MOJITO

Had Sachin scored one more run in yesterdays match(scorecard), it would have been the 12th time that India lost a match when Sachin scored a century. Its good that he got out on 99 and so the embarrassing record remains at 11.

SR Tendulkar run out (van Wyk/wicket-keeperBoucher) 99 199 143 12 0 69.23

Coming to the point, he batted 143 balls to get that 99 runs. I would have been much happier if he had scored 30 runs from 30 balls. Its a crime to score just 99 of 143 balls in one day cricket i would say. That too, considering the fact, how aggressively cricket is played nowadays(Avan ava 6 ball's 6 six adikkaraan.).

Before i thittify/polambify further, i like to state that all the above and below are on an assumption that the pitch wasn't very slow and it wasn't a bowling pitch. If Kallis can score 91 of 116 balls, then i can safely assume that the pitch was not slow.

This is what the news dailies has to say about sachins innings.
Time of India - "Though Sachin lost his wicket at the wrong time, it cant dilute the quality of his innings"
---Quality!!! You guys believe so. Not me. TOI, you are better(best???) in covering Page 3 and entertainment section(I love "Hyderabad Times"), but not the sports section. Please change your editor for sports column to someone who writes reliable news(Also, someone who puts more of Sharapova and Sania Mirza pic till Wimbledon is over)

Hindu : "that the old power is, aged 34, steam driven not nuclear, but that he is the equal of any batsman still playing."
---Point rejected, next one please.
Hindu : "Some will see indications that he will soon have to think out his retirement carefully. It is possible to understand this desire to write finis to his career."
---Point accepted

The Indian Express: "Though Tendulkar and Dravid did the repair job, they could not really manage to accelerate the pace of scoring and were held on a tight leash by the all-pace South African attack."
---Nyaayamaana pechu.

Finally, my stand. Its loud and clear. Sachin should retire. He has done a lot already to be remembered for a long long time. Now, he just has to look that all those don't get spoiled. So, the only option is retirement.

A telephone conversation between a boy and a girl.

Boy: Hi
Girl: Hi

Boy: Hey, where were you in the morning, why didn't you take your mobile phone with you?
Girl: yeah, i forgot my mobile today. Did you call me.

Boy: Yes, i called you in the morning. Your father attended the call.
Girl: Really.... what happened ?

Boy: I asked whether you were there. He said, you have gone outside. And then i cut the call.
Girl: Oh. Its good that my father didn't ask anything else.

Boy: But, do you know what happened then??.
Girl: Why, what happened?

Boy: I found your father's english accent very funny. A friend of mine was with me. So, i was saying about this to him and i even mimicked how he spoke. It was so much fun that i got little carried away and used some disrespectful bad words on him.
Girl: Whaaaaaat????

Boy: What will i do. We usually use those words very casually among our friends, so it came of a sudden. Sorry.
Girl: Why the hell do you want to use those on my father. have he done anything bad to you.. huh??

Boy: He haven't done anything good to me either.
Girl: So!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You...You..

Boy: Listen.. i am not done yet. After all those happened, i saw the call timer was still running in my phone. Then only i realized that i didn't cut the call properly. When i kept the phone in my ear, i heard your father asking infact shouting "who r u?" "who r u?".This time i cut the call properly.
Girl: I am gone. what will i say if my father asks about this?? You know something... you are sick... you are mad..

Boy: Hey, sorry., sorry.
Girl: Keep your sorry yourself.. who want that.. god, how will i solve this.. ..(3 seconds of silence).......ok, tell me this, is that bad word very much disrespectful?

Boy: Is there any badword that is respectful? You are funnier than your father...(laughs)
Girl: pleaseeeeee.. will you stop it.(angrily).. Don't have fun at the expense of me and my father. I am keeping the phone..

Boy: Wait.. hmm.. hmm. can i call your father and ask sorry.
Girl: No.. not at all. you have already screwed enough. Not again please... You will be the last person to whom i will ask an idea hereafter..

Boy: Ok, Ok, dont start crying. I was kidding. I didnt call you in the morning, whatever i said didnt happen at all.
Girl: You are a sadist., a big sadist. This is not the first time... stupid...What do you get in teasing me always...idiot, stupid..................