Interim Solutions

I am moving away from the reclusive , inward looking perspective of my initial post , quite a bit but then to keep the blog alive , I need to do that. Existentialism or Blogxtensialism, if you will. I am intrigued by how much hatred the Australian team can generate among the cricket watching non-Australian public, be it in their off-white Test outfits with 19th century design baggy green caps or in the latest golden yellow T20/One-day outfits. What is going on ? I remember getting up at 3.30 AM in the early 80s to watch Boon and Marsh thrash the Indian and Kiwi pacers and absolutely adoring the Laurel and Hardy combo. The Australian team those days were not hated for their winning habits , that came later .. Dean Jones , Greg Mathews , Mark Waugh , Mark Taylor to name a few, were good at what they did and were part of many a winning sides but definitely not hated. The hate started building I think with Steve Waugh and his steely, boring and mechanized captaincy . His protege par ex...

Okay, I know it was going to be bad but not so .. First of all it has been 17 days since my first post and I have not had a single visitor except my own alter ego peeping in over the weekends to see if the cobweb on the main door of my blog has been cleaned up by a visitor on his/her way in . Alas !! not yet , so here I go again.. Second of all - MJ - the end was as bad as it could get , I guess most of us knew it would be bad but this was tragic , sad and all that rolled into one .. So Whos bad ? or Who's bad ? or Who is bad ?

After dilly dallying for almost an eon in blog terms ( 5 years may be in simple human terms) I have given in to the urge to start scribbling on the internet. More on why the dilly dallying later .. I did my fair bit of googling to see how a first blog should be written to make sure my baby steps are right and after 10 mins of wandering in the search engine's attempt at untangling the entangled web , I gave up and decided to go on my own and therefore here I am . If the baby step analogy can be extended ay further I guess babies seldom go wrong with their first steps (from a long term perspective , of course !!) Answer of course is 42 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A997581 (Courtesy : The great master - Douglas Adams and BBC !)