The Cricket World Cup Thread

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 28 Mar 2011 08:35

ajit_tr wrote:It says how Pakistan bowlers are using black marble stone to practice pin pointed bodyline bowling coz mohali pitch is as smooth as marble where ball after pitching comes very fast on to body.

In fact, the black marble is being used to practice against fast in coming deliveries from Zaheer Khan and perhaps Nehra too. It was first implemented by that street rag Javed Miandad when he was the coach.

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 28 Mar 2011 08:42

Marten wrote:Mohali is full of uber-Jingos. Watch for the Khalsa slogans and for Ganpati Bappa Morya (there is a contingent from Mumbai that has promised to raise the tempo).

Bhairav< I hope you're there for the match.

Nope, no tickets. Large bunch of friends coming over from Dally though, will be meeting them tomorrow night for dinner.
Will be screaming Ganeshji's name all through though, and waiting for an India-whoever final on Saturday

Nachiket - spot on! Heck, even during the NZ-Canada match, people were screaming the "Wankhede mein aaya bhoot, ..." cusses nice and loud

kittoo · Post by **kittoo** » 28 Mar 2011 09:00

SaiK wrote:
arunsrinivasan wrote:I think Sreesanth would be a better option to Munaf.
sure, but that damn fker would not correct his behaviors at all.. I have to agree with many that he is good bowler, but who has the time to keep on giving him thappads?

LOL I laugh so hard on the 'Bleed Blue' ad of Team India in which he says- 'Give your best behavior to every batsman' and then gives uber sarcastic smile, while his teeth scintillates. LOL.

niran · Post by **niran** » 28 Mar 2011 09:17

Folks remember 2003
this time around there is no Ws there is onlee spent force Chutkermatak chucker
and whathisname isobgul while the batting line up of TI is better than year 2003
we will lift the cup, stop shivering enjoy

Chinmayanand · Post by **Chinmayanand** » 28 Mar 2011 09:38

Dilbullah , when is the auspicious time for dhoti-shiver ?

ajit_tr · Post by **ajit_tr** » 28 Mar 2011 09:42

kittoo wrote:LOL I laugh so hard on the 'Bleed Blue' ad of Team India in which he says- 'Give your best behavior to every batsman' and then gives uber sarcastic smile, while his teeth scintillates. LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDoDQo_T1c

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 28 Mar 2011 09:43

Chinmayanand wrote:Dilbullah , when is the auspicious time for dhoti-shiver ?

Within 24 hours from the start of the match.

sum · Post by **sum** » 28 Mar 2011 10:05

Tait retires from ODI's to prolong T20 career
SDREs again cause the "Wild one" to retire!!!

Chinmayanand · Post by **Chinmayanand** » 28 Mar 2011 10:09

IAF on call at Fortress Mohali for India-Pak World Cup semifinal

Do these behanch*ds from pakistan need so much security or all is done for the Indian VVVIPs ?

partha · Post by **partha** » 28 Mar 2011 10:15

ajit_tr wrote:
kittoo wrote:LOL I laugh so hard on the 'Bleed Blue' ad of Team India in which he says- 'Give your best behavior to every batsman' and then gives uber sarcastic smile, while his teeth scintillates. LOL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDoDQo_T1c

It is good. Why rofl?

ajit_tr · Post by **ajit_tr** » 28 Mar 2011 10:27

Chinmayanand wrote:IAF on call at Fortress Mohali for India-Pak World Cup semifinal

Do these behanch*ds from pakistan need so much security or all is done for the Indian VVVIPs ?

Mainly coz of the presence of indian pm at the venue.

ajit_tr · Post by **ajit_tr** » 28 Mar 2011 10:30

partha wrote:
It is good. Why rofl?

rofl coz of sreeshant's smile which kittoo pointed out.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 28 Mar 2011 10:58

negi wrote:I hope that a small meteorite falls on the Mohali pitch a day before the match and MMS and Geelani can then grope and fondle each other for eternity.

It would be best if Pakis show shabby performance in front of thier PM, that would bring out the Pakiness from thier supporters and Aman Ki Asha will get a kick in thier Musharaf.

Why the F*** are our Media not Overhyphing pakis, ensuring UZbek women, Large quantities of Liquor and 10KG of Kebabs are not given to the Paki team per day.

Let Pakis celeberate before the match, if needed we can celeberate after the match.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 28 Mar 2011 10:59

SaiK wrote:
arunsrinivasan wrote:I think Sreesanth would be a better option to Munaf.
sure, but that damn fker would not correct his behaviors at all.. I have to agree with many that he is good bowler, but who has the time to keep on giving him thappads?

What about Afridi, Umar Gul, Shaun Tait, Kamran Akmal & co. They have been far worse than Sreesanth in behaviour, why only SDRE's have to behave good.

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 28 Mar 2011 11:13

partha · Post by **partha** » 28 Mar 2011 12:09

http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/conte ... 08331.html

India races to get Nehra, Munaf unfit in time for semi-final
Anand Ramachandran
March 28, 2011

With only days to go before their high-pressure semi-final game against Pakistan in Mohali, team India is desperately battling to get seamers Ashish Nehra and Munaf Patel unfit in time.

"Yes, the lack of injuries to Ashish and Munaf is a major concern," said skipper MS Dhoni to bewildered reporters at a press conference. "We're doing our best to get at least one of them out of action, ideally both, to maximise our chances of victory against Pakistan on Wednesday."

Explaining further, Dhoni said "If we can successfully injure one of our seamers other than Zaheer, we can bring in Praveen Kumar as an emergency replacement. Surely you'll agree that it's our best bet now.

"They're both thorough professionals, fully committed to the team's cause. In fact, even as we speak, they're both working extra hard with the physio to make sure that they get completely unfit as soon as possible, so we can start the paperwork to bring Praveen in. All it takes is a lovely strained groin, or a delightful pulled hamstring, or perhaps even an epic cracked rib, and Navjot's your uncle. Replacement player!" chirped the Indian captain, adroitly using adjectives to describe things they've possibly never been used to describe before.

When a journalist pointed out that a similar strategy could be implemented for Piyush Chawla as well, Dhoni replied, "I only said that Piyush isn't mentally strong. Physically, he's right up there. In fact, you could call him the R Ashwin of physical toughness. In fact, I just did."

Team coach Gary Kirsten has been requested by the BCCI to put a proper injury coach and unfitness trainer in place before he leaves at the end of the World Cup.

"You have to agree that, fairly often, international cricket teams are faced with situations where they'd be happier if one or more of their selected squad members weren't available to play," said Kirsten. "As a professional unit, you have to be prepared to make sure that you're not stuck with a fully fit squad at the wrong time - such as in this very World Cup. Look at the way Australia and England handled it with Hussey and Morgan coming in. That's the kind of level we need to be at."

amdavadi · Post by **amdavadi** » 28 Mar 2011 12:15

gali gali mei shor hei, paakistan madar C&#d hei

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 28 Mar 2011 13:36

Pakis will be in full support on semifinal, official holiday declared by pak govt

Vril · Post by **Vril** » 28 Mar 2011 13:44

#1. The Pakistan government is likely to declare a public holiday for the Pakistan-India World Cup semi-final on Wednesday.

#2. Ind vs Pak match package available with flight and match tickets with best view, 5 star stay. 2 nights and 3 days package @ Rs 25000 only.

log on to wwww.sapno-me-khoja-l**da-pakad-ke-soja.com.

hurry.

Sri · Post by **Sri** » 28 Mar 2011 13:53

Even if Indian Gov declares holiday, who will explain lack of productivity to my American clients .... ?

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 28 Mar 2011 13:54

Tell them there was a war

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 28 Mar 2011 14:07

My colleagues are already whining to their customers in Massa regarding evening calls and missing on the greatest piece of action.
Couple of them compared it to SuperBowl for better understanding

and lo suddenly most of the calls are postponed on D-day.
Well truth be told, some of the customers are desi log who themselves want to be watching the match from haram channels in office.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 28 Mar 2011 14:28

my prediction - NZ is going to rout SL tomorrow.

niran · Post by **niran** » 28 Mar 2011 14:46

folks i hear there is a new Oracle in Town, this time original Desi
known as " Shyama Chidiya" it has predicted correctly all QF winners
and has predicted TI will beat Poak. AoA

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 28 Mar 2011 15:13

^Saar, link for the same?

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 28 Mar 2011 15:34

isn't shyama chidiya = parrot ?

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 28 Mar 2011 16:31

Was sitting in office during lunch break and discussing the semi final match with my paki colleagues. All are shit scared of Viru, SRT & Zak. Wanted to tell them about the wankhede chant but then the poor souls are already shivering in their shalwars so I did not.

India will lose onlee.

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 28 Mar 2011 17:09

Aditya_V->arunsrinivasan wrote:I think Sreesanth would be a better option to Munaf.

sure, but that damn fker would not correct his behaviors at all.. I have to agree with many that he is good bowler, but who has the time to keep on giving him thappads?

What about Afridi, Umar Gul, Shaun Tait, Kamran Akmal & co. They have been far worse than Sreesanth in behaviour, why only SDRE's have to behave good.

quoting in full here.. it is just because he is an YesDRE that prevents him doing such things. But, don't you think he over does it? I recently read what really Dhoni said about him and changed my mind. He was particularly unhappy with him not because of his aggression that is required, but he shows that on wrong objects and subjects, especially on his own team members.

btw, here is one that supports the aggression theory.

"I like the aggression of the team, particularly in the field," Wright said
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket ... 08369.html

So, the week point his bad aggression. Now, if dhoni is willing to accept it, then we can save some 25 to 50 runs from fielding as well.

Every one would agree with BS Bedi here:-
http://www.resultupdate.com/8491-sreesa ... ehra-bedi/

But, perhaps Dhoni may not.

ManjaM · Post by **ManjaM** » 28 Mar 2011 17:18

Aiyoo, got some on training on wednesday morning. Can't take off or come late. Dhoti shivering and all to be done in training class. Oh, and, india will lose onlee.

Dilbu · Post by **Dilbu** » 28 Mar 2011 17:25

Sri · Post by **Sri** » 28 Mar 2011 18:22

This is Serious guys no Match fixing this time, Minister himself will be watching

bart · Post by **bart** » 28 Mar 2011 18:49

Sri wrote:This is Serious guys no Match fixing this time, Minister himself will be watching

Malik said that though he was "sure the team has very clean members", intelligence is being gathered on the Pakistani cricketers,

A Freudian slip in reference to Shoaib's episode of genital warts?

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 28 Mar 2011 19:21

Admins, this thread has gone to 115, can we have a new thread considering the optium time before the Indo-Pak match when we can a zillion posts?

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 28 Mar 2011 19:21

WTF are these guys smoking??

Chinmayanand · Post by **Chinmayanand** » 28 Mar 2011 19:45

Aditya_V wrote:Admins, this thread has gone to 115, can we have a new thread considering the optium time before the Indo-Pak match when we can a zillion posts?

Let this thread continue till the end of WC. What goes of your khusboo if it continues , hainji ?

archan · Post by **archan** » 28 Mar 2011 19:53

Dmurphy wrote:WTF are these guys smoking??

Your link points to a facebook page which wants a person to become some Arun Kumar Singh's friend. What? if this is intentional, I certainly do not appreciate it.
Users should desist from posting such blind links.

bart · Post by **bart** » 28 Mar 2011 19:59

archan wrote:
Dmurphy wrote:WTF are these guys smoking??
Your link points to a facebook page which wants a person to become some Arun Kumar Singh's friend. What? if this is intentional, I certainly do not appreciate it.
Users should desist from posting such blind links.

The link is fine, it opens to a group called "Indians who want Pakistan to win the Mohali semi-final and vice-versa".

I guess the BR jinx-masters fall in that category, in a sense.

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 28 Mar 2011 20:19

archan wrote:
Dmurphy wrote:WTF are these guys smoking??
Your link points to a facebook page which wants a person to become some Arun Kumar Singh's friend. What? if this is intentional, I certainly do not appreciate it.
Users should desist from posting such blind links.

Perhaps you need to be signed into facebook to see it. Barts getting the correct website. And you should perhaps befriend that Arun Kumar Singh

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 28 Mar 2011 20:20

Oye pithne wala hoon!!

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 28 Mar 2011 20:21

Sent an email taking wednesday as comp off for the MLK day that I worked.

No problems at the oppice.

Problem at home.

"Soooooo....you did not take comp off for spending time with us...but you are taking it for watching cricket."