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Dubbay Boys : Delhi Daredevils openers and Whistle man of Pakistan

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Happy Dubbay to Daredevils skipper and India opener Gautam Gambhir.

Happy Dubbay to Dilscoop Dilshan Tilakratne Daredevils Delhi wale.

And happy dubbay to Rashid Latif, the cheapest Pakistan ex-player and the fallback guy to keep wickets for them whenever the team was swept following some defeat.

He was the whistle blower for match fixing. Surprisingly this time he is backing up Younis Resign Khan.

6 days later Beeru celebrates his 31st dubbay.

Written by chandler23

October 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm

My money for CLT20…

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Champions League…

4 days to go.

My money on :

1) Delhi Daredevils : Good platform for VS to get back to the form before the Aussie series. And then further demolition of Mendis and Murali in the series.

2) Royal Challengers, Bangalore : For historical reasons : Seeing Anil lead once more, if he plays. He fell short last time in IPL-2, perhaps playing in home crowd would motivate him to win the T20 award too.

Besides I dont have much info on the foren teams, but I have learnt that one of the teams has 11 international players and many players are from other IPL teams in that foren team. Notably one from KKR, one from Kings XI Punjab. Most prolly he was pissed off on not to have received Preity’s hugs.

Another player supposed to play for that foren team is playing now for Delhi Daredevils, the same man who invented the ice cream Dilscoop shot. By the way he winning the T20 award of the ICC has sent angry signs in Boom Boom’s country.

Dilli would be expected to repeat the heroics of World T20 for Gambhir;s team too. And if he does that the top 3 of DD would read a dangerous look. VS, GG and TD.

Sanga and Mahela’s characterstic fixation on ‘character’

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Mahela and Sanga’s Obsession for character stumps me. I mean there should be a cap on the usage of character in every match interview — pre or post or presentation or cricinfo articles. Every single media interview and you would find this lads using word ‘character’.

It gives me an impression that SL team is richest in character and other teams are studs or sluts :D . Almost with no character.

And if you compare this lads’ performance with others then this 2 greats on flat pitches lack character which is shown by ageless Sanath Jaisurya or Dilly Dolly Dilshan or for that matter Kadamby. In my view Mendis, Mahela and Sanga are characterless and useless characters in richly characterstic SL team which has the most interesting caricature in the world cricket — Malinga who also shows a huge character in growing his hair in weird styles, yet he performs. He shows character in giving 81 runs or even 3 or 4 wkts…..

Not the types who puke character and score 1 and get out on a teesra of a chautha grade bowler or get hit wicker :) .

I need somebody with huge guts and highest character to show character and put a tape on Sanga / Mahela’s characterstic mouth when they utter character.

Bhaiya Sanga aur Mahila ki maane to baaki sab teams charitraheen hai aur Lanka ki team sushil saumya saubhagyawati team hai.

Lol.

Written by chandler23

September 15, 2009 at 2:15 am

Comparing an apple and an orange

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One innings at the top in Tests for Dilshan and there are comparisons with Sehwag. Hold it. Dilshan is a very attractive batsman to watch when in flow. Equally crap when he sulks. Dont agree. Remember the lone T20 match India played in tour of SL earlier this year which Dilly captained.
Now there is no comparison between Sehwag and Dilshan in Tests. Sehwag has batted for almost 61 odd Tests at the top out of his 69 Tests and made run in almost every conditions — centuries in Lanka, West Indies, Australia (195 and 151), South Africa (117), England (112), Pakistan (wow 309), India (many more)… and at lightning fast rate. His last 12 100s have been huge. In fact last time he got out less than 150 was good 7 years back against West Indies in 2002.
Dilshan has just been promoted to the top cos Warnpura was flopping consistently and they have no Jaya, PattaAttu and Tharanga. He mostly bats at 6 and has tail for his company. But then again when you play mostly against BD and at home, the figures are sure to bulge up.
Contrast that with Sehwag who has played at the top for most of his career and has blunted most of the new ball attacks everywhere. Can anyone forget his 195 at Melbourne or 170 odd in Chennai 2004 against McGrath, Kasper and Warne. Or 201 last year when 2Ms wrecked havoc in Indian middle order. 309 and 319 were on flat tracks but they were against better attacks than Dilly’s innings. 254 for that matter too was on flat track, but that was the fastest double century.
Sehwag plays attacking shots in the new ball duration when most of the attacking fields are set and balls does something early on. Dilly comes in at 6 when the ball has lost the shine and is relatively easier to bat on. Plus he plays on flat tracks of Lanka and mostly against BD. So his record wont count against Sehwag.
The story which prompted this was :
This is like comparing apples to oranges. I have nothing against Dilly. He has been the most underrated player of SL with the likes of Blabba king, Sangakara, 2 Ms and Malinga taking away the limelight. But he is certainly not big as Sehwag at the top and if he has to evoke any comparisons he has to bat consistently on the top n against better teams in all the conditions.

Written by chandler23

August 21, 2009 at 2:46 am

SL won or Pak lost ?

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http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/416478.html

What tough calls man ? Dropping Vaas ? When was he playing except the final Test which was a brokered deal to get rid of him for good ? Making Dilshan keep ? Was that a brave move ? Idiotic to say the least. You have lost your best batsman in LOI cricket to this inability of the captain to step up and keep when PJ was injured.

When did SL play breathtaking cricket to outplay Pakistan? SL won 2-0 cos Pakistan lost it in those mindless collapses. SL never played positive cricket to win the series. When they could play positive cricket they choked and gave up chance to win 1st test on their win without help from Pakistan batsmen or bowlers!!

Speaking for media for praising the team ignoring the realities is idiotic. And why is he even writing now ? He is no more a captain, he isnt in the greatest of form, so why is he blabbering? I dont know if Nuvan and Thilan deserved those 17 and 12 wkts without the help from Pakistan batsmen? I guess not.

Mendis is punctured for good and he wasnt even considered for the final Test.

When there was an opportunity for the new captain to set the pace for a win he choked just cos Dilshan was injured. So what if he was injured. If they would have gone for victory and lost then it was acceptable, but closing the shop 32 overs before the game is negative cricket. For negative cricket so much of applauds ? Not done dude.

History would be created when you guys win outside SL and sans BD and Zim. Thats when the history would be made for you guys. Until then keep making runs, they wont contribute an iota to your greatness ?

Written by chandler23

July 27, 2009 at 3:30 pm

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