Fantasy Cricket World 20-20

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Amitabh

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Karan Johar introduced Amitabh Bachhan the best possible way for the new generation. He said, "Now a days, We know this "THE" man with four options". This was due to the fact that Amitabh almost vanished in the late 90's and his come back movies were not doing great but got re-born with Kaun Banega Karorepati.

I always wonder, How best you can describe Amitabh Bachhan. There are million ways, I am sure, or Shall I say, "Billion ways". Every possible kid/woman/old man has different definations of Amitabh. The person who single handedly change the phenomenon of Bollywood Movies, The Person responsible for converting startdom into the new term called "Super Star".

While coming to work, I was listening "Khuda Gawah" songs and found another way to introduce Amitabh.

There is only one hero, one person, one star which can say the following lines and we as a fan still would like to believe that, It is actually possible.

"Mein Agar Mar Bhi Gaya, To Bhi Wapas Aavunga".

The man who has done so many miracles, the man who made us believe that, one person can take care of 15 Gunda's, The man who has the guts to go down to the people who are looking to kill him and come back as a winner. The man who almost died during the accident of film making"Coolie" when entire India prayed for him. When the sentence got written, "Even If I Die, I will come back" suits only him.

IPL Final Preview

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"Dangerous game is about to begin". (Amitabh's Aankhen)

Both the team should consider themselves very lucky, happy, fortunate and satisfied for reaching the finale. Both the teams were at the rock bottom last year. Both the teams has went through a lot, but here they are competing for the top spot today.

If Deccan got the stars , Bangalore has the momentum. If Deccan's got Gilchrist, one of the top notch wicket-keeper, Bangalore got Mark Boucher who has the World Record in taking maximum number of catches behind the stumps.

If Deccan's got South African H.Gibbs, Bangalore got plenty of them starting with J.Kallis.

If Deccan's got Rohit Sharma, (Tomorrow's Sachin Tendulkar to be in Test Matches) then Bangalore got Manish Pandey(Tomorrow's Sachin Tendulkar in One-Dayers)

If Deccan got R.P.Singh, Bangalore got Praveen Kumar. (Both from UP, Swing Bowlers)

If Deccan got P.Ojha, Bangalore got World Class, Anil Kumble.

To Be Honest, There is very little which separates two teams. Both the team's got fighters. Both the team got stars. Both the team have Balance Team.

Bangalore however has a little winning streak going. In the first 5 games of IPL-2009, when Kevin Pietersen was leading Bangalore, they won only one game, and everyone thought that Bangalore is repeating their performance of last year and would be knock out of the competition.

While, Deccan during those early days had winning steak of 4 games. Winning 4 out of 4 games played was an unbelievable and awesome results for Deccan Chargers. However, they did not continue their performance throughout the competition. Actually they won only 4 games out of 10 and were barely reach the Semi-Final stage with the help of Net Run Rate.

Key Success of Deccan Chargers were due to Fidel Edwards in the beginning. Deccan had 2 good bowlers (R.P.Singh and P.Ojha) even last year but the difference was that Third Strike Bowler who could give them the edge and in came Edwards. Deccan has comparatively, better Batting Side then the Bowling Side. Gilchrist, Gibbs, Symonds, R.Sharma are four key performers. Its very difficult for opposition to take 4 wickets in 10 overs and highly unlikely that all four of them are going to fail. Out of those four , two of them are always going to score close to 40 runs and this will give them fighting score of 150. It is the emergence of T.Suman which helped them to reach those 170 which has helped them to reach Finals.

If Deccan came out with Suman, then Bangalore has Destiny's Child, Manish Pandey. Unlike everyone, I would not like to give all the credit to Anil Kumble. Surely he has helped the team to regroup, but it is the team which has performed throughout like they had nothing to loose. Even going in the Final, Bangalore would be underdog and Deccan would be favorite.

It would be very difficult for the likes of P.Kumar and V.Kumar to stop Gilchrist and Gibbs at the beginning and if they fail to take them out in the first 4 overs, The game would be over for them. Because from that point onwards, Deccan would be always looking to score beyond 160 and if the score is above 160, Bangalore would fell short by 10 runs or so. Bangalore's batting line up, includes, Kallis/R.Dravid/V.Kohli/Van Der Merve etc which are suited for the game which has score under 160. They would struggle if the score is beyond 160 and then would have to rely heavily on Ross Taylor and Manish Pandey/Uthappa.

While, Deccan Chargers, even if they are chasing 170, and loose either Gilchrist or Gibbs, have R.Sharma to fall back on and then Symonds.

All in all, We are up for one exciting final, and my money would be on Deccan Chargers.

Man Mohan

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Yes, Man Madar seems to have been replaced by Man Mohan Singh now. For Some weird reasons, I am seeing a different PM in office now. Or Is that the projection that Congress is showing through Media?

Ever Since Advani blasted Man Mohan Singh during the Campaign, Perhaps Sonia Gandhi has realized that, It would not help if Man Mohan Singh does not get his own space and idea and let him run his own government. Today's statement to Karunanidhi also proves that point.

I believe that is also one of the reason, Rahul is not taking the cabinet yet. Congress is desparate to prove the point that, It is not being run by Gandhi's and PM has it own value, thought process and authority.

I would really hope that this strong image of Man Mohan lies for another 5 years and this is not just another strong political move by Congress.

A K Antony, P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, M Veerappa Moily, S Jaipal Reddy and C P Joshi denied taking the OATH in the name of GOD, they might have took in the name of "SONIA" or "SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS". Specially this Son of a Bitch, P.Chidambaram, I think he is the most hated politician ever.

IPL 2009 XI

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Remember, I can only put 4 International Players. This is my best XI. Tendulkar, Nannes cant make it.

IPL XI
M.Hayden CHENNAI
A.Gilchrist DECCAN (Captain)
S.Raina CHENNAI
A.DeVillers DELHI
Yuvraj PUNJAB
R.Sharma DECCAN
Y.Pathan RAJASTHAN
R.P.Singh DECCAN
A.Nehra DELHI
S.Malinga MUMBAI
A.Kumble BANGALORE

Even after they have retired, Hayden and Gilchrist are the best opening pair. Perhaps, Tendulkar would have made it but he was not consistent in the entire tournament and he did not opened the inning as well. McCullum was out of touch in the first half of IPL. Chris Gayle just showed his class in couple of games. Jayasurya , Gambhir, Sehwag etc were not as consistent as Gilly and Haydo.

Suresh Raina was the best one down player. No Competition there.

DeVillers had to fight it out with J.P.Duminy but DeVillers performance throughout the competition was awesome.

Yuvraj , Rohit Sharma and Y.Pathan on their day can turn the game on their side in last 5 overs.

As far as Bowling Department was concerned, A.Nehra and R.P.Singh were far too good compared to Nannes, Abdulla etc. With two left arm fast bowlers in, there is no place for I.Pathan or Z.Khan or Nannes, MMPatel , Balaji etc. Malinga was best in the Depth and Kumble is still far more better than Harbhajan singh and P.Ojha.(Atleast in IPL2009).

Am I Missing anything , Oh Yes. No Player from Kolkatta...Lets Choose SRK as Owner or shall we go with Fake IPL Player :)

LTTE

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Once upon a time, I met a guy in Mumbai Local Train when there was a cricket game being played between India Vs Pakistan. When I asked the result since he had the radio, he said, "Our team won". When I check the score, I realized, he was referring "Pakistan" as our team. From the look of his, He looked Muslim to me. I didnt asked his name, I didnt asked his religion. I didnt asked why those people supports the cricket team of Pakistan while they live in India.

I have heard stories, where there are regions in Mumbai where they give sweets when Pakistan wins the cricket match.

Today, almost half of Tamil Nadu is in the shock and unhappy, when sri Lanka claims that they have found the dead body of PRabhakaran, LTTE Leader. This makes me compare, (Some of the)Muslims living in India who supports Pakistani Cricket Team and (Some of the) Tamilians living in India who supports LTTE/Prabhakaran.

I wonder how Tamilians and Muslims are different? Both of them are supporting people of their belongings outside their Country?

Congress Youth or Family Business?

Free CounterMilind Deora son of Murli Deora.(Both of them are Politicians)

Sachin Pilot son of Rajesh Pilot and Son in Law of Farooq Abdullah. (All three are Politicians)

Rahul Gandhi son of Rajiv Gandhi who is son of Indira Gandhi who was daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru (All four are Politicians)

Jyotiraditya Scindia son of Madhavrao Scindia and both of them are Politicians.

Is Congress really looking for YOUTH or HOME GROWN BUSINESS? Is India still a democratic country or ruled by Gandhi's?

Modi's Alternative

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Indian Election

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Indian Elections are over and so is wait. Man Madar will again be the Prime Minister. Man Madar will again need approval of 10, JanPath Road before he does anything.

Advani has failed and as stated by many, his dream of becoming Prime Minister of India will remain the dream. Its kind of sad that the person who devoted his life to become something, come so close but alass, can't just make it happen. Person migrated from Pakistan to India, Fought for India's Independence with RSS, almost double handedly (alongwith Vajpayee) formed the party , "Bhartiya Janata Party" who can compete against Corrupt Congress.

There are so many Parties, like Left Parties, Lok Satta, TDP, DMK, SP, BSP, but its so hard for them to go beyond their States and form a National Level Party. People may call it a bad move by calling a RATH YARTA in 90's but those are the kind of move which made BJP Popular and given an alternative to the people of India.

Congress ruled single handedly till 90's in India and injected the corruption in every corner of India like a Salt. Today, Every Office in India, Every Hospital, Every Police Station is corrupt and the credit goes to Congress (I). The root of the problem in corruption is the secured Govertment. Everyone knows Congress now is going to be in the Power for next five years and every officers would be start making millions of money in India, knowing they are protected for five years. States Like Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, money will flow like a river and their respective chief ministers will have not bank accounts in Switzerland but they would be soon start owning banks.

90's when Congress was ruling we had "HAWALA KAND", and last year we had "SATYAM", only time will tell how many scams will come up in next 5 years. That Idiot(Innocent, naive) Rahul Gandhi says Youth of India voted for Congress. Youth of India was holidaying from Mumbai during three day long weekend.

Only good part of the election result was , Mayawati was shown the door and CASTE Politics has not worked. Policies of LEFT has also not worked and they got thrown out from Kerala and Bengal. Congress's major victory should be devoted to LEFT's who have failed miserably.

Only State where BJP was failed is Rajasthan. BJP and NDA has 18 less seats from last elections and all were lost in Rajasthan.

BJP did average in Gujarat and still a clear winner from Congress. They hold on to their leads/seats in Madhya Pradesh/Karnataka/Himachal Pradesh. They did almost same in Uttar Pradesh. They did exceptionally well thanx to Nitish Kumar in Bihar/Zharkhand.

BJP opened up their tally in West Bengal, did better in Assam and Tamil Nadu. This are the good signs for BJP.

It is going to be Narendra Modi Vs Rahul Gandhi in next election and its going to be great. Modi and BJP needs quiet a bit of work to do and hopefully they will do it without negative politics. Clearly, Religion based Politics would never help any party and they need to realize it, They need to expose the Corruption that Congress has injected, Health Problems that entire India is facing & Agricultural activities which is LOST WORLD in India rightnow.

RANN

Free CounterRAMGOPAL VARMA'S RANN MOVIE SONG "JANA GANA MANA RANN HAI" LYRICS
जन गन मन रण है
इस रण में ज़ख्मी हुआ है भारत का भाग्य विधाता
पुनजब सिंध गुजरात मराठा
एक दुसरे से लड़ के मर रहे है

JANA GANA MANN RANN HAI
IS RANN MEIN ZAKHMI HUA HAI BHARAT KA BHAGYA VIDHATA
PUNJAB SINDH GUJRAT MARATHA
EK DOOSRE SE LAD KE MAR RAHE HAI

IS DESH NE HUMKO EK KIYA
HUM DESH KE TUKDEY KAR RAHEIN HAIN
DRAVID UTKAL BANGA
KHOON BAHAA KER, EK RANG KA KAR DIYA HUMNE TIRANGA
SARHADON PE JUNG AUR
GALIYON MEIN FASAAD DANGA
VINDH HIMACHAL YAMUNA GANGA
MEIN TEZAAB UBAL RAHA HAI
MAR GAYA SAB KA ZAMEER
JAANE KAB ZINDA HO AAGEY
PHIR BHI TAVA SHUBH NAAME JAAGE
TAVA SHUBH AASHISH MAANGE
AAG MEIN JAL KAR CHEEKH RAHA HAI
PHIR BHI KOI NAHI SACH KO BACHAATA
GAAHE TAVA JAYA GAATHA
DESH KA AISA HAAL HAI LEKIN
AAPAS MEIN LADD RAHEIN NETA
JANA GANN MANGAL DAAYAK JAYA HAI
BHAARAT KO BACHA LE VIDHAATA!!!
JAYA HAI – YA YEH – MARANN HAI
JANA – GANN – MANA – RANN HAI

Outsourced

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I saw Outsourced , Its actually good funny movie..I like the Slum Scenes of Outsourced more than Slumdog ..In this movie, Director has shown some positive sides of Slums as well, like how people help each other...Interesting movie..I learned something about Shiva Linga as well..

Tendulkar - The Dumb Kar

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First of all, Mumbai Indians are suppose to stick with the best Opening Pair of Tendulkar and Jayasurya. Why In the whole world would you pick Ronchi in place of Jayasurya and then do not come out and Open the Inning?

Second Mistake , Not Including Zaheer Khan. I mean I understand, people will say he is injured and all but I saw how he got injured. It was simple diving effort where he just put his body weight on the shoulder. Ita simple fix which needs maximum of one hour rest. Instead they resting him for one week. Why? So that he is fit for World Cup, like India does not have an Option of R.P.Singh or Ashish Nehra (Give me a Break)

Third Mistake: Putting Ronchi and Duminy to open out the Inning. I understand, Mumbai Indians wanted quick runs but how would you get quick runs from the person who is supposed to be playing his first game in IPL-2 and someone who is known for rotating the strike.

Fourth Mistake: Sending Pinu as Pinch Hitter. Give me a break, He can hit spinners allright but against Nannes and Nehra, he wasted 20 balls.

Fifth Mistake: Casual Run-Out of Master Blaster.

Sixth Mistake: Giving Instruction to Malinga to bowl short and have a field set to get Gambhir out by short pitch deliveries...Come on, Malinga is an ace bowler to pitch the ball up in the block-hole, thats how he got the wicket, Why in the whole World Tendulkar, who knows he is the Worst Captain , would do that?

Seventh Mistake: Defending 80 runs in 80 balls and not having a Slip Fielder for Bravo. Bravo bowled an excellent over who got the edge of Warner but Alaas, Sachin , the Oversmart Captain did not had Slip.

8th Mistake: When Bhajji and Duminy get Mumbai Indians back in the game, In Comes Mumbai ka Shana, Tendulkar and gave away 19 runs in one over. Heart-Broken. No, Not for giving away the runs but not putting a fielder where DeVillers hit 4 Boundaries, I mean same location, How Idiot a Captain , Bowler can be?

9th Mistake: Same as First Mistake, IF you dont want Jayasurya as Batsman, or Opener, Fine, How can you not have him as just Bowler? He would be the best bowler in this circumstances?

10th Mistake: Rohan Raje? I mean Bravo gave away only 2 runs in first over and This idiot gives the bowling to Rohan Raje?

LAst year, Pollock did his best to kept Mumbai Indians in the look for Semi Final and In Came The Dumb Kar and wasted all the efforts and made sure, Mumbai Indians dont qualify for Semi-Finals.

I hope/pray that he comes out all gun blazing as Batsman & get Jayasurya back.

BJP-Congress

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According to website’s mock poll Prime Minister hopeful L.K.Advani, has already won hands down with 10 Lakhs (one Million) Votes while Man Madar has won 7 Lakhs (0.7 Million) Votes. Following are the reasons:

BJP is planning to give Rs 2/Kg Wheat while Congress like a typical business guys would buy it for 2Rs and sell it to people for 3Rs (More Corruption).

BJP promises to waive existing farm loans while Congress promises interest waivers. (Which one is more Actual Income or Interest?)

BJP for doubling personal IT exemption limit to Rs 3 lakh/annum while Congress have no such thing in their Agenda. BJP promises to scrap FBT & CST, Congress silent

BJP promises free bicycles to BPL girls, Congress to give incentives (In Turn Money which ofcourse wont reach to people as Corrupt people will take it in between but That is Congress's Motto, Corruption)

BJP promises to exempt pension income of senior citizens from tax. (This is very very important for parents of mine).

BJP remains committed to Ram Mandir at Ayodhya while Congress will make sure no Muslim Terrorist gets punishment (Be It Afzal Guru or Kasab)

BJP promises improved POTA-type law, to deport illegal immigrants while Congress will open the door from millions of Bangaldeshi and Talibanis.

Congress's Foreign Policies sucks big time, the only friend they made by Nuclear Deal with USA also got backfired with H-1B Visa Normalization and Cutting BPO Sector jobs from US Policies. Congress clearly screwed up with Nepal and have no clear direction in the matter of Sri Lankan Tamilian People. The BJP Thursday said it would not support any demand for formation of separate homeland for Sri Lankan-Tamils but wanted the ethnic community to live with equal rights.

Sprite(Dikhavo Pe Mat Jao, Apni Akkal Lagao)

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BARMER

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Read an interesting article on Rediff today. Feeling Happy about it. http://election.rediff.com/look/2009/may/06/loksabhapoll-why-barmers-muslims-love-this-bjp-mp.htm

I guess only money and power hungry whores support Congress(I), Where I stands for selfishness and Indira (Gandhi's family) instead of India while Bharitya Janata Party carries name of India (Bharat).

Also read comments from Yashwant Sinha on Obama's New Policy and BJP is ready to take tough stand against US Policies if they are Anti-Indians. Rajnath singh also made very clear that if there is another 26/11 type attack on Indian Soil, we will not hesitate to cross borders and fight against Terrorists.

Ofcourse, Our Man Madar Singh would be still waiting for an approval from Sonia to give out any statement while Naive Rahul is trying to please other parties, This Congress Bastards would do anything to keep themselves in Power.

Marley

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Finally, Movie Weekend got over. I saw three movies,"TRAITOR", "BRIDE WARS" and "Marley and Me". All three of them are different movies touching different subjects. What I most liked/learned about Marley are the Interview lines.

Although, I like to believe that my job is kinda secure rightnow, You never know in this economy. Lines which were used in the Marley movie by Owen Wilson are fantastic. When the job interviewer asks him, What is so special about him, He replies, "He kinda always surprises himself". I said, Story of my life.

I didnt knew, I am gonna be studying Engineering, but I became one. I never knew, I am going to USA for higher studies, I did that. I never believed, I am going to Complete my Master;s Degree, I have it. I never believed, I am going to be in IT, but I am. I never believed I am going to do the CODING, I did that. I never believed, I am going to write Blogs, but I am doing that.

The thing about Life is that, It comes with the package of surprises and believe it, like it, hate it or not, That is actually the defination of Life.

Split Wide Open

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When IPL Started, Delhi Mumbai and Chennai were hot favorites. After the first week, Deccan clearly came out as the team to beat. Dynamics will change completely in the next two weeks of IPL.

Since England Vs West Indies series will start, some of the stars will be missing in action but Since Australia Vs Pakistan series is over, some of the Australian stars will return in action.

Mumbai after today's loss looks more vulnerable specially when Tendulkar bundles out early. Malinga is hittable (Kallis took him apart). Zaheer is injury prone and Pitches are certainly not spinner friendly anymore as they were in the first two weeks.

Chennai is more or less like Indian team because of the presence of Indian skipper. However like typical Indian Cricket team, it always takes some time before get going. Chennai is now looking more and more like the team, critics were predicting. Even though Flintoff went early due to injury, they had the back up of Oram and Morkel. Problems with the all-rounders in the shorter form of the game is that, neither they give you strong batting neither they give you strong bowling. Morkel and Oram are not as good as Yusuf Pathan or Malinga who can change the scope of the game. Hayden,Raina,Dhoni, Badrinath in the batting line up will always give the edge to chennai in the high scoring game but they will never be the team who can defend the total.

Rajasthan Royals are exactly opposite to Chennai. If Chennai depends upon batting, Rajasthan depends upon their Bowling and Fielding. They do not have greatest of fielders like Duminy, Gibbs, Raina, Yuvraj etc but their Captain Courageous is very thoughtful in putting the right fielders at the correct location. Rajasthan are certainly missing Sohail Tanvir, Shane Watson and out of form Smith. Rajasthan has became the team of only two men (Yusuf Pathan and Shane Warne). The day Yusuf fails, Rajasthan fails. The day, Yusuf plays though, no score is defendable and Impossible spells out as I am Possible. Hopefully, Watson would return to Rajasthan as Batsman as they need him badly. If Smith comes in form, and Watson returns, Rajasthan can certainly eye Semi-Final birth.

Delhi Daredevils are the best team on paper. Most Importantly they are winning without the contributions from Sehwag and Gambhir. The day, those two started scoring, Delhi would be virtually invincible. They have the best back-up in bowling as well as batting department. They are surely going in the bus of semi-final but to become champion you need more than a good team and luck. Unfortunately , Delhi is the only team which I do not support and they would not carry by wishes.

Kolkatta Knight Riders is the team that I supported in IPL Version 1 and even in 2 but unfortunately they are the team which are least likely to reach Semi-Finals. They have everything wrong that they can hope for. From the Owner to the Coach, Out performing Captain, three wicket-keepers in the team. Dying Bowler, Ranji Trpohy Level Batsmans, Youngstars with passion but no game plan and the best ever leader who is not the Captain.

Punjab is the most shocking team. They have lost so many of good players Lee, Sreesanth, Shaun Marsh, James Hopes but still with the efforts of Triangle of Sangakkara, Yuvi and Jayawardene, they are still on the top of the table. I would be very surprised if they make it to the Top 4 but they are very good Opportunist. If Oppositite team gives a 0.1% of chance, they grab it with both hands and put the points on the table.

Deccan Chargers were underdog and now they are the DAWGS to beat. Gilly is fantastic and certainly most valuable asset. They have the back-up of Gibba/Rohit Sharma/Laxman/Ravi Teja/V.Rao and now they may get even Symonds back. They have the best spinner available in IPL after Warne named Pragyan Ojha. R.P.Singh is more than above average strike bowler. However the difference in Deccan Chargers were due to Field Edwards. Sadly, Edwards would be going to England now and it would be very good to see if Deccan can hold on to the edge that they have got.

Last but not the least, Bangalore must thank that Peter ka Beta and his luggage is out and now they have settled and Worst Fielder in the history of Cricket, Kumble as the Captain. Uthapa has finally stuck some form. They have the maximum South African resources available and they are certainly using them wisely. Bangalore could be the most surprised team to reach out to the Semi-Finals.

When the Tournament Started, My Prediction was: Chennai , Mumbai (In Finals) and Delhi and Kolkatta to be the other two teams to reach out to Semi-Final.

Now, Since Kolkatta is certainly out, I would say, Bangalore would be the fouth team.

If Possible, I would like to see, Deccan in place of Delhi but lets wait and watch, IPL is Split Wide Open now except for Kolkatta fans.