Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:29 pm:

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Onlymovies:

more than 20 ducks

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:27 pm:

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Musicfan:

ee chamundi gadi ki andaritonu godavalu unnattunnayi gaa

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:21 pm:

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Maanas:

eediki edo record undi, line ga ducks anukunta

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:18 am:

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Maanas:

eediki edo record undi, line ga ducks anukunta

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:18 am:

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Esperanza:

Azhar ki Chamundi gadiki godavalinayi.

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:13 am:

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Tingari_xx:

agarkar dabbulu tiskokunda ne antha baga aadadu ante dabbulu tiskuni vunte :

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:00 am:

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Tingari_xx:

affatlo strong rumor vunde rao garu, donno how far its true

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:20 am:

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Tingari_xx:

agarkar dabbulu tiskokunda ne antha baga aadadu ante dabbulu tiskuni vunte

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:00 am:

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Tingari_xx:

azhar ki harsha ki godava aindi appatlo, any idea

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:43 am:

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quote:

Harsha wrote a classy biography of Mohammad Azharuddin

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:41 am:

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Not really, I was watching various teams for various reasons. Like watching KKR with the sort of morbid fascination you bring to a train wreck. Or watching Warne's outfit to see if he could outdo his own first season performance, produce a different bag of tricks.

All the tricks in the world though, won't help you produce rabbits out of the hat if you only have squirrels -- what can you do?

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:37 am:

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The flip side to that is, I see a generation today, some at least of whom are totally content with the perks of being a cricketer without having to do the hard yards, the glitz, glamour, Bombay party circuit, all of that.

We are also seeing a generation coming, I saw it first in IPL 2, where there were some three, four players who didn't want to play Ranji Trophy for the two months before the IPL for fear they would get injured and miss out they just wanted to go to the NCA and train, and these are the players who in IPL 2 were bigger and slower than they were in IPL 1.

The word goes around quickly, even though I am not part of the hard core circuit, the word goes around that these were the guys who didn't want to play domestic cricket.

And the more the IPL starts rewarding under-19 cricket -- and I hope that thing stops; we won the U-19 World Cup and we should reward them, that is okay, but I think we should stop under-19 cricket completely. Or have an under-19 tournament that is hardly ever reported -- but don't make stars out of under-19 players, maybe that is one way of ensuring that 23, 24 year olds don't play under-19 cricket.

I mean, I go to the IPL and at one point I was telling someone, let's not put the ages on, it's getting embarrassing to read the ages, because by no stretch of imagination can some of these people be 19, 20, 21. No chance.

What happens is, you show you are under 19, to play at that level, so three years later you can only show you are 22.

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:32 am:

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Tingari_xx:

ee mukka ipudu telsinda

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:32 am:

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VVS's big argument is that he gets dropped only when India was playing some no account team, so someone else could score hundreds and beef up their averages.

My complaint with the Rohit Sharmas and Suresh Rainas is, why are Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman still guaranteed selection in the Indian Test team? Shouldn't you be pushing them?

You push them and then you say, ah, Rahul is class, Laxman is class -- but are Rahul and Laxman being pushed for a Test slot? And therefore, is it even the ambition of this generation to push them for a Test slot in the first place?

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:29 am:

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Yeah, and similarly Tendulkar's obsession with practice is legendary.

Right, and yet he goes through phases where he doesn't want to bat. Like apparently Gavaskar went through the entire 1987 series against England without playing a single ball in the nets. He just didn't want to bat -- and the first ball he faced, in Chennai, he straight drove Bruce Reid for four.

I think the great players know their game, their game is all built on hard work. And I sometimes wonder if the Rainas and the Rohit Sharmas know that.

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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:27 am:

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While on that, one of the best cricketing quotes from recent times was during the Ashes, when one of the commentators said something about how a player had made the same mistake again, doesn't he practice at all? And Ian Chappell almost off handedly said, 'Oh well, it depends on what he is practicing -- he could be practicing his mistakes.'??

Which is so true! I've heard this story about this Indian batsman who didn't feel comfortable playing the short pitched ball, and he didn't want to seem be worried by the short pitched ball, so he only played volleys in the nets so that he could feel good.

It's like, suppose we were very weak at logarithms, in math, but we insisted on doing only additions or subtractions before the exam. You felt very good because you were getting all your sums right, but that is not what is going to come in the exam.

So you can practice your drive all you want, but that is not what is going to come at you, it is the short pitched ball. Probably that is why, earlier they said practice makes perfect, now they say perfect practice makes perfect.

I think you'll find that true of the good players. I'm sure Warne busted his gut at practice. When he was feeling good he didn't, but when he wanted to, he did. You see the story of Warne, Tendulkar, of the geniuses, and you realise their genius came out of the nets.

When things were going wrong Warne went to the nets and bowled his shoulder out.

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