Day 9: Phir bhi bowling hai Hindustani...

The signs were ominous. Got my first parking offence ticket on Sunday. Thought that an Indian win will wash that sorrow away. But it was not to be.

And to talk of the power of one - Remember: India wasted one ball and there was a one-short off the penultimate ball of the Indian innings.

This is what I wrote before the England P3 was taken. Rest, as they say, is history.

Also, there has to be a first. The highest run chase in a world cup game cannot be just 313-7.

In this day and age that had to be much more and India has corrected that little piece of history :-)

Well, for those who are Hindi-challenged, the title means 'still we are talking about Indian bowling!'

In the end, it was a game between two very weak bowling attacks and India came out weaker!

All said and done, Andrew Strauss played a fantastic innings; worthy of a captain. And Sachin restored regular service, by adding one more to his century count. 

Thankfully, this need not be the epitaph of Indian cricket in this world cup, as there are two more minnows to slay and secure that quarter final line up.

Somewhere in Dhaka, Shakib and his boys will be kicking themselves for missing that golden opportunity in the first match :-))

But this game should make ICC happy - 50 overs is still alive and kicking.

Q Part:

The video question has indeed proved to be quite a tough one.

So will keep it open for one more day.

No, it is not Idaho Potato Marathon.

The clue is based on what the video is all about and relating it to a game.

Ok, let me be more explicit. What is the four letter verb that the video is all about. Use that and trawl the web. (no, not that one:-)

So as a repeat...

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. Shiv cracked it by betting on England and cleaning up the booty.

Note the timings for the next games.

Canada vs Zimbabwe by 11:25 hours SGT Monday

Netherlands vs West Indies by 16:25 hours SGT Monday

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 week ahead!