India-Sri Lanka encounters have always been as capricious as English weather. While Sri Lanka is hard to beat at home, the fact that, Indians have acclimatized to the Lankan conditions very well as they have been playing almost 40 percent of their cricket on Lankan soil since Asia cup 2008, almost negates home advantage for Lankans.

India’s chances of winning this ultimate finale will be highly augmented if Virender Sehwag continues his stupendous form. Sri Lanka will be heavily relying on their pace spearhead Malinga to shatter India’s top order.

As far as batting is concerned Sri Lanka has a little edge over Indians. Indian batsmen have been in miserable form throughout the tournament. Young brigade of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik has a combined aggregate total of 94 runs in 4 matches. These figures clearly macerate chances of India posting a mammoth total batting first. On the other hand, Dilshan, Skipper, Jayawardene and Tharanga are among the runs. Kapugedera and Thisara Perera can be dangerous lower down the order.

Salubrious swinging conditions give slight advantage to Indian new ball bowler Pravin Kumar as he can be really lethal with new ball in such conditions. He is certainly the key factor in Indian bowling department. If Ishant Sharma is allowed to share new ball with Kumar, then it eliminates the risk of Nehra being hit all over the park by left-handers just like he always does. Mainga with his uncanny ability of bowling Yorkers is going to test Indian batsmen while Kulsakera’s nagging accurate pitching can give tough time to them.

However, if Munaf is retained for tomorrow’s game, he can prove imperative as fourth bowler. Inclusion of R.Ashwin in place of out of form Jadeja can add another dimension to bowling. While, Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera provide Sangakkara with plenty of options to use in middle overs.

On the whole, Sri Lanka looks more balanced to win the finale.

In spite of their abysmal show in last two seasons, my support is intact for Mumbai Indians. For uninitiated, its solely because of none other than Master who is leading the team. I know our team  has its lows but MI is all set to start afresh and rock. MI’s gonna start their campaign against mighty Royals headed by our very own magician Warne. Stage is set for mother of all battles as Warny has already tweeted about resuming 20 year old battle against his good friend!! Rajasthan Royals bowling attack looks to be seriously augmented by fastest bowler on earth, my personal favorite Shaun Tait. Tait has been amazing last summer, and more importantly he is in his fittest physical state.

For tomorrow’s game, MI’s 4 foreign players should be,

Pollard, Malinga, Bravo and JP Duminy.

Pollard adds immense value to the team as team always lacked a quality all rounder. We all have seen what Pollard is capable of in Champions League T20. Let’s hope he continues his blistering form in IPL as well.

Warnie has already showed his concern about Sach’s batting position. I guess he should stick to his tried and tested opening slot. He knows the best in any case, so whatever he will do, he will do the best.  My proposed eleven for MI is,

Sachin, Bravo, Ajinkya Rahane, JP Duminy, Ambati Raidu, Aditya Tare (wk), Pollard, Abhishek Nayar, Harbhajan, Zaheer Khan, Malinga.

Yeah, team looks a little bit batters heavy, but this is the best combination I think of. We have 3 specialist bowlers i.e. ZK, Bhajji, Malinga. So, 8 overs will have to be shared between Bravo, Nair, Pollard. Bravo and Pollard are taken in the team as all rounders, so they have to be trusted for their bowling abilities as well.

With this combination, it seems MI’s gonna own RR. Bring ‘em on.

All the best. Duniya Hila Dege, Hum!!

Indians always rock!!!!

Yeah, but these words are describing my life in its current form. I’ve been working on web development since a little more than 8 months, and have acquired significant expertise in a technology or two. What is bugging me the most is, my learning curve is getting flatter and flatter day by day, totally in contradiction with my stupid belly, that is increasing at a rapid pace. I hit the gym to counter that belly part but yet to find a solution for learning curve. When I started to work with websites, I thought of setting up a long term goal and shifting to it, once enough mullah is accumulated. After such a long time, sadly, I haven’t been able to acquire enough money and neither I have a goal to look up to. I still can’t decide when to stop and shift to something really significant from this websites.

I considered plenty of options. One of them had always been, joining a good C-school. With the time and experiences, I came to a conclusion that all C-schools kinda suck and the industry itself sucks. So, I immediately dropped the idea. I was thinking about various products but I always fell short of knowledge, money, workforce and determination. All I lack is, an idea that immediately strikes chords of euphoria. Other thing is masters in a really good school with total funding in good ol’ Uncle Sam. I may sound totally weird to regular visitors of my blog, but in these year and a quarter, I have matured a great deal. I have come a long way.

Anyways, I am buying my time. I hope I can reach to a conclusion as soon as possible. My risk taking capacities are getting decreased with the time, so I gotta act fast.

Photo Courtesy : Ahmedabad Mirror

Take a look. Aesthetically displeasing?. I know. The story hidden beneath this picture is more displeasing and alarming. No, it’s not just another terrible story of  slum dwellers whose grievances are not being heard by administrative bodies. Should we criticize Danny for making Slumdog?  Aren’t we the ones who keep providing those atrocious tales to those who wanna propagate these stereotypical outlooks?

Danny, I have a better idea for you. Now first we gave idea of Slumdogs and now we present to you our SLUMDOCS. Confused? Now there isn’t any typo in the statement above. Ya, the building(?) that you see in the picture is a hostel for resident doctors of THE B.J. Medical College commonly known as Civil Hospital. Yeah, I am talking about that very hospital which claims to be Asia’s best. This scary looking scaffold like structure houses those who are best of the lot. You need to be among first 50 to get admission in this bloody college. These guys are not getting education for free. They keep this place alive. Consultants, barring some generous few, visit only when their ‘near’ ones are admitted. It’s resident docs who take care of people, at a meager stipend of 12000 rupees. And, what do they get in return? This?

I have always that respect for doctors no matter some of them have turned out to be real devils. They are always respected. Now, as they have decided to raise their voice against this ill-treatment our vibrant government is just not ready to listen to it. On the contrary, they are threatening to impose ESMA -Essential Services Maintenance Act-. I just wanna ask, how do you justify this building? Are you short of funds? You must be kidding people, we can’t feel it when those celebrations are carried out in order to celebrate those fruitless MOUs. An already plush bungalow is renovated for an IAS officer who is gonna stay in it for hardly a year at a whopping cost of 25 lakhs. Is it the way to treat those who actually TREAT us? When Docs in other states can get much better facilities and quite better stipends, why can’t the golden land of rich Gujjus provide it? Our beloved CM claimed his victory in last election as state’s victory then I am compelled to ask that, are triumphant treated in this way?

So far we have confirmed our berth in super 8s with pretty ease. If my calculations are correct, we are gonna be fighting for semifinal spot in the group stage against Proud Porkies, Whites with the black cloths, and fans of Akon. Our record against island dwellers hasn’t been that great and I am damn sure we are gonna win the first T20 against them. Fans of Akon are as capricious as their idol’s live performances. If Big Red Monster is in disastrous mood, he can make mockery of any bowling attack. With our bowlers like, Ir-the slow- fan and RP-the uncontrolled- Swing anything can happen. We are gonna keep intact our WC record against divided Porkies for sure. So, We are most likely to finish at the first place of our group. So, I guess It is gonna be India-Sri Lanka and New Zealand- South Africa semifinals. I hope we go through and win this one as well.

Cheers!!!!

OMG!! Before I finish this post I realized that I got it all wrong. As I said if my calculations are not wrong but provided that I totally suck at Math they were wrong. I mean A1,B2,C1,D2 were fixed from very beginning. In that case, Our blues are gonna face The greats (yeah the only country which puts an adjective in front of its name), The Akon fans and The Caps of good hopes. I guess in that case, the Caps would be very tough to beat. But eventually with the two bonus points from league stage India should qualify for semis at second spot from group E. From group F Whites with The Black Cloths and Ravans would easily qualify leaving porkies moaning. Stage is set for Champs versus Proteas finale.

Cheers again!

Disclaimer :

I am still bad at Math so don’t rely too much on this post and place your bets. This predictions can go miserably wrong.

A vivacious welcome with colgate (happy!) faces to 45 days of Hawell’s (Electrifying) extravaganza called DLF Indian Premiere League 2011. What an atmosphere, what a place to be!! Ground is full with nerolacs (colors!) and earth-shattering Philips 500 MWs (sounds, u see) of the great Indian cricket fans!! It’s our Chevrolet promise that it’s gonna be raining DLF’s and citi moments of success.

Two captains are out here for toss with Pepsi toss ka boss Mr. Chintan!! Both the captains will be presented a lux cozy each as “apna luck pehn ke chalo”!! Dhoni has won the toss thanks to Lux Cozy and he has decided to bat as he thinks pitch is as flat as new LG flatron 220. On the other hand Yuvi doesn’t have much to regret about losing the toss as he thinks he also has good bowlers who are as fast as new Hero Honda Hunk “Kyunki Raftar mein hain Dum”!!!

It’s great to see Yuvi marshalling his troops with such a great close up confidence. Batsmen will need to keep clinic all clear cool head to first assess the situations. First ball and here’s our first DLF maximum!! Oh, what is SreeSanth doing on the boundary line? He seems to be giving his idea numerical autograph to his chirpy fans!! And, here’s the first citi moment of success for KXIP. And another one on the very next ball!! This is awesome, tale of two cities, here!!

courtesy Bleed India Campaign!!

I have some other things to offer as well…

Give him meal coupons for everyday at the very same Taj Hotel.

Give him all those Jannat ki hoors for whom he decided to abnegate his life!!

Give him all those Amitabh Bacchan movie DVDs which he claimed to like in one of the exclusive interviews by some freaking news channel.

Announce a bailout package for his ailing father in Pakistan and also offer him a job at very same CST. As after all he is one of our spoiled brothers only!! (courtesy : Shivraj Patil )

Give him some free return tickets to Pakistan.. I bet they will find some airlines to sponsor that. Ya, give his relatives frequent fliers points as well.. So, he can bring more of our spoiled brothers at lower rates!!

I am damn sure Samajvadi Party is seeing a star campaigner in him for elections 2014!! He can be an ideal successer of Sanjay Dutt, Abu Azmi..

I just understand what kinda trial would that be? What can be the statements from defense lawyer of Kasab..

If you can think of them, please respond through comments!!

Who acts at the times of election? Do we really care to know about our representatives? Do we even care to ask about their plans? Do we actually care what on earth does that idiot think about Non-conventional energy resources or Nuclear energy? Are we botherd about what does our leader think about tightening the security at coasts or even for that matter are we actually bothered about whether she/he knows full form of GDP?

No, and why the bloody hell should we? We have lot bigger issues to tackle. What religion he belongs to? What cast he belongs to? Will he be intersted in making temple where it actually needs to be? Will he be supporting subsidies to Haj Pilgrims? Will he speed up the process of hanging Afzal Guru? Will he be able to stop auctions of Gandhiji’s belongings?

We keep inspecting all those futile facts and they act the most when they are actually needed to. Top gainers of this drama are regional parties. None of the national parties has done any significant work so that they can ensure clean majority. Regional parties know that very well and they start to understand their roles as king makers very well. They start counting dollars and they spend according to the expected output. I suspect,  they must be thinking like, see, we are gonna get this amount to support this alliance so we can spend around this much money in election to remain in profit. Now take a look at this,  All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen , Republican Party of India (Athvale), Sikkim Democratic Front, Indian Union Muslim League. These all parties have only one MP. Now, you must be a total noob if you believe these losers had not taken a single penny to join UPA. Now, these sycophants are gonna make national parties do salsa on their underheaded and vicious ways.

Some exceprts from Taran’s review on Indiafm.

“Priyadarshan is synonymous with ha-ha-thons.”

okay, are you sure Taran, were you really laughing in, Bhagambhag, Dhol, mere baap pehle aap, chup chup ke, kyonki, hulchal and yeh tera ghar ye mera ghar????????.

“The story actually takes its inspiration from the legendary friendship between Lord Krishna and Sudama”

I hope Taran, you had your own share of elimentry education and read the story properly. The Krishna-Sudama story was all about meeting of old pals. In that story, Lord Krishna starts his journey to meet Sudama, and the most wonderful moments of the story were the moments they share after meeting each-other. Here, two friends meet and the movie gets over. Thank god. The best moment of the movie.. The end!!

“In this case, the story talks of the friendship between a superstar and an ordinary mortal who runs a salon.”

Really? I thought they showed some pathetic songs and poor protagonist’s struggle to make two ends meet.

“There’s a generous dose of glamour as well, given the fact that the protagonist’s friend happens to be a superstar, but what actually works for the film is the simpleton’s story.”

Glamor? I don’t know glamour to you means actresses clad in unnecessarily skimpy outfits and SRK wearing some really sadakchhap dresses!!

“Although the film is engaging, Priyadarshan reserves the best for the finale this time, when the superstar reminisces about his childhood friend and the deep bond that they shared. The end is remarkable and is sure to strike a chord with all sections of moviegoers.”

The oscar for the most predictable end of the year goes to BILLU. Ahem ahem!

“This tale of friendship is sure to steal your heart!”

No!!! my heart is reserved for some better stealer!!

“The story takes an INTERSTING turn when Billu’s life collides with the superstar’s. And the assorted characters — right from an aspiring poet/lyricist [Rajpal Yadav], to a stingy money lender [Om Puri], to the principal of the school [Rasika Joshi] — everyone wants favours from Billu. These characters only make BILLU more interesting.”

INTEREST! Did I read interest there?  yeah this was the word I was looking for. No, not in your review, neither in dictionary but in da movie, you noob.

“SRK’s track is equally fascinating and only spices up the proceedings. In fact, Priyadarshan has amalgamated the three songs [featuring SRK with Deepika, Priyanka and Kareena] in the narrative smartly. Not once do you feel that you’re watching two stories concurrently.”

Oh my gosh! Most pathetic songs off late. Totally misplaced in the movie and this man finds them facinating. Should I tell you to get a life or will you help yourself?

“The best part of the enterprise is its climax.”

I swear most of the watchers in drive-in had started engines of their cars during this part of the movie. So can you tell me what was that?

“Pritam’s music is energetic.”

Yeah, that’s true. They really instilled me with immense energy to take a danda and push it up to his arse!! Bloody cheapo!!

“On the whole, BILLU is a sweet-n-simple film that lingers in your memory even after the show has concluded. The final 20 minutes are the highpoint of the enterprise and that elevates the status of the film to great heights. The film has the potential to grow with a strong word of mouth. Recommended… Take your family for this one!”

You f****r! How much did you get paid for writing this? Kaha Gaye aapke aadarsh, Mr. Aadarsh?