Future Of Cricket

Another high scoring game comes to an end, another game where side batting second comfortably scored 300+ runs. In the earlier days, score of 250 was considered a reasonable total and if scored 300, would only be reduced to mere formality before end of match ceremony. But, over the years with slow, dead pitches are giving rise to entertainers more than cricketers. I don't understand how far this is going to last. I mean with these pitches only a low self esteem person would be fast bowler because they hardly leave scope for him to not get hit for less than six a over. In this scenario, I think going forward, we should replace bowlers with ball throwing machines that are used in net-practices and we can actually decide the winner with the team who hits more sixes.
With T20 and IPL game is all about hard hitting and no technique, with this I think we will keep churning out Sehwags and no more Dravid or Sachin. God bless Cricket.

Rules

Rules make choices easy.

Five Point Someone

This weekend while cleaning up the house, I accidentally got hold of the book Five Point Someone. I thought to myself, great now between the time I would finish some office work, I would have good TP. But, life rarely turns out what you expect it to be. :-)
Coming back to the book, as the cover suggests it is based on life at IIT. But, I would say the incidents could have occurred across any engineering college and if you have lived in a hostel in your education days, you could easily relate to the whole system sucks thoughts, all bad food, no money days, the splitting (money and friends both) and of-course occasional indulgence.
The book is very well written, it has all the elements to make a good story be it relationships, fall-outs, action, drama and steamy affair. When I started reading the book, I just could not put it down, pages turned one after the other and I completed the book sitting at one place with a kind of permanent chuckle and an occasional laugh. Go for it guys, I think it is worth spending few hours for it.

Balanced people

Balanced people are never exorbitantly successful....because they are "balanced". :-)

Slim-look secret

After months of rigorous gym sessions and disciplined diet, I realized the secret to slim looks is...wearing right fitting clothes.

Cricket Next Generation

Since the time I embraced Cricket as religion, it has come a long way. Fifteen odd years have passed, at that time one day cricket was well followed in all the cricketing nations. Bouncer around the nose height was always no balled, no field restrictions. It had its own start specialists in K Srikant, Ajay Jadeja, Robin Singh, Micheal Beven and many more. One day Cricket started in nineteen seventies and it served a great relief from boring Test Cricket which for around next couple of decades continuously lost popularity only to resurrect in nineties when Aussies introduced aggressive cricket.
One dayers have offered some of great competitions, players and always been entertaining fans around the world. A generation of fans has passed, people's taste have changed and cricket was again fighting the battle for survival. Around the same time, T20 came into existence and brought with itself lot of glamor, money and viewership to cricket. In absence of which cricket was indeed a dying sport. Many argued T20 is not the cricket blah blah. But, like it or not, the rise in popularity of cricket and the viewership it added, T20 is here to stay for a long time.
Now, its again time to move on for cricket, clearly test cricket is for people who enjoy traditional cricket though their number might be limited but it has its own cult following and also the cricketing fraternity definitely feels too attached to stop playing it. The biggest causality of T20 became the one day internationals. T20 is simply more exciting and glamorous than one dayers that too in only half the time. This trend just sets the ground for end of road to one dayers. Many of the past greats are advocating this and now ECB along with its affiliated counties decided to take out one dayers from their playing calenders. Well I think this is natural progression for cricket and betterment for players to play more positive cricket.

Calvin's Quote on Life

That's one of the remarkable things about Life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.