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Suneer Chowdhary

When an international bowler sends down a no-ball as big as what Mohammad Amir did on the first day of the Lord’s Test match between England and Pakistan, he may never be looked at with the same minor irritation that a cricket fan usually shrugs off such an indiscretion. Rather sadly for Suraj Randiv and Tillakaratne Dilshan, the Virender Sehwag-controversy could have been advertently avoided had that game been played after the Lord’s Test match – not too many bowlers would dare bowling deliberate no-balls any more after what happened at Lord’s.

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Suneer Chowdhary

The brouhaha was to be expected. The effigy-burning and the shenanigans of the similar order, were undesirable, but hardly an aberration. Unfortunately, so was the Indian performance in this latest format of the game; as they crashed to a second successive three-game losing streak in a World Cup and hardly got the chance to even bow out with grace.

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The BCCI continues to make decisions more associated with a drunken sailor than an institution, arguably, holding the future of cricket in its compromised hands. It has lurched from having only two Tests scheduled in 2010 to suddenly having another 8 before the end of the year.

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The 1980s were heady days. I received a phone call from my younger brother asking me to look up Kapil Dev who was part of the Indian touring team to Australia in 1981.

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Read a Jeffrey Archer thriller as a kid? A John Grisham? A Sydney Sheldon? James Patterson? Chetan Bhagat? Watched a Ram Gopal Verma flick? Phoonk? Phoonk 2?

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The Banner that reminded me of Mumbai:
It is 8 pm local. Sachin Tendulkar has won the toss and is walking out to bat against Punjab at Mohali. A couple of boys have a banner in their hand, that says, “Tendulkar, we have bunked our college to see you bat”

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Ambati Rayadu has proved his mettle with the bat. Even before he joined the IPL he had done it. He was unfortunate to miss out on an international spot, but then only 11 can play for the nation. And four can carry the Gatorade. Or Pepsi.

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A couple of days back, I read Andrew Symonds speak about protecting some cattle in cricket.

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Oh come on, don’t dissect Yusuf Pathan now. Shane Warne may be sold to hyperboles but there can hardly be any doubt that if there are batsmen in the world, who, in Ayaz Menon’s words, “can hit the ball so hard, so far and so consistently at that”, then the franchises’ talent scouts aren’t doing their job in getting them out.

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Quote of the day, “I just think that when all the departments of the team click together, they get a better score on the board.”

Shipa Shetty, after her team had beaten the Kings XI Punjab. May Rajasthan win more of the games and may you Mrs. Kundra, come out with more of such gems.