That thing called Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag, the bloody Indian opening batsman.  Bloody buffoon. Kickass opener. What else should I say about this Delhi Jat. No brains, just brutal power. No messing up. Simple style of play. Bad ball, he would hit it. Doesnt matter who the hell is the bowler. Shakib or Rubell or Bow Wow, Randibaaj Suraj or even the Chuck himself. Ask any bowler around the world. Better ask Pakistanis. Lankans call him Shewag.

He has demolished them too. The merchants of pace, swing and reverse swing. Of course spot fixed no balls too. He deposited even Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis in stands on that glorious Centurion evening 8 years and 2 world cups back. 

Ask Sangakara who is so scared of this idiot Indian batsmen that he asks Randibaaj Suraj to bowl no balls. He might seem poor man's Amir or Asif which occured well before spot fixing saga. If he did not score a 100 on that game day, he yet demonized Sangakara and other Lankans. They swear in private they wont take on Indian ODI or test team which has Sehwag in it. 

Either he would make a 294 in a Test against them or he would make a 146 in a ODI. No respite. No swearing has its effect. The man lives by his own rules, his own standards. Now the bufoon is saying he would bat 50 overs. Like I said before what would happen if he bats 50 overs, the Deshis had a bitter taste of it yesterday in Mirpur.

There are so many wannabe Sehwags around. There is Dilshan in Lanka who emulates Sehwag but runs out of steam around 50-80 mark. Then there is Tamim Iqbal who steps more often than not yet fails to emulate the man. Then there is Shane Watson who is doing a Sehwag for Prick Tonping. 

There can be many emulators, but there is one and only Sehwag. Rattle him with short stuff, he wont play pull. Bowl him in his ribs, he would counter it. Sledge him he would deposit you into stands or even throw you out of the stadium, be it Mirpur or Hamba ka tota or his own backyard of Kotla. Rajkot too.

Dilip Vengsarkar is now proved an idiot and to an extent MSD too, who had dropped this idiot from the CB series finals in favor of Sir Rohit Sharma.  When Sehwag bats the way he does most of the times, the opposition reduces to the local club side. There are many who try to be "shahahne" like Ponting or Sangakara, but they are soon proved assholes by the man who knows no stopping when in full flow. That is Virender Sehwag for you. Unique and unparalleled.

Act on Dilshan Sanga...Will you? I believe no

To those who quote that there was an over reaction to the Randigate, my simple answer is  that this team harps a lot on the character (every player has rich loads of character so much so that it leaks out in every statement, press confrence and syndicated articles), so this act of delibrate no bowling was a bolt on their character.

A player signalling Randi to bowl a deliberate no ball is in line of the under arm ball bowled by Trevor Chappell on behest of his brother Greg Chappell.

Many have reacted that other teams also follow the tactics to debarr other player of making a hundred. Fine. But that does not get caught on camera as it did for Randi Kallumullah.  Thats same as all teams do some bit of ball tampering, but except Pakistanis none of them get caught on the camera.

There are differences in every dressing room, but not all of them come in open as it does in Pakistan.

I would be very keen to read Sangakara to make a statement on his wish that he would take the action on fact if somebody had deliberately asked Randi to ball a no ball. Now that Dilshan is out in open as the culprit it would be interesting to see what action Sangakara takes on Dilshan and whether Dilshan gets to play in Delhi Daredevils anymore? DD is inevitable without Virender Sehwag, but Dilshan  ? Well he is not the player anymore he was in 2009.

Tail Wagging

The tail enders are Indian baits. They have frustrated us over the years.  Malinga and Herath did in the Galle Test, Kamran Akamal and Spinach Razzaq did in Mohali along side Jason Gillespie in Chennai and Sydney.  For a sweet change of fortunes its been Indian tail that has been frustrating Sri Lankans, much to their own medicine in this series. And who are culprits? Mishraji here, Mithun, Ojha and Ishant in the other innings.

Thanks to the glaring partnerships yesterday India managed to sneak ahead by 11 runs and then the best “offspinner in the country” who is also “greatest flat track bully” which would be cherished by Robert / Gill / The abusive commenter (Achettup, you did this) spinned out Dilshan and Paragraph to ensure India have a realistic chance to win provided they get out boring duo of Mahelangakara asap.

A lot would depend on Mishraji who now has a supportive pitch and that would go a long way to decide on his future. If he is among wickets, he would be in contention else he would be eked out.  Ditto for IPL Ojha. He gotta remember that he is playing for India and not Deccan Chargers. Though sight of VVS Laxman could still remind him of Deccan Chargers……

World T20 : Day One

Two games. NZ vs SL and WI  vs Ireland.

WI won the game as expected and look good to go super 8s. Ireland now face elimination and must now  expect England to lose both its games, far fetched thought that is.

In the opening game Sangakara was a changed man. He had grown a moustache. He was speaking with lot of mannerisms at the toss. Nothing different that he spoke, but the facial movements he made and the way he spoke was unique.  IPL Nights effect may be.

He chose to open with Mahela and Dilshan. Dilshan was scratchy in IPL. Bishop told us. We also saw. Sangakara did not. He was busy fighting with Yuvraj and trying to get close to his owner (IPL) in IPL. So Dilshan scratched around for 19 balls scoring 3. And then he got out.

Sangakara came and he scratched around. He got out too.

Mahela continued his good form. He made 81 in SL's total of 6/135.   Chandimal, the SL cousin of Dinesh Karthik made 29, Angelo Matthews made 3, Kapugedra made 11, Sanga made 4 off 11.  Jaya did not get a ball to face.

Cheap treatment. He has opened for 14 years or even more in ODIs, Tests and T20s. Needless for me to say his record while doing that. have a look at Dilshan. He is opening for 14 months may be ? He's been failure at top spot this year. For ego or some unknown reasons Sangakara is keeping Jaya off the opening spot.  And that would lead to a downfall soon. His captaincy skills are at display. His results are at display.

They must now win against Zim who are on fire after beating Pakistan and Australia in warmups. If they lose really they go home. End of captaincy for Sangakara may be.

NZ won a tense game and that would be a morale booster for them.

Timeless Tendulkar ensures 2nd win for MI

Sachin's masterclass ensured that the Mumbai Indians beat Delhi by whopping 98 runs....

He was awesome and treated everybody with disdain, though Mishra had last laugh he was taken apart....For Delhi the start was never on with Dilshan opening and Gambhir injured.  The side kept on losing wickets regularly and with Sehwag back in the hut quickly it was never going to be easy for the overhyped Karthik and others to go out and try for a win.

The worrying aspect for Team India (nobody is thinking on that line yet) is 3 of its players are now injured including the captain, Gambhir and Harbhajan. The list is only supposed to grow further.

MI have begun well and for them to go ahead in the tourney the man himself would need to play big.

14 years back Sachin had scored a 137 on Kotla in a world cup game against Lanka only to be overwhelmed by Kalu and Jayasurya. Yesterday Jayasurya fell early but Tendulkar kept on going.  Timeless Tendulkar.

Who gets run out first ?

Two chances in 2 balls gone this time out for run out. No catches spilled  though.

Jaya and Dilshan competing with each other to get run out :P

Dilshan supposedly roughs up a Telegraph lens man.

There is a story being published in Telegraph, Kolkata and then aired on Times Now  that how Dilshan, the star batsman of Lanka misbehaved with one of the newspaper's photographer or lensman to be precise.

The paper says  that the cricketer chased the photographer and smashed his camera.  Yet he was able to print the snap where he and Jayasuriya are talking to a lady in the night club.

There were further reports that this  two lads had broken the security ring from the hotel a day before the game and had the Kolkata police panicked. Yeah the Lahore leftovers.

So how mature and sensible is behavior of  the touring Lankan team who first have all the bad words to say about the conditions, food and stuff. And  then they ask for fool proof security and are provided. Even an ODI game is shifted to other venue due to ongoing protests in Vizag, 2nd ODI venue before the SLC could ask for it.  And then the Lankan openers break the security and slip to a night club only to misbehave with the cameramen.

Not good.  And it doesn't show off well.

May be the success has gone to his head and he needs a reality check. And god forbid if something untoward would have happened, the country would have been blamed. The best place to throw this tantrums is back home dude, not here.

Emosonal Atyachar

SL are on the brink of the  series defeat in India today and they would be disappointed that they had come here dreaming of a series win. Unfortunately that could not happen. Sanga and Maha, the 2 architects of all the pre series campaign have been quiet and reported to be fuming with each other.

Since they are playing the 3rd and final Test in Mumbai, the home of Bollywood, they slipped one day out of their hotel room in Dharavi or Naupada, Andheri to Mahboob Studios and then to RK Studio near Deonar Agar, Chemboor to catch up with the Bollywood film shooting.

Sanga and Maha reportedly went looking for Preity Zinta who could give them much needed hug, but she refused to meet them as it could anger Yuvraj and Sreesanth who being Indians reserve first right to Preity's hugs.

Mahela was fuming over Sanga over his captaincy and alleged fight between two in Kanpur inspired by Mulayam Singh Yadav's kushti akhadas. One day before Mumbai Test 1st day he composed a parody mixing three songs of movie Dev D.  He seems to have liked the movie so much so that when he lost his captaincy after defeat to India in ODI series, he wrote following lyrics.  He is probably looking for AR Rehman and Pritam to compose music for below lyrics :

Jiya jiya jiya dole

1 2 3 4 6

yeh dil pighlake bat bana lu

Us bat se BD ke against double hundred bana lu

smokin smokin nikale re dhua

sapne dekhe series victory ke

par wo mitti me mil jaye

what to tell u darling kya hua

haatho se kar do victory ko good bye

Chadh jaye hai allah jise minnows bashing bukhar

Tauba tera jalwa tauba tera pyar

Sanga-Mahela tera yeh emotional atyachar

Jao Jao re Indian victory ke builder (Sings to Viru, Dravid and Mahi)

Ho gayi dil ke paar tragedy tragedy

Murali gul sokh sokh ke murjhaye

Ajantha ki loot gayi bahar

Bol bol ke Zindagi

Why did you ditch me.

Jindagi bhi le le yaar

India se mooh chipa kaise jaau

Tauba tera jalwa tauba tera pyar

Samarweera ka  yeh emosional atyachar

Dilshan ke dill scoop ab chala chal

Man me more hook si oothi hai

Harbhajan ko shoulder arms karoo

Wari me jau sadke dhol yaara dhol

Mauj ki pinge jhoolu

De de mohe haar de de

BD ko peet ke aasman choo lo

Zimbabwe ka nathaniya laga ke jhoomu

Mahela Sanga saath saath ishaq me doobe re

Haar ke ishaq me dooobe re

Koyal jaisi hook uthi hai

O Baliyssa mere yaar re

Tohra sag tohra sang rang rangayi

Jeet ke sapne honge

Champagne ki mahfil hogi

Victory ka anchal odh lu me

To te sang baat ban jaye

India ko India me peet du

Dhol yaara Dhol

Man me hook uthi hai

Mumbai ke Taj ko ghatiya bolu

De de mohe jeet de de

Tore saath bolu

Test me hare to India ko gaali du

ODI me hare to weather ko excuse banau

Fir wapas wahi IPL khelne jau

Preity ke dimples me kho jau

Jaake jhappiya te pappiya pau

Te Bhangra Pau

Dhol yara dhol

Pukhta hai purjor hai

Kal mera bebaak tha

Aaj mera kamjor hai

Khud se hi aankhein na mil paye

Aanko ke aage manjar wapas na aaye

Fir is lamhe ki haqiqat dobara na kar paye

Jalta he dil jalta he dil

Reporter pare hat jaa re pare hat jaa re

Viru nazaro ke samne se hat jaa

Tere shot mere aankhon ke samne chalte rahte

aasoo mere bahate rehte khoon khoon ke

Aankho ka hai yeh dhoka

Aisa teri captaincy yaar

Tera emosanal atyachar

Sanga tera emosanal atyachar

Nayan tarse jeet na mile

Greatness bhi na mile

Ro ro ke bahe dhar

Dubbay Boys : Delhi Daredevils openers and Whistle man of Pakistan

Happy Dubbay to Daredevils skipper and India opener Gautam Gambhir.

Happy Dubbay to Dilscoop Dilshan Tilakratne Daredevils Delhi wale.

And happy dubbay to Rashid Latif, the cheapest Pakistan ex-player and the fallback guy to keep wickets for them whenever the team was swept following some defeat.

He was the whistle blower for match fixing. Surprisingly this time he is backing up Younis Resign Khan.

6 days later Beeru celebrates his 31st dubbay.

My money for CLT20...

Champions League...

4 days to go.

My money on :

1) Delhi Daredevils : Good platform for VS to get back to the form before the Aussie series. And then further demolition of Mendis and Murali in the series.

2) Royal Challengers, Bangalore : For historical reasons : Seeing Anil lead once more, if he plays. He fell short last time in IPL-2, perhaps playing in home crowd would motivate him to win the T20 award too.

Besides I dont have much info on the foren teams, but I have learnt that one of the teams has 11 international players and many players are from other IPL teams in that foren team. Notably one from KKR, one from Kings XI Punjab. Most prolly he was pissed off on not to have received Preity's hugs.

Another player supposed to play for that foren team is playing now for Delhi Daredevils, the same man who invented the ice cream Dilscoop shot. By the way he winning the T20 award of the ICC has sent angry signs in Boom Boom's country.

Dilli would be expected to repeat the heroics of World T20 for Gambhir;s team too. And if he does that the top 3 of DD would read a dangerous look. VS, GG and TD.

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.

Comparing an apple and an orange

One innings at the top in Tests for Dilshan and there are comparisons with Sehwag. Hold it. Dilshan is a very attractive batsman to watch when in flow. Equally crap when he sulks. Dont agree. Remember the lone T20 match India played in tour of SL earlier this year which Dilly captained.

Now there is no comparison between Sehwag and Dilshan in Tests. Sehwag has batted for almost 61 odd Tests at the top out of his 69 Tests and made run in almost every conditions -- centuries in Lanka, West Indies, Australia (195 and 151), South Africa (117), England (112), Pakistan (wow 309), India (many more)... and at lightning fast rate. His last 12 100s have been huge. In fact last time he got out less than 150 was good 7 years back against West Indies in 2002. <>

Dilshan has just been promoted to the top cos Warnpura was flopping consistently and they have no Jaya, PattaAttu and Tharanga. He mostly bats at 6 and has tail for his company. But then again when you play mostly against BD and at home, the figures are sure to bulge up.

Contrast that with Sehwag who has played at the top for most of his career and has blunted most of the new ball attacks everywhere. Can anyone forget his 195 at Melbourne or 170 odd in Chennai 2004 against McGrath, Kasper and Warne. Or 201 last year when 2Ms wrecked havoc in Indian middle order. 309 and 319 were on flat tracks but they were against better attacks than Dilly's innings. 254 for that matter too was on flat track, but that was the fastest double century.

Sehwag plays attacking shots in the new ball duration when most of the attacking fields are set and balls does something early on. Dilly comes in at 6 when the ball has lost the shine and is relatively easier to bat on. Plus he plays on flat tracks of Lanka and mostly against BD. So his record wont count against Sehwag.

The story which prompted this was :

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/420632.html

This is like comparing apples to oranges. I have nothing against Dilly. He has been the most underrated player of SL with the likes of Blabba king, Sangakara, 2 Ms and Malinga taking away the limelight. But he is certainly not big as Sehwag at the top and if he has to evoke any comparisons he has to bat consistently on the top n against better teams in all the conditions.

SL won or Pak lost ?

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/416478.html

What tough calls man ? Dropping Vaas ? When was he playing except the final Test which was a brokered deal to get rid of him for good ? Making Dilshan keep ? Was that a brave move ? Idiotic to say the least. You have lost your best batsman in LOI cricket to this inability of the captain to step up and keep when PJ was injured.

When did SL play breathtaking cricket to outplay Pakistan? SL won 2-0 cos Pakistan lost it in those mindless collapses. SL never played positive cricket to win the series. When they could play positive cricket they choked and gave up chance to win 1st test on their win without help from Pakistan batsmen or bowlers!!

Speaking for media for praising the team ignoring the realities is idiotic. And why is he even writing now ? He is no more a captain, he isnt in the greatest of form, so why is he blabbering? I dont know if Nuvan and Thilan deserved those 17 and 12 wkts without the help from Pakistan batsmen? I guess not.

Mendis is punctured for good and he wasnt even considered for the final Test.

When there was an opportunity for the new captain to set the pace for a win he choked just cos Dilshan was injured. So what if he was injured. If they would have gone for victory and lost then it was acceptable, but closing the shop 32 overs before the game is negative cricket. For negative cricket so much of applauds ? Not done dude.

History would be created when you guys win outside SL and sans BD and Zim. Thats when the history would be made for you guys. Until then keep making runs, they wont contribute an iota to your greatness ?