We set up our own University, we hired our own faculty, we got referred by Prem Panicker to the IPL, we even bought and developed our own Island.

And now we are being mentioned in The Wisden Cricketer, The Times, and Linq.

Uncle J's Cricket with Balls was recently the "Blog of the Month" in June's edition of The Wisden Cricketer.

Whereas Patrick Kidd, the Sports Editor of The Times mentioned Well Pitched on his cricket blog. In the same post, he also mentioned the only other blog that covered the IPL as seriously as we did - Outside The Line.

In another post, Patrick Kidd mentioned Miss Field and referred to her legendary post on Graeme Smith & Facebook.

Us cricket bloggers, i.e. the faculty of the Allen Stanford University for Cricket Bloggers are surely going places.

Thats not all though.

I recently received an email from a man named Alpesh from www.linq.in. In his email, Alpesh introduced Linq as:

"Linq tracks posts from Indian blogs and lists them in order of recent interest. We offer syndication opportunities and many tools for bloggers to use in there web sites"

In the same email Alpesh mentioned that Well Pitched had received the following awards on Linq:

1.Best Sports Blog of week on 2008-06-01.
2.Best Sports Blog of week on 2008-06-08.
3.Best Sports Blog of month for May 2008.
4.Best Sports Blog of all time.

I went over to www.linq.in to check out the awards ("Linq's Awards" in the left menu) and figured that there were various categories of awards including best sports blogs, best general blogs, best entertainment blogs, best recipe blogs, and best language blogs.

All from India.

Well Pitched is a Pakistani blog, not an Indian blog, but our majority readers are from India - over 50% of our daily traffic comes from India, which is probably why Linq recognized us.

I hope being Pakistani does not disqualify us from being a part of Linq as we really appreciate their effort of taking in votes, categorizing blogs, and ranking them.

We weren't alone in winning those awards over at Linq. Other faculty members of the Allen Stanford University for Cricket Bloggers won awards as well.

Tim's Third Umpire was also one of the Best Sports Blog for May 2008. While those categorized as the Best Sports Blogs of all time included Homer's Do paise ka tamasha, John's Island Express, Tim's Third Umpire, Golandaaz's Smart Cricket, and Samir's Eye on Cricket.

So Keep it up guys. We are definitely going places, and right now we sure are at the top of the world!

The blogging world is like a suspense thriller really, you blink an eye and you miss something important.

As always I disappeared for a bit for a day and half during the weekend, and the only reason I am back today is because of the ongoing Pakistan vs India Final of the Kitply Cup.

I usually catch up on the blogosphere on Sundays after Thursday evening, but today was an exception and I realised I had missed quite a bit.

Uncle J Rod got picked as the Blog of the Month in this June's edition of The Wisden Cricketer. congrats Uncle J, you truly deserve it.

Meanwhile the tipping bloggers made their picks for the 20-20 match and the ODIs between England and New Zealand over at Sportsfreak's tipping competition for bloggers.

Miss Field, while congratulating Uncle J for the mention in the Wisden requests for support for the Silly Point, and also ponders who the Wisden will pick next month - us or the Suave one?

Ottayan asks readers on what their superstition used to be during Pakistan and India's matches in the past, while Som wonders why Geoff Lawson even opened his mouth.

Homer decided to go statistical this weekend as he tested Uncle J's theory on Micheal Clarke, and his analysis was as always well backed up blogosphere's statistical grand daddy (or Ninja as Uncle J likes to call him), David Barry.

And, the former Wisden Blog of the Month, King Cricket, told everyone how much they love Paul Collingwood.

While catching up on the cricket news I could not believe that England won the 20-20 match against New Zealand. Its besides the fact that I lost out on a point on the tipping competition, but how can the Kiwis lose to England in the shorter version of the game?

I wonder if $1 million had something to do with that.

In another part of the world, Mohammad Asif, whose case will now not be heard till 22nd June 2008, gave a very interesting interview over the phone booth to a Pakistani newspaper.

Whats funny is that he's thinking about a football career now! 2 weeks in a Dubai jail can do that to you I guess.

And in the West, The Aussies seem to be on top after the Windies had a sniff on day 1. This was Windies' best chance and they blew it up yet again. And that too when the Aussies unleashed their most unexciting spinner ever.

Its always good catching up on cricket - miss a day and a half and you've lost the plot. It was never like this before.

In the after math of Allen Stanford taking over the ICC and world cricket, I wondered what the future of us cricket bloggers would be like.

With help from Uncle J Rod, this is what it looks like.

After acquiring Cricinfo and The Wisden Cricketer, Allen Stanford acquires a stake in Google and the rights to all cricket blogs on blogger and blogspot.

Allen Stanford launches the University for Cricket Bloggers.

Uncle J Rod is appointed Dean of the University on the back of his 4-part series on the "Guide to Writing a Cricket Blog".

David Barry is appointed as Head of the Mathematics & Statistics Department. In his office, he wears a mask and calls himself the Statistical Ninja.

ARJWIZ joins as Assistant Professor of the Mathematics & Statistics Department. He wonders why his boss has a mask in his office.

Soulberry citing his busy schedule joins the visiting faculty team and teaches the first quarter's 'Cricket & Journalism 101' - first lesson, how not to be like Tony Greig.

Ottayan is recruited as professor of 'Art of Questioning 101' and 'Critics Views 2020'. His students' question Matthew Hayden a lot.

Ayalac is sounded out about a position teaching cricket theology, initially he is thrilled, then decides not to accept based on the fact he has to fill out forms.

Nestaquin is hired as the professor for 'Cricket & Politics 401'. Robert Mugabe and John Howard attend his first session.

Suave & King Cricket join as professors of 'Reporting on English Cricket' 101, 201, 301, and 401. They paint the room blue, and throw cheese at anyone who smiles.

Straight Point joins as professor on 'Reporting on Indian Cricket 101'. 12 million people apply for his course. He hires Aashrey, Naked Cricket, and Sfx as his Teaching Assistants.

Golandaaz & Cricket Guru join the faculty as professors for 'Indian Cricket & Advertising 203'. 18 million applications come in for the program.

Moses is brought in to train youngsters on how to survive Orientation week, he is fired after a shocking indiscretion.

Miss Field is recruited as lecturer on "Recognition for Women in Cricket". First lesson is “How not to be a cricket slag”.

Martyred is appointed to the newly created position of chief of cricket photo shopping.

Sportsfreak comes on board as the professor for 'Comparative Sports 302', no one turns up to his classes.

Homer takes over as Dean after Uncle J Rod is caught funneling funds into his newly formed cult.

Tim joins the visiting faculty to conduct crash training programs for 3rd umpires, hawk eye is not discussed.

John is invited to speak on "Cricket & Movies", first film is the Darjeeling limited.

The Crew at Well Pitched alternate as professors for 'How to Manage Cricket in Pakistan 101'. The entire class keeps failing.