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Monday, January 24, 2005
Being a mega sports lover i am and fond of playing/watching/disucssion multiple sports, this weekend was/is a boon for me because few of my favourite teams and players are involved in action and as i write this, most of them were victorious and that brings immense joy to me.
But above all of that, I myself went to play night match on saturday night with my cousins and man it rocked !! Love playing cricket [ like almost every youth in pakistan does ] and i am actually quite good at it. Lately, all of the playing has subsided due to our cousins being busy with work/studies and loads of other reason but whenver this particular favourite cousin of mine comes from England, our gang of 14-15 guys get together to blast the night away. Last weekend was amazing, because we played a test match and were given a target to chase 58 runs , which were accomplished with much thrill and i carried the team through from start.
Saturday night, same set of guys got together albeit with a couple missing for whatever reasons and I proudly announce my stellar performance of the night :
11 matches played
batted in 9 innings
Scored 18 runs [ out of which 14 were scored in ONE MATCH ]
Bowled 3 overs, costing me 38 runs for ONE wicket.
missed 4 boundries, missed 4 run outs, missed 1 stumping.
But guess what, we STILL won 8 out of those 11 matches !! Now whos to complain as long as we WIN :p Without an iota of doubt, one of the worse EVER days in my cricketing life but i had SO much fun. Sports really get me high and playing nightmatch with cousins is one thing i simply love.
That done, some other sports related update included both my preferred Soccer teams scored convincing victories, tragedy only being their rivals ALSO succeeded and thus maintaining the lead. Man Utd won 3-1 and Real Madrid were victorious too with same scoreline. Thankfully Ronaldo and Zidane are getting back some sort of form finally and beckham too is gaining confidence. Nistelrooy , how i wish that guy to be available for AC Milan matchup, my favourite striker and i believe he is THE most deadliest finisher in the game right now. People often blame him for being not an extra ordinary player. He is not. He cannot be termed in same class as Ronaldo / Henry / Schevenko / Nedved for their overall skills and technique, but the important thing is to score goals and finish the moves to have the ball in net, Nistelrooy is your man.
Moving away from soccer, on to my favourite sport after cricket, Tennis. Sampras was the greatest tennis player, EVER and if there is anyone close to him, its Federer !! That guy is an artist, a brilliant one at that. He can well be the greatest player and may even emulate Sampras in all the accolades which were showered on the american. One has to see Federer to believe what an out of this world shotmaker he is. Most creative, most fluid, and most entertaining player there can ever be, is HIM. Not the rough power basher or a hustler like roddick/hewitt, he makes tennis look SO easy and smooth. His performance in Aussie open is sublime and its going to be a mouth watering clash on tuesday with Agassi. VERY much looking forward to that.
On a side note, for eye candy i think women tennis players are the best thing ever, and Sharapova is my current darling. She too managed to get into quarters..
Now, finally VB series. I need not much to say about it, only that Afridi is my hero. Always was ever since he broke into team and despite his antics, despite having numerous, countless arguments with friends/cousins alike i just cannot hate him or ask to kick him out of team. That guy is superlative player and i totally believe he is MUCH more destructive than Gilchrist/Sehwag/Flintoff Combined. He only need to find a brain which works as well as last for a while, not expire after one match :p Thats about the VB series, will discuss that more as the tournament progresses.
Sunday i was supposed to go to a friend's sister's Dholki practice . Was good, was reluctant to go in first place since i was so terribly sleep but then just dragged myself out of it and went. Was fun. Will see if i can possibly upload the pictures or not.
After that, had a dinner at my sister's place and that was grand !! HobKnob's chocolate cake can so easily compete with Armeen's double choc fudge ! Heaven, absolute heaven i say.
But above all of that, I myself went to play night match on saturday night with my cousins and man it rocked !! Love playing cricket [ like almost every youth in pakistan does ] and i am actually quite good at it. Lately, all of the playing has subsided due to our cousins being busy with work/studies and loads of other reason but whenver this particular favourite cousin of mine comes from England, our gang of 14-15 guys get together to blast the night away. Last weekend was amazing, because we played a test match and were given a target to chase 58 runs , which were accomplished with much thrill and i carried the team through from start.
Saturday night, same set of guys got together albeit with a couple missing for whatever reasons and I proudly announce my stellar performance of the night :
11 matches played
batted in 9 innings
Scored 18 runs [ out of which 14 were scored in ONE MATCH ]
Bowled 3 overs, costing me 38 runs for ONE wicket.
missed 4 boundries, missed 4 run outs, missed 1 stumping.
But guess what, we STILL won 8 out of those 11 matches !! Now whos to complain as long as we WIN :p Without an iota of doubt, one of the worse EVER days in my cricketing life but i had SO much fun. Sports really get me high and playing nightmatch with cousins is one thing i simply love.
That done, some other sports related update included both my preferred Soccer teams scored convincing victories, tragedy only being their rivals ALSO succeeded and thus maintaining the lead. Man Utd won 3-1 and Real Madrid were victorious too with same scoreline. Thankfully Ronaldo and Zidane are getting back some sort of form finally and beckham too is gaining confidence. Nistelrooy , how i wish that guy to be available for AC Milan matchup, my favourite striker and i believe he is THE most deadliest finisher in the game right now. People often blame him for being not an extra ordinary player. He is not. He cannot be termed in same class as Ronaldo / Henry / Schevenko / Nedved for their overall skills and technique, but the important thing is to score goals and finish the moves to have the ball in net, Nistelrooy is your man.
Moving away from soccer, on to my favourite sport after cricket, Tennis. Sampras was the greatest tennis player, EVER and if there is anyone close to him, its Federer !! That guy is an artist, a brilliant one at that. He can well be the greatest player and may even emulate Sampras in all the accolades which were showered on the american. One has to see Federer to believe what an out of this world shotmaker he is. Most creative, most fluid, and most entertaining player there can ever be, is HIM. Not the rough power basher or a hustler like roddick/hewitt, he makes tennis look SO easy and smooth. His performance in Aussie open is sublime and its going to be a mouth watering clash on tuesday with Agassi. VERY much looking forward to that.
On a side note, for eye candy i think women tennis players are the best thing ever, and Sharapova is my current darling. She too managed to get into quarters..
Now, finally VB series. I need not much to say about it, only that Afridi is my hero. Always was ever since he broke into team and despite his antics, despite having numerous, countless arguments with friends/cousins alike i just cannot hate him or ask to kick him out of team. That guy is superlative player and i totally believe he is MUCH more destructive than Gilchrist/Sehwag/Flintoff Combined. He only need to find a brain which works as well as last for a while, not expire after one match :p Thats about the VB series, will discuss that more as the tournament progresses.
Sunday i was supposed to go to a friend's sister's Dholki practice . Was good, was reluctant to go in first place since i was so terribly sleep but then just dragged myself out of it and went. Was fun. Will see if i can possibly upload the pictures or not.
After that, had a dinner at my sister's place and that was grand !! HobKnob's chocolate cake can so easily compete with Armeen's double choc fudge ! Heaven, absolute heaven i say.
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