Jokes can win you matches– even against the Ozzies.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not too happy with how the series has turned out. But as they say, a win is a win is a win is a….
Soon after Karthik hit the winning four, he was questioned by one of the commentators, “It was pretty tight when you walked in. But it looked like you batted very coolly. How’d you do it?”
He was like, “Nothing much. We exchanged jokes after overs and kept perking each other up.”
That reminds me of a joke that is doing the rounds of the Internet these days. It’s origin dates back to the India-England series, but it keeps reappearing on and off in different forms.
It’s common knowledge now that Team India were shown Chak De India for obvious reasons before the first ODI. As it turned out, they lost it. (My friend at this: Chak De is strictly for hockey folks. They should watch Lagaan.) Then Mascarahens carted five sixes off Yuvraj’s over in the second last ODI. So somebody pouted a snark: “Yuvraj misunderstood Chak De India (For non-Indians: The title essentially means You go India) to be Chhakke De India (pun on Chak De India, which literally means “Let them hit sixes on our balls”)
So when Yuvraj conceded 15 runs in his over in the last match the day before, everyone was like, “What, did he watch Chak De again?”
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14 opinions for Jokes can win you matches– even against the Ozzies.
Stuart
Oct 18, 2007 at 11:03 am
Joking and relaxing is probably a far better approach for the Indian side that the ‘aggressive’ style that they tried to manufacture in the early part of the series. If they are comfortable, they will perform far better than if they try to be something they aren’t
SIXANDOUT
Oct 18, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Yes, that is correct, Stuart. That is why I advocate keeping the seniors for some more time, and culling them slowly– one by one. You don’t win matches on adrenaline alone.
Uncle J Rod
Oct 19, 2007 at 1:09 am
I think khan made a monkey noise, oh how they laughed.
Talking of culling your old players, ganguly anyone?
SIXANDOUT
Oct 19, 2007 at 9:15 am
Yeah, he *should* be the first one to go.
Ottayan
Oct 19, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Why stop with culling?
SIXANDOUT
Oct 19, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Ottayan–
I didn’t mean that they stop it or not do it at all.
I think we can hold on to Tendulkar and Dravid for some more time; we want the young guns to have some folks to look up and lean on to.
This certainly is time for a cull. Ganguly, IMO, should go.
My dad is of view that we should have played the same team that won the T20. You believe the same?
Ottayan
Oct 19, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Ganguly and Dravid and Zaheer should be culled.
Ganguly is past it, Dravid is unfortunately struggling.
Zaheer should be culled and if legal should also be castrated(spell?) because I dont like the way all you young things moon over him.
More or less we end up having the Twenty20 team.
Your Dad is a perspective man, so would like to know why he did not want Tendulkar.
SIXANDOUT
Oct 19, 2007 at 5:01 pm
My dad belongs to the “cull them all (seniors)” campaign. Everyone has their views. I don’t, however, agree with him, obviously.
Zaheer and Agarkar are two people that we can comfortably do without. I don’t understand why they keep getting Agarkar on and off (like he never actually gets to play but scoops up the prize money, nevertheless).
I would like to see someone like Kaif in the team; he’s great for the sport, but heck, fielding isn’t enough to get someone selected.
Uncle J Rod
Oct 20, 2007 at 2:01 am
After culling Dravid, Tendulkar and ganguly you can reinstate Venkatapathi Raju, i miss him.
SIXANDOUT
Oct 20, 2007 at 7:02 am
Ah, now I get what’s with you and Raju.
Uncle J Rod
Oct 20, 2007 at 7:16 am
Is it too late for him to come back? Bet he’d still bowl that amazing arc straight away.
How come you never commented on my Natalie Portman blog?
Ottayan
Oct 20, 2007 at 7:24 am
SIXANDOUT,
At times I had felt that the seniors were clogging up the pipeline. Just festering in the team, milking their career for all its worth and in the process dashing the hopes of talented juniors.
Kapil Dev was my first suspect. Lately; I had harbored the same suspicion on Sachin.
However, his feisty batting during the last two series has made me think there is still some life left in him.
Don’t get me started on Agarkar. For the life of me I could never understand why or how he keeps popping up and confounding our hopes.
Zaheer, sadly seems to have fallen. The zest seems to have gone and complacency seems to have set in. Maybe a stint in the English county will do him good. (I see, you have cleverly sidestepped my attempt to provoke you on his hold over young and ahem…. nubile females.)
Kaif, is one other enigma. Possibly another victim of the obnoxious ‘zone quota’. It has severely dented his confidence.
Like you, I would dearly love to see him in the team.
SIXANDOUT
Oct 20, 2007 at 8:07 am
I think Raju left around the time I started watching the game. Don’t know what became of him.
I think I’ll do a post on Kaif. He’s the most brilliant fielder after Rhodes, IMO. Uncle J may differ on that. Ozzies are always going to vote for Ponting.
I hadn’t heard of Portman before I saw the blog post. And I didn’t find her half as good as Knightley. But I’ll check that post out again!
Uncle J Rod
Oct 20, 2007 at 8:51 am
Symonds is a better fielder than Rhodes, Ponting or Kaif.
I think Rhodes was the best stopper i’ve ever seen. But the dude really didnt hit the stumps enough.
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