What we do in Life Echoes Eternity

Posting after a long long time :)

Friday- working late as usual.

Saturday - This week's cricket game was exhaustive. We played for almost three hours in burning sun (84 degrees). I played very well and won the game from my team :)

Sunday - Got up at 3pm afternoon ;) and after Walmart shopping, went to "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" at Tyson's corner AMC theaters, VA. I am not a big fan of Harry potter and so i can't say whether the movie was good or bad but in my view the ending was abrupt.

Twenty20 is a different kind of cricket in which no team can be considered as favourites (remember the match between zim vs AUS) . It' all about how you would handle the pressure situations and with a bit of luck on your team.

No one would have expected india to win today's match after the poor performance by their top order batsmen. Sehwag as usual started his innings with his trademark shot but perished within the next two balls. The conditions were favourable for the bowlers and Asif took maximum advantage of it. Now he has the second best bowling performance(4/18) in Twenty20 matches after MR Gillespie(4/7 against Kenya ).

The fielding was good from india this time, supporting their bowlers. We can always expect 6 runs per over from agarkar though he takes one or two quick wickets. Irfan's comeback to the team was good with his economical performance i nthe bowling department in this match.

Sreesanth, i believe, won this match for india because even in any one-day international against a big team with one run to score with two ball remaining, you can never expect the match to end up as a tie game!!



After watching the highlights of BOWLOUT, i thought that Pakistan' bowlers were very casual about the outcome of this game (maybe it's because they know that they qualified for Super8). As expected, india went for all spinners to bowl and they did as expected from them. Pakistan's bowlers didn't even find atleast one stump to hit !!! and atlast India won by 3-0 margin.

Hope India continues the same spirit in the remaining matches of the tournament.

Pakistan without Asif and Akthar lack bowlers to take the opposition out and going to a big tournament like the WC without them is definitely a big blow to the Pakistan. Akthar would have loved playing in these pitches. Let's see how they play in the upcoming Group Matches.

West Indies started the match with a defensive approach. It was quite boring to watch both Gayle and Chanderpaul playing defensively. Anyways, i am quite happy with the West indies yesterday performance.

It's highly unlikely but i would like to see Scotland beating Australians in today's WC Match.

This will surely be an interesting worldcup to watch. Except in Group A, there is always a chance for an upset by the minnows on stronger teams(like Bangladesh beating india/srilanka, Kenya on England) in the Group stages. If not, the top 8 test playing countries will play against each other in the Super 8 stage.

Unlike previous world cups, this time every super 8 has to play other teams, so the chances are almost equal for all the teams to reach the semifinal stage. I hope Australia knocks out of the tournament this time either from the Super 8 or from the Semi final, otherwise, they will surely create history by winning third world cup in a row.

The pitches, as everybody is saying, will play a lead role along with the toss. It all depends on the pitch, the toss to decide which team will win the match. Obviously with the batting line up we have, it's certain that we can reach at least the semifinal stage and from then on it's Determination + luck + hard work which decides our fate.

( My prediction for World cup )