6/20/10

SWEET REVENGE


24 yrs ago............in sharja.......india vs pakistan....finals.....one ball six runs to win...javed miandad on strike.....chetan sharma to bowl........and javed miandad does the impossible by hitting the ball over the ropes.....india bite the dust.............


now on the 20th of june 2010.....india vs paksitan........in dambulla, sri lanka.........the ASIA cup........2 balls 3 run to win......harbhajan singh on strike...............mohammed aamir to bowl.........harbhajan singh moves acros and powers the ball over the mid wicket fence in style...........india win and qualify for the finals..........wat a game...........




gautam ganbhir had said that ind-pak matches were decided by nerves and this one proved to be just that......

pakistan had won the toss and had decided to bat...........salmn butt contd his gr8 form against india and scored a good 74 of 85 before being run out........the skipper shahid afridi too got off to a gr8 start by scoring 32 of just 25 but was castled leg before by a slower one from praveen kumar........pakistan managed a respectable and well abv par score of 267 thanks to the quick fire half century by the keeper batsman kamran akmal who made 51 of 41 with 2 4s and 3 6s......

for india praven kumar picked up 3 and harbhajan and zaheer picked up 2 a piece..........


the indian started off slowly as they wanted to hav wickets in hand for the later part .......viru was slow and to add to the miseries of the indian fans viru pulled a hamstring and was eventually dismissed for 10 run off 32.....india were 82 for 2 in the 18th over with virat too bac in the pavillion.......then came in the indian skipper and built a partnership of 98 in 18 overs with gautam which laid the foundation...... gambhir made a good 83 before losing his cool in a verbal exchange with kamran akmal and eventually was bowled by ajmal......dhoni too fell after scoring 56........



with the game going to the wire........suresh raina played a brisk inning of 34 of 27(2 fours and 2 sixes) and india took the powerpaly in the 45th over...........with one over to spare and the powerplay lifted....... 7 runs were req off the last over and 4 wichets remaining ...............earlier in the 48th over bhaji too got into verbal duel ith shoaib akhtar..........


the last over was to to be bowled by aamir....raina on strike and he picks up a single of the first ball..........the second ball was slightly short nd bhaji couldnt get bat to ball and eventully tried to sneak a run......as a result of which raina was found short of his crease and had to return to the pavillion run out.................


4 balls remining and 6 run to get..... walks in praveen kumar.........he steers the ball to third man where shoaib akhtar fumbles which allows the indians to take the second.......praveen then gets off strike the next ball and with 2 balls remaining 3 runs to get bhaji was on strike.......bhaji moves across and belts the ball over the mid wicket fence for a six ....and rest as they say was history............the celebration that followed was even more unbelievable.............

after 24 yrs the nightmares of the 1986 sharja final was washed off and the score settled for good..............................wat a game of cricket.....

6/19/10

FIFA - DISAPPOINTMENT


FIFA world cup 2010...........all the hype created by the people and media ...............the wavin flag song by knaan.....followed by the waka waka by none other than shakira.......and everyone will be thiking this is all the WC requires but is it enough?????????????????????


the majority of the fav hav not performed to even 50% of their potential.............

starting with Brazil........winning 2-1 and taking awya maximum points would indeed please dunga but to win the WC a lot more has to be put in...................with ivory coast and and Portugal taking a point each from their game against each other the game between Brazil and the these two teams becomes vital...............


perhaps the biggest upset in the tournament so far.........swiss beating the Spanish 1-0......after the Spanish dominating perhaps 75-80% of the match it was a hard result............if spain finish second and brazil finish first in their respective grps then they will face off in the round of sixteen..........it would indeed be interesting....wouldnt it


perhaps the strongest team on paper along with Spain are none other than England.........after two games they hav not managed to win even one............. with two points and only one match remaining it is very unlikely that they go through...........unless they beat slovenia in their last game.......


Netherlands were supposed to sweep of their opponents in their first game........even thoiug they won the game 2-0 they failed to impress and were far from their best......they really ned to pull up their socks as well...........


germany...........well wat can i say abt this team..........from beating australia 4-0 to losing to serbia 1-0........it will be interesting to see how they perform without their star striker klose who was sent off in the game against serbia.....but still germany are topping their grp...........


next come the reigning world champions italy...............they hav played only one game where they drew with paraguay ............they would want to win both of their remaining games to go into the knock out stages ith good momentum............


the runner up of the previous world cup,..... france....... face the scare of becoming the first team to go out of the world cup................they have played two games.........drawn one and lost the other............they not only need to win against south africa with a big margin(atleast 3-4 goals without conceeding any)...........but also hope that the match between mexico and urugay does not end in a draw and also hope that the margin of defeat of any team is as much as possible...............as france can enter the knockout stages only on goal difference..........


with almost all of the top teams not doing well consistently....there is one team which has lived upto its expectation..........its none other than the south american giants ARGENTINA......... with the likes of messi,higuain and others......they are the only teams that has lived upto the expectations..................
.......maybe it is because of the highly contraversial coach none other than former arg player DIEGO MARADONA...........they hav played two matches and won both (1-0 against nigeria and 4-1 against south korea...)...........they are perhaps the fav to win the world cup now..........

thus the tournament has seen its fair share of upsets already.............. whether this is just the begining or whether the teams will perform better under pressure......... only time can tell..........



commenst are welcomed whole heartedly......

yours lovingly


susa.....:)








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6/2/10

Linux utility for Windows

Here comes a free Linux utility which runs TERMINAL in Windows Operating system .
Some of the commands will not be working.
TO DOWNLOAD PRESS THE FOLLOWING LINK:
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