The worst poem ever!

Guessing...
The rhythm of today is ever so stange
For a city like Mumbai it is completely out of range.

Autos,buses,cars are less to be seen
I guess to Braboune the people have been

Yes, it's a Friday,but empty roads here are anyday strange
I guess, Mumbai has halted to see 'Sehwag carnage'

Carnage was not to be, Sehwag was dismissed early,
The city was back and it looked like daily, the hustle and bustle you could see clearly.

In the evening I went out to shop,
to a market so crowded it is difficult to hop.
Today, for a change, I could see empty ground
Autos and pedestrains were seen turning around.

I got down the auto and walked down the lane
A cop hushed me away using his cane

How strange it feels, how strange it looks
A market always crowded bearing an empty look

"May be there was accident"
"No there was firing"
Thats what I heard other passers murmuring.

I rushed back home and put the TV on
"It must be on news" I was wondering
But that case was not to be
What had happned I keep guessing!


Regards
Pratik

BRAVO!!!

At the end of day one of the third test match between India and Sri Lanka, being played at (CCI) Mumbai, Sri Lanka was 366/8. Just discussing the match with a friend on G Talk I remember mentioning that too many runs were given away by India in the day though they did well to pick up 8 wickets. What was etched in my mind was a game played in Mumbai, though it was at Wankhede Stadium, between India and Australia. Australia failed to chase down 100 odd runs. The villain was the pitch where the ball turned square. Why I was reminded of that match because yesterday too the ball was turning a lot. Imagine that too on the 1st day of a match. The thought of India chasing down a total batting 4th and opposition having a spinner of the caliber of Murlitharan, I thought the damage was already done.

Come day 2. What happened was something unimaginable. A man called Virender Sehwag went berserk and smashed 280 odd runs in a day alone. Gambhir’s replacement Murli Vijay and Dravid gave him good company and India piled on 440 runs in a day where the full quota of 90 overs wasn’t bowled and good 5 overs were used up by Sri Lankan batsmen. Just imagine a plight of opposition which has put on close to 400 runs in their innings. The same day the total is wiped off and they have already conceded 50 run lead to the opposition and what’s worse they still have 9 wickets to take which includes the highest run getter in the history of world cricket who is still waiting for his turn to bat. The bowler, or magician should I say, who has close to 800 test wickets in his kitty, went for more than hundred runs in just 20 overs without bowling a maiden over.

It was not the amount of runs that gladdened me. It was the authority in which Mr Sehwag got these runs that was striking. Its quite surprising that a batsman who was almost written off by the experts as a test opener because of ‘lack of technique’ has already had 2 triple centuries (next to Sir Bradman and Brain Lara) and has 6 double hundreds which is highest by an Indian (a team which boasts of players like Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Dravid and the list goes on). And out of 17 centuries that he has amassed in 72 tests he has 12 scores which are more than 150! And all this at a career strike rate of more than 80.

Sehwag has had a very refreshing approach to his batting and has won us tests out of nowhere. The kind of starts he has given along with Gambhir in the last 18 months or so has been just outstanding. Remember the match against England last year in Chennai where India was chasing 387 to win with nearly 110 overs to bat. The safe bet would have been a draw. India would have scrapped through without conceding a match to the opposition. What did Sehwag do? He cleaned up 100 of those runs by the end of 4th day so India remaining with 287 to get on the last day with all wickets in hand and thus having a realistic chance of winning the match. He has done that again, this time in Mumbai. Match has 3 days to go. Anything is possible. But from yesterday to today there is one big difference. Sri Lanka was in front yesterday but from now on India look the favourites. Looks like Sri Lanka would have to wait few more years to get a test win in India and looks like India is all set to be the Rank 1 team in ICC Test rankings for the first time. Kudos! Team India! Kudos! Sehwag!