i have never played competitive cricket beyond club level... in my school and college days i used to be a decent opener and reasonable off spinner...
i have never seen test cricket live from the ground... not even an one day international... just couple of first class games and some ipl games...
i don't even know if i can even bowl a decent bowl at international level... or even face a worst international bowler...
but i do dare to blog on cricket...
i said dare... coz these days, whenever i feel disappointed about certain aspects of team india performances... try to argue a cricket point... i am forced to shut up...
the words are being invented to describe my sheer ineptness...
ipl chastity protector...
twitter trigger happy fan...
the world's no.1 cricket team fan...
a keyboard warrior..
i have been made to stand on the desk... "how dare you question the decision of team management... do you even understand how difficult it was...?"
"you armchair pundit... you twitter happy fan... you pass judgement sitting on lounge in the comforts of your home... do you even know what it takes to face a 90mph ball snorting at your face...?"
i am losing confidence now...
for i know the next time i even show slightest disappointment or try to make a point... they, those have the grip of international cricket, would bludgeon me to submission using truck loads of stats as sticks to show me how it was not possible and how your observation lacked any cricketing sense coz of your background...
although most of them too have not faced a single dross of ishant... never shared a dressing room with players... never been a part of team management... but who are we to question them...?
they are the ones who have been bestowed by almighty to set the guidelines that would tell me when to feel disappointed or elated with performances of individual player or team... i dearly follow...
suddenly my observations, however genuine (obviously from my point only), have lost the right to be well argued... or dissented in conclusion... and to show my daredevilry and sheer ineptitude its necessary to call me names...
please save me and my blog...
i used to be a simple fan of team india... and believe me when i say that it is not my fault that the team i used to follow, that was not even in cricket radar not many years back, has now become world no.1 ranked test team...
or is there already a name been invented for my predicament...?
please save my blog...
shared by straight point on Sunday, July 17, 2011
DRS is full proof...
shared by straight point on Saturday, July 02, 2011
the problem is with us who can't see its success...
ever since the DRS was conceived it has been 100% successful... its a myth that DRS was conceived to prevent obvious howlers... no it was not...
if that was the case a third umpire could have simply whispered gently into the on-field umpires' ear "mate you have made a howler there..."
but that would have been too simple... too silent and so nonchalant...
bet bureaucracy to come up with system that tries to catch right ear with left hand from the back of head... hence the DRS in its current state...
so the teams were given only two chance to overcome so called 'howlers' and after that left on the mercies on same 'harpers' to cry over them...
the drama was ensured... when DRS was implemented... and even when not... the spot light was conveniently shifted from the ineptness of on-field umpires to the ineptness of teams to use the DRS...
now nobody cuss umpires who make howlers anymore... but the teams who are inapt at handling DRS...
fans, pundits alike have burned and will continue to burn midnight oil to give their two cents on DRS... cameras will continue to strip umpires off their whites... will continue to provide fodder to commentators... pundits and fans alike to engage on duels...
in any case broadcaster are laughing all the way to bank for they have got the tool that can inflate emotions... flare tempers... act as trigger to initiate endless duels...
DRS continue to polarise world... to the extent that if you are not with DRS... you are against cricket...
there is a saying in hindi... "jooari jeetay ya na jeetay... par jooaa khilaane waala hamesha jeetta hai..."
(those who gamble may or may not win... but the one who provide the gambling platform always win...)
do you still think DRS is a failure...?
why runner for batsman...?
shared by straight point on Wednesday, June 01, 2011
the most common reason given against discrimination of providing batsman a runner is... even bowlers get injured but an injured batsman is allowed to keep batting with a runner...
now visualise this scenario...
a runner is allowed to finish run-up for an injured bowler...
the absurdity of above visual is enough to give you clue why an injured batsman is allowed a runner... amongst other sane reasons...
what i learnt from pakistan's tour of england...
shared by straight point on Friday, September 24, 2010
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...
why you want to shift attention...?
shared by straight point on Saturday, September 11, 2010
look around almost everybody is welcoming champions league (CLT20) as the savior of cricket... the much needed refreshing shift of attention cricket needed from spot fixing saga...
why we would want to shift attention from spot-fixing when the time is ripe to nip it in the bud...?
why you want to just do the first aid with supporting dose of painkiller to do away the pain when its really is the time to operate...?
painkillers never heal the wound... the faith that was the first and biggest casualty... painkillers just takes the pain of being cheated away from us... the attention gets diverted and this is exactly what the incompetent authorities are waiting for... the moment the attention is shifted they will pounce on the opportunity to create the illusion of action...
they will keep on throwing painkillers like a bait to fans hoping to get much needed time for negotiations to appease and protect their vested interests and we as fan would keep on falling to these baits coz they know we don't have options...
but if ever there was time ripe for over-reactions in cricket... this is the time...
cricket will be played... there won't be dearth of it... the upcoming season is full of it... and as a fan i am ready to do away with some of the side shows that are being run in the name of cricket, the pundits are already proclaiming as welcome shift of attention, if it leads to some concrete, if not conclusive, actions to restore the lost faith...
growing racism in cricket...
shared by straight point on Wednesday, December 16, 2009
no i am not talking about this racist incident against pakistan team... though one could very well imagine the uproar this news would have created had this happened to a visiting team in pakistan or for that matter subcontinent...
but here i am talking about the comment posted in cricinfo commentary during tea of first south africa vs england test being played at centurion...
It's been a fascinating first day and has clearly pleased someone calling himself KP "After 400-run test days; 800-run one-days here in India, its so eye-soothing; sense-fulfilling to see decent bowling; pitches with some life. Whoa! This year will be remembered for some splendid tests; so many dull ones. Hope Centurion belongs to the former."
here i am not against lavishing praise for the ongoing test pitch or bowling... but i am against this growing cricracism that every thing good has to be compulsory equated with cricketing 'filth' that is happening in india... to highlight the disparity... even if there is no obvious link...
but then why come sense of perspective come in way of india bashing...?
last time, i remember, when 400 runs were scored in a day of a test match... it happened in england... when england scored them against australia during 2005 ashes... the first time 800 runs or more were scored in a day in one day international match... that was played on south africa soil... and both time it was praised as the celebration of attacking and exciting cricket at its best... and rightly so...
but when the same happened in india... it must be discarded as dull cricket without ever feeling the need to check things... to make an example out of that...
these so called 'experts' can go to any length to achieve pre-conceived conclusions... to give you few examples...
india can not be no. 1 in test ranking coz we 'choked' in the hyderabad one day match... or we can not justify being no. 1 coz we don't have a star fast bowler...
so when india scores 400 runs in a day of a test... when one of india's proudest son scores almost 300 runs in a day... we are accused of taking or replicating one day cricket to tests...
or when 800 or more runs got scored in a day of one day international in india... it is anything but dull cricket at its yawning worst...
these jaundiced eyes suffering from the eye-flue called cricracism refuses to see beyond paleness blocking their 'vision' that this is not the first time it has happened in a test or one day cricket and certainly won't be last irrespective of where it will happen...
but then again... why reason come in way when you can attract cheap eye-balls by practicing racism in the name of cricket and cricket journalism...?
