punished for showing even semblance of dissents but when on earth we will make umpires as accountable as players is remained to be seen...i hope i see it in my lifetime...
here was a team who after the thrashing in first test was clawing his way back into this test with aussies on mat at 130 odd for six wickets and we were in for some good contest...thats when umpires decided to have their impact on this game...its not as if india did all things right (later about that)...but when on earth we will see a fair contest between BAT and BALL which is what cricket is all about???
i am still sulking...
Selective Bashing ???
shared by straight point on Friday, November 30, 2007
i was watching live when dravid was given out wrongly (compensating pak for getting reduced to only 3 bowlers attack) and this thought crossed my mind so i have put it here...
last time we saw umpire got the wicket of sangakara we all unanimously condemned the decision and i saw so many (including myself) asking for the solution of this increasing regularity of errors...
now the question is, whether it should be raised only when umpires gets the big fish (in terms of size of innings purely) or at every such instance irrespective of what stage of innings batsman is at or who the batsman is...
coz it gets more serious if, imagine, happening to playerlike, say, Dinesh Karthik who is clearly struggling for form and one such bad decision can put an end to a promising career...
have your say...
That one finger...
shared by straight point on Tuesday, November 20, 2007
i got up early in the morning (in india) anticipating good fight back from SL, considering both sangakara and jayasurya were batting with positive intent and one of rare counter attack on oz bowling under so much of pressure...i was not disappointed either...
What an innings Sangakara was playing...arguably one of the best on oz soil till one dick head decided otherwise...to keep up his practice of raising finger...
i dont know how many great innings will be killed by these umpiring blunders...disgusting utterly disgusting....and homer too is rightly annoyed in his latest post when he points to utter hypocrisy of punter...
this is not single, rare or aloof incident...its happening quite regularly of late with countless examples (i just don't wanna go to pick data thinking we all see same game) and even more regularly down under (this is my personal opinion, although i know i am not alone) where best batsmen of opposition teams have had history of rough (in)decisions...
some where in a blog (i am so pissed off that i cant remember where) there was discussion going on that since the advent of neutral umpiring the home teams are getting more advantages...again no data to prove but we are getting close and close by each test/series...
one thing ICC have to get screwed in their mind is that people all over world watch game on tv or come to ground not to watch 'brilliant umpiring' but the contest between bat and ball and when you see a great innings gets killed this way you wonder why...why we can spend endless time in replays to judge whether fielder was touching rope or not...but then why on earth there can not be a reversal procedure to get over this shit...
what you think is the best way...
