yawn... sp turned three...

though the state of personal affairs are not too different... but such is the state of this bored of odi series... that one could not keep up with one of the vital date of this blog...

sp turned three on october 20th, 2010...

i mean only a bored cricket crazy indian can miss the rare date like 20.10.2010 that too if it happense to be his blog's birthday... and shares his blog's birthday with the player one adores absolutely... virender sehwag... the jatman...

though hardly a surprise considering i once set up a bored meeting on the same date of my marriage anniversary!

a lot has remained constant in three years like my diffident self but one thing changed recently at sp which deserves a special mention... step in friend anil bisht of cricketUA fame... he gifted me such a beautiful header that now it has become the identity of sp...

thank you anil... without you i would have remained locked in the compulsive header changing mode till i burn myself with that insatiable itch...

and how can i go back to the waiting boredom before thanking you guys... the oxygen for sp...

so thank you for the continued support... without which the boredom of doing soliloquy with impulsive spurts of rants on cricket would have definitely killed me by now...

the pleasure of hosting you is all mine...

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sp on twitter...

one more change apart from changing header i have done is to open an account at twitter...

i am just feeling my way around twitter as its new to me and must say finding it bit on the face too... but i think i will be comfortable after a while... regulars at sp can also find me at...

www.twitter.com/straightpoint

i have also included the link at mast-head above...

see you at both places...

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season's greetings and some wishes...

here's wishing you merry christmas and happy new year...

best of wishes for you and your team for year 2010...

i wish...

• india becomes and then remain no. 1 in all forms of game...
• bcci shows more interest in scheduling tests...
• wisdom to cricket experts who blame lalit modi and bcci even for the leakage of latex they use...
• to see ponting getting banned for serial slow over rate crimes... junior broad for serial dissents...
  
• cure for the eyes of race blind match referees and umpires...
• revision of 'playing passionately for country...' law to include players from subcontinent too...
• cricket to never witness a lahore...
  

what's your wish... express yourself...

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sp turns two...

yes today is straight points 2nd birthday... no the new look is just the pretext of my insatiable itch to keep changing skin... so never mind...

blogsphere too is like cricket where mortals exists in the company of legends... so do sp... in spite of my struggle to complete even a sentence without an error in it... but thanks to you who overcome all these errors and still succeed in finding some 'straight points' on cricketing matters... its really a commendable effort... specially coming here after reading so many polished blog on cricket... its nothing but 'cultural' shock...

i started this blog with the encouragement and support from homer, ottayan and soulberry with an open mind and now after two years of blogging the mind has become so open that it has fallen apart... so though sp has turned two... i don't think, apart from the skins at sp, anything will change... either here or at BCC! where i blog too... gaurav of naked cricket and sometimes anil bisht of cricket ua (only non professional cricket cartoonist that i know) will keep on silently pointing mistakes... so whenever you feel... ah! at last here's one sentence from sp in which there isn't any error... you know whom to blaim...

sincere and heart felt thanks to you for the continued support in spite of my diffidencies... with the hope that you will continue to do so with your insightful inputs... comments... and observations...


update:
it has just struck to me that i unknowingly started blogging on the day when viru the jatman was born... my favorite player! so i share my blog birthday with the birthday of jatman... what a coincidence!

if you want to know more about jatman... do click here...

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please note...

i have been observing that straight point's feed is not coming quick enough in other blogs blogroll, we get mentioned in...and one of the reason is that many have still not updated SP's new address as www.straightpoints.com...instead of http://straightpoints.blogspot.com

it is therefore requested that you please update your blogroll accordingly...thanks in advance...

please ignore if you have already done it...

that's lots of 'please' and my today's quota for the same is over... :)

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the kid is one year old...

after learning the virtue of patience from fellow blogger VM...i kept restraining myself...first the match was going on...and later for the euphoria, of one of the most emphatic win of india on oz, to settle...

but now, its hard to control myself...so allow me...thanks!

SP got one year old on 20th october 2008...

its been pleasure to host you all at this little world of mine...

sincere and heartfelt thanks for the support...with the hope that you will continue to do so...

cheers!!

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a humble century...

after spending quite a few time in nervous nineties...got stuck in the crease...refused the temptation of crossing for a single for a while on ninety nine...but ultimately couldn't resist the temptation...

so here i am with a 100th post at Straight Points...and new look...

i hooked on to blogging by reading finest cricket blogs and started commenting on few of them...i used to marvel at in depth analysis...insight of article...the way they presented the thoughts...the argument...the command over language...medium...everything...

it was enlightening for me...

here was a world thriving on its own and i couldn't believe how ignorant i was...of its existence...

in no time it became more than pass time and i used to wait for the posts of blogs...started commenting on them and used to refresh the page impatiently to know what blogger has commented on return...

slowly i started to think how it would be if i have my own blog...but i had my own doubts...which are well documented here

while on one side the desire of having my own blog was refusing to go down...on another side were my inhibitions...

will some one pay visit...?
will i make myself laughing stock...?
and more importantly will i survive...?

that's why...though i created this blog on october 20th 2007...it took me almost a month to come up with my first real post...but after seeing encouraging comments from Homer's, Ottayan's and SoulBerry's on my welcome post i decided to take plunge...

i can not thank these three gentlemen enough who gave me the inspiration as well as encouragement...at the right time...

thanks again friends...even you don't know what you have done to me...
(now you know whom to blame for pestering you with one after another post)

in the journey i have made many friends...and i am sure that i will make many more...

and how can i forget to not mention BCCI (Bored Cricket Crazy Indians)...a place where i have seen and shared so much of cricketing nostalgia than ever...

thanks naked cricket for inventing this platform and for the inspirational idea...

once again...heartfelt, humble and sincere thanks to all of you who take moments out of your busy life to visit and comment here at Straight Points...and hope that you will continue to do so...

for my survival...

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Welcome Friends

I have started this blog to share some simple but straight points with you all...hope you will find this place worth visit again and again with your valued inputs and comments...

Thanks in advance...

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