Recently, cricketbuzz, a cricket blog compiled a list of Top 53 Cricket Blogs on the Web. Not surprisingly, sixandout got a mention. Kidding of course. We are delighted. We as in the royal third person of course. To say it in HUMAN, “I am delighted!”
Prominent bloggers (check our blog roll) also got a mention. Uncle J too! Still trying to figure out the meaning of “thems the rules, Uncle!”
here is a screenshot  for my keepsake:

Anyways, has been a long weekend. The IPL seems to be entering the business zone (not the money). Shoaib Akhtar is still not playing, but so …read more

 
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It’s official. Michael Clarke has become an issue of national importance for the Australian media. The players just don’t want to stop debating over him.

The best way to do this would be to elevate him to the vice-captaincy in all forms of the game.
–Shane Warne
I don’t necessarily agree with [Warne],” Ponting said in Adelaide. “I don’t think that needs to be the case right now. Gilly’s not going to play forever, we’re all not going to play forever, but Michael’s opportunity is going to come.”
It might not be right now, it might not be six …read more

Pakistan skipper Malik feels that their win in the 5th ODI has “balanced” both the teams and raised his team’s confidence big time. We’ll know soon that he’s highly mistaken.
India called in the reserve bench on ocassion of the last trivial

I must be the next one in line after Vengasarkar and Shahrukh Khan. I have slammed them for their pathetic pitches time and again, I have debated over their selections, played accomplice to their other critters, and done loads of other things that can humiliate and agitate the forces that be at the BCCI.
I have no idea what Vengasarkar has been writing. What do you make of BCCI’s move to curb selectors from writing columns? As for SRK, no one would mind his cricket-watching if he stops carrying dolls with him. Does his son play with dolls or what?
Flame away.

I really don’t. Especially when they don’t know what they are saying. When they shouldn’t be saying it. When they don’t have the right to say it. When they are simply saying it to get some cheap publicity. Like a Basit Ali did.
Malik’s learning, but as I stated on Ottayan’s blog, this series is from being his last. (Okay, some shameless self-promotion there, but I couldn’t help it.)
And ta-dah– Malik’s captaincy has been extended. For a full one year, no less.
In my town, where we’ve just had an exciting match, when someone makes fool of themselves in this manner, we …read more

And I mean it.
Some may not be ready to hail Brett Lee as Australia’s new “spearhead” yet, but he’s cut through the Sri Lankan innings like a torpedo, ripping apart 4 wickets, putting SL on the backfoot completely.
Off the field, he’s signed a deal to compose the World Cup 2011 theme song. Don’t forget: he’s the leading guitarist for Six and Out, a music band run by him and his cricketing friends from New South Wales. His duet with Asha Bhonsle hit the second spot on the Indian music charts last year.
He also believes that, with his kind of external …read more

Sachin Tendulkar has refused to captain India’s Test side for reasons that are unknown to mortals as of yet. Most self-claimed cricket experts (my dad included) are of view that Tendulkar simply lacks executive intelligence-the kind that is needed to lead an international team. He’s no match to Ponting, Waugh, and the like, of course.
Let’s dig up some stats.

Uncle J’s love for Dhoni (his locks, especially) is known to everyone on the blogosphere. Since Dhoni chopped his hair to get a more boy-next-door look, Uncle J has been desperate to know why. Why oh why?
To be honest, I don’t know. I am not one to fan rumors, but some say this has to do with a certain Bollywood damsel Deepika Padukone, who Dhoni is believed to have a huge crush on. If that’s so, well and good, but I think this is an SRK*-cooked publicity stunt for her latest Bollywood movie. Dhoni beware. Padukone is 5′ 9” …read more

Prologue:
I was going to review Warney’s autobiography and boy, was I glad to present my recent epiphanies about the leggie, but what the heck, something spoiled my mood. And here you have a rant.
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For starters, Shashi Tharoor is a former under secretary general of the United Nations. He ran for the post of general secretary, but lost. He’s also a prolific writer, and some 50-60 year olds (women, obviously) I know have found him very “dashing” and “handsome”.
Prior to the start of the World …read more

I am all for originality, creativity and kick-assity (Ugh. Night has had its toll on me.)
So here’s a shout-out to all the great cricket stuff being poured into the unobliging oblivion of the blog-universe.
* The force behind Cricket and All That is surely left-brained. Who wants a really analytical, scrupulous explanation on why India lost in Hyderabad? That pretty much also answers why they lost the series.
* There was some doubt that Uncle J. Rod is right-brained– this post scoured all my doubts away.
* Sledging as a topic is hotter than ever. Everyone’s got a take, and so …read more