Sunday, August 21, 2011

BCCI decides to scrap test cricket to save time for IPL

We have come to know from confident sources that India getting kicked at the hands of England in recent test series is because BCCI has decided that test cricket has outlived its utility and is not enough revenue generating machine. Since India has been playing too many test matches leaving less time for IPL, besides that it has been BCCI's concern to keep players fit for IPL.
In a secret ploy, BCCI chairman Shashank Manohar  thought of a master plan which can be used to get rid of test matches completely. If fans lose interest in test cricket, there will be no need to play test matches anymore, after all games are for fans, right?

Why do we see test cricket honestly? Well, we did a survey and this is what Rajesh from Delhi said "I don't know man, I just see that India is at rank one and that's what I love". He had no real reason besides that. Same things goes for a major population in India.

When BCCI got to know this fact that Indians just watch test match as India are number 1, they came up with a master plan. They decided that India need to not only lose number 1 ranking, they also need to have their worst defeat ever, so that cricket fans forget Test cricket.  That is why BCCI chairman Shashan Manohar invited Dhoni and other senior players to his room and explained why test cricket should be abolished. Later he also conveyed his master plan to the players.

A senior player on the condition of anonymity said to us  "Well, first we said WTF? Test cricket is what real cricket is man, later we were convinced that it is bullshit. Can you believe we still push ourselves 5 days when we can earn more money by hitting 15runs in 6 balls in IPL ?"  

Even after that, few players didn't agree to this. They were given option to either do what they are told to do, or get out of team. That was the time when Zaheer Khan had to leave for India (Yes, he is not at all injured).

On conveying this thing to Neeraj from Ahmdadabad, he agreed and said " Yes, that is correct. How else can you explain India not dominating a single session?  How else can you explain the best batting side in the world collapsing like cards all the time. And most importantly how else can you explain including RP Singh in the team?" According to our sources we have learned that Munaf Patel was kept out of team as he refused to ball 3 lose balls each over. RP Singh had no issues with that and picked up in team.

Indian fans who have been very religious supporters of test matches, have started to lose faith. Many fans just watched to see Sachin score 100th 100, yet they have received nothing. This has caused fans frustration and at the same times many fans have decided to quit watching test matches altogether.

BCCI's plan was almost working but as now that this issue has come up in public, it is yet to see what is going to be response. Meanwhile we have heard that, Thousands of  people have gathered outside BCCI office in support of Anna Hazare, who has called this an absolute extreme of corruption. While some people are relieved that Indian team is not really bad, they just did this on purpose. The wider implications of these events are still to be seen. Time will tell if BCCI get what they want.







(Good if you can manage few smiles reading this but off course, none of the above is true, we have really played abysmally In England :( )

Friday, August 12, 2011

Pain of an Indian fan

We have never seen Indian team more helpless in recent time. I have sure seen bad times in cricket but have never felt worse. Team gets out on mare 200, while opposition scores 700 and keeps on going, you have left all hopes of getting a wicket, an edge goes to slip and you drop it, you just can't believe that you might have had a chance to get the batsman out. Opposition keeps on piling and finally they decide to get you a chance to get hands to bat. The one batsman you had high hopes from, who you thought could get things turn around for you, gets a king pair (out on 1st ball in both innings).
I am sure things would have been much worse for cricketers who are actually on fields feeling this. But I am talking about an Indian fan over here. When you lost first test, we said, we are gonna bounce back. We always lose first test. In Second test, you have got 124/8 opposition, and you go on and lose the test by around 400 runs. Well, a lot of fans might have given up hope even then but there are few like me, who think "well tough things happen, we are gonna bounce back". We Indian fans keep on watching every ball, every day hoping we will see a brilliant delivery who will get the opposition batsman, which never really came up. We Indian fans can see our bowlers getting hit across grounds all over, after all we aren't a world class bowling attack. However we can't see our star batsman getting king pair when team desperately needs them to score, we can't see a Tendulkar, a Laxman, a Raina playing a shot which they won't be proud of on seeing replays. That just hurts.

Well, we lose heart, we criticize team, we criticize BCCI for not giving players any rest. We swear to ourselves not to watch a cricket match ever again in future, only to find ourselves stuck to TV next time, when again we win a series/match we love cricket like anything.

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Pyaar Ka Punchnama- Story of Three Stereotypes

A girl who uses you like a dog for doing all her work giving nothing in return, a girl who tries to control your whole life (yes every moment of your life), a girl who claiming to want her own space does things which you as her boyfriend can't comprehend. Does any of these stereotypes ring any bells to you? Well I am sure we see glimpses of such girls all over.

Now on other end, we have an overly critical guy who is frustrated with his life, looking all girls in same way(obvious way ;),  an overly nice guy willing to do anything just so that he can have a girl in his life, and a super cool dude.

The story takes us to extremes of these stereotypes. The overly critical guy falls for the girl who treats him nothing but dog, the second guy moves in with his overly controlling girl friend. The super cool dude? Well he gets involved with the third girl.

How can we expect this to end? The girls change, guys mature and they live happily ever after?

Well, that's not what has happened in this movie.

The girl ends up calling the guy dog for following her everywhere, doing all her office work, helping her with anything she needs, even doing shopping for her and taking her to beauty parlor so that she can look sexy for her boyfriend. The second girl, well to be frank I don't really think so bad of her in the movie, when you are in a relationship won't you expect your boyfriend to tell you things like big financial loss, you planning to bring your parents to live with you? Well, yet in the movie she does something real bad which ends up hurting the guy irreparably. The third girl, claiming to ask her own space ends up sleeping with her ex boyfriend, even after that she claims that it meant nothing.

The movie besides showing these stereotypes of girls/guys also shows us somethings which are really true in every relationship. I am sure you guys can relate to at least some of the things from below dialogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5HebYVi_Ds

In the end, guys learn few facts about life, girls well, they don't change, they just replace these guys with similar other guys (as a dialogue says, if a guy leaves a girl, 10 guys are ready to replace him sticking their tongues like dogs)

Definitely a much different movie, with a great concept, undoubtedly brilliant dialogues, must watch for guys. For girls, well to you I can say, you don't have to feel so bad about the movie as off course these 3 stereotypes don't represent all girls. But yes, must watch for girls too so that they can learn to avoid  being at least one of these 3 stereotypes.