Warriors give way to risers
Let me begin this post with two really cheeky tweets that I read this evening after the Pune Warriors India vs Sunrisers Hyderabad match. Stupid Common Man @D_Evil_Inside tweets: ‘Agar daag (Steyn) se kisi ka achha hota hai, to daag achhe hain. #IPL #SRHvsPWI’ and Abhishek Chauhan @imabhishek268, who tweeted: ‘Haar kar Jeetne waale ko...
We want CSK to be HOT!
Yellow. Golden yellow. Turmeric. The favourite of the Gods! Mangal. Pure talent… What am I talking about? Some mumbo-jumbo about colour therapy? No. I am talking about the colour that is associated with CSK… well, not just CSK, but also with Chennai as a city. Chennai, CSK, and this wonderfully sublime colour connect to give...
Twenty-twenty in a tweet post
The first match of IPL 2013 on the 3rd of April deserves more than the conventional format of a post. This game of twenty-Twenty in cricket is getting more and more unthinkable as the years go by. The innings scores are getting higher, field placements are getting strategic, new rules crop up every once in a while,...
I can play a bit of cricket
To be frank, the only thing worth remembering from the IPL 2013 inauguration was Dhoni telling us all from Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata: ‘I can play a bit of cricket.’ Just seven words that encompass a lot of humility… the rest of the inauguration was a pompous mess! So let’s talk about this pompous...
‘Dil jumping zapaak’ days are back!
If Farah says that it is ‘dil jumping zapaak’ that happens every time there is a catch or every time a batsman hits a six or even gets out during the IPL matches, so be it. Which simply means that it is ‘dil jumping zapaak’ days that are back and will go on to stay...
