301023 What's The Siraj Effect?

 What's The Siraj Effect?

                The match against England was, it seems, a lopsided match. The main Indian batsmen just scooped up catches to go and relax in the pavilion while the Captain himself along with his bowlers, matched the English side. There was, it seems, a display of the bowling strength of the Indian team, after giving them a mild target to defend.

                        But then, there too, there was something different with the performance of Siraj and the Captain was clearly dissatisfied with it. It appeared the hero of the Asia Cup Finals was nowhere to be found. He bowled a lean, outside the off-stump, spell without any kind of success in it. Had he bowled a few deliveries onto the stumps then maybe he too could have got a wicket. But bowling was not all that he missed. He missed and messed up in the fielding too. Could it be he messed it up purposefully to signify that he was not required to perform. Or is it that some external effects are forcing him not to perform on the field?

                        From my own experiences in life, I have seen good people and good friends turn away only to find that 'sam, dam, dand, bhed, etc. were the cause of it. The team management should take note of all these effects and work out to remove the cause of it instead of directly taking a disciplinary action against the star players. Surely we would like the third pacer to be top performer too but resolving the issue is the need of the occurrence.

                        Hope the matters are resolved well in time because the team will have harder tasks to face in the coming up matches.   IPYadav

291023 Atmospheric Manhandling Effects On Live Events

 Atmospheric Manhandling Effects On Live Events

       

                Today is Live Event of England vs India in the ICC World Cup. This could have been the recap of the last world cup if India had not lost to the Kiwis in the Semifinals then but the Indian team was overburdened with a lot of snags and eventually lost the match. Besides the cricket talent and team spirit, they had to deal with the whole world of interferers who were devising deceiving tactics in the atmosphere to eventually bog them down. It was not just a semi-final match, it was like India against the world in the Atmosphere there.

            What is this Atmosphere? This is the movement of spirits in each individuals cybersphere as well as their intermingling at the event site. These act on a lot of actions on the field like thinking and planning, feelings and spirits, mutual bonding in the team, killing attitude towards the opponents, eyesight, instincts and reflexes, dual minds in use of techniques, body movements and responses, etc. These spirits are invoked due to a lot of reasons which can be long standing or lifelong standing or short time churnings. The community undergoes long standing effects, the individuals deal with their life's hurdles and practice and experience makes a man (or a woman) perfect. Everyone works hard and prepares for these kinds of hurdles and assaults but then on the scene of action where various spirits collide, the atmosphere gets churned up and the final outcome decides the way of the future. So the stakes go up and the involved interests also go up.

                    If it's an open involvement event, then anybody can get involved and cause it's effects, e.g in the case of a war or riot, but does it make any sense if two persons are contesting in a competition over any of their skills? One may say that if a country's pride is at stake then all the countrymen can rightfully get involved but even then, where does it fit right if all the world's stalwarts conjoin to put one person or one team down? This happens very easily in the case of India where various clans identify themselves as 'Indiya', 'Pakisthaan', 'Chaina', 'Turki', 'Hindusthan', 'Musalmaan', 'Inglis', 'Casteism', etc. besides the worldwide segregations of 'dogs, cats and rats'. And who would forget the 'snakes'? What is worse is that these evil people hide within the other's nations and cause detrimental loopholes in their security cyber-domes. Also, in the case of India, the matters are worsened by the 100 years of political strife where the Rule has been taken over by many entities and the Original Indians have been subverted. So many people and their relative spirits get involved and such evil loopholes always work to defeat India. Such worse was the scenario that they were able to ensnare many Indians into their fold using the usual 'sam, dam, dand, bhed niti and eventually started targeting 'Bharatmata', Indian Royals and the Captain India. Are they indulging into some kind of 'Mahabharat' war and targeting to capture 'Yudhishthir' into their 'Chakravyuh' and win the war? 

                    Here, I take this opportunity to reiterate to these evil minds that your war was lost many years back and thereafter all their deeds are accountable into criminal acts and here it's a Cricket match where Cricketing talents are matched to win the match. Such acts of interference, whether by their natural motivation or by some earthling's concoction of spirits, magic, or transmissions for distractions, dislodging of attention and involvement or confusing and double-mindset, magical occurrences, etc. are all accountable towards crime of fraud, illegal operations, intimidation and manhandling of the men in action.

                    Most of the time, it's the batsman who is easily targeted, sometimes it's the fielder, the bowler or the umpiring decisions. So the batsman's concentration is easily attacked, the fielders positioning and reflexes are manipulated, the bowler's hard work is further strained and to top it all, umpiring decisions fail a lot of aspirants and hopes. What is worse is nothing is done against these intruders. At least the ICC can ban these intruders and their earthling causes from relishing their earnings from cricket and no team should give any rewards to persons outside their followers. Such followers should be longtime followers and not match-fixing followers!

                    Now, I will list a few instances from this World Cup where external interference affected the players (as far as I can recollect here) - 1. Rohit's dismissals thrice - LBW, catch to mid off player (when he was caught in dual mind), and square cut which spun back onto his stumps (unlucky to a magic spell). It's also that the Indian Captain was targeted again and again. 2. Rahul's LBW. 3. Feud talks about supporting and helping Kohli instead of Rohit - would cause mutual distrust between the team members and the team's mainstays. 4. Lapse of concentration of Shubhman soon after Rohit's unlucky dismissal (to rattle the hopes of Indians in the match against New Zealand. ..... this will be continued with new addendums.

                        So much for now, I will write elaborately on this issue in my next book.  IPYadav.

221023 Spinning Ways (Of The Ball)

 Spinning Ways Of The Ball

              The two top teams are going to fight it out for the top spot today in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 but that is not just the reason why this match is important. This match could also be a preamble of the Finals. The possibility is thrilling to Crores of Indian fans and they should be very rightfully anxious about the Results, the final results of this World Cup. The way things are going, I give 90 percent chances to the Indian team to lift the Cup for the third time. 

                The setbacks can be in the form of exemplary performance by the opponent team, the inherent divisions and parting ways in the team, their own lack of willingness to get the Cup and of course the cyber environmental deceits and destructions. So far, the going has been good and apart from some incidents here and there, the team spirit and fightback has been praiseworthy. Hence the reason why I give 90% chances to this team. All the bowlers are performing (but lethal match winning shows are yet to be seen) and both the star batsmen are going positively with ample support from the others. This is very important because if some cyber upset gets one, the others perform and get the team through. This was why Dhoni used to be so helpful and now there is Rahul. But the need for a consistent long-lasting hard hitting batsman in the lower batting lineup remains a slight weak point. Or should I say that such a player is a boon for his team and other teams have such players. In the Indian team, this task is done by Rohit himself, and that too, right from the word Go. So he is also the primary target for the opponents.

                Talking about Rohit, his dismissal in the match against the Bangladesh, was a typical pacer's trick of bodyline direction. On the first ball, which was little more down the leg side, he was able to connect well and pulled it for a six. But the next ball was not that much to the leg side and instead it was heading straight onto his head. The result was that his handle length to the ball reduced and the ball remained within the boundary line. The long handle length the batsman can get when hitting the ball, the more powerful he can hit the ball and the more chances are there that it would be unstoppable. Here, for longer handle length, we have to connect the ball in the lower half of the bat, preferably at the quarter length of the blade from the bottom. And this we can do by shuffling to the off side when attempting to hit a pull or a hook shot. All new players should practice it as a habit to shuffle the back foot towards the off side and open front towards the short pitched leg side ball and the opt for a pull or a hook or ducking and letting it go.

                Coming to my title topic, that is Spinning ways of the ball, when a ball is spinning and it hits a flat surface, it moves towards the direction of it's spin. Because it gets less resistance in that direction and it deflects towards that side. This happens when it hits the ground and it also happens when it hits the bat. So if a ball is spinning outwards, it will pitch and go outwards i.e. outwards from the direction of the bat. So when it will hit the bat, it will run off outwards and the shot would be a powerful one. So much so that a square drive with an upward angle of the bat can go for a six and same way for a pull shot on the leg side. But if a ball is spinning inwards that is coming towards the bat, it has a tendency to get inwards. So its spin tendency has to be counteracted. It has to be played a little late (than the outward spinning ball) so that it's inward tendency is subverted by the late angle of the bat. This shot doesn't get much power naturally and the batsman's efforts are required in empowering and manipulating this shot. Also, since the spin is countered, any slight early or late contact can spill the ball over into a catch, and an easy catch since it doesn't develop much power. Instinct plays an important role in this case of playing it accurately. Also, it would be wise to angle the bat downwards and put the ball into the ground as it would require an enormous effort to put away it safely over and away from the fielders. Making room for the shot is also required as a longer handle would give more power to the shot.

                    This is true for all types of bowlers, whether pace or spin and an instant reckoning for the batsman that if the ball is coming towards the bat, he wouldn't be able to make it a great shot and so he delays his shot or stops altogether and plays a defensive shot. It's all that "practice makes a man perfect" but practicing with theoretical thinking would make a better batsman. 

                    So much for today for the budding batsmen and with best wishes for the Indian team, I dedicate this post to their chances of success in this World Cup.    IPYadav

161023 India-Pakistan And England-Afghanistan Matches

 India-Pakistan And England-Afghanistan Matches In ICC WC2023

             India - Pakistan match in the World Cup 2023, a blockbuster event in the subcontinent, had started off in a very unpleasant manner with Siraj bowling too many loose balls and giving away many precious runs. Then there appeared to be a change in the stance and some bouncers and bodyline directed balls were bowled. But that was frustrating. Whatever the teams and the Captains decided as a pre-match strategy, it certainly wasn't up to the mark for a blockbuster live event.

             Then doomed the literacy of bowling directed towards the stumps. In our old days, we used to hear in Radio commentary that a good length ball heading towards the stumps was treated respectfully. And this was minimum necessary in the present event. The Indian bowlers took the cue and started directing their deliveries on to the stumps. The top class Pakistani batsmen were tied down to the job of protecting their wickets and the fearless free flowing raps to the boundaries became a rare sight. And adding the top class off spin, googly and in-swingers to this, the direction of targeting the stumps became a lethal loophole in the Pakistani batting lineup. So many clean-bowled and LBW occurred that the Pakistani side was not able to reach even the 200 run mark. The target of 192 was easily achieved. The Pakistani bowlers also reciprocated with similar strategies, but the hard-hitting abilities of Rohit costed them dearly with lots of Sixers. Also, the other end was perfectly responsive with a perfect mix of defensive and attacking shots. 

               Shubhman Gill was a little unlucky because he sighted the ball well, played it well centered on his bat but only faltered in a little angling of the bat. When there was a fielder in that spot, a square drive or a late-cut should be played with little downward angle to put the ball down into the ground or with a little bigger upward angle to hit it over and above the fielder, probably for a six. A lot of Indian batmen fall prey to this bait of outside the off-stump because they don't angle their bat. The ball either takes the top edge or jumps upward with its spin.

                    Then, coming to the England-Afghanistan match, maybe England were taking them too lightly. Afghanistan batted first and amassed a huge score. Then, when England came to bat, the Afghanistan bowlers pressurized them up with directing the ball towards the stumps and the result was what nobody expected. Afghanistan beat England by getting them out well before the set target.

                  So, it seems the strategy of bowling to target the stumps is very very rewarding.   IPYadav

              

081023 India-Australia World Cup Match

 India-Australia World Cup Match 

                             08th Oct. 2023,   venue Chennai, India

                 It was a good competitive match with both sides enduring with their batting as well as bowling skills in a reality match. I have used the term 'reality match' because, nowadays, rarely do we see a real show of batting as well as bowling strength. Usually, these are adjusted as a compensation to make a match batsmen oriented (with lots of runs, sixes and fours and high pumping of adrenaline - a perfection to the demands of the showbusiness) or to make it bowlers oriented, where a lot of wickets fall and keen tussle between bat and ball is tested. But today's match had traits of good bowling as well as good batting.

             I am planning to write a book to include about my learning cricket and technical analysis about it as well as my memoirs about cricket. Therefore, I had planned to watch this match full, mainly with the inquisition that our paper tigers fail again and again against the Australia. I had tried to do observations on some previous occasions as well but somehow, I didn't find those matches engrossing because they always looked like one-sided or meek surrender or fixed to suit the show business. But today's match was fought on actual strengths of each side, with setbacks for each side and then a show of fightback. There was no meek surrender by either side and a sustained effort gave the final result. This was perfect for my study and I made a lot of observations and analysis about each side (but mainly from the point of view of India). It contains observations about batting techniques, bowling techniques, strategic moves, instincts, impulses, cybersphere effects and thinking, etc. and of course the Umpiring techniques as well.

                    The third umpire's decision about Rohit's dismissal was intriguing in particular. The ball had turned in from far outside the offstump  onto upper pad of forward kneeling Rohit Sharma who appeared to be plumb straight in front of the wickets from the front camera. This means the ball would go far outside on the leg side when it would reach the wickets transverse line and likely to go way up and above the wickets. How did the third umpire's software find it be hitting the stumps? Many software are manipulated nowadays and could this be another instance? 

                I had initially planned to write these here in my blogs but then I had different thoughts as these are a teams winning or losing fortunes and my blogs are read all over (or should I say that the copied material from my blogs is published elsewhere and read by innumerable viewers) which means it would divulge cricket secrets which is usually done by only a Guru to his disciples, who in turn keep it a secret and carry forward the tradition. So, I guess I will not unsettle their tradition. But I wouldn't mind supporting such tradition of a coach and team strategist and do good for Indian cricket and help in evolving better cricketers.    IPYadav  

                     By the way, I take this opportunity to invite prebooking for my book which would most likely be an e-book with a little help from AI and price is still not contemplated! You have my emails, my mobile numbers, my Facebook id as well as this blog itself to put your responses. So far you all have not been able to reach me, let's see now. Warning - don't fall into blockholes of friends or fiends who try to make a business for themselves from the entity of my blogs, my websites and myself. I have not authorized anybody and all their business becomes illegal.