what i learnt from pakistan's tour of england...

that, technically speaking, players can be suspended for bowling no-balls...

that henceforth any team that score slowly in two overs when they should be looking to 'up the ante' shall invite immediate investigation by icc...

that an unknown journalist's word carries more weight in icc's eye than the president of an associate board...

finally... icc is willing to run cricket at the whim and fancy of tabloids...

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symonds can still play next ashes...

all he needed was friends in dressing room who can help him out to the path of rehabilitation...what he got was turncoat colleagues waiting for slightest opportunity to make an issue out of it...

the dickhead he was...he too gave them the what they were waiting for...gleefully...

next we know he is heading back to his 'home' and promised us he won't keep mum...next few days are gonna be interesting...very interesting...

so is this the end of road for him...?

i don’t think so...

he should sign himself as kolpak player for england and target playing next ashes series...and kick the ass out of his 'friends'...

no i am serious...

they know how to handle players like symonds...right kp...flintoff...?

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now you know strauss...

how it feels...when honeymoon is over...even before it started...

how lonely things can be...at top...

why they call it crown full of thorns...

how dreams can turn in to 'ashes' in just one match...

i feel for you andrew strauss coz you are amongst few nice guys left in cricket these days...

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Three defeats...same mindsets...

we had three different results yesterday...

wi lost against oz...

kiwi lost against pomers...

and certainly...MIs 'lost it' against warne's RRC...

three defeats...same mindsets...

wi are talking about the positives they can take from the match...

to hell with positives...

they should say how hurting the defeat was...they should be kicking their own @sses...

here was a team, a team who is discovering the inhibitions against dominance they used to enjoy...

a real gutsy player who after getting hit on his head..stands again....scores a century for you...

and your bowlers drop you an honest effort away from famous victory...

what more motivation you want...

some are afraid of loosing...some are of winning...

same with kiwis...

they aptly displayed their age old nemesis...freezing at final hurdle...

all this is ridiculously predictive...

and what more you can say about MIs defeat against my adopted team...

that they are carrying forward the legacy of south africa...?

three close matches...and in all matches they were almost cruising...until that 'moment' stuck them...

i was having discussion with trideep of crickosphere...that it will be interesting to see how sachin will be captaining after taking over from pollock...

and last night confirmed my doubts...

i was taken back to oz tour he was captain of...

he looked so animated...his reaction after taking that catch...yelling on miss fields...bowling etc...throwing his hands in despair...all was same...as old sachin...

he puts enormous pressure on his colleagues being captain...to the point that they start doubting the very things they do good normally...at crucial juncture it always proves costly...

and last night was no different to MIs...

the calmness...the composure he brings to the side being just a player...is starkly opposite to when he dons captain's hat...suddenly he gets transformed in to different person altogether...

last time i used it for dhoni...but that was for positive assessment...

it shows that sachin has not moved an inch as far as captaincy goes...

three defeats...same mindsets...

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Test Cricket Health...

another boring draw on dead pitch and the knives are out...

every other voice is either mourning the death of test cricket or seeing it...

but to me test cricket is already in bad shape...

before you jump on me with already out knives...

please wait a moment...

zimbabwe aren't playing test cricket...i doubt (no, fear) they will...

bangladesh resolutely sticking to infancy level...

nz is exploring new lows every time they play test...

...and west indies ensuring there is a tough competition with nz even for this...

pak is either seeing tours getting canceled or busy issuing threats of doing same...

SL had most thrilling test series in oz where they at last found a man who can stand against them...

england recently invented a new cure of insomnia...but still won next best 'ashes' defeating nz...

pretty 'good' health i must say...isn't it...?

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