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BajKhedawal wrote: I though being a yahood she would know better! but bimbo's will be bimbos.
In the US, to get a seat in a top school, just grades are not enough. You have to do some volunteering and show that you want to change the world. :roll:
The same way in Hollywood, you need to show that you are giving back and one of the high profile and safe ways is to claim to help poor kids and wimmens in India. No backlash, no death-threats.
Lindsay Lohan also pretended to do this a decade ago when her image was trashed by drugs. I am sure their publicist arranges these photo ops.

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Watched final session. Ashwin and Vihari were superb and Ausies were back to their white paki mode. Once Paine realized the game was up he sledged Ashwin in a way only an Aussie can all caught live on the mic for the world to hear. He called him a him a dickhead and Wade aggressively charged Ashwin.Digusting aussie behavour back on display. NZ Herald (no lovers of Aussies) aptly titled their piece "Karma" due to Paine dropping Vihari right after that Ashwin over. Also not to miss Steve Smith actions as well. I hope India rub it in and rub it in deep to these downunder *ricks in the final test. Couldnt be prouder of Indian boys yesterday. This backbone is not incidental. Kohli and IPL have a lot to do with India bench and mental strength being so deep. Also check out Geoff Lemons piece in the Guardian.
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Looks like Ashwin was giving it right back to Paine's sledging. Something about Paine's next India tour being his last and all that.
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I watched the game whole night and it was a top notch test. Had Rishabh Pant not played that rash shot., we had a genuine chance to win this game. Pujara got out to a new ball (bowled with late movement of ball). Vihari played very very slow., I wish Jadeja should have gone ahead of Vihari but he was injured.

Anyhow., this is what test cricket is all about., Australia did everything from sledging to deleting the guard marks with help of their drunk spectators., we prevailed. We did it despite not having top batsman or top bowlers (due to injury). That is what is great about this team.

Now Bumhra is injured and out of last test., let's hope for the best.
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Suraj wrote:Spectacular performance from the Indian team battling to a hardfought draw in Sydney despite injuries and the repeated racist crowd abuse.
Even the BBC report of the match praised the Indian team for their fighting performance in the face of Aussie provocation. Paine's sledging of Ashwin, Smith's scuffing of Pant's guard marks and unnecessary short pitched bowling were all highlighted. The comments on the BBC website were almost all critical of the poor Aussie behaviour. Only one commentator (an Aussie) defended the Aussies by mentioning bodyline (almost 100 years ago) and Atherton having dirt in his pocket to scruff the ball.

I think the English commentators are mindful that the England will be touring Australia next and getting their retaliation in first.

Hope the injury hit Indian team manages to hammer the Aussies in Brisbane!
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There's no 'even the BBC' here really - it's an Anglo-Australian rivalry where both sides laud anyone who makes the other's life hard.

As for Australian behavior, they've simply revealed the whole makeover thing post sandpapergate to be a sham - make their lives hard enough and make it hard for them to win, and their mongrel attitude comes back. I don't particularly mind the sledging anymore mainly because our team is no longer affected by it. The crowds are another matter. They normalize it as something they do to everyone and claim that the Barmy Army are just as bad during Ashes.

But the reality is that that is their own standard. England and Australia are welcome to play the game to their own rules, both on pitch and in the stands. When India plays, we have the power to impose the terms that make our players comfortable. India doesn't face this kind of racist heckling in WI, NZ or SA, so there's no need to live with it in Australia. Further, we have the power to compel Cricket Australia to ensure this is done on our terms. There was a time when India tours were pain for western teams to handle, and they did so on their terms.

Today we impose the terms and we should be comfortable about doing so. One of the aspects of being a big power is being comfortable with the reality that our benefits may not be 'fair' and yet we're powerful enough to get things our way regardless.
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Suraj wrote:There's no 'even the BBC' here really - it's an Anglo-Australian rivalry where both sides laud anyone who makes the other's life hard.

As for Australian behavior, they've simply revealed the whole makeover thing post sandpapergate to be a sham - make their lives hard enough and make it hard for them to win, and their mongrel attitude comes back. I don't particularly mind the sledging anymore mainly because our team is no longer affected by it. The crowds are another matter. They normalize it as something they do to everyone and claim that the Barmy Army are just as bad during Ashes.

But the reality is that that is their own standard. England and Australia are welcome to play the game to their own rules, both on pitch and in the stands. When India plays, we have the power to impose the terms that make our players comfortable. India doesn't face this kind of racist heckling in WI, NZ or SA, so there's no need to live with it in Australia. Further, we have the power to compel Cricket Australia to ensure this is done on our terms. There was a time when India tours were pain for western teams to handle, and they did so on their terms.

Today we impose the terms and we should be comfortable about doing so. One of the aspects of being a big power is being comfortable with the reality that our benefits may not be 'fair' and yet we're powerful enough to get things our way regardless.
I said "even the BBC" as the BBC uses every opportunity to put India down. They usually back the Aussies as they are, after all, cousins.

I also mentioned the Aussie comment about bodyline and Atherton as that was part of the England /Oz rivalry and nothing to do with the current match, to show that the Aussie commentator had realised that their English supporters had turned on the Aussies.

Yes, India have the power in the cricket world. Maybe there should be a boycott of the worst Aussies such as Smith, Warner, and Paine in the IPL, though I don't think Paine would get into the IPL on merit. It always gives me pleasure to hear Afridi,Malik etc begging for Pakis to be allowed into the IPL.

I very occasionally attend Test matches in London and can recall one match (Eng/Aus) at Lords where a drunken Aussie spectator was shouting abuse at an England fielder near the boundary. But the discrimination in the UK is more subtle. Currently the ECB is being sued by two non white umpires, Holder and Dawood, who felt that they were deliberately not given charge of prominent matches such as Tests. Also there is a case against Yorkshire Cricket Club by a player of Pakistani origin who claims discrimination by team colleagues and staff. One of these claims is that all sub-continental players were called Steve as the white players could not be bothered to learn their names. Shane Warne (ex YCC) while commentating on the first IND/Aus Test, added fire to the flames by referring to Pujara (also ex-YCC), as Steve, thus confirming the complaint. In later matches Warne has used his correct name.
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IPL hits the pocket.
Sreesanth was banned for 7 years for spot fixing even as he was later acquitted iirc.
Smith has shown periodic cheating behaviour. BCCI and IPL can take cognisance of it and remove him.
Others will sober up.
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Aldonkar wrote:I said "even the BBC" as the BBC uses every opportunity to put India down. They usually back the Aussies as they are, after all, cousins.
Not in cricket. Everyone from Vaughan to Gough was criticizing the Aussie behavior. For them, the Ashes rivalry is paramount, which is fine. No point in taking their views seriously - they're simply piggybacking us to continue their family tiff.

I'm familiar with the English behavior. Aussies are lacking in the same kind of sophistication.

Bharat Sundaresan has a very good article on the topic on cricbuzz:
Siraj - the hero we need to be
tl;dr - don't respond to moments of racism with defensiveness ('what about our casteism' / whatever else), by ignoring it, or by trying to defuse it with humour and 'understanding'. Turn their system against them.

The Siraj incident has been portrayed in the Aussie media as that of a 'sensitive cricketer' not able to 'handle normal banter' . Some random people have been trotted out claiming 'nothing racist was said'. Who cares ? If they have a problem they can take it up with their own police who evicted nearly a dozen people over two days. Our aim is to use their system and their eagerness to virtue-signal, against themselves. Therefore we call out all incidents and force the crowd to act against each other, and the police to exaggeratedly respond if needed.

It suits us because when we play , we play on our terms. England and Australia can scream obscenities, f-words and more to their hearts content when they play each other, but when India plays either of them, the crowds will be made to behave in a manner that is aligned to the sensibilities of our players and not theirs, even when we tour them. Is it fair ? No, but I don't care. That is power.

As a pithy statement about the US foreign policy said - "America accounts for 4% of world population and uses 25% of its resources, and the aim of US foreign policy is to keep it that way". I may not remember the numbers exactly, but it doesn't matter - big power beyond a point is crass in this manner. Indian financial power in cricket benefits everyone far more so than the Anglos running the game ever did, but first and foremost it ensures we have the best possible circumstances for our cricketers to ply their craft in.
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Asian Champions Trophy hockey: India play Pakistan on March 13 - full schedule

he Indian hockey team will resume its international commitments next year with a clash against Japan in the Asian Champions Trophy opener in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The Manpreet Singh-led side has been out of action since playing the FIH Pro League tie against Australia in February. India will look at the continental event as a tune-up to the 2021 season that includes the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The match against Japan on March 11, the opening day of the event, will be followed by a clash against the hosts Bangladesh on the following day.

The highly-anticipated India vs Pakistan tie is scheduled for March 13, with the Graham Reid-coached team completing its league engagements with matches against Malaysia and South Korea on March 15 and 16, respectively.

The semi-finals are slated for March 18 while the Asian Champions Trophy final will be played on the following day.

Friday, March 12
India vs Bangladesh - 3:00 PM IST

Malaysia vs Pakistan - 5:30 PM IST

Japan vs Korea - 8:00 PM IST

Saturday, March 13
India vs Pakistan - 3:00 PM IST

Malaysia vs South Korea - 5:30 PM IST

Bangladesh vs Japan - 8:00 PM IST

Sunday, March 14
Rest Day

Monday, March 15
Malaysia vs India - 3:00 PM IST

South Korea vs Bangladesh - 5:30 PM IST

Pakistan vs Japan - 8:00 PM IST

Tuesday, March 16
India vs South Korea - 3:00 PM IST

Japan vs Malaysia - 5:30 PM IST

Pakistan vs Bangladesh - 8:00 PM IST

Wednesday, March 17
Rest Day

Thursday, March 18
Fifth/sixth place match - 3:00 PM IST

Semi-final 1 - 5:30 PM IST

Semi-final 2 - 8:00 PM IST

Friday, March 19
Third/fourth place match - 5:30 PM IST

Final - 8:00 PM IST
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We let them make 100 runs more than they should with dropped catches and tail wagging. Dropped catches will cost us the series. And we are a bowler short again. There must be something wrong with our training regimen. Yadav, Hanuma and now Saini, all muscle injuries. Bumrah too but he is way too overworked. He was bound to be injured.
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3 wickets lost to old ball for bad shots. In Aus, on a fairly benign pitch, losing your wicket to the old ball is a sin.
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Rohit Sharma never fails to disappoint me. Every time he plays well and looks well settled, he throws his wicket away. I noticed the same during WC also; he makes a good century but seems to have no motivation to go big, just enough to cement his place in the team.
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After all these years, one would think they would make batting gloves that would protect the fingers from the impact of the ball.
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One interesting observation a commentator made is that there has been much less reverse swing this series compared to last time. He opines it could be because of covid rules, saliva is not allowed to be applied to the ball and hence we are unable to reverse the ball. It is significantly affecting India more than the aussies because we are more adept at reverse swing.
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One must congratulate Sundar and Shardul for making a stand at the crease, their partnership ensured we have a fighting chance to get to a draw at minimum, while the Aussies will have to work much harder to force a result.
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There is rain forecast for the next two days. We had a chance to bat them out of the game until Shardul Thakur played an expansive shot. Both of them were quite comfortable and a century was there for the taking for both.
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India has three 2700+ elo chess players, but hardly one gets invited for big tournaments while many 2600+ players get invited. It was Anand for all these years, but now since Anand seems to be playing less, Hari Krishna or Vidit gets invited. Take Tata Steel chess. Aryan Tari from Norway who has a way less elo rating than Vidit gets to play but not Vidit. There are two players each from Russia, Netherlands, Norway and Poland but only one player from India.

Even our youngsters like Nihal Sarin and Pragnananda don't get as many opportunities as Ali Reza Firouzia got when he was their age.
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Seemed like the aussies bowled consistently short pitched at the body and our tail - Saini, Natarajan had no clue how to tackle this. Should India nit adopt similar tactics?
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Vivek K wrote:Seemed like the aussies bowled consistently short pitched at the body and our tail - Saini, Natarajan had no clue how to tackle this. Should India nit adopt similar tactics?
They do some times but our current bowlers in this test are not as fast as Bumrah, Shami and Yadav. Also I feel Yadav is reluctant to put in the effort to get the ball up to the batsmen's face. His short balls end up waist height offering a easy boundary. I think he is afraid of injuries. Their bowlers are faster and taller too, so more effective. And our 9, 10 and 11 were real bunnies. Their tail can bat a bit. In fact our 8 was pretty much a bunny too until this test.
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Natrajan can come up to 135 kmph, Siraj has a top speed rating of 148, Saini has a top speed rating of 152 and Shardul Thakur has recorded 145. So they have the speed.

9,10 and 11 were plain and simple scared of being hit. The only way to win this game is to use the same tactic on the Aussies.
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Short spells in ODIs, yes. To bowl at that speeds over a 5 day period needs fitness and practice. Also Saini was out with groin injury after bowling 7 overs.
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Vivek K wrote:Seemed like the aussies bowled consistently short pitched at the body and our tail - Saini, Natarajan had no clue how to tackle this. Should India nit adopt similar tactics?
You wanted it, you got it and not a tail ender but an opener.
Marcus Harris c Pant b Thakur.
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Yup! Great bowling! The Aussies only understand attack.
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India wins series in Australia.
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OMG! What a win!!!! What an incredible game! Bravo India!
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Australia were undefeated for 33 years at Gabba. And it was the young guys who won it for India with ample amounts of guidance from the seniors.
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This is the new India. It does not bend to the will of others, it makes others bend to it's will.

Savour this moment folks.

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WTF just happened? If we beat England 2-0 we qualify for the World Test Cricket finals in England. Icing on the cake, Starc and Hazelwood went the distance...on a 5th day pitch. A second string Indian bowling attack without its best batsmen beat a full strength Australian team. Wow. Unbelievable.
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Looks like all the push came from Rishab Pant after the fall of 4th wicket and later Washington Sundar. Of course, initially Shubman Gill set up the game nicely. Gill has as much time if not more than Kohli to play his shots. Pant comes a close second.

Next time we should send India A team to Australia to give them a chance.
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what just happened! unbelievable!! i was more stunned by ashwin's local tamil interview of nattu - we have come very far from our elitist ways and the results show in our bench strength - way to go India !!
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^^^Sir in all the Euphoria(so it should be) we seem to be forgetting one important thing here.
Ajinkye Rahane!!
He has gone about leading injured, bruised, depleted, home-sick, racially abused team in a remarkable way!!
Even Ravi S seems to have taken a back seat here after the first test debacle with Virat and him at the helm of affairs.
My two-paisa in-put: India should split the captaincy meaning ; One-dayers and T20 Virat with KL Rahul as his deputy. Tests: Rahane with Pujara as his deputy.
Rahane seems to have calming effect on the dressing room and players (regardless of junior or senior feel assured of the place with some healthy competing rather than threatened a la Kohli way!!)
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Rsatchi wrote:^^^Sir in all the Euphoria(so it should be) we seem to be forgetting one important thing here.
Ajinkye Rahane!!
He has gone about leading injured, bruised, depleted, home-sick, racially abused team in a remarkable way!!
Even Ravi S seems to have taken a back seat here after the first test debacle with Virat and him at the helm of affairs.
My two-paisa in-put: India should split the captaincy meaning ; One-dayers and T20 Virat with KL Rahul as his deputy. Tests: Rahane with Pujara as his deputy.
Rahane seems to have calming effect on the dressing room and players (regardless of junior or senior feel assured of the place with some healthy competing rather than threatened a la Kohli way!!)
He was unfazed even when we were on the verge of winning. No overt celebrations. I think he can fill the role of calmness in tense situations that dhoni used to fill as a captain.
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from a whatsapp forward

Bend it like Beckham
End it like Dhoni
Chase it like Sachin
Bark it like Kejriwal
Suck it like Rajdeep
Bray it like Mayawati
Fake it like NDTV
Lie it like Rahul Gandhi

Win it like Modi
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hanumadu wrote:India has three 2700+ elo chess players, but hardly one gets invited for big tournaments while many 2600+ players get invited. It was Anand for all these years, but now since Anand seems to be playing less, Hari Krishna or Vidit gets invited. Take Tata Steel chess. Aryan Tari from Norway who has a way less elo rating than Vidit gets to play but not Vidit. There are two players each from Russia, Netherlands, Norway and Poland but only one player from India.

Even our youngsters like Nihal Sarin and Pragnananda don't get as many opportunities as Ali Reza Firouzia got when he was their age.
We our self do not respect our chess players. 5 time world champion Vishy is the greatest living sports person today. Historically one second to Dhyan Chand. He is also considered many in the Chess World as a great sportsman and highly respected due to his exceptionally good conduct. But he was not given Bharat Ratna and almost no one in Bharat MSM even wrote or writes anything about him. Whereas we all go gaga on Tendulkar and gave him Bharata Rathan at the age of what? less than 40?. We even changed the rules to give him that. He was the first and Dhyan Chand 2rd one after GoI faced serious backlash. Imagine making Dhayan Chand 2rd in Indian sports History. In the meanwhile what is the % of tests we have won in all the tests he has played? How many world cups in one day cricket? In a team sport we elevate Individuals even when their presence does not result in teams win.

Sorry I know I am raining on the party of many here. But we need to be critical of what we are. Rememeber win is due to not the "regular" players of Indian but the juniors who are there as the so called main players got injured. We need to examine that very seriously.
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Phenomenal self belief and team spirit by Team India under silent killer leadership of Rahane ! Well done boys for an unforgettable series & win !!!
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What a wonderful series - beating a full strength Australia at Fortress Gabba with a B team full of debutants. Australia will fear Indian teams for a generation after this.

Robert Craddock had an interesting article after the Sydney test . He wrote that in the past he would describe Indian teams as pleasing to watch and talented, but that they never engendered real fear . Australia at home are always expected to win regardless of opponent. This team he says isn’t noteworthy for talent as much as the fear they engender, because he can see a mental toughness he never saw before.

He explains that with this team, the siege mentality Australia set up does not work. Sledging does not work. All the tools that usually help Australia have an upper hand before the first ball, do not work . When that happens, it is Australia who have to play the team for itself, and in that situation they lose because that’s what happens to bullies whose weapons are gone.
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India v Australia 4th Test result: India’s greatest victory sealed in perfect style
The day when Fortress Gabba was stormed by a group of cavalier raiders who kicked down the draw bridge, stole the crown jewels and raced off into the late afternoon sunshine towards hysterical fans who will cherish the memory forever. :twisted:
When all the world thought India was terrified about visiting Fortress Gabba they hatched a cunning plan … to storm it.
Taking the Border-Gavaskar Trophy home with a draw was not enough. They wanted to pull Australia’s pants down on their cherished sacred turf :mrgreen: where no team had won since Viv Richards’ West Indians in 1988.
The Gabba became a microcosm of all of India, dissolving into pure madness as the winning runs came with a Pant off drive that triggered a mass evacuation of the Indian dugout as several numb Australian players fell to their knees. :((
This series has change the balance of power of world cricket. Australia are no longer the bully boys of the game. They have been stared down by the implacable, unruffled forces of an Indian team
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