Big Brother Not Happy!!

Big brother does not like it. Yusuf is very unhappy over the non selection of younger brother Irfan Pathan for the Challanger series."Other than cricketing reasons" is what he feels that has kept Irfan on the side lines. He feels that Irfan has not performed below par and that he has been playing well.
Well as far as we have followed cricket, Irfan has not been performing to his potentials. He was king of swing when he had walked into the arena, who can forget the reverse swinging yorker that got rid of Adam Gilchrist in the test series down under from where he was reckoned as King of Swing.
What is required from Irfan is to constantly perform better as a bowler and contribute with the bat.
So big brother Yusuf, please don't mention in the media that he has not been picked due to non cricketing reasons.

Sach Ka Saamna

After watching both the episodes of the show Sach Ka Saamna on Star plus, we realized that there was nothing bad that Kambli spoke bad about the maestro.
The media had already blown Kambli-Tendulkar relation out of proportion days before the show was being aired and that had increased the curiosity level for every one to watch the episode.To gain TRP's media companies can do anything.
Anyways we are happy that their relation is like taht of Jai& Veeru as it was earlier.

Tainting Masters Image- Kambli Boy!!

It was way back in Feb1988 the duo of Vinod Ganpat Kambli and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar started playing together for Sharda Ashram and went on making a record partnership of 664 runs. Kambli had a very promising career ahead and was rated far better than Sachin. He also scored 2 double centuries very early in the career.
Discipline and Dedication are the two D’s that sets apart one from the other. Kambli could not latch on to the D’s. A little stardom and he was on top of the world.No one remembers Kambli as a good cricketer. We all remember him as Sachin’s chum. The little Master has earned whatever he is known for mainly due to the D’s. Look at the way he has handled the celebrity status. Absolutely down to earth attitude and letting the bat talk rather than his mouth. One way he knows to silence his critics is letting his willow talk for which is highly regarded for.
The allegation of Sachin not helping him out is a real shame from Kambli’s side. Kambli made numerous come back in to the Indian National side and Sachin has supported him lots as well. Beyond that if a person fails to perform, even god can’t help it. One can support only till the extent if things are right , but once it goes in a wrong direction, no one will support. If a person has skills and he lets the world know what he is meant for by displaying his skills, why would he require anyone’s support? He can come up himself rather than depending on anyone else. Kambli’s remarks are difficult to digest but we are very sure that there would be very less amount of reaction from the Master blaster.
While he has quoted that it’s due to his caste he has to suffer the discrimination, one has to clearly understand that cricket does not see any religion. Cricket itself is a big religion and it treats every one equally. Once Mohammed Azharuddin had commented during the post match presentation that he belonged to Minority community …..so on and so forth. He had faced huge amount of criticism for making such statement that he had to apologies for the same.
We think that to drive mileage, he is attempting to adopt the Aussie way of fiddling with the image of the Indian cricketers.
Vinod’s bad luck is that he has chosen Sachin and we won’t be surprised that he will have to bear a heavy toll.

Calypso Dance

It was a power-packed weekend for sports. Roger Federer created history by winning 6th Wimbledon title and became the only player to win 15 Grand slam titles surpassing the great Pete Sampras (Sham’s all time favorite tennis player) and with last ODI washed out due to rains,India clinched 4 matches one day series by 2-1. This is after a long gap of 7 years that India has won ODI series in Carribean.
After an early exist from T20 world cup Dhoni & Co. toured WI as wounded tigers and certainly wanted to turn the table in their favour this time as WI was one of the side who played spoilt sport for their exist from T20 WC.
With opening pair failed to fire, it was all on middle order especially Dhoni & Yuvraj to shoulder responsibility and they did it with perfection. Yuvraj blasted 131 in first ODI to make India reach a score of 329 to defend and finally won the match, while Dhoni played a fighting knock of 95 in second ODI after India batting collapsed at was struggling at 78-7. He once again showed power with the bat promoting himself at number three in 3rd ODI where it was close win after D/L revised scores.
Dhoni declared Man of the Series.
If people talk of records then this is India’s 5th series win in a row while Dhoni hit 6 (six series wins).