Lets not stop praying....

WARNING: Involves a lot of Tamil words....

After an excellent "vekkam ketta" perfomance in the First Innings, the much fancied Indian Batting line-up gave us more of the same,but now improved,versions of how to crumble easily, in the second innings. I want to find those people who said India had a good chance of achieving the impossible,that is conquering the Aussies in Australia, and strike upon them with great vengeance and furious anger. Dei i want to ask all of you only one question da....If you ppl say it is mission impossible, appram epdi da "good chance" irukka mudiyum???

These inglorious bastards have made real fools out of the Indians by giving us a lot of myths. I sure do smell a conspiracy to increase the popularity of cricket in countries like India by the ICC. I can see the same thing happen to teams like Namibia, Bangladesh , Kenya and all some twenty to thirty years later. These are the following myths.

1.India has the best batting line-up:
Adhellam oru mairu kediaadhu!!! ..The number of Australian batsmen having 50+ averages is two more than the number of Indian batsmen with 50+ average in Tests. Some may argue averages are not the greatest indicators, and still maintain Indians have the strongest batting line up, and it is just that they do not combine well.A line up that does not combine well 3 out of 5 times is not a line up at all, let alone it being the strongest line up.

2.Indians are good players of spin:
Idhellam ungulukke overa therilla???.Ivanunga enna spin aadinanga nu engalukku theriaadha... England(I cant think of one quality spinner who played for England in a long tym,now of course ther's monty), West Indies, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe(do these have cricket teams??) indha teamoda spinners adikardhellam kanakkula edukallena Indians wud be no good against spin bowling. Here of course, i am not considering occasional spurts of brilliances (Sachin vs Warne kinds..).

It is important to get these myths out of our minds, then may be Indian defeats will make more sense to us.

Hero moment: Hogg's flipper to Yuveraj singh.
Zero moment: Yuveraj staying in the crease after getting dismissed by hogg for more than the normal tym taken by a batsman to go out of the crease after a dismissal.( naa anga irundhu andha oru ball le out aagirindha, adhu "no-ball" irundha kooda immediateaa kelambi poirupen)


Now that the first test is history lets pray for a revival. I mean, there is no sign of rain anywhere in Australia. But we ll hope against hope and pray to the nature gods to shower heavily thereby abandoning at least one of the test matches. That way, we can be certain we will avoid a whitewash.