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     Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6025 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Article by sidin vadukut fom cricinfo There are two types of cricket fan in India. The first is the unsophisticated fan, or the mass-market enthusiast. These fans - many of them woefully illiterate about turn-of-the-century English cricket writing or the careers of long-dead cricketers such as Grace, Bedser, Pantilimon and Rachmaninoff - want India to win above everything else. For them the ends (trophy) are greater than the means (slog). They would love to see nothing more than India win every match on the South Africa tour comfortably and come back home to a rousing reception. Then there is the second type of fan - the "real" fan or the cricket connoisseur. Nothing in the world breaks this fan's heart more than the sight of India actually winning a cricket match. This is because this fan has different priorities. The important thing for this fan is not the outcome but the honour of the effort, the morality of the methods, and fidelity to the central tenets of cricket etiquette. Let me demystify this further by encapsulating typical responses by both types of fans to various types of Indian victories: Scenario 1: India beats Pakistan in India Normal fan: YAYAY! Connoisseur: Pfft. Anybody can win in the subcontinent. Scenario 2: India beats Sri Lanka in England Normal fan: YAYAYAY! Connoisseur: Pfft. How many times will India play Sri Lanka? So bored. Scenario 3: India beats Australia in England Normal fan: YAYAYAYAY! Connoisseur: Pfft. This is only a testimony to how weak Australia has become in recent years. Scenario 4: Due to the invention of a time-travel machine by engineers at IIT Delhi, India are able to go back in time and defeat Donald Bradman's invincible side in Australia Normal fan: YAYAYAYAYAY! THIS IS THE GREATEST TEAM IN HISTORY! Connoisseur: Pfft. Without full DRS technology this was a meaningless tour BCCI are criminals LULZ Dhawan was lbw at least seven times do you have black and white video of Keith Miller batting at GabbaWacaWacaThisTimeForAfrica? Really. There is simply no possible scenario in which an Indian victory would be acceptable to the vast majority of committed Indian cricket fans. Only abject defeat will do. Only such a shameful capitulation, we all hope, will give Indian cricket the motivation to approach this sport correctly, in the moral way, with great honour and dignity, and play this sport with a perfectly balanced team and methods: i.e. four textbook batsmen, one calculated-risk batsman, one humble wicketkeeper, two enigmatic spinners, and the remaining being blazing fast bowlers with top fitness. And before every match the team members must burn one BCCI member alive for an auspicious start. Therefore I, along with millions of other true cricket enthusiasts, look forward to a turbulent Indian tour of South Africa, full of batting howlers, terrible bowling, organisational disarray, crumbling morale, fearsome South African aggression, and copious all-round Indian defeat. | ||
| Rajusk Megastar Username: Rajusk Post Number: 28585 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 69.125.57.68 Rating: N/A |
boodida series start avvakamunde naa prediction kooda DB lo ade unde..that he is the key.. neither Harris or Siddle have anything special to offer..they just work the batsmen out..by mixing up deliveries.. | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6024 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Pitches have to be different.. If not what's the fun in going to Australia , SA or England or srilanga If not we can just build a bunch of stadia in gulf desert have all countries play there Even in nfl here there are teams which play well inside a dome and suck in a open air arena Mitch is faster thru the air.. This our guys tackled.. The bounce off the ground is where they are struggling... Again any given day a talented player will do well anywhere | ||
| Chinnu Hero Username: Chinnu Post Number: 15223 Registered: 05-2010 Posted From: 69.123.6.90 Rating: N/A |
Shake avvaaala .. Deeen ekkaaa Steyn kurradu Durban pitch meeda Dhawan, Kohli ki eestuntee sammmaga untadi .. Dope B*tch | ||
| Guru Side Hero Username: Guru Post Number: 5945 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 72.76.196.191 Rating: N/A |
pitches alative rao garu..likes of steyn, mitch are toothless on our flat tracks..flat track bullies like raina n co bebe in overseas conditions..bottom line mana intlo manam kingu bayataki pothey bongu courtesy kb annai | ||
| Stalwart Hero Username: Stalwart Post Number: 13730 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 106.206.214.9 Rating: N/A |
 My Favourite video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1rGL7rZCSA | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6023 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Mona india Aussie odi series lo manollu Aussies andarni rafe sesthey Mitch gaadu veelliddarni dhad dhad | ||
| Stalwart Hero Username: Stalwart Post Number: 13729 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 106.206.238.122 Rating: N/A |
Madhyalo eellaku sambhandham endhi??? My Favourite video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1rGL7rZCSA | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6022 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
It's vaakay.. Kani nenu seppindi correct ye gaa.. Mitch gaadi moothi Meeda meesam and chethilo ball choosi eng batters v'kaylu valla throat lo ki vasthunnayi.. Ila avuddi ani yuvi ki Raina ki kooda telusu | ||
| Stalwart Hero Username: Stalwart Post Number: 13728 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 106.206.238.122 Rating: N/A |
 My Favourite video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1rGL7rZCSA | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6018 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
Telusu.. Voori telugu lo atla pronounce chestharu  | ||
| Stalwart Hero Username: Stalwart Post Number: 13727 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 223.237.224.25 Rating: N/A |
Mitchell Johnson My Favourite video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1rGL7rZCSA | ||
| Whyme Side Hero Username: Whyme Post Number: 6016 Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 107.214.64.27 Rating: N/A |
We demand his name be changed to "pichchal Johnson" Aadu bowling esthe pommies ki pichchal pack avuthunnayi Evidence to this was submitted by England test team batsmen and messrs yuvraj Singh and suresh Raina |
