Cricket
Praise them and kick them
by Hemz on Feb.10, 2010, under Cricket, Information Technology and Communications, Sports
The Media is seemingly playing games. I fail to understand that why are they doing this. Yesterday, the Star News show “Shaaramnak” was just more pathetic as anything worse can be.
Ofcourse there was a reason to worry but why such hysteria? India has lost many test matches and the team has failed before too. When they win, they just keep blabbering about how each individual performed but when they loose, they will poop each individual player.
Now if Sachin has hit a century and he couldn’t help turn India’s fortunes, who is to blame? Well, if you go by how the Indian Media behaves then you would be in for a surpirse. First they blamed the master blaster himself.
Why Sachin created hopes in Billions of Indians about a turn of tide and filed to finish it?
To which I would politely reply: Creating hopes is better than not even doing something.
Why can you take the sport lightly, without creating hatered. See the guy who blew the top order and appraise his performace rather than creating much fuss about the non performance. Why cant you?
Finally, a smirk back in face
by Hemz on Jun.14, 2009, under Cricket, Sports
India’s loss against England comes as an eye opener and I am just happy that it happened. Team India was flying with some over confidence and it was a bit too much for the selectors to ignore the experienced players.
Ideally, having Sachin in team adds much value than having him on the stands. He does makes a difference to the opposition. What now has happened after commercialization of IPL in a big way, BCCI is trying to show the world that its a hit format to find the best players. I agree with that, but certainly not at the cost of loseing experienced players from the team.
What we saw for the last two matches is a complete disaster of batting lineup! I just missed seeing the raging fire in our cricketers of today that we had two years ago when we brought the ICC T20 World Cup.
More so, this comes at an apt time since the Team now has something to focus on. Not doubting Dhoni on his captaincy, I think he needs to grow his hairs back to get the team going
Its my favorite team in Finals: I just love the moment
by Hemz on May.23, 2009, under Cricket, Formula1, Sports
Having been considered as this year’s back benchers, Royal Challengers pulled up their socks and now are in the finals of the second edition of IPL.
To be frank, I lost interest when they were on the waining way in the initial days and was not eager to watch the IPL matchs. When the news started ringing that they can be in the Semi’s is when I got on!
Say the Mallya affect. I am a fan. I love both of his teams, my first love being the Formula 1. (continue reading…)
The Clash of the Titans: The Politians and IPL
by Hemz on Feb.19, 2009, under Cricket, Indianomics
Its the clash of Titans in a game of one’s self. Only, the games r different. One is the game calle
politics, other is the Twenty20. This year is critical for all the politicos because of complex dynamics and no clear winner in the vincity.
Venkaiah Naidu has publicly acknowledge that IPL’s date clashing with General Elections may affect the voter turnout. IPL honcho, Lalit Modi had denied any chances of changing the dates for IPL.
The New Color of Indian Cricket Team.
by Hemz on Feb.19, 2009, under Cricket
The Indian Cricket Team adorns the new blue.
Nike, Team India’s apparel partner of BCCI, launched the new dress code gives Dhoni’s men a new blue color with safforon hint at the back and tri color at the front. The highlight of this dressing is the dry – fit technology which will not stick to their bodies when they sweat.
The Indian teams dress color reminds us of the 1992 world cup, when India had dark blue (navy) color.
