Racism, Drugism

My first post from USA.

If you get caught in drugs dope scandal either :

1) Blame it on your mom pleading ignorance.

2) Blame it on the injury like Asif or now Steyn

3) Blame it to the disruptive element like Afridi....

Whatever it is, its always a touchy affair to draw a conclusion on players in contention on drugs ;P...Whats WADA doing now ? Quiet ? Whats with them they bark only on Indians ?

BTW did I say Indians suffer a huge deal of racism in DUBAI ?

Homerland........

I am now in homerland!!!!!!!!!!!!

Advice to Indian sportsmen

WADA let the cat out of the bag and the non existent sportsmen in India began advicing cricketers on WADA contentious clause. Sushil Kumar, Sania Mirza, Bhoopatni and other sundries have their views on this clause.

I would just say before you speak on this why dont you guys match your performance in your sports at par with the cricketers ? And if you do then speak else shut your mouth.

Test rankings

…are real crap. As per the annual update the Lankans are # 3 and Indians are # 4. How come that happened ?

A look at their record suggests they played 2 against Australia and lost. Drew in WI, won 2-0 against BD, that’s their default scoreline. Who bothers and then 2-1 win against India, thanks to the disgusting referral decisions (26 – 3 in favor of SL). They beat Pakistan 2-0 but then Pakistan weren’t at the top of the table.

Amazing man.

India won against England 1-0 twice, 2-0 against Australia, 1-0 against Pakistan, drew 1-1 against SA and lost 1-2 against Australia (should have won 2-1) and Sri Lanka. Beating strong teams doesn’t count? Winning 2-0 against top team doesn’t count and losing 0-2 against them counts. Wow man. And yes 1-0 in NZ too.

I believe the ICC doesn’t look into the quality of the opposition. It just sees the rankings how and which team beat when and what numbered. Bizzare. Rankings are biased towards Sri Lankans. Out of nowhere Kulasekra becomes # 1 in ODIs, Sangakara leaps to # 1 out of nowhere. MoYo returns and becomes # 1. Guys like Gambhir who have been in platinum form are briefly numbered 1. Chandu forever remains in top 10. Tendulkar despite being in tremendous form in 2008 – 09 never jumps to top 10. Sehwag lingers on 20s and Laxman never reaches top 15. Dravid who was in peak form from 2002 – 2006 hardly became # 1.

Who said India rules the cricket world ? There is no other Test team other than India and South Africa who have got better results anywhere. Look at the performance of this 2 teams in Australia. India won in Perth, something which no one was able to do besides fading Windies of 1991. India did in 2008, SA repeated in 2009. If there was no Bucknor, India would have won Sydney in 2004 and then again in 2008. England lost 0-5 in 2006 in Australia. SL lost 0-2 in 2008 when Murali got only 4 wkts. Pakistan lost 0-3 in 2004-05.

Look at India’s performance in Tests. They have been the best of teams in the pure real cricket over last 2 years. And they drop to # 4. And then contrast that with SL who play boring draws everywhere and win only in their own home conditions and Bangladesh. There is no comparison even. Yet they go up to # 3. A 2-0 or 3-0 win later this year would be apt result for India and set this crap stuff right.

Moving Base........

I am moving my base from India to a location where cricket is not followed at all. No live coverage, no cricket played. In such a scenario continuing the blog would be a challenge. No i am not running away from blog. Cricket is a passion, its a life, its a healing and its in the veins. So is this blog.

20000 hits to this blog is a huge high to me. I get this without gulping a Olifant or Long Island coffee or not even Shakeela.

This blog is about cricket. My individual preferences do come in picture. I am not neutral or one who wants to write goody stuff. people might get a picture i hate some country, that is a myth. I always believe attack the opinion, reason argue it, not the person, not the blogger within. And when you disagree do not quote "lack of facts" or "data isnt there".

I have got strong memories and here is a challenge. Ask me any incident in Indian cricket from 1985 - 2009,, i would recall it for you. Every game India played in this duration, every victory, every loss, every series, every thing related to this era. And i wont even refer the sites. I would just query my database, run a select query, publish the result sets and commit the transaction.

So the blog would continue. Ripping apart Butt's butt, ridiculing Badri Dabri, DK, supporting ST, RD, MS, VS and GG would continue. Supporting Aussies would go on despite Ponting. This would continue to be what it is. A cricket blog. No matter if i am in India or Hong Kong or France. Cricket would find a way back in my life , no TV or TV.

There would be a lull over the weekend on this blog. Not that people would miss it. Just notifying in advance so that people do not feel I vanished like team feeling for MoYo.

WADA Aaj Kal

What do we want ? Taking on fokat WADA or saving Test cricket ? WADA is ass, its crap and its not needed. We dont need it. Fuck you WADA.

Do we need Tests ? yes pretty much.

MS Gill says his two cents (or dimes) on WADA issue and since it involves cricket, he takes "panga" with BCCI. Quite expected. There is a lobby in India comprising of other sports who are against cricket. And it leaves no stone unturned to pass gibes (or jibes or fibes) on cricket.

Not that we do bother.....

I again reiterate its double standards of WADA. A proved drug addict (nashedi) in Asif and Akhtar finds way to cricket every time they are found positive. And a guy called Tendulkar along with Sehwag, Dhoni, Yuvraj are framed in IRTP or whatever list for random off season testing.

Is there even a comparison ? If WADA is so concerned on the doping free world or say doping free cricket, then pester Butt's ass to hand over a life ban to Asif and not play him the CT.

Just that the Indian players had the guts to come out in open and other players of other countries meekly surrendered. But i guess other players esp from Australia and England should follow the suit and trash WADA from cricket.

Pakistan lose the series.

Wipe out the PCB current administration. They are a woeful lot and they are affecting the team performance. Induction of ICL rebels, drug addicts, super stars in the team over youngsters and talented players is hurting the cricket of Pakistan.

They cant win a Test, they cant beat a A team and they cant win a ODI.

Repurcussion ? Younis Khan would be sacked and entire team would be replaced with unknown players just like 2003 World Cup debacle.

Biggest reason for the losses is the induction of this anti team players who jump the boat to ICL or put their staticstics over the team.....

Persisting with Misbah for his 2007 T20 heroics, persisting with MoYo and Bugsy Akamal -- the bugs bunny rabbit is hurting the Pakistan team. Even the boomer isnt able to lift the spirits. The only team right now Pakistan seem capable to beat is Papua New Guinea or New Samoa. Let the cleansing action begin and let Butt be the first one to go. Once he is gone entire Pakistan cricket would see a turn around.

WADA

According to an article on cricinfo on the ongoing fuss on WADA, one of the 11 on the list of Indian players to be tested randomly is Sachin Tendulkar. The list is called IRTP. There are 2 ladies, there are few lesser mortals like Munaf, Irfan on the list. Barring this 4 the other ones in the list are high profile cricketers. Sehwag, Dhoni, Harbhajan, Yuvraj, Gambhir and Zaheer Khan – the only cricketers in India who play all 3 formats consistently and form the backbone of this highly successful Indian team. Imagine a situation that one of this cricketers is busy spending some quality time with their families or say dining in a restaurant or watching movie in a multiplex. They come out and WADA intercepts them and asks for a Test. What would be the reaction ? The situation would be very embarrassing and downgrading for the cricketers.

And can we imagine this players taking drugs? I mean is this insane ? Declare your whereabouts and be ready for Test. Sachin Tendulkar is tested for drugs. How disgusting this would look in the news. It would be a humiliation to the great man. Or imagine somebody saying drugs being the reason behind success of Sehwag in Tests. How disgusting would that be? 3 breaches for failing the test and the player would be banned. What the hell. Imagine this situation, if a player like MS fails to go for the test and gets banned. And when the known and proven drugaddicts like Asif and Shoaib can play international cricket without even getting banned for what they did, how shameful would it look for the players with clean image. Banned for failing to appear the drugs test.

Sorry but WADA is not needed in CRICKET. Since 130 years the game has gone on with an exception of few peddlers and addicts, but mostly it has been drugs free and I see no reason why doping tests should be a part of cricket NOW. Inspect the cricketers who are having a past with the drugs who are making a return to the cricket on behest of some mad cricket admins. Why target people who wont even bother to go drugs way when they can perform miraculously without getting into drugs trap. Why doesn’t WADA force PCB to impose a ban on Mohd Asif who has been caught with drugs 2 times in 2 years. Or for that matter why is Shoaib Akhtar even playing cricket in any form? When Warne was banned for one year and Australia didn’t give two hoots to him returning to ODIs, then who are Asifs and Akhtars? What would WADA do on them? Why didn’t they make a strong case against this players? Can you imagine a Tendulkar or a Sehwag or a Dhoni going for performance enhancing medicines or drugs? The one who imagines so or thinks it could be a reality need to go have a brain check.

WADA hume maaf karo, aage badho. Chutte paise nahi hai.

Justice...

.........done to the performance of Indian ODI team finally when the annual update in the ODI ICC rankings sees India go to the #2 spot with just 1 point behind leaders South Africa. This is just apt and deserving for the country which has now won 5 ODI series in a row and beaten every team in every conditions in ODIs.

And now with victory of Emerging Indian players in the tourney down under with valiant contributions from Virat Kohli, Abhishek Nayar and Sudeep Tyagi, its just the upward path for the ODi team in the future. Not to mention that the patchy forms of few young men of the team wont deter the team's chances to march ahead in the journey to recapture ODI world cup in Mumbai in 2011.

RIP BCCI

....over the WADA dispute with ICC.. I m amused to see people quiet over this issue. Only losers like Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang, whom nobody in the country even remembers beside one night stars, have spoken on this issue against the cricketers. But then this sportsmen always need some issue to go against cricket. Inferiority complex or may be frustration.....

What did Abhinav Bindra do? Won a gold in the olympics. Fine. What after that and what before that ? Who bothers about olympics in the country ? Who the fuck even cares what this lad is upto ?

Do we bother about the cricketers? Hell lot. Why WADA wants to poke its nose in cricket ? Indians dont dope. At least not the cricketers. Go inspect the country which has its two cricketers caught in known drugs case. Why bother taking heads on the BCCI ? Whatever be the case, its gonna be BCCI who is going to be winners. And can any world tournament happen without the Indians ? The answer is well known to all of us. So WADA, try going after BCCI and then have a look at how this body is bundled and thrown out of ICC......