Passion for cricket

 I have been following cricket since ....perhaps 1981 India -Pak series .... Gone through the moments of 83 World Cup...Ravi shastri's Audi ... 87 reliance World Cup ..courageous Srikanth, brilliant Kapil, Methodical Sunny,wristy Azhar ....and then our best Sachin who truly epitomised our generation ..along with him astute Saurabh, classy Dravid, unique Kumble , lanky Srinath , swashbuckling sehwag. Then come the era of Dhoni' helicopter shot, Yuvraj sixes, spin of turbanator ... And now the fighter kohli with some real quickies in his troop. Earlier we lost more , buckled to the pacy and swingers , hit a few outside the boundary but got hit more, lost more won some , saw the death in the dusty bowls of the Sharjah. Also witnessed the transformation under the shirt wavering Saurab and Mr. Cool with fielding improving leaps and bounds. Now, we win more and lose just a few. Formats changed, 5 days to 60 overs to 50 overs and now the T20s . During this entire period, I followed every single match that India played. Wake up 5 in the morning to say hello to MCG and didn't sleep while the fighters were bowling with broken jaws in port of Spain. The medium changed from a radio commentary to two camera broadcast to coloured cloths and floodlights and more recently cheerleaders.Work took away the time.The only option to follow now is through cricinfo, nevertheless, the love for this game continues.

Fight of the century or the portrayal of bad Guys..

A lot of hoopla on the channels about the fight of the century ....after not following these boxing fights in the recent time, this puzzled me and I tried to do some detailing about Mayweather and Pacquino . Having forgotten professional boxing after Mike Tyson and his famous uppercuts , the read didn't give me any different story . Two bad boys fighting out for millions. Amateur boxing has come in limelight a lot in recent times in India after the medals in Olympics and Mary com on screen portrayal , but these flimsy boxing fights have gone in the background. The promoters are trying hard to sell this Las Vegas fight and money involved is simply mind blowing. Tickets only going to be 72 million dollars...is it going to bring back this kind of boxing once again on the tV - only time will tell. But it's no different from the old fights. I was not born to witness the hype about Md Ali fights especially one with Joe Frazier but very clerly remember Tyson days , had a big poster of him in the room and never cared how bad a guy he was...in fact his bad image, made him even more popular. Suddenly, all these vanished in the new world.. A little difficult to understand why? These two are also bad guys - one is a convicted abuser of women and another one an infamous Philipino politician  with strong sexual views. A little old though , perhaps they should have fought six year ago ... But questions is will this masala is going to bring back the viewers and interest? Americans are known to spend on such hypes and so the rest of world...but not sure how much in today's context .... I will not watch , would you like to see to bad guys trying to kill each other for the money ?