Ay! Ay! Captain!

It’s been an interesting and eventful year for Indian cricket. In march, the early exit from the World Cup, Then winning some tests and series for the first time, Winning the T20 World Championship without the “Big Three” under the leadership of the “aggressive” new captain MS Dhoni. Rahul Dravid quitting captaincy, Appointment of Dhoni as the ODI captain, dropping dravid from the ODI team, amongst other comparatively smaller issues.
Now the year seems to be coming to and end but the stories coming out of the cricket board just doesn’t seem to. The latest debate the “Test Capatincy”. Now that Sachin Tendulkar has declined to accept the “challenge”, the selectors are once again in the public eye. Whom do they pick? Dhoni? Ganguly? Kumble? Laxman?
Well one thing is for sure! It is going to be the talking point for a long time.
If I was to choose out of the lot I may choose either Dhoni or Laxman. Dhoni being appointed the captain doesn’t feel right at this point in time. Laxman may be a surprise because he himself isn’t a surety to be played in the playing eleven. Ganguly may hesistate to take up the challenge considering what has happened in the past and his record with the board and the selectors. The problem with Kumble is that the selectors may just over look him looking at the fact that at most he may playt for another year or so.

Cricket or Soap???

The recently concluded World T20 was no less than a corny Ekta Kapoor soap opera if you were an Indian supporter. The tournament started with rain washing away the first match against the Scottish thus making the Pakistan game a must win. They did and how! Again losing the first super 8 game to the Kiwi’s and then coming back to beat the English and the South Africans to meet the Oz in the semis and then beating them and setting up a dream finale with the arch rivals Pakistan and then winning it in the last over! (grabs breath) it wasn’t any less than a soap with heroes(men in blue), Heroines (cheerleaders), climax anti climax and also the villains (purists)

YES WE GET IT!

“Hutch is now Vodafone!” Yes we know! With so much bombardment of the same who wouldn’t notice the change. Well I am sorry but I can’t help but write about it. When Hutch first turned to Vodafone for some odd reason I was pretty excited. And when I saw the first ad my excitement grew. But for the last two days now it’s getting on my nerve. Vodafone here, Vodafone there, Vodafone everywhere. I wonder how much media space these people bought. Every second hoarding and TVC I see on is either the pug or the hutch boy and girl. I was watching the India- Australia match the other day and as soon as the Aussie batsman was dismissed, the earlier lovable now irritating dog appeared from nowhere. The length of the ad does not help at all.
PS: THE COMPANY HAS NOT PAID ME ANYTHING TO WRITE ABOUT THEM. BUT I AM OPEN TO DISCUSSION.