sree kp...

while everybody is taking sides either with kp or ecb... one thing with which everyone seems to agree is that the kp-gate could have been managed better...behind closed doors...sans selective leaks...

since kp-gate is flooded with inane articles...for...against...i don't want to waste much time in adding my two cents...

having said that...however...i particularly liked shane warne's views that a parent body and captain should be capable enough to manage different personalities...characters...

that its not important to be liked by team mates...as every player in the team is there to do a job...and its the job of management to work around players to achieve team goals...

this is where strauss and ecb have failed in my view...

we too have a case here that desperately need attention and i genuinely feel dhoni in general and bcci in particular have failed in managing a career...

sree santh's...

he is a character...he can be a drama queen...he can be all this and that...

but he can bowl...

when he bowls...the upright seam and swing is a delight...not only to fans but purists alike...

he might pump fists returning back to his mark...he might appeal a bit long laced with drama...he might stare a batsmen on his follow through...but he is not the first bowler to do that...he will not be the last bowler to do that...

he can go overboard at times...but one thing which is clear and indisputable...he wants wickets with every ball he bowls...he is an attacking bowler with a heart...

he is what we see...but we don't necessarily see what he is...

if only he is not judged by his every expression...every flux of his muscle...every delivery he bowls...his every move on and off field...

if only we don't follow him like he is a terrorist that can explode a bomb any minute...we might still able to save a career...

a bowler who can bowl...a bowler that team india needs so desperately...but don't want to admit...

i hope and wish that when he makes a comeback...he would be given due space but more importantly the management will do away with the glasses tinted with skepticism whenever he is around...

ps: thanks balajhi of @nbalajhi to rekindle that old flame on twitter...

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ipl controversy vs stanford fiasco...

since the inception... ipl is consistently accused for brazen display of wealth... even the fines that were slapped on captains for slow over rates were seen as nothing but another attempt to display its wealth and how cash rich is ipl by so called experts...

so by that token... what you would say about $20m on display like this...? charity...?

lalit modi has been accused of having and talking to two phones simultaneously... poor guy... if only he knew the art of keeping his hands free and invited wife of a cricketer to sit on his lap...




ED and IT department are after the murky dealings... source of finances... and money laundering in ipl... even after the witch hunt to find something fishy... the best govt has come up so far is to declare the balance sheets of franchisees are in order and that no company has given sweat equity to anyone...

but what about this...?




even after the source of finances, in this case allen stanford, who had the murkier past even before going in dealing with ecb... was arrested for the fraud and money laundering... no head rolled in ecb... infact giles clarke, the chairman of ecb, refused to resign after the standford fiasco... and still continues as the one...

oh! i got it now... with the arrest of stanford... everything in the ecb and its dealings of '$20m a match t20 tournament' with stanford got automatically cleaned up...so why should have giles clarke resigned... right...?

update:

thanks to friends and fellow bored members namya and homer... who directed me to this brilliant piece of cricket journalism...

The ECB might not have needed much encouragement to jump into the arms of Allen Stanford but it was Modi who pushed them there. The Sri Lankan board has largely lost control of its players, whom it cannot play anything like as well as the IPL. West Indies cricket continues to fragment as some of its best players seem to barely want to bother turning up for “national” duty.

aha... now i know why giles clarke not resigned... now i know why these poor ecb chaps made their cricketer's wives sit on saint stanford's lap... what else but the mother-of-all-cricketing-problems ipl... thanks for enlightening me friends...

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why this sudden enlightenment...?

it could get dark by 3:30 pm in guwahati...

why this sudden realisation KP...?

when the itinerary of the ODI series was being finalised between BCCI and ECB...what were your officials doing then...counting the dollars of stanford's to save 'west indies cricket'...?

now don't blame BCCI for it...they never pretend being professional...


(कृपया हिन्दी अनुवाद के लिए नीचे दिए हुए लिंक 'ट्रांसलेट' पर दबायें...)

गुवाहाटी में दिन के साढ़े तीन बजे ही अँधेरा हो सकता है...

यह दिव्य ज्ञान आपको अचानक कहाँ से प्राप्त हुआ केपी...

जब इस एक दिनी मैच की श्रंखला के दौरे का कार्यक्रम बी.सी.सी.ई व ई.सी.बी के बीच निर्धारित किया जा रहा था...तब आप के अधिकारीगण क्या स्टैनफोरड़ के द्वारा 'वेस्ट इन्डीस क्रिकेट' को बचाने के लिए दिए हुए डालर गिन रहे थे?

अब कृपया बी.सी.सी.ई को तो दोष नही दीजियेगा...वो कभी भी पेशेवर होने का दावा नही करते...

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