when asked how you feel playing under warne...kamran akmal's prompt reply summed up everthing for me...
'itnaa bada khiladi hai ke achcha perform karney ka mann karta hai...'
(loosely translated - he is such a great player that you really want to perform well for him)
warne showed to world...what we were missing when he could not captain australia...
he won by playing what really can be called 'hard and fair"...
there was no chest thumping...no 'worked up' aggression...no disrespect to opposition...and still he won...and how...
this is the biggest lesson for all these newbies and some seniors too...who think that aggression is showing histrionics on field....swearing at opponent with choicest explicits.....
yes sir, you can still win matches...and we are not talking about 50's cricket here mr punter...
i hope the message is clearly conveyed...to one and all...
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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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The list of players realizing their dreams through IPL is getting bigger...and better...
last night Shane Warne was the latest addition to the list...
you may argue that for hardcore professional like warne what could possibly be left there for him to achieve...
then you most probably didn't saw the jubilation after he hit six of second last ball...
most remember him best captain australia never had...
you guessed it right, its the 'captain' shane i am talking about...
though he has captained hampshire earlier...but captaining in IPL carnival...besides so many international stars...its different ball game altogether...
...with humble but gritty team at his disposal...he is making them look like winners when nobody gave them a hoot...
any other team would have melted against the storm of roy innings (like royally challenged did against brendon's) but he had other ideas...
starting from the introduction of pathan to halt the gilly storm...to hitting the six off second last ball...it was the high voltage stuff...
last night he had a match many captain only dreams off...but rarely comes true...
...and the best part is....its only the start...
way to go shane!!
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