Excerpts from the sporting truth

90 mins of your Sunday can't get better. Harsha Bhogle and his talk on 12 myths beyond the CAT score which was titled the 'sporting truth'.

Few of the amazing pieces from his conversation during the talk which couldn't stop me applauding the grace of this marvelous commentator

Basically if someone talks about Sachin how can you stop loving it.. so the best of my picks are quotes on Sachin

choice #1, About Sachins Sydney innings and why he chose not to play cover drive which got him out through out the series
"..never try to understand genius"

choice #2,
"..there is no Indian festival without Tendulkar"

choice #3,
"..there is a Tendulkar in all of us, all we have to do, we have to find those singles when things are not happening the right way"

choice #4,
"..at the age of 16 in Pakistan, Tendulkar had to be taught how to respect bowlers"

Some of the catchy ones after this...

About Indian Young Players
".. most of them are filled with ego and arrogance that you don't need a bowler to get them out"

"..indians went to srilanka with 1.25 bowlers.. half in harbhajan, one-third in ishanth and about .1 in mithun"

About Kumble and his commitment
his physio thought he was joking when he wanted to play with a broken joke, when he realized he actually wanted his request.."please don't appeal"
Harshas quote on it "..telling Kumble not to appeal is as impossible as asking sreesanth not to open his mouth"

About what you are good and what you are not
"..if you cant play test cricket, talk about it" (on his life)

Something we had in common (about interview at IIM)
like him i was never nervous about the interview (he felt he would never make it, i had the feeling i had better choices in my life).. "Never think about failures"

and the best one.. when he was asked how did he manage to incorporate these advices in his life and how it attributed to hi success he smiled and answered
'i didn't...'

Tribute to a legend – The Appam Chuthiya

23-03-10

For the past one, one-half year I haven’t made a significant blog entry. Leave aside blog not even a good tweet. Even academic stuffs were handled only when the deadlines were too close to ignore.

Now I have around 3 hours left to board my flight to HK and there is some issue with wi-fi connection. So let me just describe one good thing I have done absolutely well and with all commitment in the last 48 hours.

Day before yesterday morning, Kerala received the biggest recognition of the millennium, yes Kochi, the most happening place will have a team in IPL 4. People spend 335 million USD for an IPL team (that’s some money ryt?) there are people who spent more.. Pune 375. And before them , the adanis with 300 is nothing. Even if we had received an UN grand to eradicate poverty we would not have been so happy I suppose. Anyhow we have an IPL team now. Guess who is on cloud 9? Sreesanth a.k.a Appam Chuthiya (wat a name sirji.. take a bow fakeiplplayer)

By the by what did I do? the the question right...

Discussion forum for all malayalees (mallus) who don’t want sreesanth in kochi IPL team

FB-> http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=110353832315191

Orkut-> http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=99713783

Guess what, more than 100 members in less than 24 hours.

So whats the motivation behind this?

In Malayalam they say “ oru malayalikku vere oru malayalee nannavunathu sahikoolannu” (one mallu wont like the success of another”

But there is seriously nothing to envy about sreesanth. Rather I hate is arrogance, ya I belong to a generation who have seen the master called sachin playing the same game. If there is someone who should be arrogant that’s the person, but he shows that only with his willow.

Take a look at his behaviour on field.. He got what he deserved.. :P

But what about off the field

Isnt this too much?

Adichu nannakanda amma polum onnum parayunnille..pinne enthu cheyyum?

That’s why all the 'I hate sreesanth' communities have thousands of members.

I wish to see the fourth edition of IPL with a marvellous Kochi side, Sreesanth not in as captain nor as a player.

24-03-10

First day at HK.. too good a country to waste time making a blog entry

25-03-10

spared some time to post this one..