Look who is talking

I won't name anyone but I have seen quite a few cricketers who have been rubbing mud on the ball and that is also tampering," Akram told espnstar.com. " If umpires are not watching then I don't know who is. In this IPL, umpires should look for players who are putting mud on the ball because you can't alter the state of the ball with anything.

"Around the 18th, 19th over in places like Rajasthan, Mumbai or Ahmedabad where there is red soil it is difficult to see the ball under lights and by putting the mud on the ball these players are trying to contain the batsmen or get wickets." 

Look who is talking ? The masters of ball tampering now taking on moral policing role to put a lid on ball tampering. He has done it umpteen times and his country’s captain actually bites the ball to tamper it on live cameras.

Virender Sehwag is Wisden Cricketer of the year

Virender Sehwag has been chosen Wisden Cricketer of the year along with 4 Englishmen and an Aussie. Big achievement that Wisden chose to look an Indian cricketer for this award. Thats credible cos no Indian got that in the recent memory even when the fab five were in their pomp.

Bigger point to note is that this is the second consecutive year he has got the award.

This in a year when he has ascended to greater heights as opening bat, something he never looked to achieve when he started at 6 in B'fontein, SA.

293 in Brabourne against Lanka remains his best batting act of the year besides other explosive innings in ODIs and Tests this year.

Great going Viru.  Cant imaging that DBV dropped this guy for almost a year out of Tests cos his ODI form was poor and got Jaffer and Karthik opening for India in Tests!!!!

Do an Aircel to relaxed lads

Its time to do an AirCel (MoveOn) from this guys from Indian cricket. Yes Indian cricket exists and its not just about the IPL.

So those guys are :

Ishant Sharma from ODIs and T20s.
Dinesh Karthik from all formats
Rohit Sharma from all formats
Piyush Chawla from T20
S Badrinath from all formats

Put Raina, Praveen Kumar on notice that being lax and assured of place in the squad would come with a price and that would be a hefty amount to be paid.

The "in" guys are :

Manish Pandey for ODIs and T20s
Virat Kohli for T20s and Tests
Amit Mishra for ODIs and T20s
Naman Ojha for T20s

If that happens remains to be seen.

Ugly spat bw Modi and Twiterrooor

The ongoing tussle between Modi and Twiterroor just indicates how fragile the egos of top managers are. Twiteroor is scared that his nexus with a socialite would be exposed to the world. Modi is scared that his supremacy in IPL biz would be grabbed by the minister.

Minister mentored few biz people to form an unholy and unethical group to bid for IPL team for a state whose best known cricketer is Sreesanth. And in lieu of that mentorment Twiterror is asking for a free equity for supposedly soon to be wife or smbody else socialite from Dubai.

He also asked Modi not to ask stakeholders of Rondavu sports.

Twiterror is not new to controversy. He is at max a cattle class minister who has no regard or sensitivity for the damn post he holds. He now wants to be getting into cricket biz in a bid to stamp his authority over game of cricket in Kerala. Not surprising if he becomes chief of KCA or whatever cricket association state has.  The UN under secretary is finding tough to cope with the work atmosphere of country and is an open embarrasment to Indian government and its people.

Its all bloody ugly game of money and corrupted power. As long as he has Madam's support and Modi has Pawar support this ugly game in public domain is going to get longer. Its also an excuse for Cong to flex muscles over ICC president to be Mr Sharad Pawar. Not long ago PC had flexed his power over SP by kicking out IPL to SA....

Boss dk

Is indeed crap. No runs at home and he is on trip to windies. Someone say him thank you very much n move on. He is one bugger we gotta digest and see his antics. India is not reaching semis this world t20

too.

Resemblance between MI and 90s India

Mumbai Indians without SRT batting is the Indian team abroad of 1990s.

Semis scenario

Deccan v Bangalore at Nagpur
Apr 12, 2010 (20:00 local, 14:30 GMT)

Mumbai v Delhi at Mumbai (BS)
Apr 13, 2010 (16:00 local, 10:30 GMT)

Chennai v Kolkata at Chennai
Apr 13, 2010 (20:00 local, 14:30 GMT)

This are the next 3 fixtures in the IPL circus this week.  Mumbai is through to the semis already.

Now there are 3 spots and 6 teams in the fray. Sanga’s men wont be good enough to play in semis, so they would be shooed away when they knock the semis door.  After Mumbai, there are 3 teams tied on 12 – RCB, Royals and Devils.

And 3 on 10 – Knight Riders, Chargers and Super Kinks.

Deccan and Bangalore play today. So if Bangalore win they are almost in to the semis. If Chargers win they step an inch close to the spot yet not there. They would be on 10 points.  Both teams would have 2 games after today, that means one of this 2 teams would go in.

Situation after today :

RCB 12 Deccan 12

RCB still remain in top 4 while Chargers would move on 4. Royals would drop out of 4 on their negative run rate.

RCB do not lose much but the Chargers gain a lot. Only if they win. If they lose, they are on the verge of kicked out.

Mumbai vs Delhi

Mumbai any day just for presence of one man : Tendulkar. If Delhi get world’s best Test opening pair fired they would pose a challenging threat to Mumbai. Mumbai if they win would go on 18.  No 1 spot sealed. If Delhi win they go on 14. Semis assured almost. If they lose they still remain on 12.  But in the given scenario they would still remain on 3 or 4.  They have a slight positive net run rate.

So after the 2 games the semis scenario is not yet very clear.

Chennai vs Kolkata :

Last time Chennai won but going by KKR’s pattern, they should win it easily.  Honestly speaking Chennai sucks in the fast bowling department. Who are their men ? Balaji, Morkel, Joginder and Sudeep Tyagi who would any day lose out to the men like Ganguly, Gayle and McCullum. 

Whoever wins goes on 12 and crowds the table.  KKR would have to win by large margin as they have –ve NRR. 

The semis picture is going to look hazy at least till next 2 days….

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.

Legacy of Match fixers

Shoaib Malik, Ata-Ur-Rahman, Salim Malik, Naved Rana, Danish Kaneria.....

And many more hidden reputed names of cricket from terror torn country.

Whats common b/w this names ?

Tainted names or famed names ?

One of them is a serial wedder (he weds Hyderabadi girls, refuses to accept, forced to divorce), other is banned for life and other one is an ICL rebel to be back in team to be banned again.

Whats Danya Danya doing here ?

He's got indicated in a match fixing investigation in England playing from Essex....

Nothing new, he's got the legacy. And we have got no doubts that he would be indicted, but Mr painFul Butt would not act on him and a match fixer would proudly play for his bunch of idiots in England this summer.

What a country......

Shoania

Flip flop, flip flop and then finally accepted. Way paved for impending M with Indian tennis zero Sania Mirza.  Typical PCB attributes.

Ban first and then revoke. That’s in their veins.  Its cringy to see media coverage offered to the crap going on in Hyderabad where ex captain of world’s poorest cricket team in terms of spirits of cricket is dilly dallying with Indian authorities. When told in no uncertain terms that him not accepting the first marriage might lead to long jail term and no return to Pak, the match fixer lad agreed to provide the divorce. Why did the police even wait for this ? Should have gone ahead and got him behind the bars.

The question of ban revoke would have automatically gone out of window. 

Its their individual choice to get married, but the drama ongoing could have been avoided. But then anything affiliated to PCB does not warranty a smooth sailing.  There are serious questions on the integrity and authenticity of Malik on and off the field. His camping to dislodge MoYo is well documented, he is said to be involved in match fixing and now this much maligned affair with the Mirza girl.  Raises serious doubts over man’s intentions. Do whatever in Pak, but why make a tamasha in India?