Saturday, March 24, 2007

Sudhakar Retires

Litomerice ,Czech Republic ,23 Mar 2007, 11:30 PM

Sudhakar Reddy , who is the keen follower of cricket from 1991 -2007 , who followed five world cups, more than 150 test matches and 500 ODI matches, lost thousands of hairs analysing many LBW decisions, lost many marks in the exams ,spent many sleepless hours waiting for the cricket match , had increase in eye sight , announced retirment from watching International cricket today .

Sudhakar started watching Cricket at the age of nine ,in 1991 with Pak Vs India match in Sharjah. Incidentally Imran khan (or some other bowler) took the hatrick in the same match with the wickets of Shastri, Azhar and sachin . Sudhakar has great memories of watching 92 world cup by waking up at 3.00 am in the morning and following the scores in between the classes. As every Indian cricket follower (in the period) , Sudhakar became great fan of Sachin Tendulkar after watching his outstanding Centuries at Perth and Sydnet against Austraila.

It was the year 1996 world cup, in which Sudhakar watched all the matches and screwed up his marks in Intermediate first year exams.Tendulkar's 90 against Austraila in Bombay was the most memorable one for the Sudhakar and the defeat against Sri Lanka at Eden gardens was the worst.

Sachin Tendulkar ,Brian Lara, Shane warne, Kevin peterson, Grem smith are the five best players picked by Sudhakar in his 16 year period. Harsha Bhogle , Sunil Gavaskar and Tony greg are the best commentators.

Sudhakar suggested following changes for the betterment of Indian cricket.

1)Sachin Tendulkar and Anil kumble should retire from International cricket
2)Rahul Dravid should step down as captain.
3)Grep Chappel should be sacked.
4)Sehwag and Dhoni should be Sacked.
5)Sourav should be back as captain with Youvraj as deputy and the sole objective of Sourav is to groom Youvraj and bring other young talented players back in the team.
6)Sachin Tendulkar should take over as batting coach.

To be continued...

6 Comments:

At Sat Mar 24, 11:20:00 AM GMT+5:30, Blogger Narsi said...

"Exact reflection of what i think".

I like the 5th betterment very much. I always believe "leaders can not be made" -- this is to say Rahul is not a motivational person but i agree him as a good team player. Also i strongly support your 2nd & 3rd betterment.

 
At Sat Mar 24, 04:00:00 PM GMT+5:30, Anonymous Anonymous said...

That hat-trick was by Aaqib Javed. Continuous LBWs! Sharjah's umpiring!

I am sure like Wasim Akram your retirement will also be only on-paper! Because you are a true cricket fan! ;)

 
At Sat Mar 24, 05:45:00 PM GMT+5:30, Blogger Ganesh said...

Read my post Sudhakar:
http://sganeshkumar.blogspot.com/2007/03/indian-cricket-team-lostso.html
Tell me;why stop watching?Let's hope a new team emerges which will deliver atleast as much as it promises!

 
At Sat Mar 24, 08:33:00 PM GMT+5:30, Blogger Sudhakar said...

Narasimha Rao: I guess that's the reaction of most of millions of Indian supporters.

Mysorean:

Thanks for correcting.

Well... I was ... not any more. (hopefully Bermuda won't won against Bangladesh :) )

Ganesh Kumar:

It's because ... I spent huge amount of time and money into this sport, which is not worth of..

Well, If I don't have anything to do , I might go for watching Cricket but no more watching from "Toss to Man of the match" ,no special plans for watching the match.. no more bunking offices (i meant working from home) and no more extra efforts.

 
At Sun Mar 25, 04:46:00 AM GMT+5:30, Anonymous Anonymous said...

well all I would say at this point is , lets give ourselves some time .all we would say right now would be spontaneous.Lets face it , we had all big names on paper but many of them are past their prime and it was quite evident in recent past,Team India didnt gel well as unit.It was at peak before 6 months or so when Dhoni/Yuvi/Irfan were firing on all cylinders . Being kicked out in intial round was rude shock,but there was no way we were to go very far in this series .Again,arent we expecting too much out of coach ? he is not the one who is going to play in the middle.
Again ,end of the day its sport and lets not spend our energies more than called for :).

 
At Thu May 03, 03:04:00 PM GMT+5:30, Blogger chaitanya said...

Nice to see your retirement ...
Unfortunatly... i took informal retirement and started working as an offline observer... else i would have retired ...

 

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