Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Well Pitched on Facebook


Just an update for all our visitors.
Obaid recently created a Well Pitched page on Facebook and you can view it by clicking on the link on the right sidebar.
Besides poviding a daily feed of all the posts that go up on Well Pitched, our Facebook page has some additional features such as pictures and videos. As of now most of these are IPL related, naturally, but we will keep adding more as we go along.
If you want to catch a glimpse of Sreesanth shedding tears and being consoled by the Mumbai and Punjabi players, hop on over and go through the Sreesanth album. We've got other albums as well of Priety Zinta cheering her team on, the cheerleaders, and those of our favorite team - the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Most of the IPL team videos are on the page thanks to the youtube video box application.
There is one video though, which I think would interest people more than others. That is of Shahid Afridi's fastest 100 against Sri Lanka back in 1996. That was Afridi's 1st ever ODI innings and he cracked a 100 off a mere 37 balls creating a world record that still stands. you can view the 30 minute highlights of that innings on our Facebook page.

And become a fan.
Thanks to all those who already have.

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Harbhajan vs Sreesanth - Round 1

When I woke up on Saturday I had an SMS from a friend, which said: "Harbhajan slaps Sreesanth".

Hopping from place to place over the weekend I wasn't following the daily cricket news so when I finally sat down to watch the afternoon game between Kolkata and Chennai, I heard about what had happened.

At the time I thought the blogging world would be buzzing with their thoughts on this. Especially after what had transpired in Australia during December / January.

After going though the TV news and views from my friends, I had gathered my thoughts on the incident. What I was going to write was all in my head.

As always, before writing my piece I scanned through the blogs I frequent daily, and as expected most of the bloggers, in their own unique way, had posted on the Harbhajan - Sreesanth incident.

While Uncle J did some research on why animals slap, which only he could do, Ottayan posted the results of a survey about which cricketers deserve to be slapped.

Miss Field found it funny that Sreesanth cried and King Cricket wasn't surprised at all that something like this had not happened to Sreesanth before. Or for that matter Harbhajan had not done something like this before.

AYALAC posted a video footage of Sreesanth crying and like the other Aussie and English bloggers loved seeing the man shed tears.

Nestaquin talked about the disgrace that Harbhajan Singh has brought to his country and his cricket team and discussed Bhajji's past unruly behavior.

And Soulberry captured the thoughts I had in mind to a large extent.

But it was one post that went on a different path than all the above - it claimed to share the facts from the Mumbai dressing room.

Homer shares with us what actually went down. Something that has not been shown or mentioned on TV, nor has it done the rounds of reliable websites. Thus far Harbhajan has been painted as the villian by the media, but Homer's post gives an entirely different perspective.

It was due to this post that I decided not to put my thoughts down on Well Pitched.

If what Homer says is true, then the ban on Harbhajan is unfair.

But then, what is this new video evidence that Cricinfo is talking about? Apparently Harbhajan has been suspended based on this.

What exactly happened?

I want to see the video.

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