Time for PCB to clean the house

Pic : Is he a new Vodafone ZooZoo? Oldest of them all ?

One more zoozoo act from Ijaz Butt when he sent a legal notice to ICC for stripping Pakistan of its world cup host. Worse, he feels India is behind this step. Yeah right. All ills in world cricket arise out of the BCCI's hut. Isnt it?

Given following facts

1) There are series of bomb blasts and attacks on Pakistan security setup from the millitants ensuring a civil war is on. So how security is going to be arranged for the touring cricketers ?

2) With the terrible events @ Liberty Chowk, where cricket lost its liberty from terrorism, will any country tour Pakistan in the future? And given the fact that no team would travel to Pakistan how would PCB stage the world cup?

3) Whats the final security level going to be delivered to the touring team ? Forget the promises of president level and all that.

4) Will PCB finally take one right step rather than going to the wrong directions?

5) Will any player feel safe to travel to the ground from hotel and back amidst the terror threat?

what all options of cricket in Pakistan are possible?

Nothing unless the PCB administration is dumped. What have they done since the SL team attack?

1) Tried to get Chris Broad banned as he made a eye witness account for the attack.

2) tried to blame India for the srilankan team attacks.

3) Pakistan players were banned from IPL.

4) When the world cup was stripped again India was blamed. The security situation in India was put to question by Miandad and Butt. IPL was blamed.

Not a single step out of this seems to be towards fusing the problem and finding a solution . Cynical steps, looking at India for all its problems and then hoping for support, blaming ICC for its ills and ignoring the problems plaguing its own setup and security setup in Pakistan has all thats being done by PCB.

I am not even saying Butt and Miandad are the biggest enemies for Pakistan cricket. Saying that gives me flak and ire. calling names? Me calling them names is irrelevant. But something relevant is to do a look-in into their own setup and set things right.

Until then Pakistan should forget expecting international cricket returning to its folds. Grow up guys.

Arm Ball 17th on cricket blips

I am right there at 17 at the cricket rankings right here.
JRod at top, Mumbai Homer at 2, Q at 3 and APU at 4.

Congs APU, you deserve to go right at the top. Go APU. But take me to the top as well :). My 17th rank is not bad given the fact that I lack analysis power (per few guys) and almost fail to understand the essence of the arguments (again per few guys)....

Good job dude. Go top!!!

Additional spin options for India

IPL has helped Indian team for the world T20 in the spin department. With Harbu in off mode, the onus lies on Pragyan Ojha who has bowled decently in the tourney so far. Add Viru, Yuvraj the traditional part timers to the ring. And the find of IPL -- Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma (he would certainly play) as spinners. No matter Sharma calls himself now an allrounder after a hatt trick against Mumbai Indians, his bowling skills would be helpful in England. Not to forget Yusuf Pathan.

Ishant Sharma would be a unsure starter in the XI. The fast bowling would be in the hands of Zaheer, RP and Irfan the alrounder. Batting order would be : Veeru, Gambhir, Raina, Yuvraj, Dhoni, Sharma, Y Pathan, I Pathan, Harbhajan, Zaheer, RP.

Looks a world beating team already. Gee.

Whadda player!!

Roy, you beauty..

My predictions

Deccan chargers in the 1st game.....

Chennai Super Kings in 2nd game..

Roy is back. And so is Appam. Would be a keen contest. I m sure Roy would hit Appam to even more sixes than what Haydos did

Much ado about nothing!!

Whats wrong if Shane Warne gulped a sip or 2 of the beer in the mid game. Whats so hue and cry about it? Get over the jingoist mentality Indian media :)

Chak De Phatte

Oye Chak De Phatte
Dilli De Patthe :)

Rowdy'ism deflated. Right place pointed and in what a way. Feels orgasmic deliciouly heavenlicious!!!

Khud ko hilwa denge : Mumbai Indians.

With Sachin gone to a freak dismissal, the proudy rowdy Mumbai Indians are down to dumps. Easy woozy doozy walk in the park style win for Delhi Daredevils beckons.

Go Delhi. Top of the table.

Whosoever suggested Ronchi and Duminy to open the innings. I doubt Nayars or Rahanes have that ability to bail the Bambai Indians out of the trouble. Blowing trumpets on a team which has no talent except 4 top international pros and no application is like making an ass of yourself.

Its being showed where Mumbai Indians belong who they are and how they are. Barring skipper, nobody else seems keen to apply themselves. Be it Rahane, Raje, Shahane, Raje or Baje...

4/33 says it all. Chokers, not even them. For choke they need to be in a winnign situation. This lads aint willing to put in efforts to stay and make a game out of it. Most of the local lads of the MI team play fr Mumbai Ranji team. IF this is the talent, then beware of them playing for India. That would be doom for India. Pity that such a team won the Ranji trophy. Contrast this team to the teams of yore which had greats like Sunny Gavaskar, DBV, Ashok Mankad in their ranks and defeating them in the Ranji was like beating Australia in their prime.

The current team is pale shadow of those great teams of the past. If you have the might and the strength in the team, shout and scream. If you dont, get off and sit silent in the corner. If you scream just cos its "MUMBAI" and there is no talent/might in the team, then you make an ass of yourself.

What a pity that the IPL teams of 2 of India's greatest ODI batsmen have been knocked out of the IPL not for their own mistakes but the ridiculous team selections and dearth of the talent. Royals of Rajasthan too doesnt have talent as Mumbai, but those lads are ready to apply themselves, attend to the call of their captain and perform. They have turned the table around after a disappointing start to second season. Unfortunately for mumbai, the lads didnt heed to the captain's call and his inspiration. What more you need than the presence of Sachin Tendulkar in the dressing room. If the likes of Raina, Sharma, Y Pathan and Yuvraj Singh get inspired from Tendulkar in team's presence, then why the heck this local lads from Mumbai dont get that inspiration from the man.

Rant on Mumbai fans.

Fake IPL player suggests Ganguly rest plan

Dont be surprised to see if Saurav Ganguly is being rested / dropped from the remainder of the KKR games. Fake IPL player suggests the same thing in his latest post on the blog. He also says that there was a confrence call between Buchanan, Shahrukh Khan and the CEO. Dont know how true this is, it would need to be seen in the upcoming games.

The only way to end this farce for Ganguly is to back out and return to India. Right now, right then.

Owe it when it deserves!!

English and Windies coaches have gone on record saying how absence of players playing IPL hampred their preparations to the 1st test in Lords. But what will they got to say that the best performance from both sides came from players who had set the ball on fire in IPL as well. Fidel Edwards for West Indies (Deccan Chargers) and Ravindra Bopara for England (Kings Punjab) were the players in contention..

If you guys attribute failure to IPL, please attribute the success of the players to IPL as well.