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started watching serious cricket in the late 80s when srt was just making his entry i might overplay this one but an indian team without srt is something that seems unfathomable to me similar sentiments with dravid for sidvee i assume for want of a better word it s almost like you walk past that compound where your grandparents house stood look in and realize it s no longer there and time has moved on and there stands a multi storey building life is a garden the more that something grows the more the ground is bare when it goes laxman and dravid have been part of the backbone of our lineup for the last 15 years or so and to me they are what gr viswanath was to my father s generation stylish impeccable strokeplayers probably straight out of the don s coaching manual i have to admit i ve seen very little of vishy the only games i can recollect are from the 1980 81 series in australia where he looks rather unimpressive i still watch the laxman dravid innings from the eden gardens test in 2001 and get nostalgic not just over their strokeplay but also over the circumstances in which they played it sometimes i have a gut feeling that back in the 70s cricket writers and radio commentators for that matter conveyed a lot more in their pieces than today painting a monet vangogh like tapestry and not the jackson pollock style inanities water sunshine love and rain can t make that space grown again round and round we go no one knows today both laxman and dravid and tendulkar to a lesser extent face questions about their place in the squad sadly all three have looked woefully out of sorts during the series despite their best efforts people claim kapil overstayed which is a fact considering the fact that he was blocking srinath s path into the test team at this stage i am not sure if the same can be said about the big 3 the rohits yuvis and sureshs have been tried and tested and found wanting which was not the case with srinath quite frankly whatever people might say the cupboard is bare as of now there is time before the next test series and that time must be used by the big 3 or the authorities coaches to try and get the next generation sharma yuvi raina badrinath pujara ready to take on whatever comes their way in the next 5 years or so medium term vision no one knows if time is telling the truth or how our garden will grow why is time not ours to control no one knows no one knows i am not sure what the road ahead will be like but the future has to groomed and groomed now ipl or not it looks like the next away series of note is against south africa in november 2013 there s more than enough time to get these guys geared up to face quality teams on quality wickets at the same time creating sporting wickets in india would go a long way in building bowlers who can make the most of conditions and not look like clueless buffoons on non subcontinental wickets in australia nz south africa there was a time spin was india s strength but that s not the case now ashwin is decent but the buck stops there bhajji is in woeful decline and i m afraid his only performance of note on the field of the last couple of years of his career will be his settling scores with sreesanth if he does not come back and perform well pragyan ojha is decent but might be second best in holding a place in the side considering ashwin s decent run with the bat so for you the time has come to head off towards your kingdom come so unfairly now you must go changes must be made although i fully understand they might not be implemented in the upcoming series at home vs pakistan but i cannot really see laxman or dravid or tendulkar for that matter in the team beyond that series the tour to lanka and the subsequent home series against nz aus and england potentially offer the perfect setup to get the new guys in up and running it may be unfair but the time is probably right the water sunshine love and rain provided if any since you can never be sure with the bcci will make the space grow again if this does not happen i foresee a very long and arduous learning curve with the indian team potentially heading into a steep decline similar to what the windies have gone are going through so unfair a man like you was cast down for what fate would do for you there is no day in the sun and finally back to dravid the man who has been the proverbial atlas for india bearing every burden and the innumerable brickbats which have come his way he has done everything a man could have done in times of crisis opened the batting donned the wicket keeper s gloves if there is one man who should be allowed to choose when he wants to walk off stage it is him to me despite my blind loyalties towards bombay and tendulkar he is the true great amongst the three or the greater of the 3 greats without him i wonder what the team would have been like much like you wonder what the windies would have been like without richards he s the glue which has held the team together but then que sera sera like sidvee concluded the last word lies with messrs srinivasan fletcher dhoni and srikkanth posted by soultan of swing at 12 05 am no comments sunday january 29 2012 travel diaries part one the first of a series hopefully of a travel diary one week to go and pp was headed to india for the first time after he came to the us the airport which is normally one of those where you can breeze through was a buzz of activity that morning with queues stretching all over the terminal strangely it took about 45 mins to check in which wasn t bad since he had factored in checking in 3h ahead since he was flying on an international leg from jfk onwards a week on the boy found himself stuck in philly airport with a six hour delay with the rain pounding down he thanked his stars for booking the domestic leg of the flight one day before the international leg as usual the us airways folks were as knowledgeable about the flight status as their passengers it was not the first and most definitely not the last time the us airways folks would goof up travel plans the boy kept himself amused the next day while the girl was away at work bags packed ready to go and before you knew it they were at the airport waiting to check in for a flight headed to india is an experience in itself each passenger unique in his her own way the harried mother of two trying to control one kid while holding the other on her shoulder the couple heading back home after grandparent duty gawky teenagers on their way to madras to spend a few weeks of their summer vacations with thaatha and paatti the businessman suave and all but still wanting to cut the queue at every possible opportunity at the gate you see the ai flight to bombay 777 300 in all it s glory just pulling out making it s way slowly across the tarmac and you wonder how this beast makes it to 500 mph this one s rather unimaginatively named jharkand a disappointment compared to the grander names ai aircrafts had in the past like samudragupta and other royal folks the place slowly begins filling up there s not much to really do so the boy and girl go check out the duty free section looking immaculate with all the alcohol and perfumes neatly stacked up in there it s a different story that there s little place to move around in there there are other bored people too the boy eyes a carolina herrera 212 which he s had his eyes on for about 3 4 months but as always the prices are forbidding in duty free he ll have to do with a splash to re test its smell which lasts all the way till he gets home and turns out to be clincher and the first purchase once he s back in the us still no sign of the aircraft at the gate you can see it rest a short distance away from the gate with a couple of other big aircrafts people are restless and even though the airline ground staff still haven t manned the counter they seem to be all set to take the door down and take a walk on the wild side off the aerobridge once they get there the airline staff do a phenomenal job of getting everyone on board without making it look like people jumping into an unreserved coach of the coromandel express at madras central station the guy doing to announcements seems a tad deaf dim as he doesn t realize whatever he s saying is audible on to himself the best part is everything seems placid no babies crying no kids running in the aisles and we re all set for a smooth flight across the atlantic it s 6 25pm and on the dot the aircraft starts pulling back from the gate in the distance you can see the manhattan skyline resplendent in its evening glory as the aircraft waits for its turn to take off you get a close up view of some real behemoths taking off on their way across the continent or ocean s at 6 45pm the wheels lift off terra firma and the journey s begun posted by soultan of swing at 9 37 pm no comments thursday january 19 2012 wish you were here so you think you can tell in college it was compulsory for each one of us to be part of an extra curricular organization heaven from hell it was either the national service scheme social welfare and grassroots stuff national sports scheme basically get some fresh air after classes and put adda in the sports ground and the best of the best the national cadet corps blue skies from pain i have no clue how i got caught can only blame it on the seniors 2 batches ahead of me who waltzed into class and picked me out immediately since i was known as the bombay wallah can you tell a green field saturday morning parades at 8am sharp misty mornings empty 23c bus from a cold steel rail crunch of boots with nails grating on the asphalt of the ceg campus wasted saturday mornings a smile from a veil sometimes had the good fortune of a darshan of the ncc navy folks doing their drills ballet compared to ours do you think you can tell sometimes wonder if it was all worth it and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts venkataramanaiah a clown of the highest order always talking through his hat about snakes he encountered later on heard that he just left college one day and escaped to singapore where i m sure he s expanded on his reptile knowledge hot ashes for trees some mornings in the brutal madras heat soaked uniforms some unfortunate souls wilting and then being sent for a frog jump hot air for a cool breeze at least they served us some semi decent breakfasts at the canteen developed some level of a liking for pongal cold comfort for change missing the camp in the summer of 99 was blissful a year on i d realize how lucky i was and did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage would have to do the camp in the summer of 2000 but that would also mean missing out on a bit of euro 2000 going to camp as a senior would be a relief from the humdrum of the usual parades and all the jazz how i wish how i wish you were here we re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year miserable summer camp but we soldiered on as brothers each one looking out for the other today i think each one of us looks back at that camp and remembers the good times and not the misery of it running over the same old ground and how we found the same old fears wish you were here dedicated to some of the most amazing people with whom i strengthened our friendships on that camp tanay pd venks arvind mohan among so many more who were part of signals posted by soultan of swing at 12 37 am 1 comment sunday january 08 2012 where have you gone ayrton senna it will be 18 years this may i remember that sunday evening like it was yesterday i was on the phone in the dining room when i heard the news ayrton senna was gone forever i had heard that another driver roland ratzenberger had been killed the previous day in qualifying but this was a shocker star sports had just started showing formula 1 races a year or two earlier and for an aficionado like me sunday evenings were reserved for f1 it had come a long way from the days of reading about races 2 weeks after they happened in the latest issue of sportstar funny thinking about in this day and age admittedly in my early days of following f1 i had a tough time distinguishing alain prost from senna they looked the same somewhat to my teen brain and drove for the same mclaren team little did i know about the rivalry between them prost the frenchman always the scheming professor senna the dapper brazilian reminiscent of his footballer brethren stylish and suave he was gone before i really had a chance to see his true greatness at the wheel living and driving on the edge i had only read about them until recently when i got the chance to watch a fabulous documentary on him asif kapadia s award winning senna is surely a must watch and shows the man in his prime in life and in death star sports always ended their races that year with u2 s one in its near entirety the lyrics of which ring hauntingly true to this day and it always ended with his unforgettable yellow helmet atop his casket coming to think of it 1994 was a strange year in sports was exposed to the madness mayhem when sports and reality tv intersect with the oj simpson brouhaha watched the brazilians win a world cup for the first time in my life but also read about a young man lose his life for an own goal had the good fortune of watching brian lara for the first time in the flesh after he broke gary sobers unbreakable record and also belted poor durham into oblivion but personally 1994 will always be the year we lost the prince of formula1 ayrton senna posted by soultan of swing at 1 36 am no comments tuesday december 20 2011 has indian cricket really turned a corner since i last scribbled on this pad the men in blue somehow managed to win a cricket world cup banishing kapil and his devils of 1983 hopefully permanently to the woodwork from which they tended to make an appearance every four years the euphoria was thick in the air even in the summer when they toured england and performed miserably they looked woefully out of sorts bereft of any passion for the game leading my good friend king_of_jacks a hardcore indian cricket fan to sort of question his interest in the game disclosure die hard fan yours truly gave up watching even though he was india as a friend said whatever cold go wrong went wrong with the team particularly the f word fitness not sure if it was a case of too much cricket or whether the team just took it easy after the win basking in the accolades which rightfully came their way i am as guilty of these indiscretions as they are so i can t afford to point a finger at them i haven t been a big fan of t20 but then we would probably have not found virat kohli and ashwin but for this format not to mention rohit sharma all of whom have a decent road ahead for them provided they put in the yards to a large extent t20 is often about thinking outside the box and that s the way the game is going to be whether we like it or not the bcci is well as mohinder amarnath memorably quipped a bunch of jokers ...