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Indian Cricket Team after World Cup 2007 |
After India has been shown the back door in this world cup, I have been enjoying a lot of funny sms jokes and email forwards on the Indian Cricket Team. Along with me many cricket fans are expressing their grief with comedy. As for the players themselves, they may not find any of it funny.
Here is one email forward that is making rounds on the net… :P
Indian Team after World Cup 2007:
Lets do it in the batting order: ;)
Virendra Sehwag
Robin Uthappa
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Bravo India! Bravo! |
What an innings! Marvelous batting performance from India today. Bravo to India and no Bravo to West Indies ;) (I dont think though that he would have changed the equation).
I skipped college for some work and a meeting while just didnt realise that the match today wsnt a Day and Nighter. Luckily happened to put my TV set on and saw India paving away to a 300+ score with a flashy batting performance. I postponed my meeting to afternoon.. something in me told that there were fire crackers right ahead in the innings. Missed Sourav Ganguly’s batting again…but his solid 68 certainly set the right mood today.
Everything was like in order for India. Every batsman chipped in with what was expected of him. Be it Robin Uthappa, Ganguly, Dravid(with a 78 runs knock), Sachin or Dhoni, nothing went wrong for India today, and I hope it never does… they have got a pretty much balanced batting line-up now. Just loved to see Dhoni rock the Windies bowling attack with his wristy sixers that helped India get an impressive 107 of the last 10 overs. But the most exciting part was Sachin’s thrilling 100(of 76 balls). He was on 89 and with the last 5 balls to go, if you were praying anything else than for his tonne, you must be kidding me!
Lets see howz the bowling performance from India. I hope Irfan Pathan is back in form today. Though the track is supposed to be flat and not much a help for the bowlers, you still dont have an excuse. Atleast the Windies dont when they have given away a whooping 341 to India. Supposed to be the highest score against the West Indies by any team till date.
Don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but India is certainly on the right track to being a contender for the forth coming world cup. Their batting is just BANG ON!
UPDATE: Yippee! India bowl out the Windies for 181 and clinch a 3-1 series win!
N.B.: This post has got kicking one of my older posts. If you too want to join the debate of who will take away the world cup (India or Australia)… click here: http://www.aseemn.org/posts/yellow-yellow-dirty-fellow/
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Aakhir kab aayega India??? |
Yet another series… yet another poor show by Indian batsmen (or should I say NO SHOW?) Chasing a competitive target of 249, India could not even bat for 30 overs and were bowled out for just about 36% of the runs required :(
Here is the Indian batting score card of the second one dayer just over:
I do not have much complains with the not so great bowling, countless instances of misfields India has been into… but the miserable state of their batiing, no excuses whatsoever.
Guys atleast play for the money that you will earn from commercials! (which will come your way only if you play good). Whats the point in boasting your cricketing potential in stupid commercials?
Makasam Pepsi ne ek aur baar vo ‘Aaya India’ lagaya na sau saal mein unko jo ghata nahin hua vo ab hoga!
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Yellow Yellow Dirty Fellow |
There certainly is a lot more to this title than just the rhyme…The Australian team has yet again ‘showcased’ their rude and arrogant behaviour along with the Champions trophy they bagged after beating the Windies by eight wickets. A welcome win that has certainly come after a long five attempts but has brought along bad taste to the event.
On this sunday, during the prize distribution ceremony of the Champions Trophy, I guess the Australians were too excited and overjoyed to realise whos-who. They certainly forgot that they were the ambassadors of their country, representing it here in India and that Mr. Sharad Pawar was the top official of the BCCI here in India. Sharad Pawar much a political man, might have preferred to do what comes naturally to politicians – being diplomatic, at this by overlooking the act. But it deserves a strong frown to convey the Ausies that they have done the wrong.
What happened???: Ricky Ponting was too excited about getting the trophy, so he taps the shoulders of BCCI president Sharad Pawar and gestures to present the trophy. (Bah! May be suggesting that… Indians didn’t deserve it. We never said we did.) Then he pushes him aside for the photoshoot with the trophy. Damien Martyn joined the party too. He also nudged Sharad Pawar to move off-stage. Poor guy confused… found it even difficult to move around the mess, and finally moved away from the stage after being pushed off disrespectfully by Damien Martyn.
Watch the video:
How bad an example for budding cricketers to follow. If this is what Champions do, thank god India dosn’t figure out there. As a cricketer you should be a gentleman. You should know how to behave on-field as well as off-field. I still remember and appreciate Steve Waugh. What a gentleman he was. Not like these crazy immature freaks who do not know how to respect the elders.
Some might really tag it as “a blasphemous and racist act” while others might want to call it “making mountain of a molehill”. But to me this is yet another boorish behaviour that the present Australian Team has showcased. Thanks for letting us know that we are looking upto an uncilivilised and looks like even illiterate champions. Anyways, now that Ricky Ponting has showed an intent to apologise for the act it might turn down a little of the flak they have received from the Indian Media.
But believe me… winning has gone into the nuts of these nuts! Oh I mean brains of these nuts! ;) How analogous in their case otherwise…
Here are a couple of pics of what happened.
a) Ponting gesturing at Sharad Pawar to give the trophy.
b) Damien Martin pushing Sharad pawar off the stage.
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Kyun Bedi-yon se jakada hai Cricket??? |
Did the title remind you of Mandira Bedi? Hey man, then you are just on the right track! By any chance if you are a die-hard fan of her histrionics in ‘Shanti’ or a huge admirer of her off shoulder designer costumes please move ahead at your own discretion. Don’t blame me later for hurting your sentiments. ;)
All those who follow cricket more than just being a fan, might have already expressed their misery to watch and hear the ‘Extraa’ loquacious Mandira Bedi on the ‘Extraa Innings’ show on SEX MAX (Oops! Sorry!) its… SET MAX :lol:. With their new TRP increase formula in play titled ‘Entertainment weds Cricket’, they might have managed to get a mastodonic increase in the number of dumb folks watching their show (if not cricket), but upset the genuine interested. Their hot number for this formula – Mandira Bedi, simply adds misplaced sex appeal to some serious talk on cricket.
Its so over-fatuous to sit in front of your television set and hear to all her pakau-bakwas. She tries desperately to give her ‘expert’ and ‘exclusive’ comments on cricket based on some ‘Gully Cricket’ she once played, again thanks to Max TV for organising this promotional activity featuring her.
So what really is this femme fatale bimbette good at? With due respect to the gender she belongs to, belive me she is good for nothing to be on cricket shows. For a model of her glamour and beauty (ok, kept a little scope for any of her fans to smile if they had skipped para one), she should have been at some beauty peagent contest or may be on the ramp displaying some new Ritu Beri collection. Not here displaying her imbecile cricketing brain and her wrinkle lift creamed skin. ;)
To India, cricket means passion. We do not need an oomph girl Mandira Bedi or a cheese boy Rohit Roy on the sets of cricket discussion. Where we would like to hear some serious talk, match analysis, cricketing strategies and techniques. Not the howling, screaming and nonsense chatter of Mandira Bedi and more of her breed who may be waiting to get introduced, now impressed with their role model. We do not need entertainment to share place with cricket. We do not want to see any unwanted, undesired, unneeded glamour to be pushed upon the cricketing extravaganza. This is clearly not cricket!
For all those who support this new funda of clubbing entertainment with cricket, don’t you find Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Irfan Pathan or Harbajan Singh at all entertaining? Do you need such show dolls to interpret cricket in their own dumb lingos?
Mandira Bedi was introduced as a mandate for women in an attempt of popularising cricket amongst the fairer sex. But today with her inviting attires like skin coloured blouses, low-cut necklines, deep curve spaghetti straps and forget not her off shoulder costumes (all worn for making a spectacle of herself) has welcome enough criticism from the women’s domain. Infact during every show of ‘Extraa Innings’ my mom took every possible shot on her so many times, that I realised how much the women were also troubled to see her on screen wearing ‘Extraa’ scissored or to logically say ‘displaced attires’. And that is why this blog post is here.
Its high time that channels become more professional in their sports coverage, rather than chipping in such gimmicks. Before every match they have an astrology session too. How ridiculous! Well I know many cricketers have taken a leap into the entertainment industry. And that’s purely because they also can entertain us. I am sorry, but it just dosnt work the other way round! SEX MAX can’t really make us watch what we don’t want to. (Sorry for the deliberate error this time. I won’t stop titling the channel this until they don’t change the wardrobe of Mandira Bedi if not her :lol:).
I wonder if next is a Yana Gupta covering the Mumbai Bomb Blasts, or a Rakhi Sawant desperately trying to discuss the latest stock market trends! And to all those who just said ‘Why not?’, thanks for reading the article! :)
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Commercialising Dada |
With ‘Ooh Aah Ouch’ and out of Cricket to ‘Hu Ha India’ on the screens, Ganguly still seems to have not lost hopes of wearing the country’s colours again. If you have been watching the Champions Trophy, you probably know what I am talking about. A (poignant??) Ganguly asks India in a new Pepsi ad if they have forgotten him. Sitting in the spectator stands of an empty cricket stadium(how sad :( ) this is what Ganguly says while batting (Uh I mean now batting for Pepsi!):
“My name is Saurav Ganguly. I hope you havnt forgotten me.
Whatever happened, why it happened I don’t know. I am practicing hard to come back into the team.
Who knows I might get another chance to swirl my shirt in the air!
In the field or outside the field, I wont keep quiet.
Hu ha India… Aaya India.
For every match of India I am going to cheer them like this and so should you… my team will feel good.
You will listen to your ‘Dada’ right?”
What a classic way of emotional blackmailing! Is this the way by which Ganguly thinks he would be back in the team? A couple of sensitive lines on screen with an intent to gather sympathy, my dear Ganguly… this is no way u gonna bat again for India.
Ofcourse we have not forgotten you… How can we? How can we forget, one of the best cricketing captains of India, one who changed what captaincy is in Indian cricket. How can we forget our Dada whose aggressive attitude on-field was always so exciting to watch. We havnt forgotten you Saurav. And if we havnt then please stop doing such stupid ads, trying to gather sympathy for nothing.
If Ganguly is practicing hard, he should be making his way back soon, not by media-cising(coined a new word lol! :lol:) his intentions like this. He may want to swirl his shirt again in the air to thrill millions, to be back to the glory he was at, but speaking the truth, by emotionally influencing people through such supposed to be sensitive and touching commercials, he is only taking down his dignity with him.
As most brands have chosen to downplay their association with Ganguly, Pepsi seems to have found the man at their shoulders. Both having let down millions of people at some point, seem to be desperately trying to leverage from each other. While Coca Cola presenting their all time hero Aamir Khan to do the job, Pepsi has not left any marketing trick in the book to try to do better. With their new catchline ‘Hu Ha India’ to enthrall the Indians before the World Cup fever begins, a Blue Billion website portal and a pleading Ganguly, they seem to be on the right tracks. For all they might have done to get Ganguly to do this, great job done! Though I am not sure if they can shoot up their sales all over India with this, but Bengal for sure ;) (Sorry if I hurt anyone by saying this).
For the cake that Ganguly thinks he has, I feel really sorry for him, for doing such (already termed stupid) ads, like almost begging to be taken back in the team, he has let us down one more time!
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Bravo Zidane! |
Here is the infamous head-butt that more than two-three billion people watched on their television sets where Zidane goes BANG on Materazzi.
This is what left the whole world wondering what made the cool-headed Zidane go so violent? What really did Materazzi say to Zidane? Definitely not ‘Chloromint Kyon Khaate hai?’ as most sms forwards envisage.
This is what a deaf lip reader interpreted for BBC:
“You’re the son of a terrorist whore”
Lip-reading Experts also had their interpretation to chip in and they put it this way:
Materazzi told Zidane to “calm down” before accusing him of being a “liar” and wished “an ugly death to you and your family”. This was followed by “Go f*** yourself”
While Zidane confirms that Materazzi uttered some “hard words” against his mother and sister.
Well I thought that the Italian footballer wanted Zidane’s shirt as he had held it for a while. This is how Materazzi explains himself. Haha :lol:
What remains a controversy still is the conduct of the ace Algerian born French footballer right in the finals of the World Cup which was also the last game of his career, which led him out of the game with a red card against his name. With an investigation team being set up, Zidane might as well lose his Golden Ball. It’s really sad to see such an ending to the football career of one of the best strikers around. Most believed that it was not the best thing to do just 7 minutes before the half time end and Zidane should have maintained his dignity that he had hard earned for soooo many years.
But I feel that there are a few things that are bigger than football. And one shouldn’t care even if it’s the world cup final! I am glad to see my football hero live upto his dignity and family values. Bravo Zidane… go again! And for Materazzi shame on you. :x
Now that I wont see him sprinting on the green fields, dodging opponents and striking those magical goals, what I will cherish for life is all my video collection of Zidane on field… And yea not to forget the head butt one… ;)
Here is some tongue in cheek stuff for the Italian supporters. For those who want to have a lighter laugh over the head-butt: MAKE IT LIKE ZIDANE… VIDEO
For the French fans you are in consideration too… Go try this, if you feel Zidane should have done it to Materazzi a little more number of times: HIT MATERAZZI
With my last words… Zidane you will be always remembered for all your passion for the game on-field and off-field. And definitely for all your actions on-field that sent you off the field… ;)
