Gary was right

Last night's match between India and Pakistan was good. Ouch, It hurt but actually not much. The euphoria of these matches like in the last few decades are no longer there with sanity prevailing and everyone at home had no qualms switching over to HBO to watch “The Bucket list”. That was a good movie. India's loss to Pakistan yesterday was well on the cards. The Indian fast bowling attack in recent times is nothing short of being described as totally retarded.  Last night, the slow toddlers a...

England on a full nelson grip

This is turning out to be a fantastic test match. England has India by the throat backed by some superb bowling performances from their quickies and the openers. For India, As mentioned so many times in the recent past, much of India's fortunes lie in the two openers and the rest may or may not perform and create the kind of impact that the two on top consistently does. Laxman and Sachin can perhaps be spared but when the top 2 fails, the going is very tough for them. The number 3 slot ...

India goes through a Sri Lankan nightmare

It's been a long time since India truly went through a Sri Lankan nightmare. The last time around was when the likes of Jayasuriya in his peak form was carting the Indian bowlers into retirement and the crafty Aravinda milked them dry out of anything that flowed through their nipples. Surely Venkatesh Prasad would fully endorse this view. This time around, Sri Lankan quite easily beat India leaving them with a rather unique trauma of succumbing to spin. Well played Sri Lanka... Mendis or not,...

A great series amidst hollywood melodrama

Before the start of this series, my expectations on the performance of the Indian team would have been a series draw and sadly however hard you try to not read the score line, it shows Australia wins. So am I disappointed with the fabulous 5 aging Indian batsmen and the young bowlers... Not really? If things were sane in that fateful second test match, the score line would have been dramatically different but at the end of the day, you accept results as they are. India fought well to yet again c...

Bhajji and Tendlya stick it to the Aussies

A great day for the series as such and finally India sticks it to the opposition to throw open the match to a great contest. It was important that Tendulkar and Sourav play well to ensure that the total comes close to the Aussies and they both stuck it out as well as they could. It took a couple of failures on the part of Dinesh karthik that too up the order, which is typically not his bread and butter spot, for a witch-hunt to be ordered. I wonder now what there is to say on Yuvraj merely b...