Several thoughts in no way connected to each other run through other.
Ishant's hair: I have talked glibly about it in the past, but it is a loss to the cricketing world :) You know you are succeeding in cricket in India, when you can cut your long hair!
ODIs much too complicated.: I yearn for the days when you could look at the scoreboard and could predict what was needed in terms of runs/overs even in a rain restricted game. Now you score 166, but you mysteriously end up 198 and no one knows the powerplay rules in these cases -- perhaps not even the players, umpires or the ICC.
Rain: Won't the same rain system follow them to Cuttack?
I hear a lot about the ground cannot be covered completely -- but why can it not be? It is afterall a finite space, with clearly defined dimensions, and you don't have to cover it with a precious metal. How about some creative solutions like a low-level retractable roof to be used when it rains to cover the ground (not suggesting indoor cricket), just a mechanism similar to that...? That may be expensive, so how about creating semi-tent like covers or slopping roof facades so that the water drains in areas you want it to drain to? When you have hammers and moppers on the field, I am sure there are viable alternatives for covering grounds.
TV Coverage: To the folks producing this, please note that it is common courtesy to wait till the bails fall out when a wicket is taken, both feet land on the ground and the fielder is given a chance to throw the ball into the air after a catch, or allowing the commentators to finish a sentence before cutting to a advertisement break. You are now competing with DD on the level of coverage!.
Speaking of breaks, the RBS ad puzzles me. I doubt the target audience in India currently has much faith in a foreign bank - so perhaps a wrong time to launch a big ad campaign. And everytime I see it, I think what a nice ad Sachin has done for Raymond and don't think of anything related to RBS :)
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Regarding RBS ad, i totally agree :)
They have got such a huge bailout from UK government and in India,they seem to be wasting money with these ads...
He cuts his hair and it doesn't make much difference doesn't it... it now looks like a designer mop on his head.
As for RBS, their main branch is sinking in the UK.
Actually on second thoughts, I quite like the new hair style.
after his many drops with the Slash look, that last catch should credited to his haircut.
198 was gettable and rough on india. had the target been 167, Eng would still have been 19 short.
that ad is a reflection of our times: when a player becomes a suit.
afan: yes I would have thought they could have stopped the ads :)
scorpicity: he looks his age with this cut and is probably one kilo lighter!
nc: he took that brilliant catch but I don't forsee him stopping many balls on the follow-through :) 198 was gettable - I have been wondering why Shah and Bell did not run well between the wickets. Is the Shah the guilty party there?
he could come bowl day in day out without looking anywhere coz of his hairs...
now he can see things up which may distract him bowling... ;-)
sp: I hope he is able to see the crease and reduce the number of no balls :)
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