Wednesday 21 December 2011

Feel the Heat, Feel the Power, Feel the Punch...!

If you people love cricket, you must have seen the promotional advt of India-Australia series featuring Vijay Raj, who explains why this series is always intense. In the end, he says, "Samajh lo ke kudarat ka karishma hai ye series..."

No doubt about it...India-Australia matches have always been intense & intriguing specially after the historic
2001 series. In most of the matches, Australia have maintained upper hand but facing to India was never a cake walk for them. The matches were always close and had nail-biting finish. India-Australia series has the same glamour as "The Ashes..." This time too the story won't be different. The bitterness of last series is still not been forgotten (Symonds-Harbhajan clash, Cheating in the second innings by Ponting, Australia Buckner..sorry Steve Buckner's hopeless umpiring in the Sydney test...) and whenever these two rivals have met, every now and then the glimpses of that event were experienced by India. Though Australia have not remained the mighty and that much venomous, the fighting & never-say-die attitude is still in their blood. Despite the main bowlers Johnson, Ryan Harris, D.Bollinger, Hauritz, and two key players out of action due to injury, Australia have enough fire-power in the form of Peter Siddle, Starc, and the new loaded weapon Pattinson to test the Indian batsmen's true skill on typical Australian hard, bouncy pitches...

And in the batting, best player of spin Clarke, Mr. Cricket Hussey, ageing but still classy Ponting, veteran Haddin and the few gutsy newcomers have the ability to settle the required score on the board...

On the other side, India's famed batting line-up needs to handle the Australian pace heat, and the fitness of fast bowlers to handle the Australian heat to make this series lively one.. Plus they have to absorb the shocks of Mental Disintegration theory laid down by Steve Waugh.

Star Cricket has rightly described this series as "AGNEEPATH". And I don't think this series will be without any controversy or some on-field tussle… because 2+2 = 4, the Sun always rises to the east, King Cobra is venomous, and Australian's are sledgers...these are the universal truths.

First match will be starting on 26th of Dec. The Boxing Day (this is the day after Christmas on which the gift-boxes are kept at a common place for the poor people...the Box-opening Day).

So India, get ready to :

Feel the heat (Australia's weather),
Feel the power (Australia's Batting),
Feel the Punch (Australia's Bowling)….!


Ritesh R. Kadam
Cell:- 09011020015

Steve Waugh's Mental Disintegration Theory..!

Hitler's Quote:-
"Demoralize the enemy from within - by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. In the end, victory matters..."

Steve Waugh was instrumental using this quote for developing his theory - The Mental Disintegration. Bowlers bowl bouncer, slower deliveries, reverse swing, googly etc. to intimidate the batsmen; but there is X-factor which separates the champions from the winners... Australia had and have that X-factor! How and when it started - Australia's Lillie, Thomson, Merve Hughes, were used to bowl quick & fiery spell and mutter few words towards batsmen, to unsettle them. These tactics were being used during the match
only depending upon the circumstances. But it was Steve Waugh, who played it systematically, used it as a planning tool in the battlefield of cricket...and gave it the name:- Mental Disintegration. He says, "Entering into the mind of a player is an art..." Australians are master in this art. So how it works?

Rule No.1:

Distract the opposite team from the core course and make them discuss and think about undue prospects.
When the opposition team arrives, they pass controversial comments and add fuel to it by different remarks. E.g. Sachin is more focused on his records, India's batting line up can not face fast bowling on bouncy Australian pitches. Indian spinners won't get much purchase from the wicket. This is the prelim stage.

Rule No.2:

The next weapon comes out when series actually begins. Two against Eleven on the field. In the initial overs, they prepare for the wickets by bowling bouncers, sharp in & out swingers, and if batsman survives and starts playing some confident shots, then they start twitting some personal remarks.

Rule No.3:

When it seems that the opposition is closing in trying to grip the situation, the main weapon comes out. They start using abusive language, hurling at the batsmen, and provoking them. All these things affect the mind, and batsman commits the mistake...

Australia could achieve this because it had a clever captain in the form of Steve Waugh, Legendary bowlers like G. Macgrath, Shane Warnie, Brett Lee, Gillespie, Kasprowich, who would keep bowling a nagging line and length, not giving any respite to the batsman.

Sometimes they got too much carried away with it. Arjuna Rantunga, Brian Lara, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Ganguly got the most of the bitter taste of the theory. But again in the end, "Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie how much you want... after victory no one asks why?"


Ritesh R. Kadam
Cell:-09011020015