For about an hour, I cheered the Bermuda team on! They hit a few runs and then bowled 3 Bangladeshis out for next to nothing and a faint glimmer of hope appeared on the Indian team’s horizon. It was all a bit improbable, but for that one hour, I spent time at Footsie, with bunch of maniacs, following a Bermuda Vs Bangadesh game, egging the Islanders on… and I loved it.
Hope, is a wonderful thing.
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Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined our cricket crazy country would follow a Bangladesh Vs Bermuda match, ball by ball. I suspect that might very well be the case in a few hours from now.
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Oh well!
50 Overs, 413-5, 18 Sixes, a Sehwag century, a Dada bash, a Yuvraj massacare and a Sachin of old.
Was it fun? Oh hell yeah!
Oh and did I mention the largest margin of victory ever in ODI’s? 257 runs!
Can’t wait till we take on the Lankans.
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Alrightey then.
Not much to say other than the fact that I loved the way the Bangaldeshis took the game away from us. I had never heard of Tamim Iqbal, Mushfiqur Rahim, Saqibul Hassan and Mashrage Mortaza before but now I will follow the rest of their careers with great interest. Especially young Tamim Iqbal - what a blithe spirit!
It’s a bit galling that a 17 yr old, an 18 yr old and a 19 yr old has beaten a team that had 3 players who have scored more than 10000 ODI runs. Anyways, life goes on and so do those horrible TV ads that star our cricketers.
Blue, is truly the color. Nahi Ladega toh Nahi Jeetega.
Now, if blue ruled one channel, it was green all the day the other channel. It was St. Paddy’s Day and the Irish were in awesome form on and off the field against Pakistan. If you thought India Vs Bangladesh was a bit weird, this match was completely ridiculous. The Barmy Army finally has competition from The Blarney Army and the stands were a sea of green in clover. I also Brian Jerling give Andre Bota out - the worst decision I had ever seen since my bad decision to get married. Incredible, even Stevie Wonder would have given that as not out. The Bangladeshis were very muted with their celebrations, just a few hi-fives and handshakes all around which was very much in contrast to what those mad Micks did when they finally beat the Pakis. Incredible. The largest World Cup ever has now become the most open World Cup ever. Good stuff.
And finally, Scarlet was the color in Australia as F1 2007 got underway. Kimi in his new Ferrari clockied up their first wins of the season. Perfect, I say.
Just over 30 overs, India Vs Bangladesh, I find the Indians labouring along at the speed-of-Inzy, scratching 90 runs in the said time after having lost 4 wickets. Incredible. Having seen how the top 4 went, I am inclined to think Greg Chapel isn’t going to be saying too much to the newspapers and Sunil Gavaskar isn’t going to say too much about the Aussies anymore.
I don’t think the Bangladeshis will beat us, however, having said that I’m not counting the possibility out. THEN how important does the Sri Lanka match become for us?
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Yes, we know the Aussies sledge and ‘abuse‘ opponents. Boo-f00ken-hoo.
SMG now says, and I quote ‘’a ‘hot head guy’ might actually whack the Australian cricketers if they dared replicate their on-field behaviour in a bar'’.
Mr. G, I would like to see any hot head guy try and pick on Haydos or Symonds. Or maybe they would have liked to pick on the small feller, Langer, who I think, happened to be a black belt at Tai-chi or Judo or something similar.
Mr.G, who once, many moons ago decided to walk off the field because he was ‘wrongly‘ given out to Dennis Lillee, now says he walked because he was ‘abused’ by the Aussies. Bet you ten bucks he has no idea what a stiff-upper-lip is!
And lastly - the Aussies abuse? And sledge? Mr.G, you simply MUST watch the first ball Zaheer Khan bowled to Haydos in the last Cup final. He bowled it, beat Haydos and then proceeded to have a chirp. I am not a lip reader but I know Zaheer wasn’t asking Haydos if he wanted a side order of fries to go with that. I remember clearly, the Aussies abusing us back. With their bats. Especially Punter. Haah!
The Aussies sledge and get some back in return. Why, legend has it that Parthiv Patel had a go at Steve Waugh in his final test innings - it was another matter altogether that Parthiv Patel didn’t have anything to say after Waugh’s retort.
SMG - You were a great. You scored a 34 Test hundreds. You were the first person to get to 10000 test runs. Great. You even had an ugly skull cap. Hurrah. Now, pipe down son, the games are on!
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Another day, another match and another World Cup. Yes, I know it was just a practice game but what in the heaven’s name was Sehwag trying to do? Did I mention Another Duck? Are his days numbered?
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Even the greatest Bong scriptwriter couldn’t have written it better. One day I have no doubt Bhapi-daa will sing a song about The Ganguly Comeback. It is another story the song will go ‘you are my lobhar, while hitting it above cobhar’….
The Dada is back and I am glad the IT bidness has kept Ughs very busy, because of which I have been spared those nya-nya-nya-nya-i-told-yu-so posts.
He batted like a dream, fielded like a Kaif-on-one-hamstring (which is still way better than how he used to field) and in a space of a couple of months has emerged as our next great hope for the World Cup. His new found humility is a pleasant surprise. Can’t wait to see more.
For old times sake :-
S Ganguly, S Tendulkar, V Sehwag, R Dravid, Y Singh, M Dhoni, I Pathan, H Singh, Z Khan, A Kumble and S Sreesanth.
Hoo Boy - Just bring it !!! If that doesn’t bring the Cup home, nothing else will.
More Later,
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Yes - it was Baroda.
Yes - it was the morning.
Yes - the wicket was a freaken featherbed.
Yes - we WERE playing in India.
Yes - all the fans screamed themselves hoarse.
Yes - we might still lose.
Yes - but oh, what fun.
Bottom line :
R Uthapa 28
S Ganguly 68 (Well done him!!)
R Dravid 78 (whoo hoo whoo hooo hooo)
S Tendulkar 100* YU BEWDY
M Dhoni 40* (punched them silly)
India 341-3
Like I said - Oh what fun!
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