bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang!!!!!

take a bow yuvraj...take a bow...!!!

in history he was the prey..... but today he emerges out as a big hunter...!!!!

six sixes in a row.... sounded like this from the words of the commentators....

bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang!!!

this is how it started ....

stuart broad was the victim.... he was bowling the 19th over of the innings.... and

first ball: bang!!! straight over the long on...massive six... (105 m)he might have thought that he had the biggest six of the tournament but who cares.... it got the runs it needed to...

second ball: bang!!! just a flick of his legs and gone for a six... shortest of all these sixes...

third ball: bang!!! moves to his right and way she goes over the extra cover.... the sound of the timber was melodious.... that's yuvraj style....

fourth ball: bang!!! moves to the right again and steers it over backward point.... my goodness.... i thought only sehwag could do that.... now it's yuvraj...

fifth ball: bang!!! yuvraj sits on his knees and bludgeons it over the midwicket... and the ball just sails over the fence... poor ball... must have some pain... if it were alive...

sixth ball: bang!!! yuvi looks at mascrenhas and remembers the day... when he was ripped apart by those 5 consecutive sixes... and as broad approaches wid the ball in his hands... yuvraj waits for his moment and off she goes again... this time over mid on... handsomely executed....

thats it... yuvraj is a hero for india... sets a new record ....never in the history of cricket has it been done in the international format....

both the captains at the end of the game ...accept that..this over..made the difference...india won by 18 runs eventually... and keeps alive the hopes of it reaching the semifinals of the first ever t-20 cricket world cup...

A good beginning is half done...."only half done"...

"forget greatness, for it eludes the most talented. It is the ability of a player to convert every single drop of potential into performance that makes him a better player..."

it looks like good statement...doesn't it.... ??... read that from the last week sportstar weekly...

but i wonder why.... indian cricketers never realised this... do they feel that ... they have been there and done that... when they won the test series....??

It would be a cliche to say that... indian players are sloppy in the field... but would it be the same... i mean shud it be the same... wid new forms of the game ... being brought in to the system...??.....

the commentators say that india has a batting line up formidable than most better teams in the world...

three of the top four batsmen in the order ..have put together 35,000+ runs.... isn't it wonderful on paper...but games or not won on paper ... they are won on this ring kind of thing with 11 players grappling every single moment to show their potential....


The last match between india and england.. once again shows....how poor finishers...indians are...
i remember a tour against sri lanka... when india lost almost all the matches... having had a great start.... this shows how complacent we are...

because we believe... that the opposition batting line up is merely 6-7 players... and the rest are trivial... we seldom see ..these so-thought "trivial" players do more than bad in any odi...
forget bad... they have done quite good... and why does this happen...??


A question to brood over....!!!!

interesting qoute...

was reading a book... and found an interesting quote... jus wanted to share wid u ppl...

Don't try to achieve the highest point on the mountain of money... as the amount of oxygen available decreases with your ascent... even on this mountain....

escape velocity

u blokes must have heard about... or read about the escape velocity of a body .....

if u haven't.......... here is a brief intro....

it is the velocity with which a body is to be projected such that the body escapes out of the gravitational field of the earth...( i think this is how i remember it... if there is any mistake pls bear wid me... banda physics mein weak hein)...

i have been reading this book by mr. mani bhaumik... called the "CODE NAME GOD"... which talks about the spiritual journey of a scientist.

he says that every man/woman has a black hole... or a kind of magnetic field which drags u back to the abyss. ... and prevents u from doing something.....even light cant escape from it...

but he then says that ...perseverance....and luck..... do propell u wid that "escape velocity" that helps u get out of that black hole...

the author makes great sense of the mass-energy equivalence stated by Einstein ( or the famous e=m*c*c)....

for every other scientist it's an equation wid great importance in the preparation of a nuclear bomb..or blah blah....

but for him... it turns out be this way...

" religion without science is blind.....and science without religion is lame..."

for me the book really did mean nothing untill i reached the second half of the book... but now i am extracting some sense out of it...


ok ...ok.. enuf of that book... coming bac to the escape velocity....

i can correlate myself... to it... atleast now... may be wgl is like a black hole...and i am dragged back to it... even after graduating...five months back....

hope i get that luck ... that gives that escape velocity to spew me out of this black hole....

abysmal....

argh...!!!!... what a way to lose an odi after an emphatic win in the test series....

yesterday's game sure showed us what india lacked....in many fields... their performance was abysmal.(compared to their earlier performances)

the so called "youthful and young" team struggled to prevent england from being so mobile between the wickets... and what not..... like adding insult to injury.... three runouts...

god save india...!!!... they were ambling on the field... in between the wickets... atleast in the modern era of the game ...it is blasphemous...

earlier in the game... ian chappel was commenting on the england's skipper's dubious decision of sending in ian bell at 3rd......rather than kevin or freddy..

but bell lived to upto his captain's expectations and delivered well... though england wud have made 300+ if kevin or freddy was sent in ... (in case they played well)... it wud have hardly mattered.... because.. india really cracked under pressure...

so it was a game ... errr... a lesson for india.....


in my opinion...they also goofed it up... by sending the players in order after saurav was out... i wud have preferred the jubiliant karthik to be sent in ...first rather ...than any other...

poor chap was sent in when india needed so many runs on the board... still he did his part...

i wud love to see him promoted up the order for the rest of the odi's .... atleast....


Hope india comes up with a good performance in the coming odi's.....

come on india.!!!!!!!.. u are a better team...than this...

Chak de! india... Chak de!....

finally....

It's another gift to the indian fans... on the eve of the independence day.... (literally india won independence from the english... 60 years ago .... and they have done something similar here in england today)

finally india register a victory on the English soil.... after 21 yrs.... their hard work and toil was well paid....

Though india could have made this certain victory more memorable by winning the 3rd test match.. it is quite good to have a trophy with u.... at the end of the series....

the series was memorable for many players.... zaheer... (man of the series)..with 18 wickets .... rp singh and sreeshanth.... taking enuf wickets to prove their proficiency....

the top order...the nawab (wasim jaffer) and karthik....came out with flying colors.... and the middle order did their work too... with some good knocks....

at the end of the day... no one had a complaint that they missed out a part in this victory....

what is more commendable is that, india won a test series abroad with out a full-time coach .... and moreover...india looked like a complete team in this series....

good luck india .......for the one- dayers.... and hearty congratulations to every indian fan out there....

chak de....

chak de ! india....

great movie dudes....!!!! a movie worth watching by every indian..... a great gift to all the indians on the eve of 60 years of their independence.....

sharukh's acting was exemplary....

a right blend of patriotism...plot and comedy.... a right message to all those who show a blind eye to the national sport..... an unprecedented way of expressing the need to unite....

that the country is above all states...above all relations.... and above all people.....

a movie that involves every indian... in the game.... makes you feel that u are in every stadium to watch the game....


what are u folks waiting for .... go watch the movie... and be proud to be an indian....