If there's GOD.. its got to be Him...

39...!!


and counting..!!

Skipper.. U make me Proud..

If we played like champions today, it was due to the spirit you have inspired in the team.

RP Singh said it all when he said.."Its a gift to our Captain".

You do not need any introduction in the cricket hall of fame, and today, you are in my list of great leaders.

Winning is a habit, I hope, our guys develop it and mature to the champions they deserve to be.

Cricket.. Lives on...!!

This is a comment to an article, by an australian cricket enthusiast..


Posted by whits106 on January 08 2008, 04:42 AM GMT

Mr English, Once again you have written this story and told it how it is, and I applaud you. I am Australian, and I have not supported the Australian cricket team for some time due the many reasons which have become blatantly obvious to everyone finally. It's what i've been telling people for years. Ricky Ponting is following the old cliche "ignorance is bliss" and this proves it. The only reason he has never "run to the umpires" before is because no team has ever stood up to them, and thrown back at them what they have done for years. Untill now, and they don't like it. Aww, poor you Ricky, I have no sympathy for you or any of the team.

Kumble's men.

I have played enough Gully-Cricket, to see how the Australian team approaches the game.

Cricket they say is a Gentleman's game, and Ponting's dirty Aussies look adamant to prove this wrong. It is heartbreaking to see such accomplished cricketers become such dirty sportsmen.

But, i guess they never were a sporting side, be it healey, border, Waugh, Taylor(only gentleman in this extra ordinary league), Gilchrist and now ponting.

Our men, in stark contrast, have maintained such great dignity, my heart reaches out to them. If you have played cricket at any level, you would understand how it feels to be surrounded by a hostile fielding lineup, and maintain cool. I do not blame Bhajji, for what he did, though it was avoidable(imagine him coming up with a great performance after the incident). Nor do i blame the umpires, they being human can commit mistakes. I hold the Aussies responsible, for playing the game without any dignity.

I am sad we lost the match, but am very VERY proud that My team does not play cricket the Aussie way.

The Cheating Bastards.

Forget it Jumbo

Bowling O M R W Econ
RP Singh 21 3 108 4 5.14 (1nb)
I Sharma 17 2 65 0 3.82 (2nb, 3w)
SC Ganguly 6 1 13 0 2.16
Harbhajan 20 2 88 2 4.40
A Kumble 20 0 82 1 4.10
Tendulkar 5 0 14 0 2.80

With this sort of bowling, I'd be happy with a draw.

Jumbo-WIn..!! Please..!

WINNERS.. Kids

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt, wkt born 07/07/81)

Yuvraj Singh (born 12/12/81)

Virender Sehwag (born 20/10/78)

Harbhajan Singh (born 03/07/80)

Ajit Agarkar (born 04/12/77)

Dinesh Karthik (wkt, born 01/06/75)

Gautam Gambhir (born 14/10/81)

Robin Uthappa (born 11/11/85)

Joginder Sharma (born 23/10/83)

Yusuf Pathan (born 17/11/82)

Piyush Chawla (24/12/88)

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (06/02/83)

Irfan Pathan (27/10/84)

Rudra Pratap Singh (06/12/85)

Rohit Sharma (30/04/87)

WE WON pakis..Up u'rs..!!!!!!

India innings

India: 50 runs in 9.2 overs (58 balls), Extras 4

Rain: India - 68/4 in 10.3 overs (RV Uthappa 38, MS Dhoni 8)

Rain: India - 82/4 in 12.0 overs (RV Uthappa 50, MS Dhoni 10)

RV Uthappa: 50 off 38 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)

India: 100 runs in 15.4 overs (97 balls), Extras 5

Rain: India - 123/6 in 17.0 overs (MS Dhoni 30, Harbhajan Singh 1)
Innings Break: India - 141/9 in 20.0 overs (S Sreesanth 1)

Pakistan innings
Pakistan: 50 runs in 9.1 overs (60 balls), Extras 7

Pakistan: 100 runs in 16.5 overs (107 balls), Extras 8
Misbah-ul-Haq: 50 off 33 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6)
Bowl out as the match was tied
India win Bowl out 3-0

Even J.Archer couldnt write a better script.. and I loved the climax..!!
We won.. WE were lucky.. WE kept our nerves..!!

Gilli Danda

T20... how does it sound?? To me, it sounds like teen patti..!!

What are these guys upto?? Kerry packer did it first. He was the culprit, yes culprit for making the gentleman's game a vulgar copy of itself. The spirit of Cricket, played in a test match, its strategy, its tactics, its soul, the all white clothes, everything was lost. We learnt One day Cricket. And the masses came.. bringing in all the moolah.. making the custodians or shall i say controllers(second C in BCCI) of the game rich, and players famous. All and sundry joined the party. Crickters became demi gods. The competetion to get into playing eleven, or even selected 16, became far stiffer than getting into IIMa, or MIT for that matter.

Now greed rules. Players of the subcontinent play more matches in a year,than rest of the world put togather, may be in a decade.

This is the begenning of the end for ODIs. No one will watch a 10 hour game, if there was a 3 hour version of it. Cricket has shrunk like the hemline of celina jaitly's skirt.

Not all men like gracious saaree clad women, bikini sales are zooming..!!

Bye ODIs, Cool ur heels with the Great Test matches.

India won the match. I watched, in transfixed to the Tube. Sachin was playing his Oh so sleek square drive. He's a master of the sport. And am tempted to say, the sports of life too. Such elegance on and off the field, I sometimes find myself in awe of him(usually i do not find people special). How does he manages to maintain such a clean profile. Look at shane warne, imran khan, shoaib akhtar, kapil dev even, all have been into controversies. But Not Sachin. He lets the willow talk. U criticize me, and i'll smack a century in ur face, he seems to be saying.

SO he is our hero, while kambli, arguably a batsman of same class, no more gets to sign many autographs.

Not many celebreties are able to do this. So what is it that makes sachin so nice, all the time? My observation says..

1. Great upbringing by educated reasonably well to do parents.

2. Charecter.

3. Mental strength.

4. Focus on the game.

5. Rational approach towards life.

6. Never forgetting where he came from.

7. Value of hard work.

8. Honesty.

Little Master it seems is a master of all trades, and master blaster of one..!!!