South Africa tour of India, 2015 - Freedom series

I think this should be India's Playing X1 for the first test match:

1.Vijay
2.Dhawan
3.Pujara
4.Kohli
5.Rahane
6.Jadeja
7.Saha
8.Mishra
9.Ashwin
10.Bhuvi
11.Aaron

India's Squad for T20 WC in Bangladesh

Here is my take on what the new-generation T20 squad should look like.

The primary aim is to rest the tired shoulders, test new exciting talent, and maybe, just maybe, give a second chance to past legends.

1. Parthiv Patel (wk) / Naman Ojha (wk)

2. Robin Uthappa / Gautam Gambhir

3. Ajinkya Rahane

4. Ambati Rayudu

5. Yuvraj Singh (c) / Suresh Raina (c)

6. Yusuf Pathan

7. Stuart Binny / Abhishek Nayar / Irfan Pathan

8. Parvez Rasool / Ali Murtaza

9. Mohit Sharma

10. Praveen Kumar / RP Singh

11. Varun Aaron / Pradeep Sangwan

Legen-wait for it- dary!

1. Justin Langer
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Damien Martyn
5. Michael Clarke
6. Steve Waugh
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Brett Lee
10. Glenn McGrath
11. Jason Gillespie
Need I say more ?

De boo

Watching Peter Forrest score a couple of well timed boundaries in what has been a very mature innings from the debutant thus far,

one gets the feeling that the Australian think tank makes its up-and-coming players debut when they are ready and on the peak of their craft. And looking at Abhinav Mukund's and Ajinkya Rahane's debuts, it seems the Indian counterparts blood youngsters when the seniors are either injured or in a low profile series where no one wants to play and injure themselves.

Boom Boom Afr(a)idi

Shahid Afridi's future planning is as reckless as his batting. He retires at the drop of a hat, speaks venom at the board, and doesnt care two hoots about the consequences. Then he yearns for another innings, and repeats the process. I'm amazed at the number of times he has actually "retired" and then made a comeback. At this rate, he might even beat Saurav Ganguly to it!!
No mean feat, that!

Afridi is like a talk show host whom no one shows interest in. No matter how hard he tries, the audience just doesnt laugh. Then again, when the chief guest of your talk show is PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, things are bound to get awry. He almost gave Ravindra Jadeja a heartache when he claimed to reveal a few "secrets" about a few famous players.

Frankly the PCB has got it all wrong. They should re-instate Inzimam as captain, convince Sharad Pawar to give him a runner for life, and allow one-bounce catches for Kamran Akmal. Poor guy, he almost cried at the possibility of such an event.

statuary warn(e)ing

So Dean Jones (or as we like to call him, professor deano) is in legal (lol) trouble for his remark, while referring to his good mate Shane Warne's latest goof up.. and no I dont mean the one with Liz hurley.. I mean the one with RCA.. "people at RCA should lick his feet for the amount of effort he has put for Rajasthan in the IPL".. well, whats so wrong there.. lick, kiss, go bazooka on his feet, hands, wrists fingures.. really anything you can lay your hands on.. and no, I dont get aroused by fair men, its the sportsman in him that i admire : chirpy, canny, a stalwart, a master of the game, probably the greatest spinner on the face of the earth, a mentor to the young blood, what else do you need?

Besides, in a country where Ajmal kasab, a mass murder is awaiting his legal trial, Deano can have a beer(or forty), go to bahama's and maybe even start reading a book.. the court aint hearing prof!

so west indies huh.. mmmm pass

So the Ipl ends and west indies begins.. and our stars say to themselves.. we just won the world cup.. and we just earned ourselves millions of dollars while pretending to take ipl seriously.. what the heck would we do in west indies?? have seen enuf of booty dancin, calypso beats, maan this maan that.. nothin new there.. yawwnn am not gonna go..

enters gautam gambhir (who rely shud have been rested, as a reward for winning us the final with that brilliant knock of his).. and few lads, who have been tested in the past but dint exactly set the stage on fire.. lets see if they can do something this time around..