Mendis tapes

Mendis being asked to remove tape from fingers. Was that the secret behind the fastest 50 wkts ? Is that another example of cheating ? Wonder this team has been getting spirits of cricket award for last 2 years.

Hattrick for poor decisions to GOD

3 in row now.

Fernando to Tendulkar, OUT, Tendulkar's gone! lbw, nips in towards the batsmen, pitched up by Fernando, hits the batsman on front of leg stump, that looked to be sliding down, another not-too-great decision ends Tendulkar's innings

SR Tendulkar lbw b Fernando 7 (12b 0x4 1x6) SR: 58.33

Aint the Lankans cheat now ? Those crying foul on Aussies would cry now for their own home grown batsmen or is that they would still be obsessed by Aussies ?

It is disgusting to see GOD given out by poor mortals who are inept and aint worthy of umpiring anymore. Sri Lankans are cheats and now its proved. 3 in 3. I am writing this from office, so holding myself. Once I am home, I would let in my max anger and disgust on the buffoon whosoever has given Sachin out. May be Symmo’s comments hold (lump in ***) hold good for those 3 SL umpires and Mahela Jaywardhena for claiming Tendulkar out when he was not. Biggest cheater of world cricket. Go drown yourself in Indian ocean

Aussies no cheaters

Its ridiculous and childish to term Aussies as cheaters. I dont buy the opinion for free or for $1.35 million. The blogs and persons who have been terming Aussies as cheaters do that out of hatred and inability to stand their dominance.

Winning is always great and when you dont do that anymore, you are sure to draw a lot of flak. Poor Punter is doing the same. And on top of that being termed as cheat is like demeaning a person.

Guys, this is just a game. So chill up.

Go Aussies, thump Kiwis 4-1 and then the Poms 3-1 in the Ashes. I am an Aussie supporter after India.

Quota system back ?

Kris Srikanth is chief selector....
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Balaji comes in the team for Munaf.

If Vengsarkar was chief selector even now, Dhaval Kulkarni wud have been into the team. The same lame duck bowler in IPL who bowls max 126 kmph fastest and is amazingly highest wicket taker in the Ranjis.

Thats why the likes of Jaffer got the chance when they were ordinary or for that matter Badrinath continues to be in Grade B when he hasnt even played a single decent knock at highest level. How come he is in the central contracts list and no PUJARA ?

Rajput is shamelessly backing Dhaval Kulkarni on a show on Neo Cricket. Mumbai mumbai bhai bhai.

Are the Aussies only cheaters ? Look around, you wud find many

Every body speaks of Punter and Haddin as cheats and against the spirits of the game. Hardly except this blogger, anybody speaks of :

1. A bowler with suspect bowling action continues to ball for 16 yrs raking up 1270 wkts in international cricket with ICC bending rules in his favor thanks to the lobbying his board does.
2. A batsman from India given out 2 times in row when he was not. Consecutive appealing by this specific bowler earns him suspicious wickets. Not once but twice in a same game. Many times across multiple games.

Is that fair ?

Aint the bloggers who term Aussies cheat being guilty of biased view ? If Aussies are cheats then the players listed above in the numbered points are cheats too. Raise your horizon. You would find many cheaters.

Even Shoaib Akhtar and Wasim Akram were guilty of one such act in Kolkata Test of 1999 when they appealed for run out dismissal of Sachin Tendulkar even when latter was in the crease. Weren't they cheaters ?

India unsafe to play cricket in ?

“Pakistan has barred its players from participating in the IPL after its foreign ministry deemed it was unsafe for the cricketers to travel to India in the wake of the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai”

Sour grapes ? Unsafe security situation in India ? Who caused it ? Who sent the attackers ? Non state actors ?

At best this ban on Pak players for IPL is out of vengeance and revenge for India’s cancellation of full tour to the troubled country. By the way except for Sohail Tanvir no other Pakistan cricketer was of any use to the franchisees. Ok Younis Captain Khan too. But then who else ?

It’s a funny situation. Don’t want to get into political perspective, but this ban evokes laughter out of me.

Host Champions trophy in Australia

No SL please for Champions trophy. Why not Australia for the same ? That’s the best country to see the live CRICKET in added by superb commentary and jovial crowd atmosphere. I know few of the bloggers – perennial Aussie haters would oppose the idea. But why everything in the subcontinent ?

Congratulations to Hesh - Sania

For winning the mixed doubles Australian open title. You guys have made the country proud of the non-cricketing entities by becoming the sports persons to repeat the success @ international level consistently.

Walk when you are not an Indian, dont if you are one.

Read the post on Leela’s blog whether to walk or not to walk. I was mighty pissed to see Dhoni walk off without even looking at umpire. I was sure he was going to give Dhoni not out. That could have in a sense neutralized the wrong decisions 0-3 a bit. We suffer in SL. Last time in the Test series, in the referrals we had 3-26. 3 decisions went in our favor. 26 in their favor. Huge imbalance. If the referrals were correctly balanced out we could have had 2-1 scoreline in our favor and Saurav would have been playing even today.

Anyways back to the walking theory, there is one I feel which should work. I would say a batsman should walk if he is not an Indian and more so if he is a Australian or a Pakistani (remember Salim Malik or Ijaz or Miandad, they never walked or even Inzamam) or a Sri Lankan. Indians are usually the victims of poor umpiring. Everywhere. Australia or SriLanka or even at their own den. Phew!! So Dhoni shouldn’t have walked even if the score was 100-6 or he was on 99. Grab the benefit of doubt the umpire gives. Not sure when the next favorable decision in favor of a brown skinned Indian would come.

Roy should have walked twice in Sydney 08 like Gilly did in Durban 03.

Interesting facts and figures.

Sri Lankan bands play Indian music, they depend on Indian Board to bell them out of the financial crisis. That’s why we are there playing them again in their own backyard despite some security problem. Not from LTTE but from the own Samaritan Sri Lankan crowd who missiled Ishant Sharma yesterday. Perhaps it’s a love and hate relationship between SLC and BCCI. BCCI was in some loss after 11/26 led to cancellation of tour to Pakistan. They needed some money, so did Pakistanis and so did SL.

So SL toured Pakistan giving an impression to the world that they play normal teams too besides minnows. But the trick reversed. SL struggled against weak teams and whipped Pakistan like minnows. Now Pakistan is touring BD hoping to learn some tricks from Shakib and other team to torment SL in the return tour to the Emerald Isle. Wonder what tough times do to you. Once a time Pakistan was flexing its muscles and biceps with the strongest in the world. Today they have to make away with SL twice in a year and BD.

Coming back to neighborhood camaraderie between boards BCCI helped SLC who in turn helped PCB who were duped by BCCI. Bhai ho to aise. Good perfect pair of “Amar Akbar Anthonysinghe”.

Kulasekhra has learnt one trick to get his batsmen out. Scream loud even after normal window time has gone. Pissed off at the scream, the umpire would give the batsman out. And thus Kula found his way to no 2 in ICC rankings. Wonder how no Indian bowler finds his way to the top.

Australian woes continue in Perth. They are 1/21 in 7 overs with Marsh gone. Now if they cant beat Kiwis at home, they are up for a change in captaincy. Like Indians and Pakistanis hate losing against each other and the losing captaincy usually faces axe, the Aussies hate losing to Kiwis. Michael Hussey lost to Kiwis 0-3 before World Cup 07 and has ceased to be the vice-captain since. Ponting if loses this series, is the end of his tenure. The year which sees Aussies host SA and NZ usually see the captaincy exchange hands. 2001-02 saw Steve Waugh’s ODI career end. That was the year when first time in long time Aussies failed to reach the finals of then VB(and now CB) series J.