Glenn James Maxwell.

Glenn James Maxwell aka maxi, where do i even begin with this Man?

Is it even possible to describe him and my love for him in  just a few words on this post? So how did i fall in love with this man? It all began  in 2013-2014, maxi is an easy person to fall in love with , or maybe i'm just being prejudiced. Haha. My love for maxi extends beyond just his cricketing abilities , which might i say are enough in itself for anyone to fall in love with him?. He's a fun loving goof who has his own quirks and he stays by them and is so confident in expressing himself just the way he is no matter what anyone else says and this extends to his cricketing abilities too. Lot of people might categorise his batting as 'dangerous' , someone who cannot spend time at the crease and score runs in a traditional way say like Pujara, Smith and Alastair Cook. The thing is he doesn't have to be like them at all, he just has to be the way he is. This journey has been challenging in many ways , especially having a fanpage, there are many times where one questions oneself as to whether your love and support make any difference?. Even thought its 'just cricket" , it brings out a lot of emotion in me, especially when it has to do with the people i love. Every time maxi got out, my heart would break and i would think why did he do that? i wont deny there have been times where i have felt angry at him, but with a face like his and his quirkness, its hard to stay angry for too long. Also might i add, the guy is way too funny, has the most brilliant eyes that anyone could get lost in (I'm sure Vini does). Maybe the way he bats and gets out makes people  feel he's being careless, but trust me tell you anyone else who has so much passion for the game, someone who is really determined to do good for his country , to win games for his country and he has! he has won games for his country!. He has played brilliant innings in sheffield shield and Big bash and Ipl as well and yes sometimes he has been overlooked by the selectors as well!. As for his test career, you don't just scored a hundred in a subcontinent like India by being lucky, one must have sheer talent for it. Maxi has made me cry , made me laugh, made me feel okay even in the darkest of times. It's funny isn't it? That I've felt all this without ever being physically next to him or talking to him. I would keenly stay up late having my eyes glued to the tv, basically like anything for maxi!. Nevertheless , maxi will always occupy a special place in my heart and my love and support for him will be there always ;)

Ahh!! I haven't written on here for a while again! Life has been rather complicated and I've paid too much attention and care to people and things that don't deserve it ... So i promise that I'm gonna write on here more! I love cricket and i also love writing. So I'm thinking ....I'm gonna write about the upcoming India vs Australia limited overs series which begins this Sunday (17th September) . I got tickets to the first ODI which is in Chennai and I'm really excited! It's gonna be quite an interesting series as it always is with the "Fantastic Foes" . I did not come up with that ..a lot of you would have probably seen the ad for the series on TV. It'll be interesting to seeing the playing XI throughout the series as India is in the mode of being "unpredictable" and rotating their top order. As for Australia, their is a question mark over their bowling attack and their no 4 batsman. This is the first Ind vs Aus ODI in chennai in 30 years .. the last one was in 1987 world cup , when Aus beat India by 1 run. So until the first ODI .. bye bye! 

Omg! I haven't written on here since the world cup in 2015  owing to two final years of high school . I'm back. I'm gonna start off with the India vs Australia series, I will also 'try' to write about the West indies vs Pakistan and the New Zealand vs South Africa series. I wanna cover as much of the ipl as i can ... i may miss some matches owing to the fact that i have to prepare for my entrance exam. Looking forward to the Champions trophy which starts from the first of June in England i think.

So starting off with the IND VS AUS series . whew!! , what a feisty , dramatic series this has been!

Australia came into the series as underdogs , but proved their critics wrong by winning the first test match by a huge magnitude of 333 runs. They outplayed India in every manner in that test match. Poor performance by the Indian batsmen in that test match , i think the bowlers bowled well though. The Australian spinners - Nathon Lyon and Steve O'Keefe were amazing. Lovely century by Steve smith . The second test match was interesting , in a twist of tales  India ended up winning by 75 runs. This is the match , the huge "Drs controversy" started up , when Steven Smith looked up to the dressing room , when he was given out lbw. Good contributions By KL Rahul and Pujara in this one. They have been two of the best Indian batsmen in this series. Josh Hazlewood picked up 6  wickets in the second innings and Nathon Lyon 8 wickets. Excellent bowling performance by Ishant Sharma , Umesh Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin  in the second innings to get Australia all out for 112. The third test match in Ranchi ended in a draw . Peter Handscomb and Shaun Marsh batted beautifully to ensure the match ended in a draw , the contest was otherwise swinging in India's favor. Another lovely century by Steve Smith who has been a run machine for Australia this series. First test hundred for Glenn Maxwell who proved that he has what it takes to play test cricket. Looking forward to seeing much more of him in test cricket. Excellent partnership By Pujara and Saha to get india a lead of 150 runs. Pujara scored yet another double hundred , well supported by Saha who scored his 4 th test hundred i think. Jadeja got a five wicket haul in the first innings and Umesh Yadav chipped in with 3 wickets. Pat Cummins picked up 4 wickets , supported by Steve o keefe who got 3 wickets. We havent seen much of a contribution from Virat Kohli this series. I personally felt that he was a bit too aggressive against Australia , and was a bit too emotional as well. I'm sure that he will be among the runs again. Virat Kohli was unable to play the fourth and final test match at Dharamsala owing to a shoulder injury . He was off the field for periods of play during the thrid test match at Ranchi. 

The final test match in Dharamsala , wow , what a ground to play cricket on. The Australian camp made a little visit to His Holiness The Dalai Lama at his monastery on the eve of the test match.

It was amusing to see Steven Smith and The Dalai Lama rub noses!! Ajinkya Rahane lead his team to a win in the fourth test match and hence India won the Border-Gavaskar trophy 2-1. Yet another century for Steve smith this match. Kuldeep Yadav made an excellent debut by picking up 4 wickets in the first innings and he contributed to Australia's fall from 140-1 to 300 all out. Another half century by Rahul and a brilliant innings by Jadeja and good cameos from ashwin and saha as well  to get india , a lead of 32 runs. Pat cummins and Josh hazlewood were fast and furious and intimidated the indian batsmen. The game really turned around because of a phenomenal bowling performance India's opening blowers , Umesh Yadav and Bhuevaneshwar Kumar who got early breakthroughs for India. Australia got all out for 137, leaving india to get 106 runs to win the test match . Very good cameo by rahane and a good half century by rahul yet again. This series has been a very emotional one for both the teams , there were a lot of controversies . The australian media showed  us their wild imagination by calling Virat Kohli - "Donald Trump of the sport world" . A comment which did not go down well with a lot of people. Steve Smith apologized saying he had let his emotions get the better of him during parts of this series , i guess especially referring to what he said about Murali Vijay. Virat Kohli on the other hand has said that he no longer considers the aussies friends , even off the field. Bit of a harsh thing to say . considering he has to play ipl alongside some of them . But well that is his opinion , not entirely sure that the rest of the team feels the same.  Bit surprising as well, but this series has done weird things to people , made them do stuff they normally wouldn't. I dont think the aussies are big fans of Kohli either. Sad to see this happen actually. Maybe Kohli could have put his statement about the drs controversy a different way , rather than almost calling Smith and the Australians a cheat. I think they have much more dignity and integrity than what we have observed this series. 

Quarter Finals!

Hey guys ! :D  This is my new blog  about cricket! I really love cricket and all the players ( esp my crushes ) :P . I really don't know what i would do without it! So , for those of you who have been following the  ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 , I am going to start covering the Quarter Finals .  The first one : Sri Lanka vs South Africa . South Africa entered  into this game under a lot of  pressure , never have won  a  knockout  game in a world  cup before , you could sense the  nervous energy , but the first catch by Quentin De Cock released a bit of that nervous energy! Sri Lanka were not really  at the top of their game ..therefore , the game wasn't  as close as you would have expected .. excellent  bowling and fielding by the south africans .. bit of  a poor show put up by Sri Lanka . It's goig to be hard to let the legends go, isn't it ??  But unfortunately this is the end For Sangakkara and Jayawardene.Now moving onto the next quarter final  . India vs Bangladesh! Bangladesh was one of the teams which were  considered  weakling . They proved  everyone wrong by beating England . For a while there in the first innings , India were  under pressure  , having lost 3 wickets for not a lot  of runs! Rohit Sharma  played a brilliant Innings  , well supported by Suresh Raina and got India to 302 :) Bangladesh were under pressure  and they cracked . once again , the Indian bowlers have proved their worth , having bowled out the opposition 7 times! (  hopefully  that helps us win against Aus ) . Coming into this world cup , everyone  was worried about the bowling , this tournament  so far has been quite a surprise. One the  Third one : Australia Vs Pakistan , i suppose  many  fans would have wanted Pak to win as India has never lost to them , but i would  beg to differ. Pakistan's batting never really clicked and once again the aussie  bowlers were at the top of their game to restrict Pak to only 213. It wasn't a walk over for the aussie  batsmen! David  Warner played well for his part , but didn't stay long. Aaron Finch never really  got clicking , was a bit of a surprising referral by him. Steven Smith's innings really held the innings together! Now comes the really interesting part  for all those of you lucky ones who saw the  Wahab vs Watson combat , you must say it was quite the battle!  Wahab bowled incredibly , a spell that could have  changed the game . Shane  Watson did a great job hanging in there , couldn't have been easy with the intensity and the emotions.Wahab bowled a lot of short balls , Shane Watson  couldn't find a way out of them , when he finally did make a mistake , the catch was dropped , that was the moment!! Once his spell got over , the  aussies  settled  in nicely :)  Steve Smith played really  well for his 65 . The game was carried home by Glenn Maxwell ( 44*) , who played a couple of shots , which i think took us all by surprise! He's managed to come up with a name for that particular shot , for those who are interested , see his twitter handle ! and Shae Watson (64*) who managed to take a bit of revenge  on Wahab ! It was a great game of cricket and i look forward to tomorrow's quarter final and for the Semis . The second semi final next Thursday between the defending champions and the aussies is going to be a cracker. I would advise not leaving the Tv set :P unfortunately , i have my last board that day , and  will not be able to catch the first part!! 

 

Looking forward to writing my next post in a few days time ! :)