Maharoof drops the ball a little short, the batsman shifts his balance a little from front to backfoot and almost effortlessly picks up and pulls the ball for a mighty six. And you can surely say "GOD is back".
Yes! it was Sachin's first innings in like 6 months and what a innings it was. It was not as much as how many runs he scored but in what way he scored them. You could see the old tendulkar in there. The tendulkar of 90's. The tendulkar whoes arrival at the crease used to make the whole nation stop. There has been lot of debates about who is the best batsman of modern era and how Tendulkar can't be it for the lack of match winning knocks to his credit. How he fails under pressure while chasing. If you leave the numbers out for sometime and try to name the batsman watching whom gave you the most pleasure then I am sure Tendulkar would be right up there. And coming to numbers he isnt bad either. He has 51 man-of-the-match awards(ODI) and 29 have come while India was chasing. Infact I think Sachin can have a Phd in how to chase totals of 200-250 in one-day games!!
Anyways when India plays SA tomorrow, Tendulkar would become the most capped player in the history of ODI. Hats off to this run machine for providing us entertainment for over 15 years now!! And to think of it he is just 32. I just hope he bats this way till he retires!!
trivia: Who is the only current batsman whoes test strike rate is not on records??
ans: TENDULKAR !! Yes, among current cricketers he is the most experienced. And when he started paying innings length (in tests) was still measured by minutes rather than no. of balls faced. So his strike rate can not be caculated !!
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Sunday, October 23, 2005
One night in the lockup
"One night in the lockup and your lives will change for ever"
At 3am in the morning these words were uttered by a cop to me and my roommates and that resulted in the end of the fun party we had at our place - the house warming. I had heard that term a lot here and to me this sounded more fun than the more familiar "Gruh-Pravesham Pooja". So when we moved into our new house we decided to throw a house warming party.
It required some convincing to make PST (the old daddu of our house) agree to the idea. Then it was a case of just calling all your friends and we ended with a 80-odd strong list. While buying alcohol for the party my room-mates were very excited to discover what they call "daru ka walmart". Daddu was for a change happy that we were having the party...
The day came and it was all going as expected ..the house was crowded...alcohol flowed..nice music playing...the old cranky neighbor complaining about the noise..and then it happened!! Golu got drunk..now the guys who have seen him drunk will understand the impact he has on a gathering while he is drunk..He had a big "panchayat session" and it was lot of fun..and while all this was going on our neighbor kept complaining and calling the cops, the cops arrived once to warn us, hopkins security came and asked us to make sure nobody is outside so that we dont get into trouble, the cops came again and thought we were not making enough noise. But then our neighbours persistence paid of and the cops decided to stop our party at 2:30 am. And after getting all the guests out of the house the cop came up with the line while asking us not to repeat this mistake -
" You guys know right!! One night in lock-up and your lives will change for ever"
The funny thing was the affect this had on golu. Just two minutes ago this person couldn't stand on his feet and now was in total control of himself. After the cops left he was like "man this is the best medicine to get of high"...
At 3am in the morning these words were uttered by a cop to me and my roommates and that resulted in the end of the fun party we had at our place - the house warming. I had heard that term a lot here and to me this sounded more fun than the more familiar "Gruh-Pravesham Pooja". So when we moved into our new house we decided to throw a house warming party.
It required some convincing to make PST (the old daddu of our house) agree to the idea. Then it was a case of just calling all your friends and we ended with a 80-odd strong list. While buying alcohol for the party my room-mates were very excited to discover what they call "daru ka walmart". Daddu was for a change happy that we were having the party...
The day came and it was all going as expected ..the house was crowded...alcohol flowed..nice music playing...the old cranky neighbor complaining about the noise..and then it happened!! Golu got drunk..now the guys who have seen him drunk will understand the impact he has on a gathering while he is drunk..He had a big "panchayat session" and it was lot of fun..and while all this was going on our neighbor kept complaining and calling the cops, the cops arrived once to warn us, hopkins security came and asked us to make sure nobody is outside so that we dont get into trouble, the cops came again and thought we were not making enough noise. But then our neighbours persistence paid of and the cops decided to stop our party at 2:30 am. And after getting all the guests out of the house the cop came up with the line while asking us not to repeat this mistake -
" You guys know right!! One night in lock-up and your lives will change for ever"
The funny thing was the affect this had on golu. Just two minutes ago this person couldn't stand on his feet and now was in total control of himself. After the cops left he was like "man this is the best medicine to get of high"...
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