Sneaky Singles: technical kisukisu

Sneaky singles frustrate the opposition team, yet they are real and joy to players who are sneakers. They add 1 to the total, and also to the striking batsman. And in local parlance, it means kisukisu. Now we list several sneaky singles, which we believe are true to our knowledge. Yet, we leave it to the reader's imagination and curiosity to explore further.

• The curtain is about to lift for another season in Purdue's indoor league. The toppled champions are heavily plotting various strategies to re-claim the title. Another recent incident proves this claim i.e. a secret meeting held among the three main members of that team: A lean left-arm fast bowler (note: a tail-end batsman), the smiling death i.e. a dashing opener who is ambidextrous, and the bomber of tora-bora mountains. Though the only news that has reached us is that the meeting was just about strategies, we'll not be fooled. It has been decided that we will not release all we know in this blog. A rather interesting note to the reader is that the meeting happened without the player who was at the helm of their team during the last season. It is rumored that there is an expulsion order waiting for someone, and our guess is none other the X missing in that meeting.....wait & see
• Anti-consultant is on a trip across US to provide us with some new insights on cricketing intelligence. There's a meeting scheduled in Chicago on Dec 29. It is expected that top players from VReality will attend this meeting.
• In our recent interview with the top-scorer of the Fall 2006 finals, the following saying was uttered more than once: "chingathukku pallu pochunaalum, chingam chingamdhaan". .......interesting remark! [ Note: chingam went through a dental operation in Nov, 2006 ]
  

See you in our next edition of sneaky singles!

The Sneakers

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The missing three

In our team picture, three main figures were missing, and here they are: Appu, Guru and Sreeram.

Appu [ VReality : 2006 - Current ]

Guru [ VReality : 2006 ]

Sreeram [ VReality : 2006 - Current ]

Come on Dravid, you got to be kidding!

All hardcore team India cricket fans must have read Dravid's talk on the eve of the first test in South Africa series. Dravid's speech can be written programmatically as follows:

/* Question variables:
* Topic: can be anything like fielding, bowling, strategy
* state: Boolean - Good/Bad
*/
Dravid_Response(Topic, state)
{
array lots_of_boys; // stores all the boys and related words in the universe
array indian_record_stats; // some crap record relating to ground, team, series
array feelings; // stores all the big feelings like motivation, inspiration, dedication

response = random_entry each_from lots_of_boys + record_stats + feelings;
return response + random_sentence_completion_words; // like keenly, focus...
}

One must really praise the reporters to make an article out it. More especially when he tries to make it sound intimidating to the opponent team. Now that Ganguly is in the same hotel wing, Dravid should take evening lessons from him on "arrogance: a must for a captain". Hopefully India performs better. Being a spiritual country, we fans know that the real secret for India's win lies in the strength of our prayers than the selected team. Let us all begin our prayers! Amen [thathasthu].

"Return of the King...forgive me, the Prince!"

"What do we do now, Gandalf. How do we escape from the destruction of middle-earth?".

Gandalf, with a thoughtful face, replied " Master Hobbit, Pippin of the shire,no one can escape the malice of this aus-dor evil..even the shire-folks who play peaceful cricket in brownstone, corec or armory will come under attack one day. This dark lord has determined to destroy each and every cricket-child born in middle-earth Myindia. But, don't let your heart be troubled. The dark lord is evil enough, but the king...forgive me, the prince will return and save us".

Pippin was still unconvinced, "Dark lord was dead...killed long back"..before he could finish the statement, the flash-news on TV was showing Gregourn (i.e. our version of sauron) talking to reportes "our team is still young, so we lost by 100 runs. But We can do much better than this..." and then Grgourn relased a wicked smile, which only Gandalf could decode. The great wizard thought to himself "Note that wicked smile on his face..when he says much better, he means that to get defeated by 150 runs in our next match.."

"Master Pippin, you should understand onething; Gregourn has returned. His spirit was lurking around in Aus-dor to get an opportnity to return to life. Once it got the position as the doom-coach to the Myindia team, it grew much stronger, and even taking up a human form, as you can see. Then slowly it kicked out the elves, and men, and recruited orcs and uruk-hais into the team, and the most dangerous ring-wraiths. He has recruited 3 ring-wraiths, as I hear....Ra-in-bo`w, son of sures-shish, Pat-ana`e son of Irfanish, and the most evil Aj-ii`it A-aa-gaaa-kar. He has put a spell on remaining people". Gandalf suddenly paused here for a moment, and looked slowly at all the sides confirming no spies were around and continued...

"That is why you see the captain Draw-out-wits of Ragullom always repeating the same set of sentences 'Boys are young and we must play well'. However he does not realise that he has been saying this for the past 2 decades. Note that ragullom sounds like "raagu gaalam", the most ancient curse in the language of tam-dor land."

"But how come we have so many supporters for him, knowing Gregourn is bad", asked Pippin.

"It is the black magic. Everyone believed his tricks as he is from the land of aus-dor, and trusted that he is a good coach. However, he is the evil to wipe out the lives of cricket-men & cricket-elves"

"Gandalf, I cannot anymore listen to this evil story. What is the solution to all of this", Pippin asked with the atmost concerned look ever a hobbit has had in history.

"My dear little hobbit, you've asked the right the question at the right moment. The prince is going to return and defeat the Dark Lord Gregourn. In fact, he has returned!"

Pippin thinks little more, and his face brightens slowly when he realises that the prince is none other than:

"Sau-ar-gon, son of Gang-thorn"

With this, the conversation ends, and Pippin goes to sleep. The wizard Gandalf sets on his shadowfax for a journey to the capitol of middle earth, Gon-del`h-or.

[based on the news story http://o3.indiatimes.com/diva/archive/2006/11/30/2806066.aspx ]

Kathai, Karpanai, Vasanam & Direction,
Brownstone Cricketer.