Me, Myself & Ronchi

[Sudeep]

It's off-season again, which means it's time to go out of CWLand to play club cricket elsewhere. Last season at Perth was exalted, truly nonpareil - despite the fact that Dave Watt self-promoted himself to the captainship of the WA side, which is just too illustrious a job for a Red. But he proved me wrong, we did quite well under him, and I've to hand that to him.

This season in CWLand wasn't too great for yours truly, I lost my place as a regular in the OD squad, and the FC matches performances too couldn't be aglowed with some glaring performances; instead it was a pretty flat contribution. Does that make me pessimistic about the prospects of making it to WA this time around? To be honest, they do a little. For a fact, despite an awesome season for WA overall last time, my performances weren't too impressive, bar a couple where I really outshone Hoggy. I needed a good season back home, which I couldn't deliver.

I still hope though. I've been working on bowling pace as well; though it'd be a complete tangent to what I've been doing all my career, useful help from fellow Blues pacers has inculcated a desire, a willingness to change tracks in order to prove more useful to whichever side I play. And ofcourse, there's Ronchi to put in a good word to the cricket board at WA about me.

Plus, it would be a shame to change the diary's title!

 

[Kweek]

haha good story
come play club cricket in holland ;D

 

[Sudeep]

haha good story
come play club cricket in holland ;D

It's the next option - It has brilliant weather, beautiful scenery and unbelievably hot babes, but I shall keep cricket first for the time being, and there's no better place for it than Australia.

 

[aussie]

sundeep when ronchi, told u he aspires to play for india was he serious or just kidding around, because i find that very odd

 

[Sudeep]

sundeep when ronchi, told u he aspires to play for india was he serious or just kidding around, because i find that very odd

It's Sudeep.

And he didn't tell me directly. It's an inside story which was leaked to Dave Watt.

 

[Kweek]

It's Sudeep.

you know what we say in holland then ... Mierenneuker

 

[Sudeep]

you know what we say in holland then ... Mierenneuker

What?

 

[The Baconator]

I know what that translates as and it isn't very nice.

 

[Neil Pickup]

you know what we say in holland then ... Mierenneuker

Do you think we're complete idiots or something?

It doesn't take a minute to whack that into google and discover what the rubbish that you're spouting means in English.

Think. Before. Typing. Then think again before pressing "submit"...

Warning.

(Thanks for alerting us to that, Alex)

 

[Sudeep]

you know what we say in holland then ... Mierenneuker

You want to end up in the east-Perth lock-up with Watt?

 

[Kweek]

Mierenneuker is a joke word in holland and not at all offensive, you can ask every dutchman and all will laugh its means something like making from a small problem a huge one !

edit : dutch word book : mie·ren·neu·ker (de ~ (m.), ~s)
1 [inf.] muggenzifter

now lets look for Muggenzifter shall we ?

 

[marc71178]

Keep digging...

 

[age_master]

lets leave it at that shall we fella's

 

[Sudeep]

Mierenneuker is a joke word in holland and not at all offensive, you can ask every dutchman and all will laugh its means something like making from a small problem a huge one

Okay, so what was the relevance here? Correcting my name wasn't made out to be a huge problem. The smiley is a testament of that.

 

[AUST_HiTMaN]

You want to end up in the east-Perth lock-up with Watt?

Hey - I'm out on good behaviour, Mr Popat.

 

[Kweek]

Okay, so what was the relevance here? Correcting my name wasn't made out to be a huge problem. The smiley is a testament of that.

well and my Mierenneuker followed by is a testament of that. it was not offensive as it just isnt in dutch. sorry.

 

[masterblaster]

Popatji is heading to Atlanta!

Enjoy driving on the wrong side of the road and measuring the temperature before each game in degrees Fahrenheit

 

[aussie]

It's Sudeep.

And he didn't tell me directly. It's an inside story which was leaked to Dave Watt.

oh ok

 

[Sudeep]

It's cataclysmal that I won't be going to Western Australia this time around, they announced only a single opening, and that too for a seamer, for which they picked Watt. Obviously, if I wanted, I could have cultivated some pace bowling skills, and applied for the same as well, but I thought I'd let him have the chance.

But hey, I'm going to the next best place - Atlanta. The fact that I used to play club cricket there before signing up with CW should help me function as my best there. Plus, I love the weather, and the food there. And the women, let's not even get into that, or you'd start suspecting if I'm going there for cricket or what.

Traditionally, every time I come back from Atlanta, I had gained a few pounds, thanks to the ulimited pizza offer at Cici's Pizza, and look more and more like Shane Warne did a few years back. Maybe this time around though, I can come back with bowling skills even half as good as him, so that I can rip opposition batsmen next CW season.

I'm not sure when the season starts, or even when I'm flying off. I need to know the latter though, as soon as possible, so that I can contact the air hostess to set up with her airlines to be on that flight, or maybe even transfer to their American division; she surely wouldn't want to be in Perth anymore, especially with Watt alone, without my supervision.

 

[Sudeep]

Oh, and how could I forget? I'm going to Atlanta, not WA. So, no Ronchi? Wrong.

Apparently, Duckworth Ronchi, a perfect clone of Luke, although no known relation exists between the two, will be joining myself and Cunnigham at Atlanta.

Ronchi is a flamboyant batsman, some say he makes Afridi look halcyon. He also bowls left arm orthodox, I think, which would make him a valuable side-kick while I'm bowling.

It'd be good to get acquainted with him as soon as possible.