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.