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Cricket: Musings on WI-Pak,SL Premier League and IPL rumbles
Another batch of random thoughts, in no particular order (are random thoughts ever sequenced?):
West Indies beat Pakistan in the first Test match. The most laughable captain in world cricket, Darren Sammy, comes up trumps claiming a fifer as the Caribbean side wins an encounter between unpredictable “a-bit-more-than-minnows”.
Devendra Bishoo and Saeed Ajmal impress. Ajmal gets eleven but ends up on the losing side.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul lets his bat do the talking. Walking the talk? Certainly.
What he said,really meant and definitely didn’t: Jacques Kallis
What he said:
“It felt a little odd playing in the stadium without the crowd behind me but, then again, my home stadium is now Eden Gardens so it’s not as if I have moved down market.”
Jacques Kallis on the strangeness of playing an away game for KKR at Chinaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, his former team’s home ground.
What he really meant:
“It’s not so bad, I’ve traded up. Eden Gardens for Bangalore.”
What he definitely didn’t:
“Whom am I kidding? It’s me that’s been traded.”
What he said, meant and definitely didn’t: Jacques Kallis
What he said:
“Using the D/L method to decide the result of a game is like playing golf with a yellow ball. It’s not the real thing and it feels cheap, but you do it if you have to. It’s better than not playing golf at all — but only just!”
Jacques Kallis expressing his views on the Ducksworth-Lewis method used for T20 cricket.
What he really meant:
“Playing golf with a yellow ball is OK but only if all you want to do is play the game, somehow.”
What he definitely didn’t:
“Cricket should be played with a golf ball.”
Shane Warne: Smoke Gets In Our Eyes
HUMOR — It was all going swimmingly well for Shane Warne until it all went terribly wrong.
The Royals began IPL 2011 reminding supporters of 2008 glory. Then, “Dame” Elizabeth Hurley flew in from London to join the champion bowler. RR lost not a game at home.
But then, alas, Liz left for London sweeping away with her Warney’s luck.
Saurav Ganguly, the unseen force in West Bengal politics (Satire)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has squarely blamed Shah Rukh Khan and his Kolkatta Knight Riders for the CPI(M)–led Left Front’s abysmal showing in the West Bengal assembly elections.
“The absence of Saurav Ganguly from KKR ranks upset the general populace. There was no anti-incumbency , no tiredness with 34 years of ‘misrule’, not even Nandigram,” said the veteran political leader.
What he said,really meant and definitely didn’t: Shane Warne
What he said:
“It is like the past, you can’t change what happened in the past. If I thought about what happened in my past I could be in a straightjacket and padded cell somewhere.”
Shane Warne on his attitude coaching the Rajasthan Royals , focusing on what he has rather than what he hasn’t.
What he really meant:
“You can only do things with what you have, not with stuff you don’t. You don’t have that stuff anyway, why worry about it? You could go nuts.”
“The past is writ in stone; today’s the clay for tomorrow’s masterpiece.”
“Simply put, do make do!”
What he definitely didn’t:
“I deserve to be in a straightjacket and padded cell.”
“It’s just not spinning balls I’m good at, yarns too! Yeah, I’m no Mahatma, though!”
Team India for West Indies ODIs announced: Gambhir leads
A point of similarity between Gabriela Pasqualotto and Mahendra Singh Dhoni:
Until today, the two were content playing the game “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t”.
Pasquallotto, of course, was referring to whether she’d make her story public to the tabloids.
She will—if she’s paid and if she’s allowed to write it herself. Fair enough.
What he said, really meant and definitely didn’t: Jacques Kallis
What he said:
“I am an easy man to please and one of the greatest pleasures is taking money off Mark Boucher on the golf course.”
Jacques Kallis finds SA and Kolkatta Knightriders team-mate easy meat on the links.
What he really meant:
“Pocket money’s always welcome.”
What he definitely didn’t:
“I’d continue playing Mark is if I kept losing.”
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