Posts tagged "world cup 2011"
Hey, this match is just a 303, not AK-47!

Hey, this match is just a 303, not AK-47!

Thank God we don’t have 47 days in months that go by the name AK or something as sinister as that acronym. Today (the day for the WC 2011 semi-finals between India and Pakistan) is just 30 March which can also be written as 303. So why is the media whipping up mass hysteria for...
The cricket of social restlessness

The cricket of social restlessness

[This poem is dedicated to the India vs South Africa match in the Cricket World Cup 2011 in Nagpur on 12 March] The first ball of the last over Caught the inner edge of the bat Went swiftly past the stumps Tripped the wicket-keeper And crossed the boundary line… And I knew that Tonight would...

World Cup has truly arrived!

Who made this tie become real? Strauss? Piyush Chawla? Munaf Patel? Zaheer Khan? Sachin? The crowds at Chinnaswamy? Or was it a tweet by Shane Warne that gathered all the forces of the universe to conjure up a tie? Almost everyone all over the cricketing world starting conjecturing… and letting us all know through their...