australia is staring at...

...the possibility of toothless attack...

will johnson become the next brett lee...?

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How to diffuse a potential bomb...

if there is needed a text book example of how to diffuse a potentially explosive situation...everybody look no further but yesterday's match between oz and india...

specially 'left minded' players like sree, harbhajan, hayden, symonds, ponting etc...

i wanted to write oz players name first but wanted to sound impartial and also its my attempt for not being charged 'sarcastic point' so quickly again!!

when lee bowled that famous-by-now-unintentional beamer to sachin world cricket froze for few seconds...me for sure...

i started to fear worse.

first thought which came to my mind apart from sachin's well being was....is this the final nail on coffin of oz-india cricketing relations which are touching new heights of low by each day!!

how will sachin react...

but within next few seconds i was smiling again...

coz when binga came to him with customary apology (did he had any choice??) and offered sachin his hand sachin too shook hands with lee and there were smiles all around...

though with the benefit of hindsight...i wonder if he too had choice either for the fear of another 'unintentional' beamer ;-)

it took the character of sachin that the ticking bomb was diffused instantly...all moved on to cricket as if nothing happened...and my respect for sachin grew manifold...

but there lies the lesson to one and all...specially to those set of left minded players...

for we all know them coz they all have played great cricket and we all want to remember them exactly for the same reason...

is it too much to ask for...??

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Son is better than Father...

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...

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