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[justforkix]

Defending his slow knock of 58 off 88 balls, the wicketkeeper-batsman from Jharkhand concluded: "I just wanted to bat for the full 50 overs. I also wanted the tail-enders to have match practice. So, we continued to play as long as we could."

Hmmm, prolly the tail did not agree with him. What they did was quite far off from match practice.....

[ganavk]

RPS is not the best seam bowler in ODI cricket.

My fault. Read it as 'swing' and I still say that he is our best swing bowler since England series.

[broadbat]

                      Clueless in Cochin

The fast rise of the Indian currency against the US Dollar caught many companies napping. It had exporters brows creased with worry while importers laughed their way to the bank. One finance bigwig of a leading IT major when asked what he and his Company planned to do in this scenario replied thus,
‘One is a tactical approach, which is relooking at one’s hedging strategy. And the other is restructuring the cost model and moving up the utilization threshold’.
Now what one is free to assume from the above are clearly two options,
1.   The chap knows what he is talking about and has everything under control.
2.   He is as clueless as the rest of us reading it.
When Doni won the toss and put the Aussies in to bat, one would have dearly hoped that he did it because of option 1. However as it transpired it was to be option 2.
How could a man who did everything right after winning the toss in the T20 just a week ago come up with this, is a mystery. Was it because of the ‘advice’ of the seniors that he said he would be taking or was it just a bad day at the office? After playing two spinners and wanting to bowl first against a team that likes nothing better than batting first, was simply a wrong decision. He should have known by now that knocking a couple of early wickets against Australia does not in any way mean that they will fold over. There was Bangalore from just a couple of days ago as an example.
Powar may have played his last ODI of the season, if this and the previous game is anything to go by. His bowling seems to have detoriated in inverse proportion to the increase in his girth.
Sreesanth, now that he has been offered a film role, tried to play to the gallery on his home ground rather than the game. He should be tailor made for boorish characters that also happen to break dance. Doni mowed him down with a blistering shot towards the end of the Indian innings, perhaps to let him know exactly what he thought about his antics.
Only Pathan amongst the bowlers could hold his head high while the rest were simply innocuous.
When the Indians batted it was a familiar procession that does not surprise anyone any more. Johnson produced a beauty to clip the top of Gambhir’s stump and then later on controlled himself beautifully on the boundary to convert a Dravid six into a dismissal.
Tendulkar and Yuvraj starred in the right and left handed versions of the Aussie training video being produced, ‘How to take a catch at close cover?’
Uthappa must understand that the T20 is over and in the longer version scores of 30 and 40 won’t do.
Dhoni hung around more for pride and duty than anything else, because as Captain he should be the last to leave a sinking ship.
So the Aussie’s cut another notch in their ‘totem pole of victories’ and the fans went home wondering if the ground staff should have worked this ‘miracle’ to have a game at all.

[Libran]

As an aside......

One finance bigwig of a leading IT major when asked what he and his Company planned to do in this scenario replied thus,
‘One is a tactical approach, which is relooking at one’s hedging strategy. And the other is restructuring the cost model and moving up the utilization threshold’.
Now what one is free to assume from the above are clearly two options,
1.   The chap knows what he is talking about and has everything under control.
2.   He is as clueless as the rest of us reading it.

If it was Bala of Infy or Senapaty of Wipro or Ramalingam of TCS.....They know what they are talking about...
And it has to be a combination of both ...hedging + cost management ... given that rate increases are not in the offing..atleast from existing customers

[Libran]

And please...

Unless you are saying that SS can "break into a dance" w/o any rhyme or reason...let's not call his form of dancing as "break dance"

It is a disgrace to the best dancers in the world....

[kingcool1432]

I cant recall any Indian captain that was a straight shooter in the sense Dhoni is:

Give it time. Right now he's the golden boy. Wait till he has had a taste of the inevitable consipracy theories and has his words twisted around and thrown back at him.

[gouravk]

RPS is not the best seam bowler in ODI cricket.

My fault. Read it as 'swing' and I still say that he is our best swing bowler since England series.

What has he done in ODI cricket ?