When Ishanth sharma first entered international cricket all thought of a 19 year race horse muscling its way through the thick bushes with an ambition beat the remaining racers. The young Indian fast bowlers bowled some outstanding in swingers to gain his place in the side.
One should consider that he is not the same old young bowler he used to be but compared to other fast bowlers of his era he is still maintaining the pace. Neither his swing changed, He can bowl an outstanding in swinger at a moderate pace to blind the batsman and hit the woods right in the centre. He is one of those gifted in swingers who just has a kitty full of amazing deliveries but fails to setup the batsman to make the mistake.
If you had a nice chef and he prepares every dish with all that he knows and understands from his past experience, the dish is supposed to turn out good. but if the taste buds say its a wonderful dish and still looks so ugly to look at the eye will not allow the hand to make the move to the dish and let the tongue feel the actual taste. We hesitate a bit to do that. The same case is with Ishanth's bowling. He has amazing deliveries in his kitty. The sharp nip of the cricket ball that he can produce can blind all most every cricketer who ever played, be it to the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and yesteryear greats like Gary sobers, Sir Don Bradman, Viv Richards etc. But all the above said players wait till the last moment to hit a ball to the ground. So it is difficult to bowl that nipping in delivery and produce results, they would just fend it and continue to the next ball.
The trick lies here, Set them up with 3 straight on deliveries, 1 bouncer into the chest and then there you go all the batsman will now go a bit back in their crease, now if you bowl your ace out the nipping in delivery, there is quite a bit of chance that the above players faulter. It is not that Ishanth does not know all these,
But if you are playing a keyboard for the past say 5-6 years and suddenly you are asked to produce the symphony you might hesitate in the beginning but surely if you remember all the cords then definitely there is no stopping. Thats it if you remember some of the basics like setting up a batsman for a bowler like Ishanth would reach new heights and bring laurels to cricket and India as well.
Focus on the work at hand and continue to do so till the last minute. Thats the way it has to be done.
Note : I do not intend to coach or advise Ishanth Sharma by any means. What I meant is only my openion of the recent Test 6 wicket haul of Ishanth proving back to his critics why he is needed the most in the Indian cricket team.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Friday, May 17, 2013
How I Started my Cricket Career in BVRIT
I was always the shy guy while most of my classmates were outspoken and totally active. I spent most of the time in engineering waiting the same old green board that all my seniors might have watched. When I first entered the 1st year classroom, I was totally out of words to describe the classroom of 40 people waiting eagerly to interact and support each other. Within the first few days I made some friends in the classroom. Which I still remember till date to be the best of time we had in the classroom. To name some of the best people I have been friends with in the classroom, the list should include all 42 of my classmates as I have never had a chance of quarreling with any one of them.
The most probable reason might be that I hadn't had much time to spend with them in the first two years, by the time I reached third year of engineering it was totally like people know be better than I know about myself. Some of my juniors know me by my name but I never thought or anticipated that during the freshers party a group of 5-6 people all my juniors asked me what was my name? I still remember the incident till date. Mostly due to the insecure feeling in me that i have never turned up to any of the parties or movies in the first two years during which anyone who knows me could only find me in the library or the classroom. Even till my last semester in college i have an aggregate attendance percentage of 98 where others in my class used to pay challans for less attendance.
That was in my second year that I still remember, The venue was NTR Grounds at lower tank bund hyderabad. I was in the crazy costume u can call ( as i never had a chance of having professional cricket clothing) right in front of the batsman inside the nets with a long run-up to make the batsman get exhausted to wait the ball to be bowled. I started off with some of the mediocre bowling which was not appreciated by the captain of the team,( one of the seniors from Final Year) and was never given a second chance to bowl. after the team has been selected, there were those bowlers who needed some of the batting practice at the end. all the main batsman where tired batting inside the nets. So I thought this might be my chance to at least enter into the department team at least as a reserve. I asked the players if I could bowl again. with some resistance from few of the players i got those old balls in my hand and started to bowl at the nets. first few of the deliveries were again mediocre. The Captain once again iterated that his decision not to include me in the team was right.
I started again to have a go the batsman. This time more serious in my approach. I made all the balls pass by the bowler batsman without getting hit to the other end. After some 15 deliveries or so all the players started focusing at how I was bowling, since i had my classmates, two of them, already in the team, they were looking at how I was bowling. They liked it, appreciated it and finally I received the ball few more times to have a go at. this time bowling even better for every three deliveries to the bowlers i use to hit the wickets on the third always.
But when finally I was called by the Captain and he said me one thing, you are a good bowler no doubt in it, but we would leave the college this year, so I wanted to give my classmate a last chance to be in the department team. you have two more years to go, so don't worry and practice again.
That year we were out of the college cricket tournament after the first match itself.
The next year I have gone to the cricket selections this time the captain being my immediate senior. I was much better as a bowler in the nets all the time. I was picked-up in the team as a seam bowler bowling the first spell in the match. To ascertain that we wouldn't loose the first match, we had a practice match. where we played with one of the mighty teams of BVRIT.
To my surprise, I was not given the newball to have seam movement, also that I never fared well in that match. Finally it was decided to drop me from the team after the match was over. I finally felt I was never a good cricketer at all. Lost all hopes that I would ever play in the BVRIT tournament. I came back home and was dissappointed at my own performance. I was not given the new ball with which i was bowling very well. when i played as a first change bowler i have given away plenty of runs. I have fielded at fine leg never did I fielded at that position during all my cricket matches, so it was an ackward location for me. It was quite difficult for me to adjust for the bad and ugly bounces some times and right and left handed batsman sometimes.
so i was dropped from the team after the match. Some how i was still hoping and praying god that i would get back into the team and finally god heard my prayers sorry to say this but the person who took the new ball in the practice match has strained his leg during a basketball game which we regularly used to play in the college. so i was back in the team this time without a second thought i was brought back to my favourite place. New ball was handed over to me. the first ball a widish delevery. it would be easily gone to four had luck cheated me, but for everybodies surprise. the fielder some how stopped it at the cover boundary picked and had a go directly at the stumps. That was a run-out on the first debut match first delevery in the match. That was good for me, i gave away 6 runs in that over with single on every ball. The second over was fine without a wicket which was bowled by my classmate, he was our team captain the subsequent year. The Third over was a mirracle of sorts for me. I had the batsman beaten on the first delevery of the over, second one moving into the batsman and the classic way we see V.V.S Lakshman gets out for an inswinger. the third one was a repeat of the second ball. suddenly fourth was a beat and again fifth delivery i picked up a wicket. after the end of the over my figures were 2 overs 10 runs and 3 wickets,excluding one run-out. the third over was a normal one once again i ended up with figures of 3 overs 3 wickets for 16 runs.
The most probable reason might be that I hadn't had much time to spend with them in the first two years, by the time I reached third year of engineering it was totally like people know be better than I know about myself. Some of my juniors know me by my name but I never thought or anticipated that during the freshers party a group of 5-6 people all my juniors asked me what was my name? I still remember the incident till date. Mostly due to the insecure feeling in me that i have never turned up to any of the parties or movies in the first two years during which anyone who knows me could only find me in the library or the classroom. Even till my last semester in college i have an aggregate attendance percentage of 98 where others in my class used to pay challans for less attendance.
That was in my second year that I still remember, The venue was NTR Grounds at lower tank bund hyderabad. I was in the crazy costume u can call ( as i never had a chance of having professional cricket clothing) right in front of the batsman inside the nets with a long run-up to make the batsman get exhausted to wait the ball to be bowled. I started off with some of the mediocre bowling which was not appreciated by the captain of the team,( one of the seniors from Final Year) and was never given a second chance to bowl. after the team has been selected, there were those bowlers who needed some of the batting practice at the end. all the main batsman where tired batting inside the nets. So I thought this might be my chance to at least enter into the department team at least as a reserve. I asked the players if I could bowl again. with some resistance from few of the players i got those old balls in my hand and started to bowl at the nets. first few of the deliveries were again mediocre. The Captain once again iterated that his decision not to include me in the team was right.
I started again to have a go the batsman. This time more serious in my approach. I made all the balls pass by the bowler batsman without getting hit to the other end. After some 15 deliveries or so all the players started focusing at how I was bowling, since i had my classmates, two of them, already in the team, they were looking at how I was bowling. They liked it, appreciated it and finally I received the ball few more times to have a go at. this time bowling even better for every three deliveries to the bowlers i use to hit the wickets on the third always.
But when finally I was called by the Captain and he said me one thing, you are a good bowler no doubt in it, but we would leave the college this year, so I wanted to give my classmate a last chance to be in the department team. you have two more years to go, so don't worry and practice again.
That year we were out of the college cricket tournament after the first match itself.
The next year I have gone to the cricket selections this time the captain being my immediate senior. I was much better as a bowler in the nets all the time. I was picked-up in the team as a seam bowler bowling the first spell in the match. To ascertain that we wouldn't loose the first match, we had a practice match. where we played with one of the mighty teams of BVRIT.
To my surprise, I was not given the newball to have seam movement, also that I never fared well in that match. Finally it was decided to drop me from the team after the match was over. I finally felt I was never a good cricketer at all. Lost all hopes that I would ever play in the BVRIT tournament. I came back home and was dissappointed at my own performance. I was not given the new ball with which i was bowling very well. when i played as a first change bowler i have given away plenty of runs. I have fielded at fine leg never did I fielded at that position during all my cricket matches, so it was an ackward location for me. It was quite difficult for me to adjust for the bad and ugly bounces some times and right and left handed batsman sometimes.
so i was dropped from the team after the match. Some how i was still hoping and praying god that i would get back into the team and finally god heard my prayers sorry to say this but the person who took the new ball in the practice match has strained his leg during a basketball game which we regularly used to play in the college. so i was back in the team this time without a second thought i was brought back to my favourite place. New ball was handed over to me. the first ball a widish delevery. it would be easily gone to four had luck cheated me, but for everybodies surprise. the fielder some how stopped it at the cover boundary picked and had a go directly at the stumps. That was a run-out on the first debut match first delevery in the match. That was good for me, i gave away 6 runs in that over with single on every ball. The second over was fine without a wicket which was bowled by my classmate, he was our team captain the subsequent year. The Third over was a mirracle of sorts for me. I had the batsman beaten on the first delevery of the over, second one moving into the batsman and the classic way we see V.V.S Lakshman gets out for an inswinger. the third one was a repeat of the second ball. suddenly fourth was a beat and again fifth delivery i picked up a wicket. after the end of the over my figures were 2 overs 10 runs and 3 wickets,excluding one run-out. the third over was a normal one once again i ended up with figures of 3 overs 3 wickets for 16 runs.
Monday, May 31, 2010
KALKI AVATAR -- AS EVERY BODY KNOW WILL APPEAR AT THE END OF THE KALIYUGA
I will be retelling the story in modern era...
First the names :
As people who study myths know Kalki comes at the end of kaliyuga with VISHNUYASHA and SUMATHI as his father and mother. The basic constraint is Vishnuyasha is not a modern name to make the name modern I m using the jumbling method. For me its a code given by the great Vyasa in-order that the world doesn't know the coming of Kalki because there would not be real Vishnuyasha who would be Kalki 's father.
- Sumathi is modern so need to change that name and there may be many with that name so no problem.
- The name Vishnuyasha can be jumbled to Ashu Shivany (Probably a north Indian name). He will be helped by the seven chiranjeevi's living . There names may also change to contemporary names .
- Parasuram is contemporary so no need to change.
- Vyass is also contemporary .
- Vibheeshan needs a change it will be Varun Jaan. (Ravan Anuj meaning the brother of Ravan)
- Aswathaama needs a change Atma Shaaw.
- Hanuman has got many names which are contemporary . One of the most common name in south is Anjan Kumar.
- Bali can also be a contemporary name.
- Krupacharya can be jumbled to Rupak Achary.
Their Professions :
They will all enter the world from the hiding befor the arrival of Kalki and settle as common people with the above described names. They will be working in the same company which will be headed by Bali and Varun Jaan (Vibheeshan) Vyass will be the intelligent one and educating Kalki about the latest technology developments and Parashuram the martial arts trainer to Kalki on defending those tech weapons with only a sword. Hanuman the Physic will train Kalki with physical attacks. Varun Jaan will supply Kalki with military power.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
a tribute to veturi sundararamayya
వ్యర్థ పదాలను అర్థ పదాలుగ మార్చినావు లే వయ్యా
కఠిన పదాలను కమ్మని స్వరమున పొందుపరచినావయ్యా
ఒక సారి నీదరి చేరి నీ కాళ్ళు మ్రొక్కవలెనయ్యా
నా గుండెలోని ప్రతి మాట పాట గా నీకు అంకితమ్మియ్యా
వేటురి సుందర రామయ్యా నీ బంటల్లే ఉంటా లేవయ్యా
నా అర్తిని కొంచం వినవయ్యా నీ అఙ్నాత శిష్యుడ నెనయ్యా
కఠిన పదాలను కమ్మని స్వరమున పొందుపరచినావయ్యా
ఒక సారి నీదరి చేరి నీ కాళ్ళు మ్రొక్కవలెనయ్యా
నా గుండెలోని ప్రతి మాట పాట గా నీకు అంకితమ్మియ్యా
వేటురి సుందర రామయ్యా నీ బంటల్లే ఉంటా లేవయ్యా
నా అర్తిని కొంచం వినవయ్యా నీ అఙ్నాత శిష్యుడ నెనయ్యా
Saturday, April 24, 2010
a song written by me - comments please
లొకమంతా వెతికి చూస్తే లేదు నాకూ పొటీ
పోరు లోనా పోరి తోనా నెను ఎంతో నాcటీ
కొరుకుందీ పొందుతున్నా రొమియో కాబట్టి
నా స్టైలే డిఫెరెంటూ
నా రూటే సెపరేటూ
నా చూపే రాcకెట్టూ
నా తోనా డిబేటూ
సినిమా హీరోయిన్లే నా ఫాన్సే అంటారూ
ఈలేసి ఆడియన్సే ఆటోగ్రాఫ్స్ అంటారు
నొ నొ అయామ్ బిజీ అంటు తప్పించుకుంటాను
భాప్రే ఏమ్ గోలంటూ భయపడి పరిగెడతాను
అద్దమంతా మెరిసిపోయే అందగాడ్ని కాను
అయినా చుక్కలన్నీ చుట్టుముట్టే చందమామే నేను
లొకులంతా మెచ్చుకుంటే మురిసిపొతుంటాను
నేనూ ఆడువారి గుండెలోనా గూడు కట్టుకున్నాను
ఎప్పుడైనా ఎక్కడైనా!!
నా కోసం దేవతలే భూమికి దిగివస్తారు
లోకానికి నువ్వు ఒకడే నాయకుడు అంటారు
నొ నొ కానె కదే నన్నొదిలెయ్ మంటాను
అయ్యబాబోయి కుదరదులే అంటూ పరిగెడతాను
నక్క తోక తొక్కకున్నా లక్కు ఉంది నాకు
పాట పాడి స్టెప్పులేస్తె అవ్వదా యర్త్ షేకూ
మాట లొనే ఉంది పాట నడక లొనే బ్రేకూ
ఒక్క దెబ్బ తిన్నవాడి మైన్డు మొత్తం బ్లాcకు
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