Cricket beginnings!

Finally, after a long wait, the my blog is created.

The idea to create this blog is to put forth my ideas about cricket, upcoming players, the state of the gentleman's game and much more.

To start with i will just mention a few headlines of the past week.

1) As in India, we say, the God (Sachin Tendulkar) published his own book - Playing it my way.

A lot of people in the media say that he's timed the book well after retirement to gain as much revenue out of it. Many have disgraced the topic of Greg Chapell. Lot of different ideas and thoughts float around this topic, but i would say it just proves why he is the God of cricket. Still after 24 years of making headlines and front page of newspapers, he continues to do so post retirement. There are a host of topics that could have been discussed all this while but even writers and media personnel have chosen Sachin's autobiography as a topic to write, not because it is full of controversy but more so because he is obviously the person who would catch the news across the length and breadth of the company or even to the extent of cricket playing nations, Anyways, detailed discussion on this topic sometime later.

2) Misbah ul Haq scores the fastest 50 and joint fastest 100 in test cricket, ironically, often when he's known to be a slow player in ODIs. However, he is a far superior and talented player than his critiques may say. He seems to be stuck up in a team wherein he cannot play freely enough. Had he been given the freedom that someone like Ricky Ponting enjoyed in a great team, his records could have been far superior. Too many ifs and buts in that sentence. But i do remember a joke about Shahid Afridi and his age that he never gets older, there are jokes that his age is fake and he is much older. On similar lines, i just feel Misbah seems to have stuck on age 38-40 for quite some time. The way he plays, he might actually be 25 but in his case the age is forged to be on the higher side :P

3) Shakib Al Hasan scores a hundred and takes 10 wickets in a match only the third person behind Ian Botham and Imran Khan. Mind you, its not an easy task. He's been Bangladesh's top batsman for quite some years now and he could also make the cut into the side for being a sole spinner as well. Such a talented guy, feel pity on him that he was banned from the Bangladeshi side for his arrogance. That's been like Bangladesh's problem for ages. Mohd. Ashraful was another example of talent gone waste for the east Asian country. Hopefully, Shakib comes up as a much stronger and sincere player and inspires fellow Bangladeshis and all-rounders across the globe.

That ends a hasty first article. Hopefully next time i will refine and articulate my thoughts better.

Till then Cheers!