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Buckenred and Bensoned !!!!
2008-01-08 06:57:00
---------------------------------Srikrish na ChintalapatiThanks to the media that never sleeps, journos who never fag, news readers who never stammer, a network that doesn't break. Me, just like any other cricket lover of India, is in receipt of this voluminous uproar, outcry and outburst about being ?Bucknored and Bensoned? on the eve of second cricket test match at SCG. And that gives me yet another opportunity to bring forth my paradoxical perspectives right here.Happy about everything-- Ricky sucks, Symonds stinks, Hogg sulks, Bhujji rocks, RP Rules, Kumble meditates, Dravid is Bucknored, Sourav is Bensoned. Oz is playing with 14 players, India is the only team to exhibit some sportive spirit, and poor umpiring prompts a serious penalization!! Yes, Thanks for everything, great inventions!!!There are many views floating around, Gavaskar was seemingly furious, Ravi Shastry was visibly tempestuous, Harsha goes one step ahead and says " In my next life, I would like be Andrew Symond...

A Tribute to Brain Lara
2007-05-15 00:33:00
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: by Srikrishna ChintalapatiA famous line from Mr. Harivansh Rai Bachan's poem reads like "Mitti Ka tan, Musti ka man-- yahin mera parichay" (Body that made up of CLAY .. Heart which is full of JOY and that completes my Introduction).I couldn't put better than this?a very appropriate recapitulation struck my mind at a flashy speed, as I was watching the live press-conference of Brain Lara . As my heart and mind were full of grief and warmth, a heavy heart, teary eyes, an astonied mind, now, for the moment, refuse to move even an inch 'on' ; the insane and errant body repeatedly makes unsuccessful attempts to get tangled back into my television set; only one voice echoes and accompanies my lonely emplacement in my room "Remember me as some one who gone out there and tried to entertain".D day has come, the legend retires, the master calls it a day, a genius adjourns. BRIAN LARA--the synonym of West-Indian batting, the run-machine, and the soild southp...
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10 Reasons for Team India?s Declination
2007-03-30 10:17:00
by Srikrishna ChintalapatiAt this hour of deprivation, most of us undoubtedly are not interested in any sort of painstaking introspection. As a sincere lover of the game, I have decided to take some time to think through what went wrong and how can we renovate this? This article gives you an acute overview of ?what went wrong? from a 360 degrees perspective. Here are the 10 major reasons why team India had bumbled in the world cup.1) First and foremost - Captain: Because, leadership often commands more than being NICE!As I have been calling and cribbing for a long time, the fundamental problem with Team India is this fundamentally inefficient captain. I am one among millions in the world who unanimously agrees that Rahul is "A nice guy (who couldn't finish first), I stand corrected he can never ever finish first.My dear friend, leading a side does commands more than being NICE, I am Irrefutably confident to throw out a statement- "Good 'people/resource' managers in this world are...
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Tale of Three Veterans!!!
2007-03-24 13:34:00
By Srikrishna ChintalapatiSome and 20 and something months ago, three veterans of the game, determinedly, ambitiously fought ?tooth-to-nail? to get selected for a profession that is - most respected, most challenging, most celebrated and highly lucrative, called ?Coaching the Team India? (along with couple of other insignificant competitors), namely- ?Dave Watmore?, ?Tom Moody? and ?Guru' 'Greg Chappell?. We had a Whiz-kid council to evaluate them, which consists of handful of ?Indian cricket well-wishers? who often makes appearances in major commercial sports channels and throws out irrational cerebrations. The council seemingly had a tough job of outweighing one contestant with the other and zeroing on one, who in turn, expected to strategize and drive the Team India to unreasonable heights, for time being, WORLD CUP-2007 .Firstly, the wise men assembled in a luxurious and expensive Five Star Suit. Systemized a hypothesis and formalized a process of evaluating the contestants, t...
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World Cup-2007, a prognosis analysis
2007-03-04 00:18:00
Srikrishna Chintalapati Less than 10 days to go and the players and officials of contestant nations have pulled up their socks, geared themselves up for yet another exhilarating experience in the Caribbean Islands, as the world getting entrapped and entangled into this Olympian cricket excitement, here is a thoughtful forecast of how things could perhaps, shape-up in the forthcoming tournament.While, assessing the result in a cricket match is as impractical as foretelling the future, I believe, that one can explicit the prevalences and instances to arrive at what could potentially be the final result. Considering all the test playing nations- my expected teams to reach out to the Semi Final are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and West Indies. It could be any man's game thereon. Bisecting all rants and raves take a quick look at the insightful analysis of each of these teams...Australia: DOWN but not OUTAll said and done... there has been too much of speculation. Whether they m...
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SHOULD WE STILL CALL IT CRICKET ?????????
2007-01-10 06:13:00
Thanks to Guru Greg! Rahul! Kiran More! Manya Shri Sharad Pawar ji & a bit late to join the party, Vengsarkar ji !!No surprise at all!! Just go back to the archives ! Try and recollect what all of us have been screaming, sulking, hollering and crabbing all these days. We did anticipate this downfall... we did caution this diminution... we did communicate this calumny... we never got carried away by all this brouhaha...we won plenty of enemies... we earned ignominous malediction.And here we are. The bubble burst... experiments are back-firing... groomed youngsters are now poaching... suave leader flunking... Guru Greg is gasping... where are you Mr. Kiran More? Thank you very much...All said and done. I will not talk any more on what went wrong. We all know that few shameless species of Indian cricket have materialized their personal agenda at the cost of our emotions, demolished our self respect against their veins. But what kinda embracing to my woes is ?are these men not ashamed??...
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A simple way of undoing Noodles !!!
2007-01-10 06:12:00
(Rahul Dravid rings up to Greg Chappell)Rahul Dravid: Sir, Chappell Sir ! I want to prepare a cup of Noodles for today's breakfastChappell: Hey Rahul ! How are you !! How co-incidental!! Just having a sight at my sidewall and "The wall" had called me !!Rahul: Sir, Chappell Sir, It's my pleasure!!! I need your advice for my noodles venture.GC: OK, Beta !! now first thing to do is " draw a game plan !! Define a strategy with clear goals and objectives !! I will take care of it, don?t worry !RD: Sir, Chappell Sir ! You are great sir.GC: OK, Now please proceed to the city market to buy a pack of Noodles ! Please call-up Kiran More. He is good in selection!! Make sure that the pack of noodles fits into ?our scheme of things?!! Also don't forget our formula of "Grooming youngsters"RD: Sir, Chappell Sir ! lekin Noodles & how youngsters !!GC: Lookout for something that is fresher!!RD: Sir, Chappell Sir ! Ok, Sir !! I am leaving now...GC: Haa !! Rahul !! Also ring-up Dilip (Vengsarkar) !!...
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And all we have in our team are heroes!!!
2007-01-10 06:11:00
Well done India, Tough luck Lara. All in the midst of this prideful triumphant I might sound a little too much like a spoiled sport. For all you flying on high on the sense of relief having seen the abysses of one-day series, it may not be preferable to read further.Just to summarize, an outing of 45 days, a bunch of experiments, followed by a humiliating loss. Then comes the realization, filling the gaps by reinstating the experience, unreasonable tantrums, and unexplained outlines. All putting together first win in 35 years, first major series win in 2 decades, and first win after 1971 and Anil Kumble is 35 years old. However, we did it again. Right from the moment the luckiest captain of India won yet an other important toss, which at that moment sounded more soothing than hearing that Wayne Rooney and Beckham collectively warming the benches, somewhere away from the action.Let me recall an extremely wispy and shadowy reminiscence, which I was mush obliged to capture from an ub...
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Mr. Skipper !!! Get a Life !!
2007-01-10 06:10:00
Way back in early 1600s, there lived a philosopher by name 'Rene Descartes'. Who thought something phenomenally unnatural to come-up with a most respected and debated philosophy called "Methodical doubt"; to address the uninterruptedly unearthing plethora of questions he was facing in the search of 'The perfect thing?.At first, he thought of inventing the fundamental cause of any experience, in the due course, there is another doubt aroused as what is the stimulus of this cause. From there on, he went on to think about the actual thing that instigating all these events. Which is, in other words " The real thing". Which is believed to be the cardinal of these phenomena and upon knowing which everything else can be implied. Going forward, the mystifier started spreading it's roots deeper and deeper to overwhelmingly bewilder him. While, it could not help him solve the basic puzzles laced around the laws of nature and the oppressively hypothecated "The Real Thing", served to excava...
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Cogito Ergo Sum (I think, Therefore I am)
2007-01-10 06:09:00
Way back in early 1600s, there lived a philosopher by name 'Rene Descartes'. Who thought something phenomenally unnatural to come-up with a most respected and debated philosophy called "Methodical doubt"; to address the uninterruptedly unearthing plethora of questions he was facing in the search of 'The perfect thing?.At first, he thought of inventing the fundamental cause of any experience, in the due course, there is another doubt aroused as what is the stimulus of this cause. From there on, he went on to think about the actual thing that instigating all these events. Which is, in other words " The real thing". Which is believed to be the cardinal of these phenomena and upon knowing which everything else can be implied. Going forward, the mystifier started spreading it's roots deeper and deeper to overwhelmingly bewilder him. While, it could not help him solve the basic puzzles laced around the laws of nature and the oppressively hypothecated "The Real Thing", served to excava...
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A STORY THAT NO ONE WANTS TO READ !!!
2007-01-10 06:08:00
Well, here is a story that no one wants to read. No one wants to think over. Something, that has passed its sell by date. Something that cannot make any difference. Something that is as normal as normal can be. On top of it, if ever there has been a wrong time for any author to bring out his/her story, I would say, this is it.The fact is, nobody wants to look back and brood over the events that have seduced him or her to poke into. This is a time the team India flying high on the wings of success. The ostensibly panoptic white washes of debased opponents, have earned a virtual cloud-9 for our cricketing barons. All is well with our Captain, people are with him today, and he has been cuddled by the luck factor as tightly as a piece of wood glued by Fevicol. Strategies succeeded, experiments worked out, versatilities exposed, efforts are applauded and in a nutshell, did everything right. Yes, everything indeed. Apart from all that which is, said read and tattled, this 'everything' e...
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LET OFF LOBBYING !!!
2007-01-10 06:08:00
The message from Gandhian legacy, and the famous turn-the-other-cheek attitude seems to have penetrated to somewhat more than expected abysms of modern day cricket in India. His most respected ethos of ?showing passive resistance to injustice? has been successfully put down as now days, our spirits are impounded by fatigue and the aversion towards the undecipherable. The ethereal doctrine that enkindled energy and vigor into our souls has been broadly manipulated and transformed to the other way round, as we are relentlessly motivated at every walk of our life to LET OFF and Move on. This piece of work is just to recollect a couple of such incidents that makes you nod your head in acceptance.1) John Wright worked with the team India as a coach for a significant period of time. It was conflux of successes and setbacks right across his tenure. He commands the heaviest share of respect from the entire country for sailing the team India successfully out of the turmoil waters of match fi...
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The Most Luckiest Captain of India
2007-01-10 05:58:00
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --- Martin Luther King Jr.Since assuming fill-time captaincy for Team India 1) First of all he captured captaincy at a right time. When lot of matches were lined up either at home or at sub-continent. And the decision to make him as a captain was never debated albeit, it's successful declaration of a mantra, which has been uninterruptedly recited by our think-tank over and over and again-" Grooming Youngsters" and blah blah blah, as null and void.2) Tri-Series in Sri Lanka was ended on a sad note, where we had moderate success winning 2 matches out of 5 played. There affected a captaincy change that has surprised many of us, while team India busy in making preparations for their travel across to wild waters of Zimbabwe. Reportedly, this is the kick-off for the "operation tiger-out". We have seen a hue and media vociferation in support of the ever glistening " good boy of India cricket", and...
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