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Category: Cricket

  • Good Weekend

    Had a great weekend.

    1. Watched 300 – I would call it a decent movie. Watchable. Nothing great. The movie has awesome graphics and some midblowing sequences, like the one where a Spartan kills a Rhino, but what the movie lacks is the ability to get the audience involved in the movie. The movie has lots of blood and gore but at no moment do you find yourself squirming at it. The movie shows underdogs fighting against all odds, but at no moment do you find yourself rooting for it.
    2. Installed Windows on the home PC. Also installed Ubuntu on one of the partitions. Seems that I remember some Linux after all.
    3. Watched the Australian GP. Kimi kicked real ass in his first race with Ferrari. Gonna be fun filled season it seems. Also, Lewis Hamilton drove with purpose and seems like he is gonna give Alonso one heck of a fight. Kubica and Rosberg also drove nicely.
    4. Had loads of fun with Sam, TK, Appu, Pari, Bansal and Sachin. One of the fun filled weekends you always look forward to.

    On a separate note the DL101 I had registered for on WIPO Academy sent me the certificate for successful completion of the course. Very cool I must say. Will post a scanned copy very soon.

    Last, but not the least, Inzy has retired. The lazy elegance will not be seen in One day cricket any more after the World Cup. You will be missed.

  • World Cup Memories – ‘92

    Aparajith writes here about his memories of the 1992 Benson and Hedges Cricket World Cup. Here is what I remember most about that tournament.

    1. Miandad jumping up and down – mimicking Kiran More’s appeal.
    2. Crowe and Greatbatch batting for NZ.
    3. Dipak Patel opening the bowling for NZ.
    4. The ridiculous 21 off 1 ball for SA – it broke so many hearts.
    5. Jonty’s dive to run out Inzamam.
    6. Last, but not the least, an emotional Imran’s (not so great) speech at the presentation where he forgot all his teammates.

    What do you remember?

  • Return of the Prince

    The Nagpur ODI signalled the return of our very own Dada to international cricket and a return that was not supposed to be. Go and read GreatBong’s thoughts on it.

    True. However, this fairy tale has come true.

    And really, how could it not?

    It had a prince in it.

    Awesome!!

  • Sledging from the crowd!!

    From Cricinfo:

    Message of the day: And just when Graeme Smith thought it couldn’t get any worse. Two South African fans, shirtless and no doubt fuelled with lager, took out a banner soon after lunch. “Smith: Hope you’d scored more with Minki [van der Westhuizen],” it said, a reference to his former girlfriend. So much for not kicking a man when he’s down, and out [for 5].

    And you thought the Aussies were bad!!

  • India Wins!!

    India has won the first test against South Africa by 123 runs, and has won back cricketing fans who had waned away after the one day performances in the past year.

    On another happy note, Delhi HC has convicted Manu Sharma in the Jessica Lall murder case. Immense happiness comes.