Adios great bowlers

Well this is a small report of what is happening in world cricket. A lot of people have already written about it and yet i had to write about it because i am seriously dis-heartened by what i saw. In a recent ODI between India and SL there were 800+ runs scored. To a few people it might have been great cricket. But to me it was utterly disgusting. Cricket to me is a contest between bat and ball. But the t20 format and certain ODIs on flat dead track is so boring. It has become a contest to see who can hit the ball harder and longer. Cricket to me is a beautiful where a reverse swinger from a Waqar and Wasim is bending into the batsman foot and a really talented batsman like Tendi or Lara digging it out. That makes for super viewing. If this is how cricket is going to be played i am sure in the near future if I am given the responsibility to lead a side, I would play 11 batsmen. And hope that 10 of them can turn their arm (one keeper). Not bowl those amazing in-swinging yoker or a nice drifting leg-spin. But just turn their arm. Coz anyway the batting side is going to score at 8-9 an over. I would atleast be confident that I will be able to chase down that target with 11 batsman on my side. Adios great bowlers of yesterday. The likes of you the world might never see again. They say proof of the pudding lies in its taste. Just look at world cricket and how many great bowlers do you see. There are a lot of good bowlers, but no great bowlers. Most teams till the recent past did have great bowlers. So there you have the pudding and the taste also.

Brush with Belgian Royalty

Well it happen a few weeks back that the Princess of Belgium visited our lab. And I had an opportunity of seeing a real life Princess LIVE. This is the first time in my life that I have seen royalty in such close quarters. I know it looks very lame for me to blog about this, but lets face I was super excited the day it happened. So I just wanted to share my excitement with a few ppl who read this blog. Here are a couple of photos from the visit. I am barely visible on them, but I am in the same frame as Royalty. How many of you can lay claim top it ;). Click on the photo to enlarge them and then have a look :).