The Tigers are in Danger Here

You might be wondering, most of us know that the tigers are in danger, so why am I restating it here. Well, the context is a little different here. It was the IPL match between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super. Shane Bond bowls and Dhoni smashes that low over the long on boundary. There were a couple of people dressed as tigers, the mascot for KKR I guess, and they somehow managed to escape that shot by Dhoni. In comes the commentary, "The tigers are in danger here", the commentator fully aware that Dhoni is one of the ambassadors for Aircel's Save Our Tiger initiative. Wow!! Harsha your presence of mind is truly amazing.

Its not the V anymore, its the A now

I remember my childhood days when cricketing greats used to speak about the importance of playing in the V. If a batsman scores most of his runs in the V area, then he was considered to be technically good batsman. But those days are gone-by.

Watching Brendon McCullum play, the other day againt the Aussies, I was wondering if the V, has been replaced by the A now. Be it Brendon McCullum or Douglas Marillier or Dilshan or even greats like Sachin Tendulkar whose paddle sweep and the uppercut can be categorized as scoring in the A, they have completely changed the major areas of scoring as far as T20s are concerned and ODIs to some extent. I also wonder what Geoffrey Boycott will have to say about this. I guess he would say something like "That's absolutely ridiculous" in that typical Yorkshire accent of his. I am sure that, with audacious shot makers like Sehwag around, it won't be far off when these kind of shots are played in test matches too and I am sure all of us will surely be waiting for those.