Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Kumble wins the match for India.. again but.......

....he is no entertainer... He says you need to spin the ball only three inches........

so Shane Warne, Murali, Saqlain Mushtaq, Harbhajan et al are idiots who try to turn the ball more than 3 inches...

He may be a match-winner, he may be consistent, he may have experience, he may have a big dick(sorry that was off-topic), but he is no entertainer. What he does is by taking wickets which I have not understood till date... Wait, I think I have given a thought to it once..... and let me remember them....

He is not a spinner... He is a medium pacer. So all batsman have it in their mind that Kumble being a spinner, and as a spinner, will bowl slow and try to spin the ball. But wait, batsman has been fooled. He sees Kumble coming, the ball drops on the middle stump and by the virtue of Kumble being a leg spinner, the ball should come just outside the off stump. But hell no, it doesn't spin at all. It is hurtling towards the batsman pads which is straight in the path of the middle stump. Ok ok , assuming the ball doesn't spin(what the heck am I assuming here?), the batsman should get some tiny-miny time in correcting himself and bringing the bat in front of the ball. But hell no, as Kumble's ball not only doesn't spin, but it also comes as fast as Prasad(Venkatesh.. remember)... So no spin and a fast delivery fools the batsman and he is watching himself making way for the pavilion.. During his walk to the comfortable dressing room, he is musing over how did he got out and how he will not be fooled again.

So as you see, how you get a wicket. Tell him, I am a spinner, I am going to bowl slowly and will spin the ball. Batsman gets prepared for it but gets rather the opposite, fast and straight. Gets out.

You: But Mr stupid blogger, your arguments are not that satisfying.. What you just said holds true for only for the first ball. If the batsman gets through the first ball, he would know that Kumble is and play accordingly.

True said partner.. But in any form of sports, you develop a kind of mindset when playing. For eg.. if you are playing tennis on an extremely bad dug out court, your mindset is always that the ball will drop and come to your racket nice and straight. First time you learn it and start playing accordingly there after. This is what you know all along that I will be playing on a smooth surface. But as you start to play again, you tend to forget it and come back to the same notion that the court is smooth. Another ball drops in a crack, and you miss it completely.

Most of the wickets taken by Kumble are not great deliveries, they are deliveries of deceit and low quality. Ever got out on a full-toss, ever got irritated by a looper, ever got irritated by a delivery which comes to your bat on the tenth drop.

Time to get rid of Kumble and bring someone new which entertains, not deceits.

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