Good to see that our team is performing so good so far. Kudos to all the members of the team.
Brain Vs Brawn - In our last 3 wins in the NJSBCL, noticed one curious thing. Most of us are impatient and can't wait to hit sixes and fours i.e. use our Brawn. As we learnt in the last season, Green ball do not travel that far. Should start using our Brain more and rotate the strike, if the ball is not in the slot to hit. The fielders are not from IPL and are bound to make mistakes, if we push them hard. All we need is good communication between the batsmen. Bad balls will come automatically, which can be thrashed for boundaries. But while waiting for bad balls, do not get bogged down and play dot balls. Rotating the strike is key here. Just my 2 cents. To prove my point, adding an article written by S Rajesh in Cricinfo on who is the leading international player, who plays less dot balls, etc and how it is helping their team.
VVV - Vastu Varun's Voodoo - Found out during our match against Maha CC, Varun doing some voodoo magic. In the middle of his spell, he placed his cigarette lighter below the off-side wide cone. After that, all the balls he bowled almost went so close to that cone, that the batsman started struggling to score and finally ended up loosing the match. Even one of his loose ball, which the batsman tried to hoick over deep mid-wicket, took the edge and went to the off-side cover fielder for a catch. Can we assume that whatever he placed under the cone, had some magnetic (voodoo) power to pull the ball towards it ??? Will Varun replace Vastu Venkatesan as the Uber Captain of Chennai Super Kings, next year. Only time will tell.
Btw, I am a CSK fan internally, but I was hedging myself by saying that they will loose. If they win, I have nothing to loose. Btw, we won this year not purely due to merit, but because of some graciousness from DD, RCB and RR, who lost the matches they are supposed to win. May be some vastu voodoo here, from the Uber Captain.
Brain Vs Brawn - In our last 3 wins in the NJSBCL, noticed one curious thing. Most of us are impatient and can't wait to hit sixes and fours i.e. use our Brawn. As we learnt in the last season, Green ball do not travel that far. Should start using our Brain more and rotate the strike, if the ball is not in the slot to hit. The fielders are not from IPL and are bound to make mistakes, if we push them hard. All we need is good communication between the batsmen. Bad balls will come automatically, which can be thrashed for boundaries. But while waiting for bad balls, do not get bogged down and play dot balls. Rotating the strike is key here. Just my 2 cents. To prove my point, adding an article written by S Rajesh in Cricinfo on who is the leading international player, who plays less dot balls, etc and how it is helping their team.
VVV - Vastu Varun's Voodoo - Found out during our match against Maha CC, Varun doing some voodoo magic. In the middle of his spell, he placed his cigarette lighter below the off-side wide cone. After that, all the balls he bowled almost went so close to that cone, that the batsman started struggling to score and finally ended up loosing the match. Even one of his loose ball, which the batsman tried to hoick over deep mid-wicket, took the edge and went to the off-side cover fielder for a catch. Can we assume that whatever he placed under the cone, had some magnetic (voodoo) power to pull the ball towards it ??? Will Varun replace Vastu Venkatesan as the Uber Captain of Chennai Super Kings, next year. Only time will tell.
Btw, I am a CSK fan internally, but I was hedging myself by saying that they will loose. If they win, I have nothing to loose. Btw, we won this year not purely due to merit, but because of some graciousness from DD, RCB and RR, who lost the matches they are supposed to win. May be some vastu voodoo here, from the Uber Captain.
1) If I am VVV then the author is sure NN - Nambungal Narayanan (manthreegam man - Ram you had a contribution in Satish's second wicket in our 2nd match).
ReplyDelete2) Gambhir today outscored Rohit Sharma in the number of mishits. Gambhir is some real talent to pull Tait closing his eyes. Rohit Sharma is completely to be blamed for today's loss having a very poor strike rate of 150+ and he should have scored the remaining 49 as well. Gambhir cannot be blamed as he promised the team he would score heavily against Lanka and New Zealand prior to this match.
Rohit sharma innikku setha pamba adichan. By the time he started scoring, Aussies knew they are going to win and took it easy. itha mindla vechhukiraen. adhutha match-la pappom.
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