Bring me my Bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire!
William Blake
They counted on that sore vertebra of his too much and forgot the man has a formidable spine. In the first outing, pain had chained his reach and rasp. He came late and left early, half cocking a benign dipper into the slips: V.V.S. Laxman, caught Michael Clarke bowled Nathan Hauritz for two.
This morning he put a bone to his back, like a warrior would put sword to scabbard, and strode into the field of slaughter, unbothered that it was already soaked in blood and more would leap to stain his whites. For him this was a classic double-relish moment.
Laxman favours the second innings, he favours a fight to the finish even more. But ever more than any of that, he has a fondness for favouring the Aussies with strokes of silken lashing. It began as an adolescent fancy, punishing the men from Down Under, and then flowered from hobby to habit to hallmark.
As a colt, he played three Under-19 Tests against the Australians in the spring of 1994. The visitors’ attack was laced with such lethal future stars as Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie and Andrew Symonds. Laxman hit three tons and ended the series averaging 110.25. Ricky Ponting’s men should have remembered.
Who is the best Australian player in just concluded First Test Match. The answer is DHOBI. He did everything he could, scored 14 in First Innings. Scored 2 in 2nd Innings. Dropped 3 catches, He is the Australian Player of the match.
Re: who is the best Australian player?
by Ramachandran KA on Oct 06, 2010 10:56 PM
hahaha...
whatever you said, Dhoni already proved that he is the most sucessful caption for all the three formats of the game and he is maintaining our Test team with no1 status for a year and it will go on....
Dhoni is india's costliest player and nobody can replace him...
Guys, I am not sure why lot of people hate tamils. I believe Dinesh Karthik is having the capability to play like Laxman. Only thing is he needs time to groom.
Re: Re: Dinesh Karthik has the capability
by siva kumar on Oct 05, 2010 09:34 PM
The telugus always have the inferiority complex against Tamils. They show their frustration of not able to match by simply scolding, abusing and using foul language against Tamils! They can never be cured! Leave them like that...
Re: Players are/were playing for INDIA
by Ali Mohammad on Oct 05, 2010 05:52 PM
Soorya... touch your heart and confirm that you know NOTHING about cricket? Please understand that cricket is played with one ball and not two.
Re: Players are/were playing for INDIA
by Ali Mohammad on Oct 05, 2010 05:54 PM
This person Soorya is of Karnataka.... he only knows some of the names of Kannada cricket players. Unfortunately he thought that Ravi Shastri is also of Karnataka....... hahahaha.
PLAYED SUCH AN IMPORTANT KNOCK FOR HIS TEAM..THAT TOO AGAINST WORLD BEST OPPOSITION... VVS U R BIGGEST MATCH WINNER INDIA EVER PRODUCED FOR LONGER VERSION OF THE GAME...
Re: I DONT THINK ANY PLAYER SINCE LAST 30 YRS
by Ali Mohammad on Oct 05, 2010 05:26 PM
These Shah Gujaratis are always backstabbers. Do you Shah, there are thousands of other crickets players who played for India and far better than VVS Laxman ? VVS has played good in this game which do not mean that you should make him a player of all time....
Re: Re: I DONT THINK ANY PLAYER SINCE LAST 30 YRS
by kalpesh shah on Oct 05, 2010 05:32 PM
name any player in the history of cricket who played such a gem of knock three times in his career.. scratch ur head and recall ur memeory... and let me know the name of player...
Re: Re: Re: I DONT THINK ANY PLAYER SINCE LAST 30 YRS
by Ali Mohammad on Oct 05, 2010 05:48 PM
If I start writing the names, the whole this blog will not be sufficient. Forget it.. You may please name few players who have not played better than VVS... Iam not denying d fact that VVS is not a good player.. but I am against such type of over exergeration by you people. You are like Indian media... double standards. 2moro if VVS do not play in couple of games then you same people will start cursing him. Sachin is God of Cricket.. Okay, agreed.. but not all others who will play one game in the blue moon and then get disappeared for decades.
Re: Re: Re: Re: I DONT THINK ANY PLAYER SINCE LAST 30 YRS
by srinivasan arunachalaiyer on Oct 06, 2010 05:45 AM
My dear Ali It is not what you hold as records. It is that one innings which gives the country stability and impossible win. There is no use in getting or hitting tons and tons when even a fifty would have atleast saved the match.
I invite all the 24x7 news channels that to discuss how dhoni is incredibly lucky these days, that Don is dead and gone and hence hampering aussie line-up upfront. On the factors that Allan border, waugh bros and hayden have retired and hence weakening their line-up further Similarly on bowling front dennis, thommo have retired Shane and mcgrath have hung boots, so the bowling is also below par SO this victoy of India is indeed over a weakened aussie line up playing test after a long break should not be hailed as great Dhoni is jus plain lucky what say?? Boria
Re: dhoni is a lucky
by Naveen Chandran on Oct 06, 2010 12:41 AM
This is not the first time india winning against Australia - in India - And abt Dhoni - he is lucky with substance - My friend we always had batsmen who could score however Dhoni is lucky coz he also have some very capable bowlers..
Re: mmnnn..mnnn..
by Ali Mohammad on Oct 05, 2010 05:50 PM
One more antiIndian in this blog. I dont understand why these antiIndians rogue around this Indian blog ... cant they be in some poverted sites of their country?
