tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3969313513128915462024-02-07T02:09:43.077-08:00Cricket For Dummiessunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-47824637783095035332011-04-11T09:56:00.000-07:002011-04-11T09:56:49.444-07:00An Explanation Behind Twatto's Performance<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had even forgotten the Aussies were playing the Banglas today. I'm quite honestly not even giving much of a toss about the series; I've said before watching weaker teams getting themselves steamrolled isn't exactly one of my hobbies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Shane Watson of course knows that and so he scores some 185 runs from 96 balls. Including 15 fours and 15 sixes. Will you look at that? I mean, CAN you even look at that? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I first thought Cricinfo had become a victim of a cyberattack to give me such incredible stats, but it turns out it is all true. I shouldn't be relinquishing my idea of dragging Twatto in a potato sack to jail anytime soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I do suspect two reasons behind such an insane innings however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">1- Twatto saw the nice pink outfit I've created for him and therefore played this beast of an innings in an attempt to impress me, so that I consequently have mercy on him and do not get him to wear it. On second thoughts though, he might have tried to impress me because he actually wants that I <em>do</em> send it to him because he feels the Desparate Housewife Outfit from company Team Barbie will suit him. Either way, he won't be getting it for free. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">2- This was all really a campaign to kick out Bangladesh from the next WC and get Ireland in. Twatto felt if he could literally smack the Bangladeshi bowlers in the ground and mutilate them for life, the Banglas would not be able to play in the next WC. So that's his way of contributing his cent for the Associates' cause. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So, nothing too special about his innings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Time to move on with life, people.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-42602651594754121602011-04-10T06:15:00.000-07:002011-04-10T06:15:28.540-07:00Hideous Outfits are A Crime<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Decided yesterday I'd tune in for a bit of IPL entertainment and hello, the 'Kochi Tuskers Kerala' are playing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I think I'll try to decipher the genius behind the using of a three-word name for a sports team, but then the Kochi openers walk out and I'm offered something far more important to contemplate over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Because I see this:</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Now if you'd ask me what 'this' is then I'd tell you this is one of the greatest embarrassments in the history of colour matching. This isn't even innovative or funky, this is plain crap. And I don't know how many are willing to sacrifice their eyes for seeing Kochi play, I know I'm not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know it doesn't take much genius to understand what is wrong with this thing, but I still felt it needs to be criticised here because getting your team to wear this is a crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Quite seriously. I don't think it is okay if someone is made to look like an absolute nutjob before such a large audience (unless we're talking of politicians here.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">BB McCullum should have clung to his bedpost in obstinacy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I, however, have to see some optimism in the industry of making hideous outfits. It means there is a possible chance of us ever getting to see Shane Watson play in this:</span><br />
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</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-84506489410422441922011-04-08T00:49:00.000-07:002011-04-08T00:49:11.306-07:00Start A Revolution and Kill the ICC<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There's been plenty of brouhaha created by cricket's most incompetent and easily dislikeable dunderheads- the ICC. And not for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Kicking out the Associate Chickens without the slightest ounce of respect and concern beats it all though. This is a hotchpotch of mercenary aims, avarice and depravity all masked by the pretence of 'doing what's best for cricket'. The ICC are in effect criminals and the kind of criminals who cannot be negotiated with. And they do have evil bosses too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Plus, they regard us true cricket fans as dead germs on the bathroom. Yes, that's what they think of you and me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Therefore, I propose we start a revolution for cricket's better fate and in a bloody takeover, kill the ICC. Right now, it's the best solution possible because history tells us when they absolutely won't listen to you, you just have to take out your bazooka and deal with matters this way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Go ahead and shoot the ICC like the spectacled villains they are.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And while you're at it, try looking a bit like a leprechaun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Read, enjoy, give feedback and spread the love friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">First, <em>Why They're Awesome</em>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">1. World Cups mean 24 hours of cricket and popcorn.</span></strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">World Cups mean no more having to watch stinky movies on HBO. World Cups mean something cricket-related will always be on the television and your cricket addicted guts will devour it all until the Yeti will break into your house and take you to some snowy mountains to be devoured along with pasta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">World Cups are big and exciting, so basically everyone thinks it's cool to start talking about cricket. Hearing so many people talk about cricket the reminds you how cool and awesome cricket is and that it is destined for world domination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And now we come to the part which explains why <em>World Cups suck.</em></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><strong>4. Associate Chickens Get Slaughtered And Crushed And Mutilated</strong></span><br />
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</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And this happens more than point 3 with the stronger countries shamelessly behaving like psychopathic dinosaurs who haven't eaten for days.</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This could probably be applied to any big sporting tournament, but the 100 times-in-a-day repetition of some 10 ads and Ravi Shastri bellowing his eternally preserved favourite phrases makes one so mentally deranged and hungry for living a life under a dark cloak of obscurity at the end that it needs to be mentioned. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Life starts feeling like one gigantic ball of slime. You'd better be born a rhinosaur millions of years ago or be dead. Especially when you exist with the knowledge that there are people around who can still be drugged with the reveries of their team winning the final.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>The End.</strong></em></span></div>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-14354605946423010022011-04-03T00:15:00.000-07:002011-04-03T00:19:23.831-07:00On One Win and Two Losses and Little Happiness<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Right, I decided it's time to come out of my hiding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Not that I was hiding in any case though, I mean come on, can you imagine me as a gigantic milksop becoming a recluse just because first the Saffers slaughtered themselves and then the Stanis crashed out too? <em>Of course not.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I quite fancied the opportunity of spewing so many emotional tirades out here, but didn't have time for that. So instead I passed the week feeling like some really rotten egg. But now I have to talk about three things, here we go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>On India's Win Yesterday</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I felt like a snotty curmudgeon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But then those Indian players were such jolly nice fellows for dedicating this Cup to Sachin in their emotional outpourings and gustos, because then I could picture the more endearing reality of Sachin being the sole reason for India's win and Sachin floating around the stadium like a winged Cupid spreading love and goodness and all was well for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Plus, I could smugly think how South Africa has been the only team in the tournament to have beaten India, the WC champs, which makes us kind of better than the champs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Plus, Gary Kirsten was Sachin's sidekick in winning the tournament and he's South African. We're absolutely getting him as our coach now, oh yes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Plus, I grudgingly have to admit India were quite good. And because of the nice Indian people I know this win has slightly become more bearable. (But you really haven't, Harbhajan Singh.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>On Pakistan's Loss That Day</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay? Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay? Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay? Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay? Why the hell didn't you take the Powerplay?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Who and what the hell do I believe? Rehman Malik, the people, stupid decisions?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>On South Africa's Loss the Other Day</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It went like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Aaaah, we're winning this. Yes, 220, I'll take that, I'll take that....oh, Hash's gone..good work Biff and Jakes..NOoo...go, go AB....SHIT...I hate you for all eternity Faf...please, please, please, Botes and Peterson, I implore you..do BAT...another gone..noo...they're losing this...no they aren't....yes they are....shut up they aren't...YOU SHUT UP THEY ARE...and why am I watching this in a friggin hotel room where I can't even break the television? Damn, they've lost....right, hold back your tears Sunny, hold them back...there's other folks in the room..manoevre your way carefully out...go straight to the bathroom...now you can...WHY DOES THIS <span style="font-size: large;">ALWAYS</span> HAVE TO HAPPEN?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But as usual, I forgave them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>And at the End</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The World Cup is over, finally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Bring on a 90-match torture of IPLling I say. YES.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sachin Tendulkar- like King Arthur, Merlin the Wizard and a nice Hobbit.<br />
So more like a fairytale character than a cricketer.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Ps- First comic will be coming out soon..and it's about the World Cup...sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-90157208834744952262011-03-24T21:41:00.000-07:002011-03-24T21:41:03.652-07:00The Beauty of It All<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was supposed to be neutral in this game.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But then there were wild scenes of Lance Klusener and Allan Donald going bonkers.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> And Australia holding the cup in 1999 grinning like green frogs.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And again in 2003.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And again in 2007.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And then there was this disturbing image of Ricky fondling a fifth World Cup and kangaroos with bloodshot eyes jumping around the world, and at this moment my sanity returned.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Australia had to lose.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For the sake of cricket. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For the sake of a new champion.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For the sake of a Pak-India semifinal.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And maybe for the sake of seeing the World Cup being reflected in the swaying Head and Shoulders sponsored hair of Afridi, Kamran Akmal swooning at the beauty of the moment and Shoaib Akhtar chosing not to become a popstar in return.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Lovely.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps: Yes, no regular posting these days, I know. Just a little busy and might be away for the next couple of days as well..boohoo</span>.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-84435761065840639892011-03-19T10:35:00.000-07:002011-03-19T10:35:58.957-07:00Winning and Winning<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Match One:</strong></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Under tense circumstances, (but still being brashly optimistic) the Deshis take the field. The South Africans post a goodish score.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A goodish score is obviously not what the Deshis wanted and so they play the "Heck, we're never going to make it" game and bundle out for 78. Lopsy and Robbie P are so formidable that them living in obscurity some 2-3 years back looks like a miracle.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the post match presentation, Shakib utters that eternal word of captivating beauty, that word which has dabbled on the lips of countless criminals and rabble-rousers, and in typical movie sense, ultimately led to their their redemption: "Sorry".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">He doesn't get any redemption but at least makes it safely to the hotel with his team.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">That's better than redemption.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Match Two:</strong></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">On a naughty wicket in Colombo, the Stanis take on the Aussies. The Aussies think they'll do better than the Deshis and go on to score a hundred more. But, "Sorry", says Umar Akmal. "I've got to be the MoM today and praise me and my bro. Gotta win this game".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Aussies lose.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yes they do.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">First time since 1999 in a World Cup.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Feels good.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-38581391996930544302011-03-18T09:54:00.000-07:002011-03-18T09:54:37.865-07:00An Ode to Shoaib Akhtar<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The earth goes bellowing and screaming</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"A stampede of bisons?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"King Kongs swarming around in tons?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">No twits, it's mad monster Shoaib that runs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Runs around in skinny pants of cheetah skin,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Throwing up chaos, living his life in sin.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Badass badie the mad monster is,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But better than Godzilla to watch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So oh, how we will miss him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Miss him when he's left.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But then he had not much life left with which to brim.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Or more accurately, the limbs weren't a match</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For all the toils of a cricket match.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yet we will remember what batsmen used to remember</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Oh, the screams, the thumping hearts-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">That awful time before the mad monster's over starts."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Bull gives you wiiings.<br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps- The last two lines of the poem come from Max Fatchen's poem 'Look Out', a poem I'm crazily obsessed with. And no, of course he didn't talk about a mad monster bowling, I changed that part.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-50341756447048958572011-03-17T10:29:00.000-07:002011-03-17T10:29:14.183-07:00Windies, the Heartbreakers<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Really, that didn't feel good.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Windies just drained my anticipation of celebrating an England elimination through the gutter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sulieman Benn, you effin giant, why do you run like you're to be dealt with the bat of Vivian Richards? I can't comprehend why. Neither what England are doing in this World Cup.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've had this feeling about England being the intriguing clowns of this World Cup, but clowns who eventually fail when it's time for their final big act. I so anticipated about being confirmed about this, but now I might have to wait till the quarters for that to happen. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And for all the right reasons, I hope they play a quarter final against the Stanis. Imagine that, cricket's two greatest jesters taking over the field and displaying the most enjoyable kind of insanity and buffoonery. Plus, to finish all this Stani-doppelganger business and see who the real Stanis are. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's bad, bad for the Windies too. Gutted for them on missing out on a chance of becoming heart throbs. But still, they get the picture of the match. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's Andre Russell who walks in the air on rocket shoes.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26YcFL0t-K-DvNFVK61E5zTzsR60hqyGWPgkUhZ0m1EfObT9PnBA-iCKX2raOsGGFX8C3zmMTVvAuY9Xlp-mm9nk_RnPRms3fQeaSDgUF2Un1bkysE5EX8u6FyeBxDozoWkBPV9gS7-Q/s1600/130071.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26YcFL0t-K-DvNFVK61E5zTzsR60hqyGWPgkUhZ0m1EfObT9PnBA-iCKX2raOsGGFX8C3zmMTVvAuY9Xlp-mm9nk_RnPRms3fQeaSDgUF2Un1bkysE5EX8u6FyeBxDozoWkBPV9gS7-Q/s400/130071.jpg" width="340" /></a></div>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-29636325672230953672011-03-15T10:28:00.000-07:002011-03-15T10:28:10.277-07:00Biff's Hatemail<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sender: Just a Saffa supporter..will make no mention of Minki and your weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hello Boofus Biff,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Did you just notice that nickname? It's alliterative. I <em>love</em> alliterations.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But since you're not a literary person and therefore might get easily bored, I'll quickly jump to the serious business. In addition to that I promised above that I won't mention the fact that you're an absolute walrus who appears to devour watermelons as candies, I will also not try to kill you with online-operated laser technology.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So, it's safe to continue and read. And we can talk serious business.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You've been pretty crap of late, haven't you? I mean, your batting- <em>one hopeless gigantic pile of horrendous crap</em>. I don't know why that might be, cricket experts are telling me it's a temporary mid-career phase and that your average will soon start ballooning again. But...that doesn't solve the problem. Particularly when we are playing a bloody World Cup.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Then there's another problem. We can't drop you because you're the captain. Though I normally support the policy which states that captains are not undomitable creatures who reserve a place in the team for all eternity regardless of how they play, I don't want you to go as yet. You're a bit of a good captain and chucking you out right now would feel like kicking out a senile and rusty emperor in the last year of his rule. That's so very impetuous.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Plus, because of you, Illegal King Hash has to speed his innings and sometimes resort to playing silly shots. The same goes for AB and our 'fantastic four' or top order isn't really a fantastic four when only two dudes are performing, And then our middle order has the capacity of sucking big.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And yes, Jakes is being a fat useless walrus too. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">But not as useless as you currently.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Cheers,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A serious well-wisher and giver of free advice.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ps: <span style="font-size: x-small;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Smith is a total chop, if he bates like this in the quarter finals we coming home.Drop the chop now and get someone that can bat.Smith is the ACHILLIS heal of the team"</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pps:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> I didn't write the above comment. Did you really think my spellings are that bad?</span></span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-40947743421801237212011-03-12T10:27:00.000-08:002011-03-12T10:27:53.380-08:00A Case of Errupting One's Brain<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm high.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I galloped over galaxies in the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Where Indians were frying Nehra into a braai.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The stars melted into pots of gold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Bronze statues of Robbie P stood everywhere,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A couple of Steyn ones were also near.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Rainbows came cascading down,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Illegal King Hash became the sun at dawn,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The world was glorious with a gold-tipped crown.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The load was great, my skull grew fissures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">There was kaboom and my brain spat out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tidbits of it on the wall.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But for a joy well fought,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A bit of brain less wasn't the end of it all.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-16690221959154390862011-03-11T22:07:00.000-08:002011-03-11T22:07:03.448-08:00The Poms Are Kind of...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Poms.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">HAHAHA.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">They're one bag of riddles and absurdity in this World Cup.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Otherwise they wouldn't have lost to Ireland and the Banglas, but at least Andrew Strauss can go back to being all diplomatic about his campaign to resurrect the weak cricket nations. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Or saying "We still believe we can".</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">All teams apparently believe they can win this World Cup. It's an essential statement every captain has to make but most of the time translates to <em>'No, we don't really because we know we're crap and all and we feel queasy when it comes to big games, but we have to say it to look self-confident and optimistic, which is so trendy for every sportsman</em>.'</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So the Poms might <em>have</em> to believe they can, or the British press will have the time of their lives (criticising is so much easier than praising unless you're a thoroughly trained sycophant)- therefore, the Windies absolutely need to win against them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Comparisons to the Stani team are appearing alongwith a victory reminiscent of 1992 so they need to be stopped NOW.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">There's only one Stani team and that's it. The Poms need to be proven as a bunch of amateurs in the field of being interesting and insane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">They're slowly becoming even <em>likeable</em> for some.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And this is something I felt like making. Because at least yesterday I could laugh heartily.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The joy of watching Strauss despair.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: xx-small;">Ps- Rubbish title, I know. It's the Poms fault though.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-87594926404010734492011-03-10T06:46:00.000-08:002011-03-10T06:46:37.672-08:00On Choking And A Saffer Problem<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Time I finally wrote about a few horrors.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The first horror I had *that* day was the obnoxious catapulting of this tennisball of a thought in my head "Now I'm going to have to hear <em>that</em> word again." It sometimes feels even worse than South Africa actually losing.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've read writers rambling about removing the choker word from cricket's lexicon because it's become cliché, but don't expect journalists to abide by that anytime soon. Oh no, the word choker alone induces a series of uncontrollable laughter and images of slap-stick comedy losses performed by the Saffers over years. <em>Don't let's do away with that</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The thing is, if choking is just a form of losing, and one where a loss occurs for a team that was expected to win and among other things succumbed to anxiety and agitation, then it would be a pleasure if it were used for other teams as well. Because every other team now and then loses this way. So maybe South Africa did choke that day, but so have others. For examples, read the King's post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For now, I'm stopping about this exhaustive thing.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Coming to serious business, South Africa do have some genuine problems and the biggest one is that their middle/lower order is like pudding for kids. Too wobbly, too unstable. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Interestingly, it's one of the reasons Boucher was left mulling in SA, so we could have a bazooka of a batsman taking over and stabilize this order. Didn't happen then because neither Faf nor Ingram nor Van Wyk are superman batsmen. They're okay, but just not blokes like Razzaq or Mussey. And blokes like them we need.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It's not a question of skill I reckon, but it's like they're too afraid to parade around relentlessly with a bazooka. You need guts for that and currently they're doing a good job of not employing those. Wimpiness is our middle order's greatest weakness now I think, and though it's not impossible to win a World Cup while that factor remains, it can make the task a whole lot difficult. And it's not as if it isn't difficult enough already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So to our batsmen, go borrow a few matchsticks from Cap'n Shahid and have a few fireworks. Fireworks looks pretty.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty indeed.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-15947089555841906742011-03-07T08:41:00.000-08:002011-03-07T08:41:44.118-08:00This is Eating Me Up<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We had South Africa's game yesterday, a lot happened, and I still haven't posted. So I thought I'd let you all know I'm not hiding (come on, why would I?) only have some bloody work to do. No time, no time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Hopefully serious posting tomorrow because I have to spit out a few things. It's corroding slightly inside.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">In the meanwhile I found this interesting picture to ponder over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Since everyone is so loving it to talk about choking, here's a picture where Faf is caught trying to do it literally. And of all persons, Robbie P.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Why you ask? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I'll tell you why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tomorrow we are playing the Poms. As you all know, the Poms must be beaten. If the Poms are beaten, there's a dramatic increase in their chances of early World Cup elimination. Which consequently will result in elimination. Which consequently will result in fewer South Africans, Indians and Stanis wanting to play for the Poms. Which consequently will result in fewer grumpy people. Which consequently will result in a happier world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You get the idea.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And you will also support them because Illegal King Hash plays for them. Look, he even has a white palace.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-72714155149626398392011-03-04T09:30:00.000-08:002011-03-04T09:58:31.626-08:00Sunil Gavaskar's Masterpiece<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm guilty of not blogging after the Saffas' game yesterday and it's got slightly to do with the game being in the morning. Morning games often mean I'll miss them and then have to catch up with the arduous task of trying to get some decent highlights somewhere.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyhow, I didn't miss much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Boofus Biff was scratchy again, Haircules got out quickly again (yes, 'again') and Hash and AB as usual had to do a revival job in their own fashions, one as I read on Cricinfo like a 'sage' and the other like a 'surfer boy'. There's nothing particular about that except for that it invokes a image of King Hash the Illegal meditating in a yoga posture on AB's surfboard, who's gliding over the sharks in yellow-and-red striped swimming trunks. I mean, just like the unbearable colours on his website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So I'll save your time and just bring to notice the best moment of the match.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was a piece of Sunil Gavaskar's commentary brought to my notice while reading a forum. It's peerless in being uncomprehending and hilarious, which is actually quite difficult to do nowadays considering Danny Morisson and Co. exist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It goes like this. AB who is playing the amazing energizer bunny rabbit again, loots Loots (sorry for the pun, I couldn't resist it) for three consecutive sixes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Memories of Gibbs hitting six sixes are immediately conjured up as AB reaches the possibility of doing it and Robin Jackman quickly says "Now don't let us mention it yet."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gavaskar then thinks he should say something too. So he takes Jackman's sentence as a cue and starts prattling on about Gibbs' six sixes and the possibility of AB doing it too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Either he's become deaf by sitting in the commentary box besides Ravi Shastri, or he's a bit slow.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-35313624345013605892011-03-03T08:53:00.000-08:002011-03-03T08:53:34.065-08:00The Poms Had A Cunning Plan<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Strauss appears in the doorway of the press room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Before we start this, I implore you all to stay absolutely silent while I speak. Kind of like shutting up."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Before a nonplussed audience, he then smugly parades to the table and drops himself in the chair. He smirks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"I know all of you reporters here think I silenced you for a sincere apology. That is bollocks, total bollocks...STOP IDIOTS. You do not write this. You write what I tell you to write, that's how it works. Just like my team plays how I tell them to play."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The room starts buzzing with murmurs of match-fixing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Strauss beams now. His cleverness just knows no limits, he's twirled these media fatheads around his finger; he knows it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Aha, gents, your socks have jumped off your feet now, haven't they? But that's how it sits. We deliberately lost yesterday so....STOP IDIOTS. In the name of the Queen don't write match-fixing. You'll phrase it as 'The Benevolent Self-Sacrifice of the English to the Irish'. I'll tell you all why."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Strauss takes a pause to allow the anticipation for the grand moment to sink in. He smiles at the thought of how he's kicking ass better than Colin Firth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Gents, I ask you these serious questions. How many interesting matches we've had so far this tournament? 3. Did we play all of those three? Yes. How many times were minnows involved? Twice. How many times did we win? Once. If that doesn't ring a bell in your heads, you're all bigger prats than Colly who's the only one who thinks we didn't lose deliberately for the better good of cricket and therefore a MUCH greater cause."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The room starts buzzing again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">"Yes people, pick away a tear at that. I, Andrew Strauss, single-handedly decided to bring back cricket to life. I scored that 158 against India despite losing more calories than Bressy has in his entire body. I dropped O'Brien yesterday. I am the new Gladiator and together with my loyal Poms, we'll revive cricket including Associate Cricket. Colly we will of course banish to Ireland because he's a ginger and probably even a leprechaun and can therefore not be a part of our campaign. That's how it sits, now write your stories and Toodles to y'all."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">He dashes to the door where suddenly O'Brien enters, rips of Strauss' head and puts it on a stick. <br />
"I was amazing. I was Genghis Khan with pink hair. I was why Ireland won and the bloody English lost. That's what you write down, nutters."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">He marches out and Colly follows out, throwing gold coins to the audience.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I shall be the saviour of cricket and have a statue of myself made at Madame Tussaud's."</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-72850201095936233992011-02-26T22:24:00.000-08:002011-02-26T22:26:03.800-08:00A Pakistan 'the Good, the Bad and the Ugly'<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The way the Stanis are winning these days must be scaring at least some teams their pants off. <em>Because the Stanis are winning despite their typical derangements, </em>and any team which can win without playing very sane and consistently adhering to the ritual of doing something oddball, is, well as I said, SCARY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Yesterday's game was one where the Lankans might have been tipped to win, but instead they now have to rue the loss of Chamara Silva who has reportedly been strangled. Hahaha, Sangakarra laughs manically, he hates tortoises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Towards the goodies, badies and uglies now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>The Good</strong></span><br />
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- <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Stanis winning. Their madness is the most likeable when they win, and we need likeable madness in cricket. Oh, absolutely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Batting. The 'Stanis can bat' tag is now permanent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Misbah-ul-Haq is batting like he's the bloody captain and that's great because he isn't. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Shoaib Akthar. He told me if he's going to take a fiver this World Cup, he'll give me a free flight over Madagascar.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Hafeez getting runout. I didn't see it, but apparently it was the best case of a couple of players' brains getting stolen by an evil bogeyman (you have to believe in those) for a few seconds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Cap'n Shahid. I think he can bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>The Bad</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">-The fielding. Today I'm introducing the 'Stanis can't field' tag.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Umar Gul. Ever since I heard about his legendary reverse-swing, I've seen a bowler being loved by the batsmen more and more. Too, too expensive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">- Misbah-ul-haq still has the audacity to try and play *that* shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>The Ugly</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Kamran Akmal looking like a pistol in a jumping pose. Pistols fire and cause destruction but Kakmal was crap yesterday so it's a shame he's trying to look like one.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Go get that ball, ye scoundrels or I'll fire myself."</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-32623659303206123642011-02-26T06:06:00.000-08:002011-02-26T06:08:13.169-08:00Say Hello to Imran Tahir<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ladies and gents and chickens and hens, South Africa have just introduced their new and immaculately polished product. It's golden-sprayed at the top and is claimed to be a leggie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's called Imran Tahir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You are very welcome to think that I'm a very late+lame advertiser or product introducer (I've never been a brick in marketing names. You're welcome to enlighten me), but that's probably because my other occupations have still not been reported to the police.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyhow, Imran Tahir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm not going to delve into how bloody awesome he is, or the angles and peerless techniques of his bowling. It is enough to know that the Aussies are trying to kidnap him, so we are guarding him in a cage made of T-rex bones and the Boofus Biff himself keeps the keys with him. <em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ps- don't even try Ricky. The BB bites and doesn't even brush his teeth.</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What I'm more interested in saying is that South Africa should actually play him now that they've let us all say hello to him. Does it feel great to say 'hello' to a new bloke only to later learn he's been locked away in some murky cellar? I think so not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It looked slightly insane to play with three spinners against the Windies, and not because we reputedly only have doorknob-fiddlers. The idea behind it likely was to put the three of them under scrutiny. Not so stupid then, but none of them really failed. Robbie P will still be the guy having to move out, and probably because Botes thought he'd take a couple of wickets. Cunning robot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The second thing about Tahir was him kissing the Protea badge, while he is a Stani. I'm very cockahoop about him playing for us, but he can keep those Figjammy works away from the public, else the public is going to think he's cocky and a traitor. And he doesn't look like a cocky traitor even though I'm massively opposed to his suspicious-looking dyed hair.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought you'd say hello to his wife too, who is also the reason why he's in the Saffa team</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-6115603679005816832011-02-22T23:55:00.000-08:002011-02-22T23:55:20.547-08:00Just Remember the Name...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sadly, few will remember the embarrassing Pom exploits we had yesterday (except for people who have an overobsession with being nit-picky and writing essays on fielding errors) but that's how things are. People rarely remember the things they should and quite often remember things they shouldn't because what we shouldn't is almost always so darn interesting...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Okay, I'm wandering away there, but it might be due to the last stage of fever that's currently biting off the edges of my brain. But I like to think I'm still perfectly sane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Anyhow, I was talking about remembering something that ALL of you should, and it's not the Pommie gobsmackery. It is the name of Holland's hero yesterday which I've been seeing shamelessly mispronounced and misspelled (one s or two ss? I really can't be bothered).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Calling him Tendo is the easiest way out and I'm okay with that because he uses it on his own website and it's the best way of referring to someone when you have no freakin idea how to spell or pronounce his name.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But when you say 'Ten-Doo-Skatay" then I'm just declaring war. Haha, yes, hide under your quilts you criminals known as Sanjay Manjrekar and Nasser Hussain. I'm coming over to give Dutch lessons till you look like orange bunny carrots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And if the rest of you don't want to have Dutch lessons and look like orange bunny carrots, call him Tendo or "Tun-doo-s.." This is horrible. I realise there is no 'g' sound in English like the one we have in Dutch. Which means none of you can pronounce it. And I should forgive you all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">This must qualify as my worst post ever and it's because of a fever I think I have. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just call him Tendo. He appreciates that.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-65006241962476027782011-02-20T06:32:00.000-08:002011-02-20T06:36:45.521-08:00Who Wants an Associate Chicken Legpiece?<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I know that's weirdly titled, but that's how I was thinking when Sehwag was gobbling up Bangladesh like marshmallows. And then I had to ponder over the poor fate over the not so strong sides participating in the cup, and how their genocide will gradually start, and how I will be left with a queasy stomach...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ps 1-But not if it's South Africa doing it. I'm allowed to be biased.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ps 2- My word, just see how Kenya were roasted today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So that actually had me thinking whether the poor lads were better off playing a World Cup or not. If I were a chicken, <em>which is something very queasy to imagine</em>, I'd hide under berry-bushes rather than have myself fried into a BBQ. I would of course be a very coward kind of chicken but it'd at least save my life, but that's CLEARLY not how the Associates think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They're brave chickens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They want to fight the tigers, the elephants and the king kongs of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They usually end up being fingerlickin' good tidbits, but sometimes they actually can peck out the eye of the monster they're facing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And that's why some of them need to be given the opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But now the ICC doesn't want plucky chickens to parade in cricket world cups anymore and have reduced the number of teams to 10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In one way that's okay considering I don't have to see chickens being devoured so often which is repulsive and slighty boring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But it's not very nice to the Associates who aren't really fond of being left out like that. Some bloke from Cricket Kenya said:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"We are disturbed about the whole issue." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>I told you they are brave chickens. Now they're cuckoo chickens too.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's not smart if you want to develop cricket in other countries, (but it's not as if the ICC was ever very concerned with that anyway)- 12 teams could at least have been allowed. Or if that is too big a request, what do the smart gents think of allowing the Associates play against the Test nations apart from a WC occasionally? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's necessary because without the chickens cricket isn't really global.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And because I love chickens.</span>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-23186711609003874672011-02-18T04:19:00.000-08:002011-02-18T04:19:16.016-08:00After the Opening Ceremony<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I looked somewhat like this.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Less colours and dance, and probably an elephant race with the captains would have been pretty damn cool. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">But they don't do damn cool things then so very often.</span></div>sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08078858037013408286noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396931351312891546.post-10964481696729275572011-02-16T08:44:00.000-08:002011-02-16T08:51:45.558-08:00Furball Monsters for WC Support<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm slightly bored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Or maybe I don't have much of an idea what to write so I'm staying silent, but staying silent for a bit too long gets all too weird, so I thought I'd say hello with this post and most nobly ask all of you whether you'd want one of those silly furball monster cartoons to show your support- like the one I have in my sidebar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I know most of you are grownups...but still. You don't need to get all grownuppy in a World Cup. So if you feel like, ask me what you'd want to be written in the support banner and let your gigantic support for your WC team shine high and eye-dazzlingly bright through this monster on your profile pics of whatever wonderful social network, website or thing on the internet you're using. You can also paste it on your waterbottles if you want, of course.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That makes you so more childlikey and so less grownuppy which is pretty cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Okay, I'm going mad, but here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And he doesn't even look like one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">So what would one do if one's misdeeds were placed all exposed before the world to see? Normally, the criminal cringes first with shame. And then he does his best to become a recluse and save his face to become the endless target of deploring looks and a PCB chairman's froggy smiles. (Ijaz Butt teddies are even up for sale nowadays to hug the poor criminals whom no one wants to hug).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Salman Butt is clearly not following that normal procedure and he cites him having the need to earn a livelihood as the case and using his 'experience'. If he'd be sharing his unusual and rare experience of how to act suave and then get involved in spot fixing, then that's believable. But his cricket knowledge? I'm not sure how many would want to hear of that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The only fun watching him on TV would be trying to discover the tiniest traces of remorse on his face, which is unlikely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And oh, he doesn't deserve half a million for the job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lalalala, say the ICC. We're not listening.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello, I'm Salman Butt your commentator for the night and will present you with my nauseating views on how to earn money through any use or misuse of cricket.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But yesterday, before he left for India I noticed it's like electrocuted dry grass. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Why does it look like electrocuted dry grass? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Has Imran Tahir an over-obsession with hair gel?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does Imran Tahir have an even greater over-obsession with hair dye?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does Imran Tahir's hairdresser regularly treat porcupines as his clients?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Does Imran Tahir look in the mirror before he leaves his house?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Did Graeme Smith scare Imran Tahir by appearing in a ballet outfit at Shane Warne's musical?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You tell me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Everything seems possible.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi, I have weird hair.</td></tr>
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