Well, that is the sound of me eating my own words...
An excellent victory by the Tigers. Garroting via left-arm orthodox spin. Many of the deliveries kept so low that they almost reflected the mood and morale of the South African team.
How the media hypes up the coaches was pretty evident during the dying stages of the match. Of course, Barry Richards, Ian Smith, Darryl Cullinan - all of them were still hoping for a SA victory when the asking rate was about a dozen per over. Well, blame that on backing the top seed. What followed was hilarious... A few balls before Ntini's dismissal, the camera panned on the forlorn face of Mickey Arthur, the SA coach. He definitely looked like a man who was facing the gallows and was for all practical purposes doodling and dawdling on the paper in front of him. But what does Cullinan have to say about Mickey the Mortimer: "Oh, there he is taking notes of everything and strategising!" Not sure whether Darryl was having his tongue firmly in the cheek or not.
Now for the Can-You-Do-It-Without-Googling Trivia...
(Just to show that there is life outside cricket, however small! No points; Pure quizzing!)
Answer to the previous question: 78.
Seems to be an easy one. Sivasubs cracked it in the first 30 minutes after publishing. Others who got it are: Anand Re, Guru, Muthiah, Ganesh TCS, SriniK (new entrant). Funnily, the number of correct answers have been split equally between smokers and non-smokers! Rohit thought that it was a trick question and that you can't make ciggies with ends; Beedi ka Tukda, anyone?
(Just to show that there is life outside cricket, however small! No points; Pure quizzing!)
Answer to the previous question: 78.
Seems to be an easy one. Sivasubs cracked it in the first 30 minutes after publishing. Others who got it are: Anand Re, Guru, Muthiah, Ganesh TCS, SriniK (new entrant). Funnily, the number of correct answers have been split equally between smokers and non-smokers! Rohit thought that it was a trick question and that you can't make ciggies with ends; Beedi ka Tukda, anyone?
Today's question is also from math:
- A confused bank teller transposed the dollars and cents when he cashed a check for Ms Tan, giving her dollars instead of cents and cents instead of dollars. After buying a newspaper for 50 cents, Ms Tan noticed that she had left exactly three times as much as the original check. What was the amount of the check? (Note: 1 dollar = 100 cents)
Keep the answers rolling into the usual mailing address. Three prizes at the end of the world cup for the best performers.
Until the next one...
No comments:
Post a Comment