cricket « Rubber Tyres –> Smooth Rides

Posts Tagged ‘cricket’

batsman, cbs, cbs sports, clone, cricket, fun, genre, governing council, IPL, modi, nfl, Sachin Tendulkar, saving grace, tweets, youtube

Tweeting – Modi style!

In cricket, fun on April 27, 2010 at 19:14

MUMBAI, INDIA - JANUARY 19: Chairman and Comm...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Some of Lalit Modi’s latest tweets …

Did you know ipl has made it to the no 1 spot in sports genre on youtube in the world. Overtaken nfl and cbs sports too. Thanks to the fans

—-> The fans are IPL’s saving grace!

Thank you fans for applauding each of the 1708 fours & 585 sixes hit in #IPL 2010. You make ipl wat it is

—-> Wow, I thought you would be too beleaguered to keep count! Congratulations!

600+ runs for Sachin Tendulkar… most by any batsman in a single IPL edition. You make us proud ….. you made this edition of the #IPL

—> Yes, no thanks to you and the governing council!

@yuvsingh09 you can never have a clone. You are who u are and will always be to us.

—-> And neither can you have a clone, Mr. Modi,neither can you!

Read the rest of this entry »

▶ Comment

cricket, IPL, LalitModi

Harsha Bhogle: The importance of the IPL being clean | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | Cricinfo.com

In cricket, India, politics, prose, sports on April 23, 2010 at 07:52

A monk’s extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making. The ability to bat for six hours can come in the way of playing a ten-ball explosive innings. Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes. I suspect Lalit Modi is caught in such a dilemma.The enormity of his ambition for the IPL, a phenomenal ability to notice a profit-making opportunity, and the attention to detail that allows for successful execution of good ideas make Modi one of the finest decision-makers in a fast-moving environment. The best word I have heard to describe him is “audacious”; and it required audacity to take the IPL and convert it into a global sporting brand in a little over a year.

Harsha Bhogle: The importance of the IPL being clean | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | Cricinfo.com

Blogged with the Flock Browser

▶ Comment

chennai, cricket, decades, India, IPL, Kochi, lalit Modi, minister of state, parliament, resignation, secretary general of the united nations, spat, Sunanda Pushkar, Tharoor, un secretary general, united nations

IPL’s ‘Twittergate’!

In cricket, politics, sports on April 15, 2010 at 12:05

Image via Wikipedia

Image via Wikipedia

With the spat between the 2 protagonists of the IPL ‘Twittergate’ now hitting Parliament, i.e. Tharoor’s conduct being questioned by the opposition parties, and with demands for his resignation becoming more strident, my thoughts on Shashi Tharoor and Lalit Modi.

According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second-highest paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, second only to the NBA league.

Read the rest of this entry »

▶ Comment

cricket, fun, SachinTendulkar, Thought, TigerWoods

Urbanomics: Is Sachin Tendulkar “choking” his opponents into submission?

In cricket, fun, mumbai, prose, sports, Thought on April 8, 2010 at 17:37

Urbanomics: Is Sachin Tendulkar “choking” his opponents into submission?

Is there something about high-performing stars having an adverse effect on their opponents?
Do not their opponents rise to the challenge?
Is there not a case for improving one’s game in the presence of greats?
Maybe not!

Have a great day!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

▶ Comment

BCCI, cricket, fun, IPL, Mumbai Indians

IPL Musings

In cricket, fun, India, mumbai, prose, sports, Stories on April 5, 2010 at 12:39

Image via Wikipedia

Read the rest of this entry »

▶ Comment

cricket, davis cup, fun, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, team players, Tennis, Thought

We’re too self-absorbed!

In cricket, fun, India, Leadership, prose, sports, Tennis, Thought on March 27, 2010 at 13:11

Image via Wikipedia

An interesting article by Aakar Patel as to why Indians are self-obsessed and thus poor team players!

What do you think?

I agree, to a large extent, that cricket, the Indian public’s passion, is not a true team sport.

Team sports are about understanding, a true choreography , a meeting of minds, hearts, souls translated into fluid motion, team action.

A similar thing could be said about tennis , specially the Indian Davis Cup team except for the doubles pair. And, mind you, team harmony does not mean that 2 players should be buddy-buddy. They just need to be civil and challenge each other to be better, to complement each other. Perhaps, that’s why we may never see another champion Davis Cup pair like Paes and Bhupathi come out of India for a long,long time.

But then, I guess, that’s why we are about genius and individual excellence. Not bad traits by themselves but then why in a population of over a billion do we have such few instances of them? Ah then, the excuses for this failing have been trotted out by our politicians for over 6 decades and hence I refuse to recount them here.

Just as we could never be another US or a Japan, but come on , China faces the same challenges as us, maybe even more! So why cannot we be the tiger we were meant to be? Our national animal is the tiger, after all!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can then have quite a different undertone! Quite a notion! But then nations are formed of notions, are they not?

Have a great weekend!