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eeds to lose they have a stupid name dumb outfits and an owner who is one of the most painfully idiotic and narcissistic men in existence so viva le champions league i approve if there was a decent test on right now you can be sure as hell that would be on my tv instead but this will do in its place a little schadenfreude is good for the soul bring it on rate this champions league chris martin ipl lou vincent marcus trescothick leave a comment the farnsworth post posted by reigna in india random on 25 09 2011 after the last post on my feelings regarding the death of the late mansur ali khan pataudi these were the top searches that led newcomers to the blog mansur ali khan pataudi wealth mansoor ali khan pataudi wealth tiger pataudi wealth mansur pataudi money pataudi how much money mansur ali khan pataudi monetary wealth what is written in mansour ali khan pataudi will mansur ali khan pataudi death videos mansur ali khan body mansur ali khan death photo update how much wealth having nawab mansoorali khan patodi sic pataudi wealth pataudi moneys patody wealth pataudi s wealth seriously seriously screw every last one of you that is all rate this idiocy mansur ali khan pataudi wtf 1 comment memoriam posted by reigna in india on 23 09 2011 the last nawab of the former princely state of pataudi former captain of india died today in a delhi hospital i didn t see it coming apparently very few people did his death was a result of a lung condition that had plagued him for some time but if you hadn t been reading about it over the last few days you wouldn t have guessed he was unwell he was at there at oval at the end of the 4th and final test to present the conquering england team with the trophy that bears his family s name a tribute both to him and his father the senior nawab iftikhar ali khan pataudi apparently in perfect health his profound disappointment at india s 4 0 series loss was tangible then but it didn t affect his poise mansur ali khan pataudi was born a prince and class practically dripped from his pores it was always that way i never saw him play not properly he was 70 years old at his death and he had been made captain of india at the age of 21 flickering grainy black and white clips of video footage and the reverent words of others are all most of us have as proof of his sublime ability with a cricket bat a slight bare headed figure stepping out and swinging or slouched with languorous elegance in the field neither the photos that captured his easy slightly dreamy smile nor the footage that recorded his prowess as a batsman give away his sightless right eye sunil gavaskar is in my humble opinion an arrogant blowhard far too fond of the sound of his own voice but i will nevertheless use his analogy here to explain the scale of pataudi s accomplishment after the accident that took away his eye forget facing down a fast bowler try walking around with an eyepatch for just one day and see if you re able to light a candle mansur ali khan pataudi was among the last of the indian royals to hold a title and among the first to inform a diverse collection of young men hailing from all parts of india and all levels of wealth or lack thereof that they were all equals himself included many people more suited to the task than i have written and will write more on the many ways he changed the game the many strokes of genius and faith and inspiration that have made him legend four spinners playing to win attacking forthrightness i hope they do the more the better their words and his as when he spoke out boldly in lone opposition to the ipl governing council of which he himself was a part are now all we have left my mother is not an avid cricket watcher she tolerates her husband and youngest daughter s fixation with it but knows little about the game and cares only out of an instinctive sense of nationalistic pride that india do well when they play the death of mansur ali khan pataudi however has shaken her deeply she tells me now of days spent as a young woman at the bangalore cricket ground with friends and cousins ooh ing and aah ing over the dashing nawab how they would watch the cricket because of him because of the new feeling he had brought to a sport that had seemed flat and boring to them she is a practical woman not prone to sentimentality but her eyes light up now reliving the frisson of many years ago at the memory of arguing with a cousin over whether the figure in the box five metres ahead of them was really him only to have the dispute silenced as the man himself turned his head for a brief wide smile i never saw mansur ali khan pataudi play but i didn t need to for his death to weigh on me it is impossible to express how deeply he will be missed rest in peace tiger rate this mansur ali khan pataudi memoriam leave a comment does not compute posted by reigna in new zealand pakistan on 10 03 2011 some days when i m feeling particularly masochistic i try and imagine what it must be like to be a pakistan cricket fan of all the brutal frustrating agonizing heartbreaking apoplexy inducing existences a sports fan could lead that must at least rank in the top five from stds to fixes factionalism to nepotism idiocy to instability and the shit icing on the cake of festering crap the continued presence of ijaz butt pakistan cricket has not merely hit bottom repeatedly it s scraped bottom with a spatula and then broken its fingers trying to claw even further down through the bedrock with its bare hands watching pakistan play as a neutral supporter carries with it certain guarantees not many obviously after all calling the pakistan team inconsistent is somewhat akin to calling george bush a bit dim but there are a few umar gul will send down some perfectly pitched yorkers misbah will bat as though caught in the glacial timescape of a salvador dali painting shahid afridi will bellow and gesticulate like a deranged orchestra conductor then do his messiah impersonation when he gets a wicket kamran akmal will fill silences with high pitched yodelling shrieks reminiscent of a boy soprano attempting to summon sheep from high mountaintops he will also drop catches and miss stumpings lots of them the incredible thing about kamran akmal s keeping and indeed pakistan s fielding in general is that you expect it to be terrible you always know what you re likely to see but it s still capable of astounding i know i m going to see kamran akmal fumble a take ok who am i kidding many many takes that a paraplegic chimp could have nailed with ease but every time i see him do it i throw up my hands and yell are you fucking kidding me or some variation thereof at the tv screen the incredulity is fresh every time after a point it becomes surreal i ll be as blunt as possible i do not for the life of me understand how it is possible to be as shit at keeping as kamran akmal is ok wait that s not entirely accurate i m probably a far worse keeper than he is same for my 81 year old grandmother here s the thing though i am not keeping for my national side at the highest level so i guess it s not so much akmal s breathtaking ineptitude that baffles me it s more the fact that he continues to be able to display it every time pakistan plays if your keeper s performance is so consistently shithouse that spot fixing is the less embarrassing explanation there is something deeply wrong either kamran akmal has incriminating photos of pakistan s entire selection panel in flagrante delicto with minors and livestock or actually no there is no other possible rationale for his continued presence behind the stumps what makes it even more mindblowing is the pakistan camp s reaction every time it is pointed out to them that their keeper is an embarrassment and a liability which essentially boils down to he s not that bad he just had an off day really ok well does he ever have on days because you could have fooled us honest to god someone needs to check the pakistan drinks cart for kool aid after the debacle of tuesday s match against new zealand during which akmal twice missed edges from eventual centurion and mom ross taylor at least one of which should not have been missed by any wicket keeper at any level of the game unless he or she was experiencing an epileptic fit or bleeding profusely from the head coach waqar younis stated that the key for pakistan going forward was not to panic i entirely agree panic does nobody any good and in any case pakistan had no cause for panic they would if they were unable to pin down the reason for their defeat but the reason could not have been more conspicuous if it were walking around wearing a neon sandwich board and trailing a 5 piece brass band in its wake let s be clear i don t think that dropping kamran akmal will magically turn pakistan s fortunes around or that everything that went wrong against new zealand was his fault ross taylor s blitz in the death overs was courtesy some incredibly crappy bowling for instance but that s not the reason he should be dropped if a player performs badly over the length of time akmal has he no longer deserves to be part of the team simple then again affairs in pakistan cricket are never simple even so even knowing the murkiness that surrounds the team and its selection i still can t dredge up anything even approximating a good reason for keeping him on he really is that bad and pakistan s refusal to acknowledge that fact only makes them look like idiots although in fairness they have had ijaz butt for an awfully long time so that ship has pretty much already sailed rate this idiocy kamran akmal ross taylor shahid afridi waqar younis wtf 3 comments unwanted associations posted by reigna in associates on 03 03 2011 february 18 2o11 the icc in their infinite wisdom and ever mindful of their weighty responsibility to promote and shepherd the growth and development of the beautiful game worldwide announce the reduction of teams participating at the world cup from 14 to 10 effective from 2015 the tournament is too bloated everyone says so we re only giving the people what they want it s not entertaining to watch the inevitable interminable first rounds of heavyweights annihilating the minnows you know if they want to play in the odi world cup they should just play better there s nothing to stop them certainly nothing like a lack of money and cricketing infrastructure or a shortage of match experience because they aren t pencilled into the international calendar anywhere but to show that we care we ll let them go to the world t20 tournament tests are the purest form of the game so obviously these young aspiring teams cannot be allowed to play it they re young sides just starting out who need to develop their cricket and what better way then by effectively restricting them to no cricket except the dumbest hollowest most technique bereft format of the game february 22 2011 england holders of the ashes narrowly avoid a loss to the netherlands securing victory with 8 balls to spare march 02 2011 ireland having given bangladesh a brave fight days earlier chase down england s score of 327 in their final over spurred on by the fastest century in world cup history scored off 50 balls by kevin o brien of course the associates do not belong at the top level they clearly are incapable of matching the levels of skill and discipline displayed by the top level sides why an ireland or a netherlands could only dream of being able to field like pakistan or bowl like england they certainly cannot produce compelling cricket or close fought matches and of course their inability to match the big boys is entirely their own fault it s certainly nothing to do with a lack of support from the icc or from not having the chance to play competitive cricket on a regular basis or from not playing higher level teams ever except at the world cup obviously their stagnation is entirely of their own making and heaven forbid they continue to besmirch the gloss of the ultimate cricket contest with their presence rate this asshattery icc idiocy leave a comment aaaaand we re back posted by reigna in australia england india new zealand tests on 27 11 2010 well that was anticlimactic my training is scientific so it s impossible to watch this new zealand side play without my brain almost involuntarily formulating a giant experiment to evaluate how they perform under different levels of expectation is there really something to this wretched underdog thing that shane bond hates so much test it send them into three series deciders one as favourites one as 50 50 too close to call competitors and one as these jokers haven t got a hope in hell rank outsiders repeat several times to get a decent sample size play the same 11 every time at the same ground against the same opponent preferably a consistent side lanka sa to reduce the number of variables it would make a fascinating research study albeit one that might be a little bit hard to get funding for normally i wouldn t advocate treating international level sportsmen like lab rats even though it would be frankly awesome to see alastair cook frantically trying to find his way though a giant hedge maze to the maybelline stand at the other end but honestly there might really be no other way to explain this nz side this is not to say that the nz setup should feel badly about this series they performed far above anyone s expectations so much so that the third test shitshow was even more bizarre because of the gritty fighting that had come before verily new zealand cricket you are a mystery wrapped in an enigma sprinkled with really hot men i know i m probably supposed to be writing about the ashes but everyone else in the known universe along with their great aunt and their great aunt s cocker spaniel seems to be providing fairly comprehensive coverage already so i will abstain i will say though that of all the members of the england test side i would never in a million years have thought that tim bresnan would be the one with the most rhythm rate this ashes dancing fans tim bresnan leave a comment older entries follow me rss posts rss comments in yer inbox enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up join 16 other subscribers archives archives select month may 2012 march 2012 february 2012 september 2011 march 2011 november 2010 july 2010 march 2010 february 2010 january 2010 categories categories select category associates 5 australia 18 bangladesh 9 england 8 india 18 new zealand 23 odis 11 pakistan 10 random 10 south africa 10 sri lanka 2 t20 11 tests 16 west indies 2 zimbabwe 3 ab devillers afghanistan alviro petersen andy flower anil kumble asshattery awesomeness beards brendon mccullum brett lee chris gayle chris martin coaches commentators dale steyn daniel vettori dirk nannes eoin morgan fans fielding ftw graeme smith grant elliott grant flower harbhajan singh hashim amla 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