Saturday, March 14, 2015

Day 28 - MS 'Dhool' Dhoni!



My anarchist dictionary has this following entry for Dhool:
Dhool
adjective -  rocking, awesome; ety: Chennai Tamil slang
noun 
1. A block-buster Tamil movie from the noughties
2. A 'wannabe' reality Tamil dance competition show in Singapore Vasantham TV
So you know that MSD rocks, is awesome and belts out block-busters regularly! No, he is not a 'wannabe'. He is the real deal!

Within a span of a few seconds @ 4:45 pm SGT today, there were two sixers hit about 2500 km apart in Hobart and Auckland. Both the sixers sealed two high-pressure games for two very good teams who have the potential to go all the way - except that they are most likely to meet in the semis itself :-(

Australia had the bigger pressure to fight against nature - no, definitely not the Scots! That was needed as they probably wanted to avoid SA in the QF. Actually, I would have preferred to play SA rather than the mercurial Paks! You never know, which one would turn up on a given day - Anniyan or Ambi! (from another blockbuster by Vikram)

India did everything to the T. First allowed a dream batting finale for Taylor. Got a 6/6 in all-out stakes. Made sure that the top-order got out early to create the artificial pressure. Raina tried to give Sir Jadeja some batting practice (but volcano Masa did not oblige!). Pressured Taylor to set strange fields - fine-leg and third-man up for so long! Wrote another MSD-is-the-coolest chapter. 6/6 indeed!

Speaking of writing, Saurav was heard on air, "I hope that Dhoni writes about his field placements in his book!" This was in response to a bye-wicket-keeper position that MSD persisted with, when Taylor and Williams were whacking the spinners!

G-Section:

Look out for the knock-out G-Section approach on Monday!

Interesting that more people guessed for the Aus vs Sco game than the India game. Worried about jinxing the blues, perhaps?





Tomorrow's games are key for the final standings - naturally. West Indies has to fight against nature and Gayle's back. The battle of greenies (yet another one!) will be fun to watch!


UAE vs West Indies @ Napier by 0530 SGT 
(rain, rain, go away!)
Ireland vs Pakistan @ Adelaide by 1100 SGT 
(can't come again another day!)

Get your guesses for the last pool-stage games on!

Q-Section:

Was it so tough? 
Ok. Question open till tomorrow.
Here is the additional clue for 2 points.

What did Surpanaka lose that has a connection to the upside-down picture?


Answers and guesses to the usual place.

(The usual place is my email address/FB PM/Whatsapp; details of rules/ranges etc., are at http://sribees.blogspot.sg/2015/02/gq-15-here-we-come.html)

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