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tweets at mohank and blogs at http www i3j3cricket com and mohankaus blogspot com share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 5 comments posted in cricket tagged bcci cricket dungarpur india indian cricket sachin tendulkar i don t want 2 test series posted on 22 september 2013 by bagrat15 2 comments the best duels in test cricket history are ones that have taken hours and hours to describe volumes of books written on years of legend built on memories emerging from multiple corners of views of the same event the talks of the series attract conversations hair raising stories and excerpts and anecdotes creep in a bowler s glare a batsman s bat twirl a fielder s expectant move a battle within the battle all find a place in what later become the turning point of the series the battle becomes spicier after the turning point the underdogs are biting into the big dogs reducing them to carcass by the end of the tour legends are made when the unexpected happens but it takes time to build expectations a team arrives in a new land takes time to settle the food the climate the atmosphere the environment the crowd the cricket the story is sketched in the first few days of the tour there are attempts to alter it in the next few the climax is anyone s guess the constant attempts to out do the expectations makes the series tour more memorable all that is history today the teams travel out of their suitcases players are involved in test matches within a week of arrival play two tests and fly away there is no context there is no rivalry built during the series there is no story to be written it is just academic such series are more for the media and scoreboards than for the fan of the game the teams a fan might want to watch one test just for the sake of watching one he she does not want to follow the team around the tour there is no tour diary to fill it is just a visit report not a tour diary why 2 tests why not just forget the test series and save us the trouble of trying to follow this follow might not even be the right word it is just two scorecards that i have to read that is the series i don t have to read between the lines saeed ajmal got 10 wickets big deal he is going to fly out of the country in 5 days and he will start with a clean slate virat kohli scored a century this series hmmph nobody knows if he can repeat that next month in south africa form what is form in a 2 game series harbhajan under performed sure bad series he will be fine next tour how do you know the 2nd test is when the stories and expectations were to be framed but now 2nd test is when you get your report card it is like deciding the winner of a test match at tea on day 2 of the test you neither know if a batsman has been good or bad for all you know a good series for a player might have meant one fluke 150 and a 70 or just a 6 wicket haul zimbabwe beat pakistan and leveled series 1 1 which team was better how do you know there wasn t even a 3rd test there was no substance to the series just win this game and get the hell out of here and zimbabwe are going to hang on to this win for another few years for all you know frankly a series without substance story thrill fan fare excitement and length amounts to nothing you can squeeze in a bunch of those series and dress it like it matters wrap and bow tie it as a present to someone but the truth will lie bare inside it it still is meaningless it s just not cricket bagrat share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 2 comments posted in cricket tagged cricket future tours meaning test tours dear cricketers talk more please posted on 28 july 2013 by bagrat15 4 comments wright thompson espn was describing an incident from his trip to india a few years ago he mentioned watching the indian captain mahendra singh dhoni being crowded by people fans in the airport inside the airplane at shops wherever he goes mahendra singh dhoni is an icon in the cricketing world and a brand in india that is true for many indian cricketers they are revered across the length and breadth of the country every second brand has a cricketer as an ambassador or in its advertisement there are cricketers showing up on your newspaper the television the internet even in your dreams but look at their social lives they can hardly come out in the public without drawing excessive attention sure they can have people to help them get groceries from the stores but do they get to go to the park and have a peaceful couple of minutes without 200 people breathing down their neck for an autograph for a pep talk for a photograph forget the people can they just escape from the media breathing down their neck mahendra singh dhoni the captain of the indian team was sitting a press conference before leaving for the champions trophy in england indian cricket was reeling under the ipl spot fixing allegations there were 100 unanswered questions floating around nobody had an answer there they had the captain of indian cricket team captain of the chennai super kings employee stakeholder of india cements m s dhoni sitting in front of the microphone facing the media the media asked a question based on the spot fixing issue and they were hushed up by the media manager all journalists were asked not to ask questions related to the fixing issue 101 unanswered questions india went on to win the champions trophy in ways on dhoni can explain maybe m s dhoni was asked in the caribbean tour by mr subash jayaraman about his methods that amazingly tilted the table in india s favour in the finals but dhoni in his own way replied if i tell you how i think there will be no secrets you ll have to figure it out for yourself india is a country with more than a billion people and i assume atleast 6 out of 10 indians like the game of cricket we indian fans idolize cricketers we mimic their batting and bowling styles we call each other sachin or dhoni to feel good we always dream of meeting them spending a few minutes with them talk to them know them better that is exactly what boils over as the emotions of fans who jump over the railings and past bouncers to get close to their idols we want to know more about them all we are fans we deserve to know what they like what they don t we can t figure it out for ourselves all the way our love for the game doesn t end at stumps it goes beyond it which is what fandom is about i noticed that many cricketers joined twitter which is a really wonderful engaging social media twitter is where millions of fans can follow you and it gives them the freedom to connect to their idols something that seems impossible outside the internet maybe not even here the players don t respond to any of the fan cries some of them are too self obsessed showing off their universities promotions horses etc some of them log on to send occasional festival wishes or yes we won kind of tweets i know who won i was checking the scores on cricinfo this is totally different from how basketball players in the nba use the twitter media or for that matter any media to interact with media houses and fans alike just assume there was a parallel universe in which the cricketers were not chained slaves of their cricket board s and were allowed to give candid interviews to journalists spoke openly on the burning issues of the day cleared the air about speculations etc fans already have the answers to most of their questions they are still fans they are better informed fans next time maybe they won t ask ravindra singh jadeja eat at a hyderabadi restaurant if he likes awadhi cuisine more or maybe they will not send sachin a video of a monkey playing happy birthday to you on his birthday if sachin is allergic to monkey videos in this parallel world the cricketers might be able to move around freely more freely in comparison they don t have to worry about the media they have been answered yes there will be fans coming to meet the players they will meet them maybe shake hands take a photo wish them luck and move on knowing the fact that he will be there again 3 days later to buy the same vegetables and sit on the same chair in the park while whistling the same tune from that movie in 1990s getting back to reality all that is not possible i wasn t even allowed to speak to a ranji cricketer after a domestic game fans were chased away from watching the players practice after game this happens in international games too i couldn t even have a hi hello conversation with nayan mongia who was playing with his kid in the nets does the fan really matter in this game at all images courtesy hindustantimes com and southasiabiz com respectively article based on a conversation with mr rajat bagrat share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 4 comments posted in cricket fans tagged cricket fans ignorance india indian players ms dhoni sachin social life twitter ipl 6 was fun posted on 16 june 2013 by bagrat15 2 comments multiple sources inform me that the ipl season is now over i wasn t sure until i saw indian cricketers play pakistan last night under the watchful eyes of his majesty his highness his holyness sir lord lalit modi jokes aside i loved this ipl season even though i didn t get to watch much of it rather i didn t want to watch any of it and i am trying to erase all evidences of exclaiming fixed or i jinxed it whenever something fishy seemed to have happened on during the ipl you know i don t want to go to tihar for 6 days and then left out and wait for judgment on it till 2017 oh i said jokes aside i lied ipl is a joke you must be plugging your ears and screaming la la la la la la la if you think otherwise even lalit modi thinks it is a joke and he is the original puppeteer of the indian cric i mean premier league i love how the insiders of the ipl work they want in when there is something in for them like rajiv shukla came in when they i believe they means bcci ousted lalit modi in an age where we debate the importance of drs in a cricket game i am not even sure rajiv shukla can tell a right handed batsman from a left handed one if you need a non cricketing fellow at the top of ipl to make ridiculous statements why not appoint someone like shreya ghoshal at least those ridiculous statements will sound sweet anyway let us assume rajiv shukla or his son or his son in law has vested interests in the game because rajiv doesn t i mean who goes on to say that he is happy for india s loss in england because now cricket can grow in england who have been losing in cricket and football for the past decade ipl had a spot fixing scandal this year i think this will bring an end to the ipl rulebook of allowing towels to the game ipl players can t even spot fix properly one of the involved players forgot to signal the over the deal was made for so ipl is imperfect even in the imperfect scenario la la la la la la la ipl team owners have been involved in betting how the csk owner enthusiast lost more than rs 1 crore by betting on his own team is beyond me i think he should be punished by the long arms of bookies first and then by the law the rr owner also placed bets which his wife denies he accepts his wife blames somebody else for misusing their contact he accepts his wife cries foul he accepts maybe a few days later his wife will also accept not all actors get their dialogues right in the first take as soon as the first breakthrough was made in the spot fixing case everybody from everywhere fired bullets xyz should resign most of the substitutions for xyz were bcci chief india cements owner of csk big man the non t20 goer non ipl follower mr n srinivasan ipl big fellows are really interesting they get selected or elected or sit on occupied seats themselves so that they do nothing much during the office hours and later when they are supposed to do something in a situation of crisis they bark at others to resign while still not doing anything about it i think the floor is weak and all the chairs at the ipl office are broken nobody wants to stand up to the situation nobody wants to put himself above everyone else and say we have a situation here let s solve it before it becomes a problem their attitude is more like dude the coffee machine is not working again you resign right away and then after the old fellow steps down aside a new fellow takes up the post with no responsibility of what has happened and no ownership of the events that has dented the credibility whaaa of the league i still don t know why rajiv shukla resigned i mean i still don t know why he was made the ipl commissioner in the first pace i need at least one answer i can conjure a blogpost for the other answer you know the league is absolutely funny when you are laughed at by the man who was ousted from the same league for corruption who banned other leagues so his can be the sole runner who hid himself in the uk where he got into more trouble by pulling another cricketer to fight in a court on match fixing charges and then lost the case and then got sued by the cricketer which of course he claims he can t pay because he got bankrupt which he tweets from his pc from a home in london where he is staying on an expired visa while being the president and director of a business group mr lalit modi is awesome in some ways i know the ipl is saved jagmohan dalmia will save it phew bagrat share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 2 comments posted in cricket tagged cricket dalmia ipl 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