{"id":4246,"date":"2007-03-15T17:50:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T22:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4246"},"modified":"2007-03-15T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T20:17:43","slug":"cricket_no_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/cricket_no_play\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: No Play and Yet, He’s Not Salty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wot’s this?? Apparently, boycandy Sreesanth will not<\/strong> be part of India’s opening line-up at the World Cup<\/a> (damn you, Khan, Agarkar and Patel…damn you all!).
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Paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth looks likely to miss out on a starting place for the World Cup but said that could be the best thing to happen for him.<\/blockquote>\n\n
…”I like it this way,” he said at a team net practice near Port-of-Spain on Wednesday. “I like to struggle and get something rather than get it easily. I’m sure I will get the opportunity.”[Reuters<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

I dig a good chase<\/a> too, but if my sweet little neyyappam<\/a> ain’t playin’, suddenly, I am way less inspired to impersonate Mandira Bedi<\/a> poorly. Many of you might recall that my fling with Cricket commenced with a post which celebrated Sreesanth’s glorious obnoxiousness towards Andre Nel:<\/p>\n\n

After hearing about Mallu hotness Sreesanth (thanks, DTK), I had to visit ye olde YouTube to find out about this right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler, who is a right-handed tailender. Apparently, excessively lippy South African Andre Nel questioned Sreesanth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heart\/courage\/skillz after Sreesanth evaded something called a bouncer. Sreesanth responded by hitting Nel for a six and then performing a dance I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d normally associate with an end zone. Oh, that was just brutal to write. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine how many men I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just annoyed. \ud83d\ude09<\/blockquote>\n\n
I may not know a damned thing about what is arguably the most popular sport in all of South Asia, but I know the art of trash talk well and if anything could get me to fall in love with this very Brown game, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the video I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve posted<\/a>…[SM, biatches!<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

…Sigh. And we have so<\/em> much in common, too:<\/p>\n\n

Sreesanth, 24, one of India’s new crop of pacemen, has impressed with his spirit and wicket-taking abilities which won him Cup selection despite being expensive in one-dayers.[Reuters<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Hello??? I am too expensive for one-nighters! TOTAL SIMILARITY, I think.<\/p>\n\n

Also this:<\/p>\n\n

His natural aggression has caught the imagination of Indian fans since his debut against England in late 2005.[Reuters<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

…sounds familiar, too. I’m naturally aggressive and I’ve caught the imagination of many Indian fans…though all of them are male…and for some reason, they’re way more in to my Flickr<\/a> than my blog<\/a>. Hmmm. I need to chew on my hair while I like, ponder this…wow, my conditioner<\/a> smells fab. Wait what was<\/em> I typing? Ah yes, I was discussing the kid who shares my nick:<\/p>\n\n

The Kerala player<\/strong> was confident he would gain from his past Caribbean experience at the World Cup.<\/blockquote>\n\n
“I was lucky to play all the matches here last year,” he said. “One big lesson I learnt was to be patient, wait for the wickets to come rather than go looking for them.[Reuters<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

I concur. The same philosophy has served me well; for example, I patiently wait for sales to come rather than go looking for them…and I nearly<\/a> always<\/a> score<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

“It is not enough at this level to just run in fast.”[Reuters<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Enough talking darling, you’re ruining it for me. \ud83d\ude09 And stop with the fakakta<\/a> highlights already, would you? You look better with dark hair. Oy, I sound like my Amma<\/a>…thankfully, since she does not read blogs, she’ll never learn that and use it against me. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wot’s this?? Apparently, boycandy Sreesanth will not be part of India’s opening line-up at the World Cup (damn you, Khan, Agarkar and Patel…damn you all!). Paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth looks likely to miss out on a starting place for the World … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}