Alert - This post might contain a LOT of cheesy lines, "duh" moments and stuff you might've heard and even written yourself already. Blame it on the break...
So, the Great Battle of the IPL is over. To be honest, I wasn't too keen on following the whole thing. The kind of phase 1 BRC had did not help matters at all. Couple of weeks into the league and I had almost stopped the occasional score check, it was getting that boring. And then, this guy happened, there were a few awesome matches, teams' fortunes started fluctuating with every match(except KKR's i.e.), BRC revived under Kumble and what not. What is a girl to do! I had to follow the last few games :)
A few random facts and thoughts -
- Tendulkar is not a good captain.
- I saw the finals live on TV. You would think that having read enough about the atrocious commentary, the fugly trophy, all the Modi fawning etc. I would be prepared. But no sir! I died a little inside every time I saw the trophy or heard Pommie Mbangwa or heard a spectator/commentator singing praises of His Highness Modi. I had a funny vision (at least it made me laugh). People who have seen the movie Mr. India might be able to relate to this. I saw Lalit Modi on a throne, with a shiny black and gold uniform, his loyal soldiers and servants around him telling him just how great and awesome he is and how he will definitely rule the world pretty soon. And Modi is pink with barely controlled glee, muchlike Mogambo..."Lalit Khush Hua!!". (Ya, I know it would be difficult to see the pink, but you know what I mean) Mercifully, I turned off the telly as soon as the match got over, and escaped the Closing Ceremony.
- Robin Uthappa has discovered new high levels of uselessness. Does that need explaining? FOAD Robin!! I never thought it would come to this with this guy.
- Rahul...oh dear Rahul...WTF?! How...I mean just how did you manage to drop that catch off Symonds?? And what about that godawful shot you got out to? What were you thinking? You remember that "not too many dot balls n taking singles" thing we talked about here? That works in T20 too...I swear....
- Some things never change. Hey Symonds, what's with all the chattering on the field?
- Great turnaround for the Deccan Chargers! They did look like a completely different outfit under Adam Gilchrist. And, was AG on song or what..I could literally see the havoc he wrecked on Delhi in the Semi final even though I merely "read" it on Cricinfo.
- And finally, Anusha has dicovered the IPL algorithm. It is called LIFO. So worry not KKR fans. IPL 3 is yours :)
- 430 words on IPL. Wow! Didn't know I cared that much....
Coming up shortly...T20 World Cup.
Update 1-
The move to South Africa was good IMO. I think there was a more even contest between bat and ball. SRK found a legitimate reason to run off to India and not be with his team. But most importantly, in accordance with Murphy's Law, there were a few spots of rain in SA, but the weather in England was fabulous. Lots of sunshine.
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Welcome back!
Thanks Leela :)
"weather in England was fabulous. Lots of sunshine."
just wait for cricket to get started... :)
welcome back...all this while it was silly mid off... ;-))
Ha Ha..thanks SP...it was more like silly "mood off" for me with no blogging....
"I died a little inside every time I saw the trophy or heard Pommie Mbangwa or heard a spectator/commentator singing praises of His Highness Modi."
- Truer words have not been spoken.
It is true. All of humankind has a few days less.
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Welcome Fark!
I shudder to imagine my mental state if I would have watched the closing ceremony....aaargh and a big filmi Nahiiiiiiiiii
Welcome back Megha...Are you going to be live blogging from any of the venues for the T20 WC?
Cheers,
welcome back Megha :)
Homer,
The closest I can get to the actual action would be sitting right outside Lord's or the Oval during match time. The tickets got sold off before you could say "T20"...The sad part is that my manager knows how crazy I am about cricket (me and my big mouth!) so I can't even pull off a sickie for the afternoon matches...
I will go player-hounding during their time in London though...might get a few pics if I am lucky enough :)
Thanks Sam :)
looking forward to it Megha.. :)
Cheers,
Megha! you had me ROTFL!
"Lalit Khush Hua!!" - Priceless!!
looking forward to your T20 coverage..
(thanks for making me popular!!)
I was waiting for this for a long time...
I dunno how I'm gonna manage both the French Open and the World Cup (Nadal's tee may help a bit!)
Neways, welcome back!
It's damned pretty lame that everyone questions Symmo's sledging during the final. It ain't that Indians are angels on the field !
If you can't take some heat in the kitchen, then maybe you shouldn't be in the kitchen in the first place.
I didn't hear either Pandey/Roeloef make noise about the chatter - so what gives in the blogsphere beats me !
Good luck with the player sighting during the T20 !
Hey Anusha...np girl :)
Hope we rock this tournament!
Niki
I donno...maybe it'll help if Nadal loses in the next round? Then u can concentrate on the WC....
Ok...stop glaring so hard on the screen....
easy....count to 10....
breathe...breathe....
There you go :D
TG
Blame it on the TV coverage but the only person I saw chatting *constantly* was Symonds....
Yes, you should be prepared to take some heat in the kitchen, but it's ok to leave when it starts burning...
Yes, Indians are no angels either and believe you me, whenever i see them *constantly* baiting someone, I will write about it....perhaps it will make u feel better if I tell you that the sight of Bhajji and Appam mouthing off the opposition irks me a LOT...even if it is Hayden at the receiving end!...Symonds is not the only one I'm against...
Thanks for the wishes :)
lolzzzz!!!
dream on babes!
Yeah Nice one trying to bring the Sydney 08 back into the mix, whenever Symmo is mentioned. Sure he is no saint, but neither is Harbhajan - and what transpired that day will remain a mystery.
Atleast the Aussies don't deny the talking - sledging, mental disintegration call it what - they at least admit to doing it.
Indians - ahem what did MSD say about sledging - I don't say it's wrong but just that we need to be smarter in doing it. There are more than one way to interpret it.
Don't you think it's about time to give it a rest on the whole sledging bit ?? Every team does it. While the Aussies are direct/upfront about it, the rest are all sneaky ones..
Who do you prefer in real life - one's who are open or rather the sneaky one's ?
I rest my case !
Cheers!
TG
Uh, I did not bring up Sydney '08 anywhere in my reply to your comment! Perhaps mentioning Symonds, Bhajji and Hayden in the same line confused you?
If it was just about the seldging I could probably give it a rest. The thing is that there is just so much other stuff that they do...claim non-exixtent catches and then pretend to be offended when they get called on that, calling people names in interviews etc...that anything remotely obnoxious that they do ticks me off...
I'm told Dravid still screams in the middle of the night, saying he didn't want to drop Symonds and play that shot but Gilly did a black magic on him.
NO!! Really?? That bastard!! Time to bring out my old witchcraft book and practise some evil spells myself...bwahahahah
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