Indians in Australia 2012

Today, in Perth Indian team was humiliated again in the third test against Australia, in as many games. It was dubbed as the India’s best chance to win a test series in Australia in last four decades but it has turned out to be a sheer disappointed.

As the match's results were obvious: I'd rather put pics of beutiful Perth City here.

Perth City from Swan River

Illusive 100th hundred and Holes in ‘The Wall’

Indian nightmare in Australia is continuing with another huge defeat in Sydney. India has their best chance to equal the series 1-1, as Sydney Cricket Ground was relatively favorable to their batting lineup. From the day one Sydney pitch favored the batsmen but Indians couldn’t take advantage of winning the toss.

MS Dhoni has a cool head as a captain, but his captaincy decisions are being questioned in the series and they will be scrutinized as the series will progress. India has been avoiding the issue of their ageing middle order for a while but this is the time for some senior’s players to think for the country and give way for younger batsmen, likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. VVS Laxman has not been performing for a few series now and ‘The Wall’ seems to have holes in it. Rahul Dravid ‘The Wall’, who is known for his text book technique has some astounding figures of getting out bowled. He stands no 2 on hall of shame now; 52 times his wood has been rattled. He might lead the list by the end of this series.

Rahul Dravid

Along the perforated wall Sachin Tendulkar is the only beacon holder for the old group. Sachin seems to be haunted by that illusive hundred that he has been chasing for a while now. Australia, on the other hand, has emerged, once again as the dominant force that they used to be.  They have been finding some good pace bowlers but those bowlers, but some of them were made to look mediocre during last Ashes.

Alike India, Australian team has a section ready to be admitted to retirement village but pedestrian Indian bowling attack has added few more years to their working life. Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussy, who owes a big thanks to Pakistanis (Team & bookmakers) for giving them second cricketing life in 2010. Pakistan’s defeat can be associated with greed and PCB’s financial troubles (with a laugh). India’s no 1 position (rolling eyes) is on stake, let’s see what excuse do they have for loosing in Sydney.

Pup has grown up, so we can rightly call him a ‘Dog’, maybe. Michael Clark’s 329 were amazing to watch. And what about his gallant decision to retire on this score? I personally wanted him to get pass 334, just because he deserved to beat Mark Taylor.

Pakistan Vs Sri Lanka 2011 – Abu Dhabi

Pakistan have won the 5 one day series 4-1. Good effort by the team, particularly spin bowlers. Pakistan has been sidelined from world cricket recently and there hasn’t been much talk about the quality of our players.

Currently Pakistan has the best spin bowlers in the world, no other team even come close in comparison, since the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan.

In Memory of my School years

This video reminded me of my school years and there is no funnier way of putting it. Well punishments like that are quiet common scene in Pakistani Schools.

 

Imran Khan and corruption

Match Fixing Trio Jailed

Imran Khan explained it in straight forward words.

“It is painful to listen (to) the news as a former Pakistan cricketer and I feel really sorry for their families,In a way I also feel sorry for these cricketers because they are from Pakistan where there are massive corruption cases against president (Asif Zardari) and they must have thought crime pays”.

Pakistan has great hopes from Imran Khan, who is the head of political party, Tehrek-e-Insaf (movement for justice).

Corruption in Pakistan

Corruption has became part our every day life in Pakistan. Life without corruption seems a mad man’s dream. Corrupt officials, politicians and members of armed forces living a luxurious lives without a hint of shame of any sort. Ordinary Pakistanis do not even realize that; the corruption is a punishable offense.

In a country, where murders get away with any sort of punishment, then corruption is a lot lesser offense. Currently, in Pakistan, there is so much talk going on print and other media about three match fixers. General media hosts / writers and population seems to be apologetic towards the trio.

My friends have shown their amazement on the prospects of seven years jail term of accused corrupt cricket players. It seems too harsh for them. A strict punishment for the trio would really help Pakistanis the ‘power of law’ and importance of having a free judiciary system, not only for cricket but on a much larger scale.

After an apologetic statement by Amir was read , the Judge of the case Mr Justice Cooke said : “An inference that could be drawn is that this was such a widespread activity in the team that a newcomer could be infected with the activity, as this was a norm.” This statement was given for Pakistan Cricket team, unfortunately, I can apply this to a lot of situations in this country of mine.

Spot Fixing

Amir, Asif and Butt have became well known names, not for good reasons, to most cricketing nations and even in few countries where cricket isn’t a major sport. I am sitting in Singapore Changi Airport, and this news has been played over and over on the BBC news. I am desensitized of this match fixing saga, just because, in my views, it will not change anything in cricketing world.

As the court in London, heard that betting is 40-50 Billion pound business in India. Punishing three players, who were pawns of a lot bigger racket will not effect anything. The only lesson, players will take out of this issue, is to be extra vigilant. I would like these three idiots to spend sometime behind the bar.

, match fixing in cricket has became 50 billion dollar

Birds

Napping Birds

Donkeys and Monkeys

Indians love their animals. They even mention refer their favorite cricket players with animals. Andrew Symonds has been mentioned as Monkey by his Indian fans, of-course lovingly. Though, Symond don’t agree with it, neither do I.

I wonder why Indian media made a big fuss, when Nasser Hussain, an English commentator, mentioned some lazy fielders as Donkeys. By comparison, Donkey is a lot more subtle reference than a monkey, at least, I think so. It does not have any racial connotations associated with it either. Donkey is a lazy animal and this statement remains true, all around the globe. Mentioning someone as Donkey in England has the same meaning as it does in India. So what is all the fuss about? And, interestingly Nasser Husain is half Indian.

I appreciate Nasser Hussain as a commentator, level headed and neutral personality. Unlike some of the Indian favorites like Tony Greg, who starts wagging his tail on sight of a feed. By no means, I am referring Tony Greg as a Dog, because I love dogs and they are very faithful, unlike…