G.I.Joe
International Coach
You need to get that raw nerve of yours checked out matey...
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Precambrian
Banned
jondavluc
State Regular
Well I'm sorry mate but your username doesn't scream "I have an repectable opinion" So I'm going to stand by my opionion that I think haydos has done nothing wrong and I think you're being critical for no reason whats so ever.
Precambrian
Banned
Hah, WTF? Justifying the dumbwit that's Hayden?
jondavluc
State Regular
For starters dumwit? why don't you add doodie head and poopy brain in there as well.Clearily you have no right to judge someones intelligents.
Second of all yes I think he had his point to make about the slow overates and that everyone is taking his comment out of context.
Precambrian
Banned
Good connection. Linking overrates to India being a third world country. Is he Einstein of Queensland?
G.I.Joe
International Coach
G.I.Joe
International Coach
Its spelled intelligence.
And no, his point regarding the sight screens affecting the over rates is incorrect since external factors are taken into account when calculating the net over rates. You kow your team has really screwed up when you're behind the over rates even after discounting these external factors.
jondavluc
State Regular
sigh.
Well he said they are to blame aswell but none of them own up to the fact they are holding there game up that and the batsmen.We can't really judge this if its true or not because we are not on the field and nethier is wasim so we don't know for sure if its wrong.
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Athlai
Not Terrible
It is "it's" not "its" in that situation. You also spelled know wrong. People need to be careful when pointing out other peoples mistaks.Its spelled intelligence.
And no, his point regarding the sight screens affecting the over rates is incorrect since external factors are taken into account when calculating the net over rates. You kow your team has really screwed up when you're behind the over rates even after discounting these external factors.
Lambu
U19 Debutant
Word.
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
Athlai
Not Terrible
This is also a more apt definition of what it means to be ironic. My work here is done.
G.I.Joe
International Coach
"Me fail English? That unpossible!"I was hoping someone would pick up on the spelled/spelt situation actually
Cevno
Hall of Fame Member
Hayden's short-sighted view
Matthew Hayden's opinions of India are half-cooked redneck tosh, this nation remains, as ever, the 'Land of contradictions'
November 14: Matthew Hayden has wasted no time on his return to Australia in dismissing India as a ''third world country'' - a slight that has not gone unnoticed here. There is no official definition of what exactly constitutes a third-world country but as yet no official study has yet to suggest, unlike Hayden, that it is defined by the number of people moving around behind the sightscreen.
For a supposed third-world country, India can assemble a veritable army of TV stations, radio frequencies, newspapers and websites to defend its reputation as a thrusting economic power. True, if half of those working in the media were building new homes then India would probably be a better place, but then you could also say the same about England.
In the doubtless forlorn hope that India's more nationalistic bloggers are even now venting their spleen on newly-discovered Queensland websites, it might be time to break out, under the cover of Hayden's General Schwarzkopf-style full-frontal attack, and file an addition to the diary. Maybe I can even dare to mention the fact that hotel reception woke me up with a happy ''good morning, sir'' at 6am this morning. But maybe not.
You have to hand it to Matty Hayden, he certainly has an old-fashioned way of looking at things. He lives under the impression that the minute he gets back to Queensland the world stops listening, he can reel off a few redneck opinions and go fishing. But these days the world is so small that no sanctuary remains. Not even Brisbane. (If even one Australian rails about this last line then it will just help to prove my point).
India, of course, is not ''a third-world country''. India, as we have all been taught, is a ''land of contradictions.'' It is a land that can pay Hayden US$375,000 to play for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League then irritate him when it takes half-an-hour to move a sightscreen. ''Land of contradictions'' is such a cliché that a Google search brings up 268,000 results, and here is the latest addition.
I wandered down Rajkot's main shopping street yesterday to buy a camera (so the next time that a Mumbai taxi driver messes up and I mention it in my blog to supposed comic effect I can provide photographic evidence).
The camera was just the job, the service charming, and the payment was pure theatre. In England, if the credit-card terminal didn't work you would be ushered from the shop as a potential fraudster. In Rajkot, ladders were brought, cupboards searched and we soon had three terminals piled high in the hope that one of them would work. The card was swiped 100 times with a wide variety of spin-bowling actions without success. When the shopkeeper tried the doosra it was probably the first time a terminal has ever come back with the response ''rejected due to illegal action.''
It all took so long that I never got the chance to visit Kaba Gandhi's Gate, Gandhi's one-time ancestral home, which now houses a memorial museum. I note with envy that Mr Mann of the BBC did get there, but then he has always been a master of time management and anyway he didn't have to buy a camera.
Rajkot, in English eyes, was once the least salubrious of all India's cricket venues. Vic Marks reminded Observer readers at the weekend of how washing facilities in the England hotel 24 years ago consisted of ''a big plastic bucket and a small plastic bucket.'' Now my hotel has a power shower, Mexican food and a plasma TV screen.
On that very plasma TV screen, I watched Lahore Badshaws beat Hyderabad Heroes in the first of three finals in the Indian Cricket League - that is the unofficial one for those of you still confused by such things.
Some things never change. Inzy grumbled to the umpires about a ball change to the point of insubordination and Tony Greig continually referred to Lahore as ''Pakistan'' with an ill-concealed sense of distaste at their behaviour. The standard was slightly iffy, a crowd of 50,000 in Ahmedabad was frenzied and it was all hugely entertaining. This was a bit of a surprise as I had blithely accepted Lalit Modi's word that it was all a bit of a flop.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/14/englandinindia200809-englandcricketseries
Matthew Hayden's opinions of India are half-cooked redneck tosh, this nation remains, as ever, the 'Land of contradictions'
November 14: Matthew Hayden has wasted no time on his return to Australia in dismissing India as a ''third world country'' - a slight that has not gone unnoticed here. There is no official definition of what exactly constitutes a third-world country but as yet no official study has yet to suggest, unlike Hayden, that it is defined by the number of people moving around behind the sightscreen.
For a supposed third-world country, India can assemble a veritable army of TV stations, radio frequencies, newspapers and websites to defend its reputation as a thrusting economic power. True, if half of those working in the media were building new homes then India would probably be a better place, but then you could also say the same about England.
In the doubtless forlorn hope that India's more nationalistic bloggers are even now venting their spleen on newly-discovered Queensland websites, it might be time to break out, under the cover of Hayden's General Schwarzkopf-style full-frontal attack, and file an addition to the diary. Maybe I can even dare to mention the fact that hotel reception woke me up with a happy ''good morning, sir'' at 6am this morning. But maybe not.
You have to hand it to Matty Hayden, he certainly has an old-fashioned way of looking at things. He lives under the impression that the minute he gets back to Queensland the world stops listening, he can reel off a few redneck opinions and go fishing. But these days the world is so small that no sanctuary remains. Not even Brisbane. (If even one Australian rails about this last line then it will just help to prove my point).
India, of course, is not ''a third-world country''. India, as we have all been taught, is a ''land of contradictions.'' It is a land that can pay Hayden US$375,000 to play for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League then irritate him when it takes half-an-hour to move a sightscreen. ''Land of contradictions'' is such a cliché that a Google search brings up 268,000 results, and here is the latest addition.
I wandered down Rajkot's main shopping street yesterday to buy a camera (so the next time that a Mumbai taxi driver messes up and I mention it in my blog to supposed comic effect I can provide photographic evidence).
The camera was just the job, the service charming, and the payment was pure theatre. In England, if the credit-card terminal didn't work you would be ushered from the shop as a potential fraudster. In Rajkot, ladders were brought, cupboards searched and we soon had three terminals piled high in the hope that one of them would work. The card was swiped 100 times with a wide variety of spin-bowling actions without success. When the shopkeeper tried the doosra it was probably the first time a terminal has ever come back with the response ''rejected due to illegal action.''
It all took so long that I never got the chance to visit Kaba Gandhi's Gate, Gandhi's one-time ancestral home, which now houses a memorial museum. I note with envy that Mr Mann of the BBC did get there, but then he has always been a master of time management and anyway he didn't have to buy a camera.
Rajkot, in English eyes, was once the least salubrious of all India's cricket venues. Vic Marks reminded Observer readers at the weekend of how washing facilities in the England hotel 24 years ago consisted of ''a big plastic bucket and a small plastic bucket.'' Now my hotel has a power shower, Mexican food and a plasma TV screen.
On that very plasma TV screen, I watched Lahore Badshaws beat Hyderabad Heroes in the first of three finals in the Indian Cricket League - that is the unofficial one for those of you still confused by such things.
Some things never change. Inzy grumbled to the umpires about a ball change to the point of insubordination and Tony Greig continually referred to Lahore as ''Pakistan'' with an ill-concealed sense of distaste at their behaviour. The standard was slightly iffy, a crowd of 50,000 in Ahmedabad was frenzied and it was all hugely entertaining. This was a bit of a surprise as I had blithely accepted Lalit Modi's word that it was all a bit of a flop.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/nov/14/englandinindia200809-englandcricketseries
Athlai
Not Terrible
"The doctor said I wouldn't have so many nose bleeds if I kept my finger outta there."
I was hoping someone would pick up on the spelled/spelt situation actually
Precambrian
Banned
Wor(l)d!
Honestly, what is Hayden's preoccupation? Is he trying to "decode" India the country, while he ought to have "decoded" the team India, Anyways, Hayden matches Harbhajan word to word.