Manish’s Scribble Board

The men in blue did it. Lifting the first Twenty20 World Cup is a feat in itself. The team comprised of only junior players and Dhoni as the captain. I never expected India to win at the start of the tournament, though Dhoni proved his captaincy. The match was very very exciting right from the first ball. India showed relatively poor performance in their innings but who knew that the bowlers would also prove their might. Uthappa’s dismissed Imran Nazir in a fantastic run out. This was one of the important wickets to stop the player who had scored 33 off 28 ball and was on fire!! What more to say? Am speechless! Spell bound. Only one word comes on my mouth -”CHAK DE INDIA”

Some great news! India has entered the finals of Twenty20 world cup cricket. Beating Australia in the semis, the way has been paved to face Pakistan in the finals. The semi was a history in itself, who thought that Australia will be kicked out the tournament? There was a situation in the middle of the match that every one thought that Aussies have made their way in the finals. Harbhajan’s wicket was the turning point. After that Aussies batsman fell apart like a skyscraper hit by earthquake.

Yuvraj was in form again as usual. Hit 70 off just 30 balls. 5 Sixes!! 5 Fours!! Excellent play. He even set the world record of the longest six- 119m. He even set the record of second fastest half-century off 20 balls. Great work youngster! Keep it up.

India will face Pakistan tomorrow at 5:30PM IST. The match gonna be highly exciting. Pakistan had lost to India in this tournament in Bowl Out. They shall be in a mood to hit back. Be Careful Dhoni and Yuvraj-its your time to show your reliability and mettle too.

The last two days have been days of glory for Indian Team. Yesterday was India’s match with England! What more to say, Yuvraj’s 6 sixes of an over was the most cherished and loved one. He has surely taken the revenge, remember he gave 5 sixes off an over? Yuvraj even scored the fastest half-century- 50 off 12 balls, pretty tough to break. I have even downloaded the video from Youtube.

Today was India’s match with South Africa. The fielding shown up the Indian was superb. Hats off to you. Who knew that India-who badly needed to win this match to make its position further, not only won but even stopped South Africa whom everybody had thought to qualify. Next match with India is on Saturday with Australia, which is the main hurdle.Team India today really showed up a fighting spirit to stop SA, fielding was excellent. RP Singh run out where he sent back Boucher to pavilion was a classic example. Two stump out by Kartik are rare example that too in Harbhajan’s ball. Stump out are rare even today. I wish best of Luck for the Semis.

After a long battle with books, this first sessionals passed smoothly except today’s paper. Damn! I had wrong wrong information of the syllabus as ever. Saw so many questions which i never excepted to come. Those topics which I had left, were asked finally. 

The rest of the papers were also so-so. System Programming paper was nothing special, its quality was not as expected. It laid too much stress on theory and less on implementation. I had practised lots of questions only be disappointed after seeing the questions. Operating System paper was highly conceptual and even while not knowing many questions, I have written the correct answers just by linking different topics.

Lastly today is India’s match against England in 20-20 world cup. Hope to see India win and Dhoni become a successful captain. India had lost to New Zealand on Sunday, tomorrow is also a match, thanks God! No match was in between the sessionals.

If you are a true cricket fan and you missed yesterday’s India-Pakistan 20-20 match in world cup, you are the most unluckiest person on earth. What an excellent game! Excitement was alive till the last moment, the match was such that Pakistan took the match out of India’s hand and at the last crucial moment gave it back. This was the first time I saw the tie-breaker system introduced in cricket though it had already been used earlier.

The most interesting was the last over of Pakistan innings. They needed 12 off the last over, and 5 out of 3 balls, only to see the next ball find it way to boundry. Match tied! 1 run off 2 balls! One dot ball and a run-out, match tied. Pakistanies was surely in tension which showed clearly at the bowl out. India win bowl out as 3-0. Adrenalin was pumping heavily in my bloods throughout the match. A fantastic finish! Next match is tomorrow against New Zealand. India has qualified in its pool. Best of Luck Team India.

Ravi Shastri speaks on the excellent end of the match,Click Here.

Below, Dhoni in jolly mood after his success as Indian captain.

Yesterday was the bday of one of my friend -Ankur Bansal aka Rock. The day marked lots of incidents. On the bday eve we went to a restaurant to have dinner. Well dinner is nothing special, being together was special. After returning the real game started. All Tom,Dick and Harry gathered at our friend Mrinal’s room to give him some memories which he cannot forget throughout his life. Surely, he got a lot of bumps, those golden moments were clicked so we have the snaps too to presnet. Want to check out the gallery. Some pics are given here, rest check out at Picasa Web Album.