A day to remember..one for the diary !!
Today was not productive neither research wise nor monetarily( well technically it is since its a weekday and I am working 20hrs a week ).Speak about going to places or eating good food ..boy was it (the day) great or what ( balls writing style there !!). It was a perfect follow up to Anubhav's bday bash.
As usual I said to my lazy laconic self last night that I would get up at 8 am..needless to say what happened. My friend from Rockville( Ashutosh ) was going to pick me up at around 4 in the afternoon and I barely got ready by then. I was heading to his place to attend his engagement party scheduled for Saturday the 1st of May. Today was reserved for just having a gala time, as if other days are any different. 6 pm and the ball was set rollin with a unanimous decision to go to Great Falls, VA. There is a park with a 800m trail along the Potomac river leading to the falls and it(the falls) would effortlessly classify as a photographer's delight. Anubhav would find even a GB worth of memory less if he sets off on his usually manic foto-clicking spree. A perfectly scenic place with lush green trees, mellifluously fowing waters and beautiful rocks to just sit around and savor all the subtle intricacies of nature is what the place offers. This place totally rocks and we should consider making a trip to this place sometime with our ranti freaks group cos it would be fun to disturb the serenity of this place. "Rocks par baithkar proper Gujju style naashta with puris, cornflakes ka chewda, bhakarwadi, etc khaaya" .. Bombay ishtyle !! Gujjus can recreate BBay anywhere with their travel mats, the food and also the water bottles. ( the whole thing very much remniscent of a picnic to our very own Elephanta Caves ).Well.. the food xtravaganza wasnt over yet...came back home ( Ash's place) to be treated with a platter of the perfect "Bbay rekdivaala" bhel-puri with the home-made khajur-imli chatni and green coriander - pudina chatni and was also asked to put "kanda" on the bhel . Even if all of us (self-proclaimed (bbbrrilliant ) cooks ) produce our best we wouldnt still be half as good cooks (as our mothers).Though you can put it down to sheer experience, is still a mystery to unravel how they(our moms) have reached a totally different pedestal . Also paid a customary visit to the Lincoln Memorial on the way back from Virginia keeping my camera busy throughout the short trip. Shot many pics ( Few are hot ..few are not --> Very few will get this pun ).But the picture which encapsulates the Potomac Falls in all its splendor is here.. for your eyes..
Potomac

~Fazl

Japinder has a new competitor for his newfound cult status: our very own Bhajji !!!
One look at the pic below and all your doubts will be cleared.
ROFLMAO ! Bhajji rox !

My'Tallica Experience

March 11th 1989...the day when the GODs of Metal set foot on the port city of Norfolk for the ...And Justice for all tour.
15 years since we (Anoop,Pushkar,Srikant,Jitin and I) were present for a revisit of Metallica to the hallowed grouds of scope arena. Unlike the Summer Sanitarium tour Godsmack opened for GODs instead of Limp Park and other yuppie bands. Though not exceptional, Godsmack played a tight set which was strictly OK. A certain 'jugalbandi' with the lead vocalist on a Congo and their drummer gave such a desi feel to the metal concert that it prompted anoop to quip 'Trilok Gurtu thyair!!!"

There was a point where their drummer threw his drum stick at us....anoop and myself managed to hold one end of it....the tip of the stick....we looked at each other and said "yeh chut ka sticks kisko chahiye". This led to a mass melee for the stick with ppl biting, scratching, kicking each other...hell yeah welcome to Moshpit.

Godsmack played for an hours time approximately and right from the time they left at exactly 7:50.....hearts stated racing...emotions ran high...gootex moomex syndrome was omnipresent. We started joking arnd...smoked a few here and there with the security gaurd scratching his head unable to catch the culprit (smoking wasnt allowed inside the closed arena).The disappoint abt the arena besides the smoking aspect of it was the capacity.The mammoth show that Metallica brings to town requires much larger quarters and so the scope arena with a capacity of 12,000 was a joke.

We waited and we waited...looking at our wrist watches every 5-10 seconds.
As Jamyz said in the title track of Ride the Lightning ..
Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
Approximately 20,000 people that were rabid to see Metallica had probably the same thoughts on their minds. The energy in the air was electric. You could literally feel the anticipation. Chants of "Metallica…Metallica" echoed through the walls.

At almost exactly 8:40, the lights lowered and out of the darkness came the familiar opening of every Metallica show, Ennio Morricone's haunting instrumental, "The Ecstasy of Gold, from the Clint Eastwood film, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. With that, the band launched into a 18-song set beginning with a blistering version of "Blackened," as they circled the enormous stage never staying in one spot for longer than a few seconds. Lars Ulrich's drum kit rotated around the stage as the show progressed to allow the entire crowd to witness his still impressive skin bashing.
We had a little trouble at the moshpit being relatively small guys. We were pushed and showed arnd pretty badly. Here i have to sincerely commend Srikant on doing a wonderful job to make sure that Bhaiyya and myself were not entirely bashed up....Thanx a ton for ur effort Srikant...cudnt have enjoyed without u.

Coming back to the concert...the first three songs came and went without a trace....while i was fighting and wiggling my way forward/to stay on my feet. There was an amroo saand right in front of me....I wasnt able to see a thing...coz i was still in the 5th row at that time. A brilliant idea struck me....told him..'Sir i came all the way from india to see this concert...and im not able to see a thing'. He took pity on me and pushed me all the way to the front row!!!! Ahh isnt everything fair in Love and War.

Everything seemed so surreal....as if i was watching them on TV. Jamyz trashing his guitar or Kirk's breakneck speed axing or Lars pounding his kit was all being registered in some corner of my miniscule brain.... 802.11 MAC layer protocols paving way for Metal memories of a lifetime.The band sounded great. This was twenty years of touring experience here, people. Everything was a beautiful mesh of sonic fury. I was absolutely stunned that they played everything in it's entirety. This is something Metallica is not known for. I cannot say this enough. The entire band is the tightest unit I have ever seen. They know every niche, every note, every stop, tempo change, etc. Sure, it's their job but it is still impressive.

The lighting, the pyrotechs were top notch...the pyrotechs a little to loud for comfort coz of the closed arena. The pyros during One were a sight to behold ...brilliant it wud have made Pink Floyd proud. The heat from the fire that blasted out of the stage during "Fuel" nearly singed my eyebrows off and the explosions that were used during the build-up to "One" were deafening.The lasers on No leaf clover were a class act as were the lightings during Nothing else matters. Picture this....a black stage with just a stream of white light on Kirk and jamyz...boy was that Orgasmic or what!!!!

The band didn't leave a stone unturned and every single Metallica album was given a nod, even the S&M album "No Leaf Clover" and "I, Disappear" from 2000's MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2 soundtrack. And what abt the overall setlist...well only one thing to say abt it...a real stunner. We could count ourselves lucky that we had the pleasure of listening both 'Sanitarium' as well as the much much vaunted and talked abt 'Fade to Black'. While Metallica played hit after hit, the audience kept pace even if it was blistering. And the setlist...well here it is...
Blackened
Fuel
The Four Horsemen
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Frantic
I Disappear
St. Anger
Sad But True
Creeping Death
Fade To Black
Battery
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No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
Master of Puppets
One
Enter Sandman
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Jump In The Fire
Whiplash

High Point of the day: I touched Robert (bassist) when he bowed down and stuck his hand out.

Lowest point of the day: Lars Ullrich that peer spat water on me.

Man of the Match: jamyz Hetfield.....GOD....wat do i say....He sounded great, his voice clear and he was hitting high notes he hasn't hit in fifteen years. Sobering up was the best decision he could have made. Because the intensity of the show did not diminish; in point of fact, it only heightened the experience. He was having FUN up there, and this spilled right into the crowd.

Cons of the show : As bhaiyya puts it...it wud be difficult to go to another concert after this.

Final point....I was blessed to be there...Metallica is simply the greatest band to have played Metal.Here’s to the hope that the band continues with its renewed passion and brings those of us who still care plenty more great metal in the coming years.

Emotionally
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What a weekend and what a feeling to get to listen to two immortal songs in one concert at a distance of just 1-2 feet from the stage .. Fade to Black as well as Sanatarium . I wont write much about the Metallica show because there is a person much more passionate than I, who will be ready with his article about the Gods of Rock. But I must just say that the money we spent was too little an amount to buy the memories worth a lifetime.
Back to the part where I am good though..or so I feel...writing about witty incidents( .. stories ). Anubhav echoed my thoughts this afternoon when he said that " Maybe, we are paying too much attention to what we speak". Yeah..he is right and that is the reason we have immortalised 'ek mineet' and our very own Belur. But it is fun though, because these are all "cazuval" talks as Bhaiya would suggest. So one more addition to our list is our role model "kutta". Bhaiyya gets all the credit for his deep thought in spawning this cult figure.
Just a few of his extraordinary abilities

1. This dog can code in Java, C++ and any language you may think of. Thats why the words very often uttered " Kutte ke tarah coding kiya".
2. This dog has a career orientation and can study Digital Signal Processing, Computer Architecture among many other subjects. Hence the words " Kutte ke tarah padhayi kiya". Infact this dialogue reminds me about one of Pushkar's real life incidents in which he told his dad on phone , " Dad, mei kutte ke tarah padhayi mein busy tha".
3. This dog has a lot of strength and is also good looking with a great personality. " Kutte ke tarah dum lagaana pada", "Kutte jaisa chava lag raha hai". I am not coining these sentences just for heck of it but they have been uttered by many Freaks in many conversations.
4.Finally our dog makes mistakes also. As a result the popular "Arun"(ubiquitous) phrase " kutte ke tarah haga".

So lets acknowledge the arrival of our newest cult figure "Kutta" , the Dog ( in obvious reference to Bollywood).

There was nothing much to look around in Norfolk though and even the Met concert couldnt change our opinion about the city. It sucks!
1. There are not many places to see expect a few like Nauticus( which we didnt see), a zoo and a botanical garden. Perfect "turn-off" city for a student.
2.There is Virginia beach pretty close by from Norfolk. But the water is very cold for most part of the year. So unless and until you are as determined as we were, you cant have a dip in the water. The beach is not as great as to schedule a trip from Baltimore to VA just to see it.
3. There are not many cool places to eat. Infact there arent good eating hangouts even in Downtown. Night life is non-existant.
4. The roads are pretty confusing. In fact at a particular juncture we were faced with the decision of having to choose between three "Granby Street" 's two running east west and one running North South within 0.3 miles.

God save Norfolk..but for me the most revered place will be the hallowed floor in the Scope Arena on which I stood marvelling at the Gods.

Press any button, vote went to RJD: BJP

Now thats one hell of an idea to win the elections. Lallo bhaiyya ne kamal dikha diye hain ..:-)

Orkut rox ... Totally !!!
homepage temporarily shifted from TOI to orkut.com !

Heres an article bt how the FIA is thinking of introducing new rules to stop Ferrari domination. But I am damn confident that they wont matter to Ferrari either :-) Unless they introduce a 10 sec penalty for Ferrari or something like taht :)


Article

Sachin is getting better: Dravid - The Times of India: "'If I had the advantage of retrospect and hind sight, I would have (done it) differently,' he said." ..Makes the same mistake again :-)

Vaughan questions heavy schedule

The Pommie captain does his ritual again. They have to lash out against heavy schedule towards the end of every tour. Methinks If they dont like it, they shd be sorting it out with their board and not in the media.

GODS INC..... with the Babe of the century....Anjali.....HOOOOWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl



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Just thought about uploading the pic of the blossom outside our house in Mount Ridge


~anoop

Btw, another controversial question, Is ICC right in outlawing Muralis Doosra ?

-a

Yahooooooooooooo!!!! Got my GMAIL ACCOUNT -- mail me at anubhav@gmail.com

Cricket Goes to Harvard

Interesting piece of information in the Tabloid.

Like Napoleon's quote at the end --
"The best leaders are the ones who make the least mistakes -- mistakes will however be made -- but it is an exceptional leader who admits that he made one."

It surely makes one hell of a case study.

A friend of mine fwded this article ......makes interesting read.

Adam Osborne, as you may know, is considered to be the father of the
laptop. Here is an article he wrote for Dataquest magazine some years
ago...

I was raised in Tamilnadu in South India, in the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharishi, of an English father and a Polish mother. Both were dedicated followers of Sri Ramana Maharishi. Therefore as a child growing up in the small town of Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, I was fluent in Tamil and was surrounded by Indians who were
proud of their nationality and heritage, and believed they had a lot to teach us Europeans. I still speak enough Tamil to get by, and feel that my roots are indeed in India. I must be only professed "vellakaaren" (=white) Tamilian in America. After all, how could anyone, even an English boy, grow up in Tiruvannamalai, in the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharishi, and not acquire a pride in his roots?

It is therefore with some misgivings that today I find myself dealing with Indians, many of who do not feel proud of their Indianness. Indian Americans represent he most affluent minority in America, ahead of Jewish Americans and Japanese Americans. This is a statistic and not an opinion. Indians swarm all over the Silicon Valley, where they are an integral part of most product development teams: be they teams developing new semiconductor chips, software packages or computers.

Indians are recognized throughout America as technically superior. No Indian in America has to explain his educational background, or apologize for his technical training. And yet, as a group, though Indian Americans are quick to acknowledge their caste,religion or family, they lack national pride. Indians are not proud of their nationality as Indians.

Something I realized many years ago. Something that puzzled me. Recently, talking before Indian audiences on the lecture circuit, I have frequently talked to Indians of their lack of national pride, with telling results. Invariably, after making this assertion from the lecture podium, I find myself surrounded by Indians: Engineers, Scientists, doctors, even lawyers, all asserting the correctness of my observations, "You are correct," they will assert. "I am not proud that I am an Indian."

Is India's colonial heritage the sole reason? Who knows? But whatever the reasons, it is a pity. Since the day Indians learn pride, India will rapidly move out of its third world status to become one of the world's industrial powers. Today I work with an Indian American, trying to help him make his dream come true.And in the process, make my own dream come true,since I have hitched my dream to his. Then, with my dream realized, I will return to India, to preach Indian pride: not pride in being a Hindu, or practicing Islam or being a Parsee, or a Sikh: not pride in being a Tamilian, or a Telugu, or a Punjabi,or a Marwari; not pride in being a Brahmin rather than a lesser caste. These are all divisive differences that India would be better off without.

But I will preach that Indians must learn to be proud of being Indians just as Singapore nationals are proud of their nationality, irrespective of their race or their religion. Then there will be no more shoddy Indian products, since every worker will generate output with the stamp of a proud man on it.With self-evident quality that screams out: "That is the work of an Indian!" And corruption will decline.For, although bribes are solicited by greedy,dishonest men, as well as by men who do not earn enough to feed themselves and their families, and even though these root causes of corruption transcend the bases of lack of Indian pride of which I speak,nevertheless a proud man will pause, more than a man without pride, before extending his hand to receive a bribe. And a proud Indian will try harder to be
responsible for products and services that others will praise. And it is in that praise that India's future Industrial greatness lies.

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Plot to bomb stadium foiled

Now this is one shocking news. Though it is reported by the Supreme Tabloid "The Sun" , but if something like this has to happen, could be equivalent to another 911 if not more.

Ponting points finger at 'selfish' Lara


In this article , Ponting has raised questions bt Lara Quadruple Century and his intentions. Also he mentions that Hayden was given a chance to do a similar thing and he himself concedes that.

"Nevertheless, Ponting conceded that Hayden's 380 at Perth did involve an exception to the team rule, as he was allowed to carry on batting with the record in sight. "It was a very rare thing, for Matty to be able to bat for as long as he did and go on and make that big score," said Ponting. "He was given the opportunity to go on and break Brian's record and he did that. He was going to be given another half an hour, or 20 minutes, to try to get to 400 but unfortunately he got out."

Is he right in pointing a finger after doing such a thing?

-a

Brilliantly written article on the great man....luved it.
Hope he recovers soon......43 is not the age LORD...pls.
GOD

Is this the end of the road for this legend..undoubtedly the best footballer I have ever seen
Maradona
Well..hope not..because he could still contribute a lot to Argentinian football !!

In sync with Vishal's post I proudly present the UMBC XI (Well I am gonna surprise a few ppl here):

1) Ripin ... Forces his way into the team on his stupendous domestic performance
2) Amit Mahadevan ... Technically correct
3) Anoop ... our very own Naseer Hussain
4) Faisal ... Bevan
5) Srikant ... Jaaaaved ... that man ... that ....
6) Rehan ... Wasimbhai
7) Vishal ... the only indispensable guy in the team
8) Anadi ... because he has a car ... and yeah if u want to count the matka runout, then that too
9) Anand Patwardhan ... He was picked in place of Bala, because of his cool temperament
10) Minal Mishra ... looks like one for the future
11) Anubhav Sonthalia ... When we bat 2nd we need a target, Anubhav's wides do exactly that. He's the MAN !!!

12th man: our very own Balls (currently dropped on disciplinary grounds)

Umpires: Jayprakash and Hariharan

Coach, Manager, Media Manager, TV Commentator, Jester, Audience: Balaji Sadasivam.

Was thinking what would the current world XI look like. Here is what I thought it should look like.

1) Hayden - undoubtedly the best opener in contemporary cricket
2) Sehwag - that man .... has paranormal abilities !!! (vaitarna thyair )
3) Dravid (vc) - God !
4) Sachiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin - no world XI can be complete without him, period.
5) Lara - Swap Lara and Dravid as per the situation. 10/1 = Dravid, 140/1 = Lara. - nothing more to be said/added after his 400*
6) Laxman/Kallis - one a enigma, another a workhorse. both effective in their own ways on their days.
7) Gilchrist (c, wk) - God !
8) Warney - easily the first choice spinner in any current world XI
9) McGrath - injured at the moment, but alongside Ambrose and Wasimbhai the best fast bowler of the 90's.
10) Shoaib - temperamental, but can run thru any lineup (well ... almost).
11) Murali/Gillespie - depending on the wicket/conditions. (well this will take too long, so lets just chuck it)

Coach: John Buchanan (Gonna get a lot of brickbats here and lotsa spit from one person)

Umpires: 1) Rudi Koertzen 2) Simon Taufel 3) Billy Bowden

Match Refree: G Vishwanath

Manager: Ratnakar Shetty (dont know of any other name in this category)
Media Manager: Amrit Mathur (his biography is on the list of bestsellers on www.amazon.com, a must read for all cricket fanatics out thyair !!!)

Beautifully thyair........ some Indian fan(atic) wrote this.....

I know we lose the second test
but we was savin' up the best
to make 'em go back to their nest
and suck on their momma's breast

come last one and we set them up
with them fingers on each hand up
dravid played the innings of his life
to fill them motherfuckers with strife

there was lotta hoopah about
the damned rawalpindi-express
they just forgot how veeru had
put him under bigass stress
anyway...they all said
they have faith in their chucker,
but our batters then walked in
and fucked up that motherfucker

i think y'all heard inzy say
on that bright sunny fourth day
"i seen some scary shit in my time
but this series sure ain't worth a dime"

and their stanky faggotty ass coach
raved on some shit like papa roach
hope he know we beat them, yup!
now he better shut the fuck up!

some say this tour was about peace,
but we cut them into dead fleas,
was like a message to them niggas
"don't fuck with us cuz WE DA PLAYAHS !!"

yeah !!

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What a tremendous win guys.....things u only dream of......
A lovely article on that fucked up tabloid....rediff .....funny read!!!
The Link

Emotionally
Ballsy

Patience pays
What matters it o breeze if now has come the spring, When I have lost both my garden and my nest…

Brilliant Read and greatly said..

This ones just for the archives.
Hail The New Master

My respect for this guy...Rohit Brijnath keeps on increasing....... wat a brilliant article....read it.
the link

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An excerpt from Dravid's interview on cricinfo: (after 2nd day's play in the final test against pakistan)

Q: On whether he would contemplate going for Brian Lara's new world record
Dravid: For me to get 400, you would have to play six days [laughs]!

GOD ... with a good sense of humor ... Now thats rare !!! and thats Dravid for u.

What a week of surprises this has been.......
India losing to the worthless Pakis.....
Arsenull beaten by Chelski in the Champions league.....
Monaco stunning the over-rated Real 'Galactico' Madrid.....
and the best of all.... Deportivo whipping what i regard as the best team in Europe...the legendary giants Milan....

Having followed Arsenal comprehensively beaten by Chelsea in the Champions league, I think it's fair to say, that the 1999 treble won by Man Utd should now be seen as an incredible achievement by an English club side.

Arsenal have never reached the semi-final of this competition, never mind the fact that they have never won the old or new European Cup. In light of this fact and many others, it would be unwise to compare Arsenal to Man Utd, the trophy count doesn't lie.

Sorry to say it, Arsenal are just a Premiership club trying to emulate the biggest club in Britain. Man Utd have a larger ground, a bigger pitch, a global following and have won a treble and two domestic doubles, need I say more?

The Arse were glorying it up seven days ago. What a difference that one week makes. First the mighty Man U knock them out of the Cup and now Chelski do them over in the Champs League. How smug is Arsene Wenger feeling now?

Life is surely beautiful.......
FA cup here we come.....

You are my Solskjaer,
My Ole Solskjaer,
You make me happy,
When skies are grey,
And Alan Shearer,
Was fucking dearer,
So Please don't take,
My Solskjaer,
Away.....

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This might be a complete walkaway from the kind of posts we expect here. But it is one brilliant read. Posted it here cause I think most of us are Google Freaks too.

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power

Came across this article on Tabloid Times abt a campaign run by Pepsi in India. The Slogan goes Pakis Khallas ... Ab Aur Badi Hai Pyaas .

I think its one hell of a campaign.

Kudos To Pepsi India for coming up with another brilliant campaign.

Happenings over the last two days:
1. Belur is Freaks Inc's offical deity. " Bhagwaan Arun" showed his omnipresence by meeting Vishal, Bala, Anubhav and I at some instance or the other on the same day, something like " Bhagwaan Arun prakat hue ".Any color which is ubiquitous is henceforth an Arun color; for eg " Off white colored Khakis " will be now identified as Arun colored khakis.
2. Hawas is one of the Freak cult films, and the offical anthem is " Teri Chahat mein badhne lagi hoon..main har hadh se gujar ne lagi hoon", the video of which, features a bimbo named Meghna Naidu possessing big saggy assets and two fuck faces named Shawar Ali ( a chronic case of limited vocabulary. Only words spoken " Yeaaaah ") and Aryan Vaid (Ex Mr India turned Mr Porn India). Hawas is also a new genre of porn called "Slappy Porn". Hawas is a must see Hindi porn bonanza which according to Shawar, is a "family" film.
3. Freaks Inc introduces a new cult figure : Ramakant "theyar"
4.Upcoming movies at Oaklee Theatres :
Hawas - * ing Shawar Ali, Aryan Vaid and Meghna Naidu
the trailors preceeding this film are also something to look forward to: 1>Silence Please..This is the dressing room *ing Salil Ankola, 2>Sheen * ing Atul Wassan, a babe named Sheen and the one and only master of constipation Raj Babbar. Also ,we will request IndiaInfo.com to make the trailors of the movie "Papa the Great" : *ing the one and only Kishan Kumar, available online.
Exclusive: An interview with our man " Shawar Ali " , courtesy Times of India
5. Srikant finally has a claim to fame. In our discussion about how wierd the movies are named nowadays in particular reference to "Daag: the fire" or " Jaal: the trap". Srikant has this suggestion: Rename the film Supari to " Supari: the tobacco". This culminated our Friday night session of watchin fucked Hindi film trailors.

A

Answers to the trivia questions.....Vishal answered 4 of the 7 right....so here it goes....

1.Who was the first batsman to be given out obstructing the field in ODIs?

ANS:Rameez Raja became the first batsman to be dismissed obstructing the field in ODIs when he hit the ball with his bat to avoid being run out when taking a second run trying to complete his hundred on the final ball of the match. This was during the second one day between england and pakistan played at karachi in 1987.

2.Sanath Jayasuriya has made 30 runs off a single over twice.Who were the bowlers on the two occasions?

ANS:Aamir sohail and chris harris. (Bailye u were right abt the NZ bowler)

3.Who was the team manager who persuaded Gavaskar to return to the field after he threatened to stalk off at the MCG in 1981?

ANS:Hemu adhikari.

4.Related to worldcups complete the sequence:

Mcdermott,Imran khan,Mcgrath,Saqlain,________

ANS:McGrath ,they were the ppl who bowled the last over of the worldcups. (Brilliant Bailye)

5.Who was the non-striker when Javed Miandad hit that famous last-ball six off Chetan Sharma at Sharjah?

ANS:Tauseef Ahmed

6.Harbhajan Singh's 15-217 at Chennai in 2000-01 took him into the company of Wilfred Rhodes and Colin Blythe to achieve what feat?

ANS:These are the people who haven taken maximum wickets in a test match without a single BOWLED.

7.What is common to the following Mumbai/Bombay Captains

K.C Abraham,Ashok Mankad,Sunil Gavaskar,Sanjay Manjrekar

ANS:Mumbai has won the ranji trophy 35 out of 39 times.The only 4 times they lost these were the captains on that occasions. (Bailya does it again...Statsguru tussi jai ho!)



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Rupil, welcome. Your blog proves that you wont be a passive reader. Balls says that you write very well...so keep it flowing.
Also I agree with the " Balls splitting" picture...really goofy.

A

Guys,

I found this really really funny.......
As most of u know i read the Message boards on BBC.......quite interesting to read Paki fans views (3rd rate comments laced with the quintessence of paki English).
There is this Paki in that board with an absolutely irritating sign-in name 'chetan2miandad'....stupid fuck. Chutiyagiri likta rehta hai.
Then this godly Indian comes along.....absolutely ingenious piece of sign-in 'Shoaib2Balaji'.......masterstroke......maachod di us paki ki!!!

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Ahhhhh.....first things first..awesome victory mate....1st April.....another date to be remembered for life.

Here r a few Cricket teasers....lets see how many of u get the it right.....

1.Who was the first batsman to be given out obstructing the field in ODIs?(knew only one...)

2.Sanath Jayasuriya has made 30 runs off a single over twice.Who were the bowlers on the two occasions?

3.Who was the team manager who persuaded Gavaskar to return to the field after he threatened to stalk off at the MCG in 1981?

4.Related to worldcups complete the sequence:
Mcdermott,Imran khan,Mcgrath,Saqlain,________

5.Who was the non-striker when Javed Miandad hit that famous last-ball six off Chetan Sharma at Sharjah? (this was the only one on top of my head)

6.Harbhajan Singh's 15-217 at Chennai in 2000-01 took him into the company of Wilfred Rhodes and Colin Blythe to achieve what feat?

7.Had people watched the recent Ranjitrophy finals coverage on television(marked by poor coverage and extremely biased commentary,not to mention my home team losing),U shud be able to get this one.What is common to the following Mumbai/Bombay Captains
K.C Abraham,Ashok Mankad,Sunil Gavaskar,Sanjay Manjrekar

Ill post the answers after u guys give it a shot......
Happy 'Googling' :-)