Freesanth gets a zip in IPL

Lead tusker Sreesanth continued his antics in the first home IPL game.  What was amazing to see was to get the swing and the zip he got. Something which was amiss in the world cup. 

Misplaced priorities?

Please save us from Indian Russell Arnold -- Laxman Shivramkrishnan. He is just a fucktard..  Make him sit on a tusker and let it scream over him. Even the tusker would go wild and mad listening Shivramkrishnan.

Bholaram Sakharam DK Sreesanth

Muppet Sreesanth is now so much angered at his own incompetence and the ridicule he is inviting with every passing game he plays, that he is now hurting his own team mates with ball and bat. He hit Yuvraj one with the ball and then Eric Simmons when he batted in the nets. 

Muppet forgets that he has to bowl that well and bat that well (if need be) in a real game and not in nets. He is for the sake of everybody be taken off the team and shown the way to a dance studio or a realty show. That suits him better as his theaterics and drama would get some audience. If he shows that all in the middle he is going to get abuses and ridicule. He is a big Bholaram Sakharam DK.

Sreesanth problem

The biggest headache for the next game against England will be the 3rd pacer or the 2nd spinner.  Sreesanth or Ashish Nehra or Piyush Chawala? 

Most probably Sreesanth wont be risked against the strong teams. He is a definite ticket to a loss no matter what the target is for the opposition team. May be Ireland or Netherlands could be an easy meat for Sreesanth to experiment his waywardness and inconsistency, but certainly not against England, SA and West Indies.

He is going to be one big headache and a liability that would travel to all places where India would play. Unfortunate as it is, equally it is potent threat to derail India's world cup campaign. One man cannot be allowed to derail the well planned campaign since last 2 and half years. May be Ishant Sharma could have been a better replacement for injured Praveen Kumar instead of this bigot.

Sreesanthhhhhhhhhhhhhh

24 runs off a single over, balls flying over the ground, no balls and wides. And thats Sreesanth for you...Throw out this fuckass from the team!!!

India : 370/4

India scored 370 for 4 in 50 overs in their first game in the world cup against now minnows Bangladesh. That is almost the double they scored in 2007 against the same team.  The hero of the game was the man from Delhi, the vice captain of the team -- Virender Sehwag.

A massive 175 off  139 balls and he just missed out on the 200. But he ensured that the match is almost in India's pocket and the revenge is almost over. He is not a man popular in Bangladesh with 2 statements he has made off late. One in 2010 when he said BD are ordinary Test side and two when he said he is looking for the game as  revenge game. 

He ran out Tendulkar in an amateurish mixup, but thereon he took the game in his stride and ensured team crossed 300. He just hit 1 6 before 100 and then hit 4 more in another 75. He injured himself later which otherwise would have seen him go past 200.

Gambhir was at his fluent best until he had a brain freeze and dismissed himself without covering the stumps.

Kohli got a debut 100 too and perhaps he is first Indian to do so. Ganguly made 97 in 99 world cup previous highest. He perhaps has edged out Raina for long time to come unless Yuvraj finds way back to 2010 types form.

Though India looked good to cross 390 mark, they hit less 4s in last 5 overs than they would have liked. Yet 371 is a formidable total and India should not find much difficulty wrapping the game. Yes the idiot mofo Sreesanth is playing, but somebody would need to calm that muppet and ensure he does not leak runs in retail.

BD were horrible with the ball and much of their hopes in chase would depend on how Tamim Iqbal starts. Dont forget Zaheer Khan has a point to prove against him....

My Name is Sreesanth and I am not an idiot

My name is Santh and I am not a bigot.........

My name is Sreesanth and I am not an idiot

My name is Dancer and I am not a tuchiya........

My name is Freesanth and I am not an actor

My name is Shantha and I am not sane, but clinically insane!!!

Sreesanth was found humming this lines in a sleepy night before the opening encounter with the BD in Mirpur after he had seen My Name is Khan on his Arches tab....

Move over, Sreesanth incarnates himself as Indie commando

Updated : If Sreesanth had his way he would have a sword or a gun in his hand instead of a white ball and he would have hit the opposition players with the sword or gun if he would have got hit for runs or ran behind umpire with gun in hand if he did not react positively to his appeal. That he would have actually hit the umpire with the bullet from the gun or his hands would really have caught the real sword instead of a wooden sword, something which is available in North India after every Dusshera Ravan dahan celebration, is another thing!!!

And if Sreesanth had more power as an Indie Commando, he would have asked for a horse and he would have demanded he would bowl sitting on horse or a mule (complementing himself since he is also an ass) and with sword / gun in left hand and a ball in one. And after delivering the ball, he would turn the horse to umpire or the batsman and run behind them if a) ump did not react positively to his appeal b) batsmen hit him for a 6 and a 4, showing them the gun (plastic) and sword(wooden).....

Thank God, Ijaz Butt would now feel relieved he has got a brother (or son) across the border who is equal to him in terms of mental wisdom, cricketing knowledge and behavior in the public.

Mahela Jayawardhena would be the lead Indie commando in the IPL-4.  And guys like Ravinder Jadeja, Sreesanth (lunatic and clinically insane endorsed by MS) would also be part of it. Indie commandos. As in "Independent Indian cricket team" with "elite fighting squad".  

Couldnt get funnier than this. Imagine Sreesanth making a fool of himself while doing his traditional antics and foolishness as an Indie commando or Mahela Jayawardhena shouting something to his team mates as a Sri Lankan Indie commando.

Kochi owners are just making further fun of themselves and also attaching ridicule on the legends like Laxman, Murali, Sir Ravinder Jadeja and of course "Aiblee filim" Sreesanth. Just imagine Ravinder Jadeja and Sreesanth dressed up as Indie commandos. Laughing stock!!!

Clinically insane Sreesanth

Lunatic Shanthakumaran Appam CH**** Sreesanth bowled 5 overs today and leaked out 38 runs in those 5 overs against Kiwis. Even tailenders hit him for 6 and 4. And all the idiot could do was stare the batsmen and chirp away.

What a loser!!!

The best thing that can be done for this lad is to declare him mentally unfit to bowl, dance or act or even lift Laxmi Roy, who knows when he would suffer from mental imbalance and put down the actress on the ground. He is prone to violence any time.

Mentally imbalanced clinically insane unfit to bowl and hard to contain madness bowler Sreesanth 

Send lunatic Sreesanth to Mental asylum

"I'm a very real person, not an actor. In real life you can't have retakes. Maybe I could become a good actor. Though I am spiritual, I'm not sentimental."

If you can be a good actor, you muppet, get off the world cup arena and get lost to some **wood and show your acting skillls there. If you are playing a damn world cup, be in your limits else it wont be long that you'd be forgotten like Tinu Youhanan was forgotten from your state.

This kinda statements just prove that this guy has his mental balance disturbed whenever he runs into a batsman and thats dangerous. He can get violent anytime. Best place for this lunatic idiot is a mental asylum and not the Indian dressing room!!!

Sreesanth

Sreesanth has been in the eye of storm again in SA. Last time he did a break dance to Andre Nel, this time he has offered some staunch comments against Smith's mother and HArris's wife (as reported).   This has invited him a lot of sledging from the South African fielders when he batted today in the first innings and a public dressing from his captain in media.

Not only this he was also booed by spectators when he stepped in to bat and he was cheered when he swung and had a miss.

The problem with this jerk is that he is a man of his own world. If he would bowl a snorter, the next he would ball a half volley giving a plate full of runs. He would bowl one unplayable delivery and the next one would be a full down the leg side. He got a 5-for in the first innings, his first after Kanpur 09,

He has his own rituals while delivering the overs or his own celebrations after taking a wicket. More often than not he would send off a batsman who is a petty no 11 or a batsman who has just defended a ball back to him.

All this while when he has his own rituals to follow he often ignores the situations of the match. Even if the team is running short of over rate and the captain faces suspension, this lad would continue his rituals which are just theatericals and nothing more. This just indicates he is no more a team man.

And if continues to find a place in the test team cos there are no more good players then he needs to justify the place with wickets to his name rather than the sledges or abuses!!

THings around Durban Win

The Durban Test is conquered and the daemons of 14 years have been buried. And this was done on "one of the greenest ever tracks" we played on. This test was won by a team whose bowlers had a ? on "ability to take 20 wickets".  14 years back, the Donald and Pollock company had buried India for 100 and 66 and that was the worst display by the team ever since I started watching cricket.

Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman were part of that team.

But this team is different. This team is the top ranked team of the world and if there were any questions on the rank, they must be buried now. India bounced back in style on a green track on which Smith and co "have grew up on", yet they have lost last 3 tests in 3 years on Kingsmead.

The likes of Robin Jackman, Shaun Pollock and others were shut up hard when they saw how Zaheer and Harbhajan rolled Saffers for 131 in first innings on a "not so 131 looking pitch".

Shameful isnt it.

Losing in one's own backyard in conditions suiting the home team is a shame.

India has downplayed every achievement it has in past few years abroad. They have now won every where. And given the current form and situations, they should easily win in West Indies and Australia. A good contest would be in offing against England who are pipped for # 1.

England have not won a series against India home and away in 14 years. And so has South Africa in 4 years.

Zaheer, Laxman, Harbhajan, Sreesanth, Pujara and of course Ishant Sharma wrote the script for the victory. Presence of Zaheer Khan showed how much he is valuable to the Indian team. The attack looks potent from average and insipid. Only if Ishant Sharma could discover the form and passion of Australia 08 India's new ball attack would be better than it is right now.

Kallis jumping to form a reverse C would be the marquee vintage image of this series and for years to come. How could he not play short ball? He has grew up in such conditions. And so did Graeme Smith. He got out to a miscued pull off a short ball of short tempered Freesanth.  Only after pointing a bat to him after there was a personal thing between him and Freesanth.

I wont complaint. The situations leading to Cape Town test are similar to 2007 when India lost out on the day 3 and day 4 when Lord Harris strangulated Sachin and Dravid and after a Kallisque effort, SA won by 6 wkts. That was a Jaffer test and a Ganguly series. Coud not believe that Sehwag batted at 7 and BossDK batted at 2.

India had won at Joburg, lost at Durban then. This time lost in Centurion, won in Durban.

If Capetown is won, then this would be the best test series win of the decade. In a land which has tormented the cricket for last 17 years and has made mortals of greats. A 2-1 India would be a fitting result.

Durban test at a cliffhanger moment

The Durban test is at a very critical juncture where it could be anybody's Test. Its India who needs 7 wickets and its South Africa who needs 192 runs. 


SA have their 2 best batsmen on the crease in form of Kallis and AB. And India would love to have both of them as soon as possible to enforce a win and level the series. 


The key men for India would be indeed Zaheer and Harbhajan. Of course Ishant and Sreesanth would be there but they wont be as consistent as the former two and they would certainly be looking to shed their waywardness on the most important day of this series. 


A couple of wickets or 3 in the first session with not many runs given away would be a thing India would expect. And 70-90 runs with 1 wicket or 2 would be something South Africa would be looking to. 


In the end its going to be those crucial moments which would decide  who would win the game. The team which would seize and give nothing away would win this test match. And it would be great for Dhoni if he  tapes Sreesanth so that he does not piss anybody off and none of remaining Saffers plays a match winning innings.

India's world cup chances brighten up

India are on a roll and having an unbeaten home season first time in memory of all the years I have watched Indian cricket. 2-0 win over Aussies, 1-0 over Kiwis and today's 2-0 lead over Kiwis in ODIs. And this is without the first choice players -- Sehwag, Zaheer, Harbhajan, Dhoni, Ishant, Tendulkar are all rested or missing.

India have been playing some positive brand of cricket after a dismal show in Sri Lanka on dicey useless pitches in august.

And that augurs well for the team ahead given the World Cup is in India itself.

Sreesanth's form in bowling and Gambhir, Kohli's form in batting is a huge bonus.

India's world cup chances look good again!!!

Preview : Bangalore Test

The second Test between the 2 best teams playing positive Test cricket starts tomorrow morning India time. And this would be the last one for lot of players in the country on both sides.

After an epic first, the expectations would be high on this series decider.

India has a strong record when they take the 1-0 lead. In last 20 years they have given up the lead only 4 times last being against England in 2006.

There are going to be a few changes in the Indian team and the hero of 9th wicket partnership wont be there. The Delhi lads give way to Southie guys. Vijay replacing Gambhir and Sreesanth replacing Ishant.

Laxman is in some kind of doubt starting tomorrow and if he does not play it would be a toss-up between Pujara and Mukund to occupy his slot. Conventional logic says Pujie should make his debut but we never know with Srikanth at helm and Srini's power could see Mukund make his debut too. (Kidding).

India has got some stupid record in Bangalore with not having won a test in 15 years. This is a great chance for them to rectify the record asap. They've lost to Australia twice, drew once and lost to Fixistanis in 2005.

Possible lineup:

India : Sehwag, Murali, Dravid, Tendulkar, Laxman / Pujie, Raina, Dhoni, Zaheer, Bhajan, Sreesanth, Ojhie.

Aus : Watto, Katto, Punter, Pup, Mr Cricket, South, Paine, Mitch, Hauritz, Hilfy and Georgie Boy.

It would be one more chance for Marcus North to slide his batting going down south and ensure his berth remains safe for Ashes...

All in all it should be a cracking contest between India and Australia once again and then the rivalry would take a break for one year and then it would kick off once again in 2011 down under. Not sure if the 3 greats would make it that tour.

Now that Mr Character Sanga Singh is injured he should watch this game closely to learn how to play positive cricket.

India's XVI for Sri Lanka

India has declared 16 players for the yet another Test series vs Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.  Its going to be the 3rd series in 3 years between the two teams and hopefully for next 3 years there wont be any series between the 2 teams. 

The usual culprits (no pun) return to the test team making it the usual colored look. Dravid, Laxman, Ishant etc etc return for the Test series. 

Also returns is Wriddhiman Saha. Shocking. He was a dead as a dodo in the Nagpur Test vs South Africa and just after a Test, he returns. 

Dinesh Karthik was ignored. Good for this blog, not so for others. 

Also returns is M Vijay. Srikanth makes sure he keeps one Tamil Nadu player in every team he selects. Last series he had 2, Dabri missed out this time. 

If M Vijay was not present, Dinesh Karthik would have been. Guess the reserve slot (Wicket keeper or opener) is fixed for a Tamil Nadu quota. 

There are many tweets where people have questioned Srikanth's agenda for Chennai (Read Tamil Nadu).  I believe Srikanth has not chosen anybody outside Chennai too. I am not sure from where one Ganpathy hails, but Dabri, Vijay and Dinesh Kartik are sure Chennai duds. 

Dilip Vengsarkar was from Mumbai, but for Jaffer he did not push anybody from Mumbai who did not deserve a place in final XI. Srikanth is different. He needs his states players to serve a hidden agenda.  Guess he is in post for another 3 months and by September he would be out. I just hope he does not stick around to select World Cup team. Else it would be half Chennai Super Kinks team playing in Indian blue.

Yuvraj also returns. That means he was dropped on basis of fitness and not form. He did not play a single game to prove he was back in form. So as his latest tweet read "This elephant is back in fitness and raring to go" proves he assumes he is back in fitness. 

If thats true we wont know till he plays the 3 day game or the first Test.

If he fails, Suresh Raina is down there to pressurise him. If he keeps going he would benefit the national team. He is yet to hit a test 100 since Bangalore 100 against Pakistan. And a hundred or a big innings would be due for him to prove his worth in the # 6 slot. If not there are several other contenders -- Pujara, Raina, Sharma and Kohli to grab the place. Yes Aniruddha Srikanth is in there too. 

There are 3 spinners in the team. Mishraji, Ojhaji would be one of the spinners that would play alongside Bhajji. And its going to be one of Sreesanth and Ishant accompanying Zaheer in the new ball attack. Selection of Sreesanth is again questionable. What worthy he has done all this while is not known to us (at least). He seems to be another quota selection (making for loss of R Ashvin).

16 players for a 3 Test series is a bit too much. Usually teams name 14 players for a Test series and usually one or 2 players are released to play for their respective domestic teams.  We have not seen that happen for India and wont happen till the likes of Srikanth are around as egoistical regional headed selectors chefs.

What am I missing of IPL on TV

Cricket is back on the prime time slot, this time its good old international cricket. Between 2 countries. That gets you involved emotionally, feeling the tension, attaching every drop of feeling to the country you support (India of course).

Its quite different from 45 days of pathetic coverage of IPL on Sony Max.

There are no glimpses of Lalit Modi in suave attires rubbing shoulders and cheeks with Bollywood beauties(??).

There are no cliches of DLF Maximums, Time out from Mini Mobiles or heck no Citibank momemt of failures for anybody.

There are no city based loyalties anymore.

There is a national anthem played for every country. We see national flags being hoisted rather than club flags which do not involve us emotionally.

There are no tweets from Modi, Shashi Tharoor and of course Shilpa Shetty on the World T20 because they dont understand what international cricket is all about. May be if Sreesanth was playing Tharoor had displayed "Kerala Pride" in his tweets, which he so cheaply used in statements in Parliament while defending his bribery act.  He did not feel Kerala's pride was at stake when he got a female friend do the work and get him some money to get dollars to pay his staff (he feels Rs 14k are not good enough to pay his staff, so he volunteers).

There are no mad musical jings in between every over or no ads between balls.

There are no Bollywood folks in the dressing rooms, dugouts and TV shamelessly laughing and giggling all over for no reason.

In short the crapiness of IPL telecast has given way to more sobre and decent World T20 coverage, something we have watched all over years (we have watched international cricket with the game at center stage, not the croonies and jokers taking center stage).

Last but not the least Lalit Modi is clinging to his baby IPL on Twitter so much that he has turned to a quizmaster who does not get answers from anybody.  He poses trivia, does not find any takers and then answers themselves. He's following Tharror but Tharoor like a small kid has unfollowed Modi on Twitter.

Laugh out loud~!!!~~

Reason behind sudden resurgence of KXIP

The way Kings XI are now playing indicates that it was Sangakara who underperformed and under captained the team.

Or may be Preity Zinta's dip in the holy Ganges is doin the trick for her men who are more eager to get a jaddu ki jhappi than play their real self on the game.

Perhaps a jadu ki jhappi to Sanga would have done the trick.  Something similar(Sreesanth's crying act) antics would have been done by him in the dressing room to get the jhappi and once he had got it, he would have realized like a Bollywood hero that he is the captain and must perform.

So he did, but a bit late, the train to semis was already missed.

India win its 3rd consecutive Test

Ishant is truly back and firm in Test attack.

Sreesanth is on his way out. What a loss. He is not wanting to improve.  Time for antics in IPL for him. Give a glare or two to Sangakara.

Mishra is good, but he is no replacement of Anil Kumble. His 5-for in Mohali seems an one - off event and since then he has struggled.

301 is a flattering score. Thanks to bat swinging,  M Rahim got a 100.  Otherwise Sehwag's statement on their test status and quality remains same.  They are poor Test side and their batsmen know just one way to play Tests -- self destruct.  Having said that, they can on this day beat Pakistan's strongest side in Test cricket 2-1 or 3-0 in Test series.  Bet a Butt on it ?

With this win India are now undefeated for 13 Tests.  Shakib would like to have a look at this record and might want to take back his words that Aus and SA are better sides than India.  That's a weak statement, actually a retaliatory one for Sehwag's comments. To prove him wrong BD batsmen self destructed.  They played poor shots. Lest they improve on it, they wont be winning more tests.  They need to spend time on wickets and if they do that, they would go past Pakistan in the rankings, which at the moment are most pathetic test team in world.

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

Brabourne Test : Nostalgia and Sri Lanka's ambitions

Brabourne gets a test after 36 years and I hope it gets more in the future.

Its a romantic favorite for the old timer and a legacy of Indian cricket.  It ranks amongst Eden, Chepauk in terms of legacy and nostalgia.

Wankhede and Brabourne are almost near to each other in South Bombay.

India would eye a win and they go on top. SL eye their first win in India. It would be like the old Surf ad "Daag dhundte rah jaoge".

So Sangakara and company would keep looking for their first victory in India.

Gambhir goes out and Vijay comes in. No Dabri.

Last time Gambhir went out and Vijay played, India won. It was 4th Test then, last of the series. Today's one is same.

So omens point to India's win.

And Sangakara points out chink in Indian opening slot. Lol.  I mean he says Indian top order isnt same as before. He is smoking marijuana and puking shit.

Right now 'a very shant shree shant' is speaking to dumb damsel on Neo.