The N-Western neighbours did a very un-Pakistani job.
No flamboyance.
No come-back-from-the-brink (they did try gallantly to lose it in the end; habits die hard, you see!)
Just plain professional game.
Firstly set a very competitive total - may be a score of runs short; but thereafter apply the bowling brakes like no one's business. The ever-huffing-and-puffing Akthar bowled well and then Boom^2 did a fabulous job. As a bowler he has improved so much; looks like he has had a complete mental make-over :-)
In a way, the Lankans got psyched by the occasion more than anything else. Chamara played an innings worthy of a five-day game. I guess that the islanders will have a good wake-up call after this and are still tipped to do very well in this tournament.
Q Part:
No flamboyance.
No come-back-from-the-brink (they did try gallantly to lose it in the end; habits die hard, you see!)
Just plain professional game.
Firstly set a very competitive total - may be a score of runs short; but thereafter apply the bowling brakes like no one's business. The ever-huffing-and-puffing Akthar bowled well and then Boom^2 did a fabulous job. As a bowler he has improved so much; looks like he has had a complete mental make-over :-)
In a way, the Lankans got psyched by the occasion more than anything else. Chamara played an innings worthy of a five-day game. I guess that the islanders will have a good wake-up call after this and are still tipped to do very well in this tournament.
Q Part:
What I thought to be a tough one proved to be a reasonably tough one indeed.
The graph belongs to the big man, Sir Don. The dots on the graph indicate the games that Australia won. The problem in the graph was of course in the right-side scale which indicated the runs-per-inning figure. We know that the Don ended with an average of 99.94 and even if you include the not-outs, he had an average of 87.75. Either way, the graph failed to represent that.
Raghav, Aditya, Yuva, Siva* and AdarshB: all got the fact that it was Don's graph and something is wrong with the right scale. Only AdarshB got the answer right without any prompting. Full point to him while the others get half.
Honourable mention: Karthik who came in with the fact that it is the Don's graph.
Honourable mention: Karthik who came in with the fact that it is the Don's graph.
Now for today's quiz - an easy one
Drumrolls pleazzzz...
Check the video. To which game can you associate this with?
(c) Idahopotatoes
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B Part:
Here is the current status on the 'B' portion:
Now for the match that a billion and sundry have been waiting for. Please send in your entries asap. Note the timings.
India v England by 16:25 hours SGT Sunday
Answers and guesses to the usual place. (The usual place is my email address, which you can find in the this post!)
Have a great Sunday!
PS: There is an apology in yesterday's post for you to read. Thanks.
PS: There is an apology in yesterday's post for you to read. Thanks.
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