It has been a week since the last post...
and I am really clueless as to where the next one is coming from ...
week has gone by ...
another year has passed me by ...
I think it is the first time in my life that I have started to feel the age...
till now it was just another year gone by .. now it makes me look as to how many years do I have left...
one of the Indian friends left for India .... apparently has pressures to get married...
we gave him going away party...
he looked happy, don't know if it was for leaving dhaka or impending marriage...
in my book it would be leaving dhaka... impending marriage I have no experience of...
India finally managed to win the test match in Calcutta( kolkata)...
a match which was full of performances from both teams....
but somehow things that come to mind first are ... Tendulkar decision by Steve Bucknor in second innings...
though he may or may not have made the elusive 35th century... but just the context in which it happened and person to whom it happened changed the dimensions..
otherwise umpires keep making mistakes and all gets washed by "human error" ganga jal ...
the other memory is 2 wickets of Harbhajan Singh in second innings ...
I haven't seen offlate in test arena any batsmen playing totally wrong line to a spinner and getting clean bold ...
( he has got his action reported again in the bargain !!)
I did catch this mindlessly titled program on star news called " match ka mujrim" on eve of fifth day
( god knows there should be someway to stop these mindless inventions on NEWS TV
worse are crime shows.... it must be called criminalisation of TV......)
they were lambasting sourav ganguli for his failure to bat these days...
panel was Bishen Bedi/ Jaheer Abbas/ Syed Kirmani...and in audience they had Pakistan's travelling good luck charm " Chacha"
I think his opinions were most sought after than the august panel on the dias...
and the Anchor was running the show like a PT instructor... poor panel....they were there to give some interesting sound bites only...
but really I think Sourav Ganguli sometimes defies the longstanding cricket wisdom and still lands well on his two feet..
i was once told by a Bangladeshi friend that one of his palmist friend had predicted ( after seeing Ganguli's palm) that he will play 100 test matches...
as per the stats it means there are 19 more matches to go till critics get him out of Indian team...
but as a captain he has been really successful not only in terms of results but also to keep this team together...
this is remarkable in our country where people make you a star for one performance alone...
and this team is star studded to say the least...
now the next destination is bangalore ... where memories are not too good against Pakistan...
the worst one is Sunil Gavaskar's best ever innings, which sadly didn't result in a test victory...
( interesting aside to this match, in 4th innings, Pakistan bowled 93.5 overs and used only 3 bowlers!!! Wasim Akram/ Iqbal Kasim/Tauseef Ahmed!!! how is that for focused approach and faith in your bowlers!)
hope India can this time put that solidly back into history vault and replace with some happy memories to go by ... like the world cup Q/F match many years ago..
