ask any fan across globe and he would say that this is THE series of modern era...
that game can't ask for better teams playing cricket on given day...
that how he would do whatever it takes to see this series live on tv...if not watching it in stadium...
but not DD...
for them it does not warrant this as case of being 'national importance'...
so we can see india playing timbuktoo live on DD coz that being ODI is perfect example of what it takes to be the case of national importance...
but india-oz TEST series...oh give us a break...we overheard DD official murmuring when asked...
how better it would have been...had somehow word ODI squeezed into this test series...to ring bells in their ears?
what about naming all tests played here, from now on, as...
UNLIMITED OVERS ODIs...
any takers?
suitably sleeping redux...
shared by straight point on Thursday, October 09, 2008
Some Gandhigiri and 'Brutal' Sehwag
shared by straight point on Friday, March 28, 2008
first of all let me try some 'Gandhigiri' here...
thanks to DD who thinks that test matches are of no 'national importance'...so we are privileged to see india playing some timbaktoo in an ODI but...
thanks to my cable tv guy...who just recently showed most explosive and most enthralling ODI series between SA and Bangladesh live on neo...but....
if you are feeling my sentiments (and frustration) than please send them a flower...from my side....they need it...
thanks in advance!!
back to sehwag...
apart from this is fastest triple hundred in test cricket history...
apart from he is only third batter other than sir don bradman and lara to have scored triple century more than once...
apart from the fact that his last 10 centuries are all above 150 (a feat achieved by no one in the history of test cricket)
apart from he has individally scored more than 250 in a day (highest being 273, when denis compton scored 273 in 1954) ...source cricinfo...
the most interesting aspects of sehwag's tripple hundred marathon innings ...to me...was how sehwag scored that crucial single after every big hit or two...
since i was following the match by cricinfo live commentary...there were numerous instances when sehwag scored a boundary or two followed by 'the single' ...
the way he was batting and the mood he was in he could have easily given in to the temptation of going for another...how he controlled that temptation and cooled himself off at non striker's end is something new to me as far as sehwag's approach to this innings goes...
watch out bowlers around world...its not only brutal force you have to cope with...but now you have to also cope with cool and calculated brutal force...he wont give it too easily...
once again congrats sehwag!! congrats india!! and congratulation to all cricket fans across world!!
but don't forget to send a flower...
cheers!!
