the great indian batting line-up collapsed... and how. I do think there were a couple of bad decisions made against the Indian bowling side, but no time for excuses now. I really feel the Indian team is the most over-hyped underperforming team there is. But lets move forward not look back. What the team need to do is get some fresh blood, stop touting that "oh so amazing batting line-up", and try and find some decent bowlers...
anyway at least Ayushi still has SL and England to support for the cup ;-)
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
the big match...(part 1)
we're half way through the match, and India bowled decently, although SL still managed to get 254 runs... some poor fielding by the Indian side.
its do or die for India, SL are probably through, but if we win, we go in with the 2 points to the next round.
Ayushi seems a bit bored by the whole thing, as she spent most of the firs innings sleeping, but she did wake up for the end of the Sri Lankan innings and let out a soft purr to her dad!
its do or die for India, SL are probably through, but if we win, we go in with the 2 points to the next round.
Ayushi seems a bit bored by the whole thing, as she spent most of the firs innings sleeping, but she did wake up for the end of the Sri Lankan innings and let out a soft purr to her dad!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Happy St. Paddy's Day...
Who would have thought Ireland would beat Pakistan and how???Good match!
the group of death...
its already started... for the last decade this has been a difficult period for M and me every 3 and a half years or so... the fun that is the cricket world cup... its all very well not to believe in borders and boundaries and be "International global citizens of the world..." but throw in a game of cricket and everything changes...
India played pretty badly today and lost to minnows Bangladesh - who played superbly, with a v. young side. As the show presenters on Sky put it, 1 point to the teenagers and nil to the OAPs, and indeed the Indian team do seem like the OAPs. The sheer frustration of it... whats the point of having a great batting line-up (Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, who between them have over 35000 ODI runs...) if they can't win matches...M tried to console me by saying that the Pakistani team were losing even more badly, that too to IRELAND (an associate member of the ICC). 'cos we do tend to support each others teams when they are playing...
but since India & SL are in the same group, labelled the group of death, we are now in the situation where we both have to wish the other's team to lose in order to progress to the Super 8 stage... the worst thing about cricket is that you wait all day hoping against hope that your team will still somehow turn it around and win the game, and until the last ball has been bowled you are hanging on a thread. The worst thing is how you end up spending an entire day watching and then have to deal with the depression. The only up-side is that we are no longer students, since the WC was always during exam time, which meant we'd spend an entire day watching cricket rather than revising, so if after all that our team lost, that was the absolute pits...
Poor Ayushi, this is going to be the start of many a tug-of-wars over which team she should support... its a good thing neither of into football, otherwise she'd have to choose b/w Switzerland and England...
Anyway, here's to a good match on the 23rd... may the better team win ;-).
India played pretty badly today and lost to minnows Bangladesh - who played superbly, with a v. young side. As the show presenters on Sky put it, 1 point to the teenagers and nil to the OAPs, and indeed the Indian team do seem like the OAPs. The sheer frustration of it... whats the point of having a great batting line-up (Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, who between them have over 35000 ODI runs...) if they can't win matches...M tried to console me by saying that the Pakistani team were losing even more badly, that too to IRELAND (an associate member of the ICC). 'cos we do tend to support each others teams when they are playing...
but since India & SL are in the same group, labelled the group of death, we are now in the situation where we both have to wish the other's team to lose in order to progress to the Super 8 stage... the worst thing about cricket is that you wait all day hoping against hope that your team will still somehow turn it around and win the game, and until the last ball has been bowled you are hanging on a thread. The worst thing is how you end up spending an entire day watching and then have to deal with the depression. The only up-side is that we are no longer students, since the WC was always during exam time, which meant we'd spend an entire day watching cricket rather than revising, so if after all that our team lost, that was the absolute pits...
Poor Ayushi, this is going to be the start of many a tug-of-wars over which team she should support... its a good thing neither of into football, otherwise she'd have to choose b/w Switzerland and England...
Anyway, here's to a good match on the 23rd... may the better team win ;-).
Monday, March 12, 2007
Parenting - noughties style!
Its coming up to 7 weeks since the birth of our daughter, and even though we haven't perfected a routine a la Gina Ford, since I don't think I'm into her school of parenting, we have got into the groove of looking after Ayushi, albeit with a lot of help from my mom.
The first week I was at home, the idea of ever going back to Colombo to live in our own house, or more importantly ever leave my parents house again, seemed like an insurmountable task, but as I recovered from the c-section and got more used to my baby daughter the feeling that I couldn't even leave my bedroom did disappear.
Having a baby is a huge life-changing event (and I don't mean that in a bad way). However ready you think you are, or however much you really think you want the baby, whatever your reasons etc, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, not the websites (which there are hundreds of these days), or the umpteen books (Gina Ford vs. Attachment Parenting), prepares you for it.
That first night in the hospital, after M and my family left, it struck me that here she was, my baby daughter, and that I was solely responsible for her. Sure, the nurses were there with us (as I was a bit incapacitated with a catheter and the remnants of my anaesthetic), but it was still a daunting thought that I was responsible for this tiny little being, and that I had to keep her alive... I think I stayed awake listening to her breathe through the night!
This pattern continued on even after I had been discharged from the hospital, with M and I staying awake through the night, much of the first week since we'd get worried with every little noise that she made, but we soon learnt to sleep and wake along with her, and its amazing that I have been converted from someone who loves to sleep to someone who functions with no more than 2-3 hours of sleep at a stretch, how times have changed... but given the choice, I don't think I'd change things for anything...and as M and I keep telling ourselves, the sleepless nights are only a matter of a few more months...so for any of you thinking of having a baby - we'd definitely recommend it, but be prepared for your life to change forever ;-).
The first week I was at home, the idea of ever going back to Colombo to live in our own house, or more importantly ever leave my parents house again, seemed like an insurmountable task, but as I recovered from the c-section and got more used to my baby daughter the feeling that I couldn't even leave my bedroom did disappear.
Having a baby is a huge life-changing event (and I don't mean that in a bad way). However ready you think you are, or however much you really think you want the baby, whatever your reasons etc, nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, not the websites (which there are hundreds of these days), or the umpteen books (Gina Ford vs. Attachment Parenting), prepares you for it.
That first night in the hospital, after M and my family left, it struck me that here she was, my baby daughter, and that I was solely responsible for her. Sure, the nurses were there with us (as I was a bit incapacitated with a catheter and the remnants of my anaesthetic), but it was still a daunting thought that I was responsible for this tiny little being, and that I had to keep her alive... I think I stayed awake listening to her breathe through the night!
This pattern continued on even after I had been discharged from the hospital, with M and I staying awake through the night, much of the first week since we'd get worried with every little noise that she made, but we soon learnt to sleep and wake along with her, and its amazing that I have been converted from someone who loves to sleep to someone who functions with no more than 2-3 hours of sleep at a stretch, how times have changed... but given the choice, I don't think I'd change things for anything...and as M and I keep telling ourselves, the sleepless nights are only a matter of a few more months...so for any of you thinking of having a baby - we'd definitely recommend it, but be prepared for your life to change forever ;-).
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