warm-up games were better in my days...

so, it seems, we have seen apple falling from tree and discovered the law of gravity...

the parallel of above analogy for team india's beyond dismal performance has boiled down to warm up games...

even the bcci has seen the light and asked for one more warm-up game before the boxing day test... and lo... all team india being slow starter problem will be solved... 

this thought it so nobel and yet so simple that i am surprised how we missed it...?

more warm-up games...

i am sure (not even) the second xi players (which is a norm now for warm up games) will give enough match practice to our team... they will indeed push us so hard that we will be properly warmed before the boxing day test... never mind the fact that if that was the case... we would have been giving the same medical treatment to england team by now that we have been receiving... from the second test onwards...

this reminds me of what gary kirsten said in his last public appearance before he took the offer of coaching south africa team...

Kirsten thought before he joined the team, the Indian team did not know how to prepare for a game.

“If I had to rate it out of 10, I thought the way the Indian players practised was about 1 or 2. Basically, what I realised was there was no connection between preparation and play. We just upped the ante on our preparation and we had real purpose to everything we did and then the Indian team probably became the hardest working and preparation team in the world. From 2 we went to 7 or 8.”

are we missing a real story here...?

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can a tournament have finals played even before it starts...?

the buffoons at icc have done just that...

if they were thinking that its just another warm up match then they don't even know what happens when two fiercest of rivals play on the ground...

they just don't play cricket...they live cricket...and with them the fans...the followers...you and me...many skip heart beats...everything else just seizes to exist...

yes guys i am talking about indo-pak 'warm up' match...

in fact at bored the game has already begun...

like icc i hope you won't risk it thinking its just another warm up game...




do join us at BCC!...lets come together...

lets live the moment in the company of those who know what it means...lets live the moment in the company of friends...defying borders...created by others...

so...see you all...at bored...where else...

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lessons learnt from first warm up game...

- first warm up game...india vs new zealand...

1. our bowlers avoid using head in death overs...
   
2. fielding is as pathetic as before...robbing singh will enjoy england doing nothing...as usual...
   
3. rohit opening - no one is indispensable...
   
4. gambhir on current form - highly dispensable...
   
5. dhoni continues to over rate himself...
   
   (his stumping was most embarrassing dismissal i have seen of late of a front line batsman...i mean how he missed the line...while the ball was going towards leg...he continued to charge on off side...)
   
   
6. yousuf pathan can perform only when warne's around...
   
   (mean what was he doing...he acted like as if he was out on a death row...specially when he tonked the same bowler in ipl with effortless ease...)
   
   
7. irfan pathan - one of the most lucky guy playing at international level...

p.s. som...you have my company now... :)

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