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vengeance so much so that i didn t even have to particularly like england to wince at the thought of the ravaging that awaited them that ricky seems a distant dim memory now even though ricky will still play tests even though i have no doubt that he will still continue to prove his immense worth there he s not the same ricky he s never been a favourite i ve never even really liked the man but that still makes me sad rate this ricky ponting sigh steve harmison 1 comment toeless white mongol s fantastic incredible adventure posted by reigna in australia new zealand south africa t20 tests zimbabwe on 17 02 2012 martin guptill is a man who demands nicknames this would be true even if he weren t a sportsman existing in an environment where everyone must be referred to by nickname even if as with england a lot of the time said nickname is pretty much just the player s actual name with a y tacked on the end for one thing there s his unusual last name for another the fact that the man has only 7 toes my old nickname for him therefore was guppy two toes which if not exactly supremely imaginative was at least a hell of a lot more so than cooky belly straussy and the rest of them as if the england team were made up entirely of cutesy singing dwarves that is a nickname of the past from a time when the new zealand team and especially their batting lineup were either plucky underdogs who never quite made it happen for themselves or a straight up punchline their bowlers were mostly immune from the criticism on account of not sucking at their own jobs and regularly picking up the slack after each inevitable batting collapse practically every set of photographs taken of daniel vettori from that time has a couple showing him jaw set and brow furrowed under his helmet padded up and striding out with an air of angry resignation to bail his team out of trouble by batting for a couple of hours in a style apparently learned from a coaching manual printed by monty python s ministry of silly walks but things it seems are different now with new zealand their atlas vettori plays only tests now and their team lineup is suddenly bristling with fresh faced players not old enough to know what audio cassettes are but it s working for them zimbabwe might not have been the most challenging of opponents though they have the capacity to be much tougher than they were during this last series but new zealand demolished them over and over again at every venue and in every format to my obvious delight one of the main architects of new zealand s dominance was none other than chris martin 37 years of age and in the bowling form of his life perhaps invigorated by reducing phil hughes to a bloody smear on the ground in the australia series this may in some part explain why one of the search phrases used to find this blog recently was cricket the back of chris martin s head but that s something i don t really want to think too much about except to assume that someone out there has a thing for graceful bald men who can swing a cricket ball which is fair enough the other standout kiwi was of course guptill he s always been a superb fielder so much so that he manages to stand out in a side that is primarily known for being a uniformly excellent fielding unit he was the third part of the hughes b martin equation in addition to flinging himself all over the place taking catches and stopping runs and when he wasn t doing that he was batting like he s never batted before he s showed flashes of this ability in the past but never so consistently and now he resembles a man who has eye of the tiger playing constantly in his head and has entrenched himself so deeply into the zone that he probably cuts his food and puts on pants with exactly the same intensity and optimal use of technique it showed clearly in today s t20 the one that kicked off the start of the south africa tour a k a the real test of the new and improved now with 40 more badass new zealand side after a spectacular runout of hashim amla that ended with both players and several stumps tangled up in a heap on the pitch and had everyone and their grandmother instantly referencing the legendary jonty rhodes moment he then proceeded to carry his bat through the new zealand innings and score most of the runs except the winning ones which he graciously left to james franklin the man seems unstoppable however he is also possessed of facial hair and bone structure that especially when he s wearing a helmet makes him look uncannily like a less asiatic ghenghis khan it s actually distracting yet it might just be the source of all his powers and so should be accorded due respect thus his new nickname will now be the toeless white mongol it s not short and snappy like good nicknames should ideally be but i think it s the name he s earned go forth twm and conquer rate this chris martin daniel vettori martin guptill ministry of silly walks nicknames phil hughes leave a comment bands of outsiders posted by reigna in australia india t20 on 27 09 2011 it s that time of year time for the champions league aka the t20 tournament that s kind of like the ipl except more involving and slightly less idiotic in execution or tttkliemisle as it is almost certainly never referred to it has ipl teams obviously since otherwise no one in india would watch and none of the usual slew of advertisers would want to make their presence known with their customary deft subtlety i actually quite like this tournament i will almost certainly like it less and less as the final draws nearer between what will very likely be two ipl sides complete with the massive avalanche of idiocy that scenario will entail the reason i like it at the moment is because of the presence of the strong club and county sides filled with talented and motivated players that are for the most part familiar to only their home supporters and to people like me who follow county regional cricket in new zealand and england despite not being from or living in either of those countries but we are a rare and unbalanced breed as glorious as it is to see the elite players and the legends working their magic screwing up royally delete as applicable during the rest of the year there is a special pleasure in watching the as yet undiscovered kids and the small time pros step up to their time in the big arena the new zealand contingent obviously weren t quite good enough i did get to watch chris martin and lou vincent my adoration of whom is well documented which is a silver lining albeit admittedly a pretty slender one maybe more of a silver tracing somerset who are of course playing without their front liner marcus trescothick another of my all time favourites have done far better and this makes me happy because even bangerless they are awesome with a fantastic captain in alfonso thomas i m neither entirely proud of this nor able to fully explain it but the greatest joy by far that the champions trophy affords is the sight of the ipl teams getting beaten by county and regional teams the more comprehensive the defeat the happier i am i don t care if it s an english or an australian or a south african team dealing the damage i should point out that this has little to do with the players with the exception of a small but fuckwitted handful of them and more to do with the simple fact that they re ipl teams they re associated with the shrillness and painful stupidity of that entire ridiculous overblown klaxon show and therefore the more matches they lose the more vindictively happy that makes me because i am an angry person who doesn t like stupid shit maybe it s partly because of the ipl owners watching kkr going down in spectacular fashion at this very moment against the south australia redbacks is a delightful experience not because i dislike ryan ten doeschate or gautam gambhir ok maybe a little or brett lee quite the contrary in fact nor out of any especial love for south australia kkr just needs 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 keep...
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