Saturday, March 10, 2012

The wall has left the building..!

                                     
                                16 years ago India toured to England to play test series. After losing the first test match India made a couple of changes due to injuries to senior players. Both of these debutant came, One opened the innings and scored a superb 100 other came down at no.6, India in trouble not many remaining after him and scored 95 runs. as everyone know the first was Saurav Ganguly and the next one was Rahul Dravid.
                                  This has been a story of Dravid till now. Many times he has been overshadowed by some other person. A talented player like him should have been the no.1 batsman of his country but because of sheer badluck of Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar was playing Cricket in same generation of Dravid so that's why Dravid became India's 2nd best batsman. But if you go by a technical skills, mental calmness no one can match Dravid, he is simply the Best!

                           
                                  There are loads of loads of great innings he has played. He has won the matches for India or many times has become savior of Team India. No one can forget his amazing partnership with Laxman in kolkata against Australia in 2001. His many great knocks include 233 Against Australia in Australia, 270 in Pakistan against Pakistan, whole series against England in 2011. Players are called great when they perform well in away matches, Dravid has been the master of this thing. He is the first ever batsman to score test Century against each test playing nation on their home soil. The other great thing about Dravid is that he loves to make partnerships. He is the only man who has been involved in 2 over 300 partnership in ODI's. Though not the Sehwag like ODI batsman, Dravid gave a perfect stability to the Indian ODI team. Many criticized him for his slow batting but he proved them wrong with becoming Highest run getter in 1999 world cup. He even did wicket keeping in 70 Odi's as team was needed that badly. He is the perfect example of team man and a gentleman.
                                   Even when he decided to retire he didn't do much fuss about it. He waited for Team India's Australia tour to end and then simply declared his retirement. If a man has played more than 150 tests and 300 Odi's for his country and has scored over 13000 runs in test and 10000 in Odi then you simply call that man with a one word and that is - LEGEND!
                                   For last 12 years India's no.3 position was in safe hands, Team India was protected by The wall. Now I can see a huge empty place on Team India's building as THE WALL HAS LEFT THE TEAM INDIA'S BUILDING..!                            

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Road to WrestleMania!

     I got a good response for my first ever post. Thanks to all of them who viewed my blog. As I said in my last post that this time I will talk mainly on upcoming, WWE's biggest night of the year, Grandest stage of them all, Yes you are right Its WrestleMania!!
     WrestleMania 28 is going to happen on 1st April in Miami, Florida which is Rock's hometown. As the world knows that we are going to see an epic clash between The Rock and John Cena. This is going to be the main event but there are many other great matches which we can look forward to.
      The Best in the world CM Punk is going to defend his WWE championship against The best in the world at what he does Chris Jericho. This is going to be a wrestling classic as both men are pure classic wrestlers. The 2012 Royal Rumble winner Sheamus will face World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan. I am a huge fan of Sheamus and think that he has a great future in WWE. On the other hand I love this new Daniel Bryan. He is doing a great job in his new heel role. Triple H will face The Undertaker in Hell In a Cell match. Was there any single person who didn't like there match at last WrestleMania? and this time they are going into a HIAC means its going to be more awesome! I want HBK to somehow get involved into this feud. He can be a special guest referee for this match as he has history with both of these superstars. There are some other matches which are also shaping up. Cody Rhodes might face Big show and we can have a tag team match for Raw Gm vs SmackDown Gm feud. All in all this WrestleMania is shaping into one of the most Electrifying, exciting, biggest and Epic WrestleMania ever! I am looking forward to it. Are you?