CLASS IS PERMANENT BUT FORM IS NECESSARY

It's exciting , fast , unpredictable .. It's T-20. I believe , and to some extent as we have seen , in T-20 choosing the squad can be a tricky thing . Players should be chosen more on thier form than on thier talent because in this format of the game there is no time to settle down , you have to be upto it right from the word go ! be it the bowlers who might be given one over spells or batsman who are required to get on with the scoring from ball one. Unlike in the longer format of the game where you can take your time and play yourself into form .. here there is no such provision. Consider this an out of form Dhoni ( renowned for his sixes and his hair , now seems to have lost both !!) came to bat and scored a 5 off 12 against the WI whereas the preformances of an inform Dilsan just reiterates the point!

Liverpool Flying High BUT Why??

Liverpool are on an amazing run right now , destroying European Giants Real Madrid,reigniting Title hopes by thrashing Man U 4-1, and walked over 5th place struggling Aston Villa..

Things looking great .. but are they...

They are still behind Man U by 1 pt , but Man U have a game in hand .. which effectively means they are still short of the leader. With international break . there are fears that an injuryTorres or Gerrad may effectively kill thier hope for the Premier League.All this when there competitor rivals Chelsea and Man U had disasterous beginning in the League.

As for the Champions League , they will square off against Chealsea , who were undefeated under Guus Hiddink until the last match against Spurs. If they get through that , they have a minor task of Barca or Bayern . Both clubs in superb goal scoring form and the likes of Ribery or Messi will test the Reds back four.

Will Aston Villa be able to end United !!

Modi's IPL : There's no stopping now !!!

Lalit Modi has done it again .  His motive of organising IPL2 has finally been achieved .. he may have achieved his goal but my respect for him has diminished..

At a time when the largest democracy in the world is going through the process of general elections ,there is an eminent threat of terror attacks security is a major concern ..Lalit Modi , the businessman, thinks about money only and decides to conduct the IPL season 2. Naturally the govt rejected to this 

The IPL comes out saying that all NDA states are providing security but only the congress ruled states are unwilling.

Before all the states could come up with a solution , they(IPL)  in thier haste decides to move hte tournment to South Africa, where there will be lesser crowds and overall lesser interest..

steve bucknor: the escape goat

the indian tour of australia will be remembered for the off field controversy rather than the on field cricket . although the umpiring in the sydney test has not quite been upto international standards
but i don't think it was baised. and sacking steve bucknor i do believe was not the right decision .
it sets a bad precedent , now in every match no team is satisfied with the umpire . with the advent of technology every decision of the umpire is scrutinized and now every other team will appeal against the umpire asking for his removal . the ICC had laid down a system for filing disconsent against an umpire and i think it should have been followed.
i do think umpire was actually made an escape goat to prevent a standoff situation been the indian and the australian cricket board. if the west indian cricket board had the dominance it used to have in the 80's they would have come to the rescue of thier countryman.
and bucknor,who has about 120 odd matches to his credit , has proved his mattle as a cricket umpire and suddenly now him been removed on the basis of poor umpiring grounds does raise some questions on the ICC umpire review committee.

ganguly : should he be dropped

"Dada" as we all love to call him was unceremoniously dropped from the one day squad for the tri-series in australia. But the big question in everybody's mind is should he have been dropped from the side. dada who has had a remarkable '07 season making a comeback into the indian side
, when everybody had written him off, has done nothing wrong really after his comeback.
although he didn't perform well in the last test , but his form in australia has been remarkable .
the selectors have justified their decision saying that dada's fielding was the only criteria and they want to focus on youth, but dada's replacement suresh raina and rohit sharma have not proven themselves in the international format and in australia conditions are as tough as the opposition
who look to play on the individual's mind before he even enters the field.
imagine a situation when india are 20/3 with a rohit sharma or a suresh raina entering into bat as opposed to ganguly. this keeping in mind that yuvraj singh is looking out of touch and out of sorts and dhoni has not been in his usual self , and suddenly our world renowned batting line doesn't look that formidable.
so the decision to leave out ganguly is all the more baffling.....

messidona .. has he got it all ..!!

The guy's name is Lionel Messi ..
he's the talk of the town . Has already scored a goal which is termed as the "GOAL OF 21 CENTUARY " and even a "HAND OF GOD" . He's the next big thing in the football world
and tipped as the next MARADONA..
but is all the hype surrounding this #18 justified . can he lift the trophy for this already star studded argentina side the WORLD CUP ?? can he do what maradona has already done ??