Following on Lankans!!

I am mighty pleased over the plight of Sangakara and his bravado men. They are following up. Whom? West Indies. A team nobody gave hoots to. They are making mighty talking giants Sri Lankans following on behind them.

And those big hundred makers, those run machines on the low slow dry lifeless pitches of Sri Lanka -- Sangakara, Mahila, Samaraweera and P Jaya were content with 50s. What a disgrace man. Cant believe they didnt make 100s on a so called hapless Windies attack.  Oh jeez, the character stocks of Lanka have gone to negative. And did you notice, ever since Chris Gayle made superb 333, the assertive, media frenzy, word lover, bugbear fan, austerity champ Kumara Sangakara has not spoken a word. He has gone to a hiding, the media headlines that screamed big  about his rants are now silent on his whereabouts.

Instead he is sending over Mendis to talk to media who is not being politically correct and he expressed fears that Gayle might go on and make a 400.  Nah, i m not seeing Sanga's comments anywhere.

Poor he. He had said before the start of the series that the spinners would be they key. But then who are the spinners for them? Mendis and Randiv. Mendis got a 6-for but well he leaked out 170 runs for those 6 wikats.

They are going to find winning test matches even more difficult now that the Murali king of chucking has retired. And they dont have Malinga too. Instead they have a Chanaka and Dhammika.  And yes Mahila, Kumara, Ajantha, Rangana too.

So if tomorrow on day 5, weather permitting, WI is able to bowl out Sri Lanka and chase down a small target, the Lankans would be a hurt lot and that would please me a lot cos they have tortured the cricket fans over the years with their negative brand of Test cricket ever since that ugly 952 Test.

Kanpur loss and Sangakara's to be fried excuses

So whats the excuse now for Sangakara to put forward for the embarrasing loss in Kanpur ? The pitch was tailor made for his 3 spinners, but they were rendered useless by Indians. Moreso than the spinners, his flat track bull shots were rendered ineffective by reborn Sreesanth and then much flaked Harbhajan in 2nd innings.

Food ? Water ? Pollution ? Bad hotels ? What would be the buzz word Sangakara put forth for the series defeat in Mumbai. I believe his team would stay in renovated Taj and if he would call it bad, then he would be making an ass of himself.

I presume poor Murali would face the ire of the Sri Lankan captain for the loss in Kanpur. India has not been just to Murali in the past and this trip has just carried forward the same. So why single him out and say those useless words on him. Why not say a word or 2 on Mahela Jaywardhena who got run out in the 2nd innings and when team demanded most his runathon he went out.

That confirms my belief that this man plays for records and not for the team. Count the occasions when he has made 100s and how many have helped his team in difficult situations(win or a draw). Very few or  none. Only occasion I recall is Lord's 2006 but then England were devoid of their best bowlers then.

Murali should now retire post Mumbai test. He has achieved everything. He's got close to 800 wkts and 540 odd ODI wkts. No bowler in the vicinity looks good to break that record. So he should respect his body and gracefully retire before Sangakara puts him in a spot and utters his shit on him.

And yes this was a grudge series. Delighted to see Mendis flattened out. To be consistent on the highest level, he should have the urge to go with wkts every time and in every conditions. Something great spinners like Warne, Anil  did.

And when Angelo Matthews (no disregard to him) takes new ball and Dilly Fernando sits out, you got to question the mindset of the rival captain.  What is he trying to achieve ? Killing spirits of cricket.  Saurav puts it right "You cannot win a Test in India with ANgelo Matthews takes the new ball".

Sadly for Lankans, the history wont change.  They would go winless in the Test series. 10 losses in 17 tests would be the scoreline for them after Mumbai.

Murali n mendis

Have been brought to ground. After 47 wkts last series the duo has struggled to take wickets.

Sehwag and Gambhir give India flying start

Alright no need for 7-2 field for India, but then Sanga would need it to stem the flow of runs from the Delhi Dashers.

One of them has scored a hundred and the other one has inched towards it.

ODIs back in whites :P

Sehwag scores the long due 100 and all his impatience all this days since coming back now is forgotten. This setups the game as usual and would give a lot of time for the Indians to go make runs at fast pace.

By the by where are voices of colombo blogger? Lost or consumed by LTTE remains :P

Murali reads 0.47 off 8 and Mendis, the mystery man, the carrom ball man reads 0/42 off 4. Lot of character . Right Murali is not struggling. He is rediscovering himself in a new way. Lol.  3 for 270 runs on this trip so far. Sangakara evokes laughter with his match utterances. Murali is evolving in a different way.

Sangakara. LMAO

Devils get in to Super Eights

Indian batting coupled with Australian - Dutch bowling makes it an unbeatable combo. Finger spinners, mysteries demystified and the legend of the Pidge is established. What the world is missing.

He didnt bowl or train in 8 months. Didnt bowl in a game for close to 17 months, yet when he picks a bowl he is back to his self, we all know.

Pidge has just been a fantastic bowler over the ages. What do I say about him. He is just awesome.

And Sehwag has now cleared the fear about his injury. His absence was the prime reason India bowed out in the first rounds of back to back ICC tournaments.

Dinesh Karthik, the dancing babe, today slog sweeped Mendis to 3 sixes in 3 before evoking Yuvraj comparisons and putting Sangakara on mute who had just praised tough character of Mendis.

Oodi baba. Sangakara mention. And mention of character. Japanese would be pissed off.

Good to see Pidge playing and Veeru demolishing bowlers after 6 months. And yes Delhi Daredevils were 2nd team to be in the Super Eights. Ding dong :)

ICC Awards.

ICC awards.

Whoa man.

Indian idiots all the way.

Dhoni as the captain of ODI and Test teams.....

And we called for firing him....

No T20 team so no Younis Khan. Just an award for lone sane Lankan Dilly for his Dilscoop ice cream shot.

Gambhir as Test player.

Dhoni as ODI player. Criticism awaited. Gill babu, get started. I am awaiting for your comment on some XXXk trundler and flat track bullies.

Lol. He is stuck at that point. Get ahead, go further.

Thats the apt recognition for the Delhi kid who has set the world on fire with his explosive batting, with his patience not his natural virtue (NZ) and of course barging the shoulders to the DuckMan Watso....

ODI player MS who led his team to all bilateral wins all over and scored runs @ 61 at an impressive SR of 86, well 10 below his initial one. Criticism awaited and invited. Get started.

Test team :

Strauss and Gambhir as openers with AB as # 3 ??????? Tendulkar at 4. Thilan Samarweera at 5. Wtf. Flat track king in the Test team of year. What substanced innings did he play ?

Clarke and Dhoni at 6 and 7. Apt.

Shakib Al Hasan at 8. Mitch at 9, Broad and Steyn as rest. Debatable.

Why Samarweera. No Mahela thank god. Oodi baba. Character not heard.

ODI team :

Sehwag and Gayle as openers. Gayle ? Not quite. Gambhir would be in. KP and Dilshan. Dilshan in ODI team ? Somebody tell the selectors ODI is 50 overs, not 20. Yuvraj, Dhoni and Freddie apt. Umar Gul fine.

Mendis and Kulasekhra ? Why ? Besides 6 for 13 what did Mendis do ? He was well negated by Indians and former Indians. Still!!!

All in all a very good selection and good awards. Yes one reason cos Indians rule the roost. Unfortunately no Sri Lankan. A lesson : play on lively pitches and win abroad not only BD.

SL win the first game in lottery

........as in D/L method. Plenty of character shown. Bhar bhar ke. I guess character was distributed for free in the flight from Colombo to South Africa. Dilshan continued his form in ODIs, Jayasuriya continued to count one more failure and ticking Mahila to write him off and say that pressure is on the senior pro to perform and show his character.

BAW WAW Mendis took 3 wkts or 4 to prove that Saffers cannot play spin. Is Mendis back ? Ask Pakistanis or Indians. Answer aiwai mil jayega.

Unfortunately for Saffers, time wasnt theirs as AB and Dale Steyn said. Mahila, supposedly an abundance character man sparkled once in a million times and his time was today. So the next games now he would be back to his scoring pattern.

Sanga Singh who is now the "aaankho ka dulara" for every sub continental cricket writer (exclude Indians) was among runs too. I havent digged his post match interview. I saw the scoreline in the office on my iPhone and first word i said was "Damn" when SA scored read 4/121 in 21 overs.

A lot of euphoria has been generated around the statements made by Sanga Singh and people call them as mind games. Whatever they are, they are most boring and repititive. He should learn some new stuff before saying the same stuff which in a short is " We are trying to win every game , have a process and have a long term goals". Give us a breather man. We aint robots to listen to the same shit every time you open your mouth.

Learn something from Dhoni who would be ruthlessly honest in stunning the team, media and fans by quoting that bowling was bad, batting was good, XX player was fine or bad. Ah man. India boosting. Yup.

Saffers, as Q says are hopeless in multi team tournaments. I believe this is one game SA played with SL after 2003 tie game which kicked them out of the tournament and ended Pollock's captaincy.

If thats true 6 years and no game in SA. Alright thats true. SL havent toured SA since 2002. Amazing. Have toured Bangladesh 3 times and Zimbabwe 2 times. No wonder they have inflated averages.

South Africa wont be affected that much as they next play England and New Zealand. SA and SL should be good to go to the semis, though I would hope England and NZ show a bit more character in taking out the character out of the SL team.

CT practice updates

SL's character men failed to show it against Pakistan to lose it by 108 runs. Mahela flopped, Sanga flopped.

Yusuf flopped.

Mendis flopped.

Akmal bros clicked, so did Misbah and Naveed Al Hasan. Who s he ? Is he Rana ? ICL man ?

Other hand NZ lost. West Indies lost.

Perhaps BD would have been better......

Australia would win in another practice game vs England C in England to begin their defence of the title and finally lose it to India in the semi final.

Age is just a number

Old timers are enjoying the week right now across the globe. Jaya and Tendulkar along with Dravid in subcontinent. Ponting in England.

Who said cricket is for youth ?

Perform and keep persisting.

Age doesnt matter. Its just a number. Much for hysteria of the buffoons who know nothing on the game and for whom sustaining the limelight is the only purpose.

How does it matter if you are 25 and keep scoring 20s and 30s remain in the team but a batsman who has had just 5 bad ODIs is dropped for 2 long years. And the man who scores 10700 ODI runs, only 3rd or 4th man in the history to have 10k runs in both formats goes out just cos he is 34. Was 34.

A 40 year old man scores a 98 in the game against India and the 32 year old scores just 1 and 17 and 31 year old hits himself out. And 37 year old takes 5-for in almost every 2nd or 3rd inning and a 26 year old fails after the initial hyesteria.

The top 4 wicket takers are the ones who blossomed in the later years of their careers. The drug abused blonde star who took 40 wickets in losing cause took close to 400 wkts in 2nd part of his career. A jaw broken bowler took 350 wkts in his last 5 years of career when people had written him off.

A 36 year old batsman has scored 9 international hundreds since May 2007 and 7 90s. Out of which many were wrong decisions.

Age is just a number. Fold the number and flush it in the commode of your loo.

Sanga and Mahela's characterstic fixation on 'character'

Mahela and Sanga's Obsession for character stumps me. I mean there should be a cap on the usage of character in every match interview -- pre or post or presentation or cricinfo articles. Every single media interview and you would find this lads using word 'character'.

It gives me an impression that SL team is richest in character and other teams are studs or sluts :D. Almost with no character.

And if you compare this lads' performance with others then this 2 greats on flat pitches lack character which is shown by ageless Sanath Jaisurya or Dilly Dolly Dilshan or for that matter Kadamby. In my view Mendis, Mahela and Sanga are characterless and useless characters in richly characterstic SL team which has the most interesting caricature in the world cricket -- Malinga who also shows a huge character in growing his hair in weird styles, yet he performs. He shows character in giving 81 runs or even 3 or 4 wkts.....

Not the types who puke character and score 1 and get out on a teesra of a chautha grade bowler or get hit wicker :).

I need somebody with huge guts and highest character to show character and put a tape on Sanga / Mahela's characterstic mouth when they utter character.

Bhaiya Sanga aur Mahila ki maane to baaki sab teams charitraheen hai aur Lanka ki team sushil saumya saubhagyawati team hai.

Lol.

An incredible victory

MS heeded to my call and sent DK packing to fishing and a raving party with the remains of LTTE. And the result was up to see. An opening partnership of 95 which set the platform for a win.

That should be the end of DK for long time to come unless he doesnt get his boots going. Just like Rohit Sharma.

Alright so GOD scores 44th 100. Rahul comes at 2 and MS comes at 3. Yuvraj at 4.

India go hit 319 for 5 and win a tri0-series final in years. Last one they won...........ahem ahem ahem dont remember. Got it, CB series 2008, their best ever tri-series win after 2002 Lord's.

Finals jinx resolved. A tight slap to those who say Sachin doesnt play in finals. Go fag yourself. A whacking fatak (Kaminey isshtyle) to those idiots who say Sachin cant score a 100 in a final.

And a note to the critics of Bhajji . He got a 5-for just for 3rd time in his career. First against other team than England and though it was tail enders whose wkts came to Bhajji, it would lessen the chances of Mishra to sneak into the team.

A final well won and a sweet revenge for the humiliating 139 run loss on Saturday. Would like to see the character of Mahela now who has now got 3 failures in the series and SJ got back to runs about whom he had talked something like pressure on him...........Only thing he would keep playing and he wont be thrown out.

And as again Mendis was neutralised and dusted.

Good start for Aussies, Drug Peddler returns and NZ struggle

So finally Australia bundled out England for less than 340 score and are on a solid start just about at lunch when rain intervened are 0/61 after surviving a hostile bowling spell from outgoing hero Freddie.

On the other hand NZ are struggling but they would be able to save it. Rains. Rains would help them. 1/30 in pursuit of 413. Only Thushara and Murali threat. Mendis is negated and dusted. He is zeroed now. No more splendid, no more mystery. 26 in 3 and then 17 in next 7. Flattened.

In another development Spinnach is left out of teh Pakistan team and drug peddler comes in. Wow. Pakistan doesnt find anybody beyond drug-addicts, rebels, selfish players. Keep going guys. Tight slap to ICC and WADA. And they cry foul on BCCI that they compromise against the spirits of the game.

Here is PCB openly playing a player who has been caught with drugs not once but 2 good times. What precedent he would set on the youngsters like Fawad Alam and Amer is all for a guess.

Mendis should be Splendid again

I want Mendis to be in wickets in the 3rd Test. I want him to regain his so called splendidness before he embarks on the tour to India. I want him to be the same bowler which he was when India played him last in 2008 in Tests. I want him to be as strong and hyped as he was.

The battle between the trio of Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman in this order wont be as interesting as it would be when Mendis would be at peak of his powers. Trust me they would come down very very hard to this man for all what happened in SL' 08.

And not to mention that Sehwag would be itching to make his mark again on the scene with a comeback after the much debated and discussed shoulder injury....And I didnt even mention Yuvraj, Dhoni and the number 1 Test batsman of the world Gautam Gambhir.

Mendis and Murali vs India once again in our home land. Something which SL wont like as they havent won a single Test here, let along come near to winning one in 6 tours. Come October soon!!!

Pakistan loses

Absurd stuff. Comic stuff. My eyes lit up when I checked the score card to confirm Pak victory. And what I saw was total out of blue. 98 for 8 and then all out for 117. Only Pakistan can do this. This is master of all collapses. Mother father grandfather and great grandfather of all collapses. England had it in 1990s, today it was Pakistan. Younis Khan must be a shattered man. I feel for him. He got his team to this stage where one good partnership would have sealed it for the team. But the others weren’t even half as responsible as the captain. What a crap performance. 71/2 to 117 on a batting beauty. No Murali. Pakistan wont get chance better than this to beat SL. Past record is all fine. Talking of present, the king of spin would return next match and then it would be just impossible for Pak rookies to repeat the first 3 days of this Test match.

Q and other stani bloggers must be feeling disgusting and Damith would be enjoying and relishing this victory. No body would have thought this would happen. Typical Pakistan stuff, and that’s why we need them to keep playing cricket. T20 or Tests or ODIs. No other team can go to this extreme. Once again Pakies succumbed to left arm spin. 4/15 in 12 overs is a credible stuff. And how many did that selfish batsman made ? Just 12. He was the most experienced batsman or Test cricketer in his team and he went soon. Century made, team goes to hell. I proved my point. Result who bothers. Now it would be keen to see what the likes of Akram, Miandad and other stalwarts say of this.

Pakistan lost it more than SL won. That’s how the cricket is. A great leveler. Who would know it better than Mendis and Pakistan team. T20 win and now a test loss which they should have never lost. One last thing Mendis is now proved to be a very ordinary bowler. His average has now been normalized. 26 in 3 to 36 in 7. He should be ready for some more mauling later this year as he tours India – a land where his team has never won a Test match. Tendulkar and company would be very keen to make amends for what he did to them last year same tsime. Laxman, Tendulkar, Dravid and Yuvraj making merry of Mendis, not to forget Sehwag.

Where Sri Lanka erred and the return of ODIs

King Sanga erred in 18th over when he gave ball to Isuru Udana, the foot soldier who lost it for SL. Till that time Murali and Malinga had 1 over each left to ball. Had Murali or Malinga given the ball, there would have been a bit more pressure on Pakistan. 26 off 18 balls. And then it read 8 off 12 balls after Udana's over.

Besides over reliance on Dilshan proved costly. Blabba king failed. Simple dolly to Younis. Talking high is different and implementing those high things is different. Besides Matthews and Sanga the batting let down the Lankans and yesterday mystery of Mendis went off for a vacation.

Mendis isnt proving effective against teams who have played him more often. India and Pakistan are examples.

All in all it was another false dawn for SL as they had an unbeaten streak throughout and got punctured in the final when it mattered the most.

With this final, the T20 overdose ends and we now switch to ODI cricket starting in West Indies where Indians script their comeback. And then the talk of the season -- Ashes. England declare their pre-Ashes squad today. It would also be a d-day for Michael Vaughan.

By the way this Indian team has broken the jinxes associated with it everywhere it has gone. It beat Pakistan in India first time in a home series in 2007, won CB series in Australia first time, won back to back ODI series in SL and then 33 year draught in New Zealand. West Indies has some painful memories for India. 1-4 defeat in 2006 followed by ODI World cup loss. Besides India has won just 1 of the 5 bilateral ODI series in Carribean. So this is another chance for Indians to set the record right and return back to winning ways before embarking on a well deserved break.

Mendis and SL's entry to semis

Mendis is now having success against teams which havent played him before. Like Australia, New Zealend (3rd wkt now) or England (a hot favorite for 10-for). But teams who have repeatedly played him have figured him out. Dont agree ? Ask any Indian or a Pakistani :). They would agree here.

Success of Mendis would lie in a fact that how long will he continue to bamboozle the batsmen with his innovative bowling skills. This is certainly not an anti-Mendis or anti-SL post. ;). Just that it is an observation for Mendis. And moreso his talent would be judged when he tours India or Australia and South Africa, the 3 hottest Test playing nations. Alright i would add England too.

Sri Lanka dont tour West Indies that often. It seems end of Kiwi run in WT20. An encore of 2003. Just that there are 3 different semi-finalists now. Leave aside SL. Pakistan replace India, West Indies replace Australia and SA replace Kenya. Encore cos NZ failed then to make it to the semis.

End of last hope for Kiwis. The side embattling with injuries. 3 of the possible semi-finalists are now out of the WT20 and 3 most unlikely teams -- Pakistan, Sri Lanka and West Indies have made to the semis.

As of the last Super 8 is concerned, its final that India is winning the game.

Fancying Kiwis and India

Kiwis love blue. They have a boogie over blues. Indian blues. Let the Kiwis see Indians in Srilankans, for they also wear blue. They also have yellow patch on their dress. That is something Australian. So Kiwis have enough motivation and reason to go beat SL and go to Semis, their most obvious place in ICC tourneys (except 2003, they have gone in Semis of every world cup).....

McCullum was skipper of Mendis in KKR days and he didnt play much, so who is gonna take revenge? As of now blabba king and Sanga having a ball in the middle. I bet my money on Kiwis. And on battered and bruised Indians in the game later today. But in the longer run, I fancy Saffers to unchoke and win the tourney to cap off an excellent season for them. Choke today, not later. Lose today, win later.

as for Indians, win today and win always to slap the critics and the ass media back home. Heal your bruised ego by thumping the to be champions and make Micky repent on his comments that we are team of individuals who play for ourselves. Just do it guys. Sensible Indians are with you.

Life without Aussies

Ozzies are out. They were Gayle'fied on Saturday and today they were Malinga'ed and Mendis'ed. And then Kumar'ed. In short dumped out of the World T20. Critics having a field day, fans a bit disappointed and more disgusted. The Australia we knew or i should say I knew was nowhere on the display.

They just didnt show their true colors. One eye on Ashes and half a eye on world t20. This approach didnt work. And this caps off a horrendous time they have had in limited version of the game in 2009. In a way India's way eased out to the title defense.

The big names flopped, the returning stars ran out of the steam. Ponting seemed to be in a Test mode while captaining a T20.

In short, the Aussies have been drained out of the T20 world series and it would be SL who would be in India's group. Mendis vs Indians. Wow. Delightful propositions.

Aussies now get to the Test mode and they would want to now win the Ashes by the same margin as they won in 2006-07, so that we could see Ponting retire and Sachin's supremacy in Test cricket sealed forever.

Tendulkar rips Mendis apart!!!!!!

Sachin on fire. He almost murdered Ajantha mendis's confidence. And whatever remained Jayasuriya finishing off.

Huge sixxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to Mendis.......Go get it man...2008 revenge getting even sweeter :) Am I not njoying it. Take a bow, take a bow.....A blow job given to Mendis and Dinda and Sharma....Vintage batting....Splendidgiri nikal gayi.......Mendis ki hawa nikal gayi!!!

Wah bhiya kya ballebaaji...........Oye Balle Balle Sachin paiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

Aa jao Hodge bhaiya, hume to Aussies pasand hai......Aapko bhi uda denge!!!

Dada used to laugh when he partnered GOD for batting. Today he would be laughing too for his ex ODi partner and 5th wkt partner in Tests secretly to have a go at weird Dildo and Boochie Boo!!! Triple Nelson @ strategic break!!

Fuck you Laxmi Shukla. Wrong decision!!!! Wrong wrong wrong!!! Fuck fuck fuck!! You fuckin whore umpire.......Poor decision!! Throw Laxxmi Shukla and umpire in the sea!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that GOD is gone, getting ready for DADA blitz!!!!!!!! DADA rock on!!!! Give a slap on the face of Boochie boo and SRK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Men vs San and Ten

Chance for Sachin Tendulkar to set the record straight against Ajantha Mendis.....Would be del.ico.us prospect to see Mendis being spanked all over by Ten and San :)