Showing posts with label Naked Cricket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naked Cricket. Show all posts
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January 20, 2012
The White Bored 1: Why has India lost it
Produced by Yash Chawla, NDTV. Rambling by Bored Member NC.
Shot on location at The Bored Room, Yawn T Roads.
From Jan 7, 2012 Pre-Perth. First posted on Bored Cricket Crazy Indians
My NDTV debut with Bored Cricket Crazy Indians
Last year, NDTV 24X7 featured us. If you can get your hands on a better quality video, let me know.
BORED CRICKET CRAZY INDIANS from Yash Chawla on Vimeo.
Better quality video minus the NDTV credits though
BORED CRICKET CRAZY INDIANS from Yash Chawla on Vimeo.
Better quality video minus the NDTV credits though
November 14, 2011
October 22, 2011
September 01, 2011
Is Nathan Lyon Australia's Amit Mishra
My first look of Lyon, and I think to myself, this kid looks a lot like Mishra – the obvious similarity is the vanishing hair. But there’s also this kidlike smallness about him. Then there’s this small coincidence that they both took five on debut. But what most will overlook is that both players remained not-out for no-score in their first test innings.
Both players will win their first test. I won’t be surprised if Dhoni overshadows Lyon, as he did Mishra, three years’ ago.
Yesterday, Dhoni, once again, did Mishra in. This after he looked like the only Indian (other than Dravid) who could bat at The Oval. This after 2-19 vs. Leister in a T20.
Relax Bhajji, with MS by your side, no spinner will be allowed to make it large on this tour – the one-dayers will see both Ashwin and Mishra being teased on selection, both could end up playing two games each, if not less.
August 31, 2011
August 18, 2011
August 11, 2011
July 27, 2011
When did you know about Lord's
By now you’d think the Lord’s defeat was an open secret. I made an Early Bored Call at Reverse Swept Radio – “India will win Lord’s” around the 8th minute. To add some levity I also predicted India will win 4-0 along with a SRT 100.
Quite a few bloggers called Lord’s. Why don’t journalists make such calls?
Quite a few bloggers called Lord’s. Why don’t journalists make such calls?
When do you think India knew they were going to lose – when they saw the previous records and scorecards? After the ‘make it large’ spoof ads? After Zaheer walked away? When Yuvraj walked in? When Amit Mishra came on? When Saha came on, did Saha come on? How many extras can you have on the field before you realize, this is not the team I went in with? When MSD bowled? When Kapil Dev mocked him for making a mockery? When Raina bowled?
When Dravid was dismissed on the fifth morning. And flung his bat at an imaginary fly. He knew. It was good enough for me.
So is it correct to say that Dravid lost us the game for he was the only one who could have saved us?
June 01, 2011
April 04, 2011
Played boys, now take two weeks off.
Our team wins the World Cup on Saturday going on Sunday, 03 April 2011. Sunday will and should fly past in a blur of manic partying. What have they got to themselves before reporting for IPL Duty – 4th, 5th, 6th April.
That’s 3 days max. By 7th April latest, MSD, Raina and Ashwin, will report to Chennai to warm up and try their gear before their first IPL game vs. Kolkota Knight Riders – oh right, Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan should be in on the 7th too. 8th April is CSK vs. KKR.
The weekend has another four games, by which time all 10 teams would have played.That's within a week from the moment India won the World Cup. England did something similarly stupid with their dates after the Ashes, and before the World Cup. See what happened to them.
It’s taken me two days to write this post, and all I did was follow these guys for forty days on TV.
Here’s the IPL itinerary. It would have made sense, if like 2007, India never made it beyond the first round.
That’s 3 days max. By 7th April latest, MSD, Raina and Ashwin, will report to Chennai to warm up and try their gear before their first IPL game vs. Kolkota Knight Riders – oh right, Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan should be in on the 7th too. 8th April is CSK vs. KKR.
The weekend has another four games, by which time all 10 teams would have played.That's within a week from the moment India won the World Cup. England did something similarly stupid with their dates after the Ashes, and before the World Cup. See what happened to them.
It’s taken me two days to write this post, and all I did was follow these guys for forty days on TV.
Here’s the IPL itinerary. It would have made sense, if like 2007, India never made it beyond the first round.
BCCI, to hell with your crores. Spare some loose change in weeks.
March 30, 2011
March 13, 2011
Dhoni, what have you got against Kohli?
India could have won this match with 20 runs less. But not in the mood today, after the wins, a tie, how about a defeat, and for the Windies’ game, a washout for variety?
India is in a weirdly superior zone, and it has nothing to do with the batting or bowling choices they make. It is how they think, there’s a bit of cool to them. I think they know it, at least most of the players do, they exude that cool. It makes you win close matches, and not feel too shitty about losing tight ones.
That’s not such a bad thing really. What I don’t get, and haven’t for a while, why this crusade against Kohli – why are we working so hard at belittling the best thing that’s happened to us, all of last year, in runs, form, class, attitude, delivery? Why do we continue to tamper with Kohli – why the fuck are we constantly reminded that he cannot score or accelerate as Raina? That he does not bowl, Raina brings the bowling option.
Rewind damn it, why was Raina dropped from the one-day team? Runs, right? How much did he bowl? I like Raina as a player, his attitude, all that, but Kohli elbowed him out fair and square. And let’s not even talk Nohit Sharma, he doesn’t figure in this world cup, ok?
So, you got Kohli at 4, scores a 100 (83), 1st match, vs Bangladesh. In that same game, Yusuf batted at 5, came in the 48th, 8(10).
What do you do after that, hurl him around like some deadweight that can’t bat, not at Yusuf’s pace, or like Yuvi or even MSD.
Next game vs. England, you bat Kohli at 7, after the Maters of the Universe. He comes in the 46th, 8(5) exits in the 48th. Yusuf 14(6).
Next game vs. Ireland, tricky chase, it’s 24/2, Kohli in at 4 again, 34(53). Same game, MSD at 6, 34(50). And then Yusuf banged them, 30(23), while waiting on Yuvi’s 50.
And today, Kohli at 6, 1(3) in the 43rd over, after Pathan 0(2), Yuvraj 12(9) and Dhoni 12(21).
Where will Kohli bat against the Windies, will he even play?
It may not matter, by now, whoever makes these calls may have screwed enough with Kohli’s batting. Then again, this is Virat Kohli, and he’s a lot tougher than you think.
India is in a weirdly superior zone, and it has nothing to do with the batting or bowling choices they make. It is how they think, there’s a bit of cool to them. I think they know it, at least most of the players do, they exude that cool. It makes you win close matches, and not feel too shitty about losing tight ones.
That’s not such a bad thing really. What I don’t get, and haven’t for a while, why this crusade against Kohli – why are we working so hard at belittling the best thing that’s happened to us, all of last year, in runs, form, class, attitude, delivery? Why do we continue to tamper with Kohli – why the fuck are we constantly reminded that he cannot score or accelerate as Raina? That he does not bowl, Raina brings the bowling option.
Rewind damn it, why was Raina dropped from the one-day team? Runs, right? How much did he bowl? I like Raina as a player, his attitude, all that, but Kohli elbowed him out fair and square. And let’s not even talk Nohit Sharma, he doesn’t figure in this world cup, ok?
So, you got Kohli at 4, scores a 100 (83), 1st match, vs Bangladesh. In that same game, Yusuf batted at 5, came in the 48th, 8(10).
What do you do after that, hurl him around like some deadweight that can’t bat, not at Yusuf’s pace, or like Yuvi or even MSD.
Next game vs. England, you bat Kohli at 7, after the Maters of the Universe. He comes in the 46th, 8(5) exits in the 48th. Yusuf 14(6).
Next game vs. Ireland, tricky chase, it’s 24/2, Kohli in at 4 again, 34(53). Same game, MSD at 6, 34(50). And then Yusuf banged them, 30(23), while waiting on Yuvi’s 50.
And today, Kohli at 6, 1(3) in the 43rd over, after Pathan 0(2), Yuvraj 12(9) and Dhoni 12(21).
Where will Kohli bat against the Windies, will he even play?
It may not matter, by now, whoever makes these calls may have screwed enough with Kohli’s batting. Then again, this is Virat Kohli, and he’s a lot tougher than you think.
February 21, 2011
What has Sehwag’s 175 done?
It made me play. I lifted a bat after weeks though it seemed longer, inhabited two pitches – one my gate pitch that has the road in between, then the neighbour’s driveway, where we also had a change in ends.
Even though I joked on BCC! on how the media misquoted Sehwag about batting 50 overs when he really meant 15, for long, I’ve wanted and secretly hoped that Sehwag will bat the distance.
Whenever we spoke about the first ODI double, I was certain it will be Sehwag.
Somewhere ODIs ceased to matter, and what Sehwag did in them even less. That his average was a misleading 31 something didn’t bother me anymore. I stopped trying to balance the 100+ strike rate with that unacceptable average.
Now I notice Sehwag’s average is 35+. But it’s taken him over 12 years and 220 ODIs to play what I’ve waited and waited for. And I don’t know what it’s done, except I played today.
And if it makes the rest of the team play, that will be something. It should certainly make them think – if someone with the one-day attention span of Viru can bat 47.3, what can I do?
Someone like Sachin, he’ll look to bat 50 overs for India, and another 50 for the other team.
It really is funny. Because Viru batting so many one-day overs was not supposed to happen, that it did, is kudos to the guy who planted the seeds for 50 over cruise control.
Before this, the seeds were planted in Yusuf’s mind – for a player who I’ve never rated on staying power in ODIs to hurl those knocks at the Kiwis and Safas was even more unthinkable.
But it was thought, and executed. Add Kohli’s hundreds, pre-World Cup and now in the Cup. Where and how did the makeover begin – when did the press’ brat become India’s mainstay No. 4 in ODIs, where did so much purpose creep in from?
Looks like the question isn’t what will Sehwag’s 175 done, but who enabled Sehwag’s 175 – and in that is the answer to Yusuf’s and Kohli’s runs. And of course, what lies ahead for India in this World Cup.
On Bored: Who made 175
Even though I joked on BCC! on how the media misquoted Sehwag about batting 50 overs when he really meant 15, for long, I’ve wanted and secretly hoped that Sehwag will bat the distance.
Whenever we spoke about the first ODI double, I was certain it will be Sehwag.
Somewhere ODIs ceased to matter, and what Sehwag did in them even less. That his average was a misleading 31 something didn’t bother me anymore. I stopped trying to balance the 100+ strike rate with that unacceptable average.
Now I notice Sehwag’s average is 35+. But it’s taken him over 12 years and 220 ODIs to play what I’ve waited and waited for. And I don’t know what it’s done, except I played today.
And if it makes the rest of the team play, that will be something. It should certainly make them think – if someone with the one-day attention span of Viru can bat 47.3, what can I do?
Someone like Sachin, he’ll look to bat 50 overs for India, and another 50 for the other team.
It really is funny. Because Viru batting so many one-day overs was not supposed to happen, that it did, is kudos to the guy who planted the seeds for 50 over cruise control.
Before this, the seeds were planted in Yusuf’s mind – for a player who I’ve never rated on staying power in ODIs to hurl those knocks at the Kiwis and Safas was even more unthinkable.
But it was thought, and executed. Add Kohli’s hundreds, pre-World Cup and now in the Cup. Where and how did the makeover begin – when did the press’ brat become India’s mainstay No. 4 in ODIs, where did so much purpose creep in from?
Looks like the question isn’t what will Sehwag’s 175 done, but who enabled Sehwag’s 175 – and in that is the answer to Yusuf’s and Kohli’s runs. And of course, what lies ahead for India in this World Cup.
On Bored: Who made 175
February 18, 2011
"If Dhoni’s injured, pick me”
Dinesh Karthik isn’t called BossDK for nothing. But what triggered his 154 of 83 balls (17 4s, 7 6s) – the strangely named adversary perhaps – they're called Hyderabad (India), as if BossDK’s team, Tamil Nadu plays only NRIs. Or was it the sight of another World Cup discard, Ojha – who went for 82 from his 10. It’s the Vijay Hazare Trophy, DK is both keeper and captain, and plays for the mother state of CSK. In Srinivasan we trust.
February 14, 2011
February 13, 2011
January 27, 2011
Can Amit Mishra bat his way to the World Cup?
Barely a month after Murali Kartik opened the batting for Railways, Amit Mishra batted at 7 for North Zone. Mishra's made 50 batting at 3 for India so not much of a surprise. Here, Mishra made 48, batted over 2 ½ hours, and partnered Uday Kaul for 36 overs, 124 runs. Seeing as he is captain, next time, he should promote himself to 3, if not open. With Gambhir, Tendu, Viru's love for injuries, and India’s with spinners who bat, Mishra could beat Rohit Sharma and Murali Vijay as the emergency opener replacement. And they can follow that up with Piyush Chawla as a pinch hitter.
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