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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
If it were Yemen instead of the Netherlands in India's Group, no way would India have progressed. Like in 2007.
You're so bad at this and you don't even realize it.
Just save yourself from embarrassment for God's sake.
Some people have the ability to wind up. You're just rubbish at it.
Congratulations to each Indian in here.
Focus on ignoring me, please.
Indeed. Kumble is such a legend. And he was in the team not so long ago. Just like Sachin he's been a mentor to these players. Lovely stuff
Haha no I'd booked tickets to Bombay but never thought I'd be able to enter the stadium so cancelled them and chose to watch it with friends in Ggaon. A friend of mine who went anyway to Bombay from Ahmedabad got tickets right OUTSIDE the fkin stadium. For 5000.
Sucks to be me sometimes.
I saw the quarters against the Aussie cnuts. What a feeling that was...and yesterday. Beyond belief. Sachin should retire from ODI's now. Not much else left for him in this format. That's exactly when I'll stop watching them too.
Is this supposed to be funny?
Word up, <random Redcafe abuse>
Word up Salvo. How's that shit city of your doing? Lucky fecks to get the final.
Haha no I'd booked tickets to Bombay but never thought I'd be able to enter the stadium so cancelled them and chose to watch it with friends in Ggaon. A friend of mine who went anyway to Bombay from Ahmedabad got tickets right OUTSIDE the fkin stadium. For 5000.
Sucks to be me sometimes.
I saw the quarters against the Aussie cnuts. What a feeling that was...and yesterday. Beyond belief. Sachin should retire from ODI's now. Not much else left for him in this format. That's exactly when I'll stop watching them too.
I saw it in Gurgaon too funnily enough. Small world.
Haha, heard you moved in to this shit city, is that true?
Which team are you referring to?
Which team are you referring to?
Had moved for a bit last year. Will be moving again soon but I really don't want to. Shithole, absolute shithole. 
You work and live in Gurgaon, amol?
You work and live in Gurgaon, amol?
You better not say anything wrong about Kohli to me. He is my favorite Indian cricketer right now after Tendulkar. He is absolute gem of a player. He is 22 years old and is 3rd in ODI's batsmen ranking.
Live here.Had moved for a bit last year. Will be moving again soon but I really don't want to. Shithole, absolute shithole.
You work and live in Gurgaon, amol?
Doing my CA right now so not quite working yet.
Gurgaon is a bloody odd place in many ways though. When they were planning it out they decided 'we don't need to have transport in this place, people can just walk'. fecking loons. Thank God for the metro now there's actual some public transport around. Although I don't require it anymore much.
Kohli's proved me wrong, much like the Indian team. But as I said to a friend yesterday who keeps complaining that I have no faith, the joy of victory for a pessimist can be an interesting experience.
Has potential, but it's a complete mess right now. I moved last year from VK. Now that was a good place to live in.
I saw Dhoni was fined 20% match fee and the rest of the side 10% for slow over rate
I bet that's taken the gloss off the victory for every one
I bet that's taken the gloss off the victory for every one
I saw Dhoni was fined 20% match fee and the rest of the side 10% for slow over rate
I bet that's taken the gloss off the victory for every one
Yeah I saw that the Indians were fined for slow over rate.
You know what? No Indian gives a shit. Not with what is happening.
You know what? No Indian gives a shit. Not with what is happening.
Ah good old VK. My cousin used to stay there as did my sister in law.
My old place in Gurgaon was heaven though. As a colony it was brilliant. Garden Estate, just on the edge of the MG road border between Delhi and Gurgaon. Made up for any deficiencies Gurgaon had.
Tongue in cheek!
Had moved for a bit last year. Will be moving again soon but I really don't want to. Shithole, absolute shithole.
Its still my shithole. Soon to be our shithole.A rendezvous should be in order...
Another thing I want to say is feck off Tom Moody! You worthless piece of biased shit!
A small country like Danmark have won the Euros, competed by a lot of strong football nations. So Sri Lanka being capable of winning the cricket WC is not a big thing. You could say that cricket is danger of going the same way as American sports such as baseball and American football. Indian market is big enough to sustain it now. So a full fledged Indian league can work. But I agree with you, that is not an ideal situation.
I second that.
I don't mind him being biased but can he realize that he is a little bit of an Australian too?
Well, to be fair, I think we'd be well please if Kirsten talks about us like that
Man 1 crore for every Indian in that team and 50 lakhs for every support staff including the coach, Kirsten.
I really really wish Kirsten would sign an extension on his contract.
I really really wish Kirsten would sign an extension on his contract.
That run out could have been decisive. If he had caught the ball, Gambhir was a goner. Well who cares now!
Jayawardena got in there due to that century in the final, otherwise someone like Gambhir had a better tournament than him. I am not sure Murali being in there as well.
Still some team this..
Sachin
Dilshan
Sanga
Jayawardena
Yuvraj
Devilleirs
Watson
Afridi
Khan
Steyn
Murali
I think we would have still won if Gambhir had gotten out then.
My order of excitement to India winning a big tournament:
ICC World Cup - 2011
I will never forget this moment and will never get sick of watching this game over and over again. I can't believe it. They all did it for Sachin.
Natwest Series - 2002
I remember watching this game well into the night. We were chasing 326 against England and we were 147 for 5 with Sehwag, Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar back in the pavilion. Two young stars Yuvraj and Kaif pulled through and we won a magnificent game. I still Harsha Bhogle saying, "Tendulkar's gone and with him go India's hopes as well."
Sharjah - 1998
Well one word can be said about this tournament - Sachin! He absolutely demolished the Australian bowling attack. A couple of incredible hundreds against them, one to take India to the final and the other one was in the final itself, I think.
ICC World Cup - 2011
I will never forget this moment and will never get sick of watching this game over and over again. I can't believe it. They all did it for Sachin.
Natwest Series - 2002
I remember watching this game well into the night. We were chasing 326 against England and we were 147 for 5 with Sehwag, Ganguly, Dravid and Tendulkar back in the pavilion. Two young stars Yuvraj and Kaif pulled through and we won a magnificent game. I still Harsha Bhogle saying, "Tendulkar's gone and with him go India's hopes as well."
Sharjah - 1998
Well one word can be said about this tournament - Sachin! He absolutely demolished the Australian bowling attack. A couple of incredible hundreds against them, one to take India to the final and the other one was in the final itself, I think.
Wow that's hard.
I'd say say for me in this order,
ICC World Cup 2011
The holy grail. I've seen this moment in my head a million times, and we finally got a team together capable of going all the way. My heart will skip a beat everytime I see that moment where Dhoni hit that shot and then the celebrations. It will live within me forever a part of me. And Sachin, the man who kept dreaming and kept coming back better with every passing year, finally did it. Mumbai, world cup final, it simply doesn't get better than this.
Sharjah 1998
I still remember those two games against Australia so clearly as if they were yesterday. Sachin was at the peak of his powers and was swatting the Australian bowlers like flies. I have never seen a batsman like that ever. He was simply sporting perfection. Scored a murderous hundred to put us in the finals (a match we would also have won had he not been given out wrongly), and then destroyed them in the final. As a HUGE fan of his, I was just left yet again in awe.
Natwest 2002
This was where the new India was born, many say. Ganguly turned Indian cricket around from the nicest (read timid) bunch of guys out there to warriors on the field. Today the India you see is a culmination of what began during Ganguly's leadership. And if there was one moment which told the world that India had indeed changed, it was this one. It was the sign of India moving from a one man team to a very good team. Yuvraj and Kaif seemed to almost roll of the tongue as if they were never meant to be said separately. It was fantastic what happened that day.
VB Series (2009 or 2010?)
There was a time when we went to Australia and SA, did some sight seeing, saw Sachin take on the opposition but took our annual thrashing and came back satisfied. This time though we drew against Australia in the test matches and BEAT them, yes BEAT them in the ODI's. And won a best of three finals 2-0. Sachin scored a century in the 1st final and a 91 (I think) in the second, almost in some ways doing something very similar to what he did 10 years back by winning games in finals or finals and virual semis back to back. This was a different Sachin, a more calculated Sachin, but still, 10 years on, the very best.
I'm forgetting this series where Srinath and Kumble took us home with a good partnership. It was amazing. Can't for the life of me remember what tournament this was. I think against SA in the final or something.
Titan Cup!
Well you seem to have covered the biggest ones in terms of importance to an Indian fan but I'd throw in Independence CUp in there. Also the Hero Cup. My first real memory of Sachin post the WC.
Winning Hero cup if my first memory of Indian cricket as well. Actually watching my parents get up early in 92 to watch the WC in 92 is the first memory but Hero cup was when I myself got involved, watching every ball n stuff.
Titan Cup was great! Beating SA who we had lost 3 matches in the league stage in final was awesome.
Titan Cup was great! Beating SA who we had lost 3 matches in the league stage in final was awesome.
Yes, but Denmark's a decent sporting nation, they've produced some of the best players to have played the game. They're a strong and athletic population - and yes, that's racist. If Sri Lanka played football as religiously they did cricket, they'd be no way near the top...in fact I suspect they'd still be the whipping boys. But at cricket due to a lack of competition, they've got a chance in achieving sporting success. Which is why I think the game should be spread to nations deprived of sporting success. The game needs to get bigger.
That does not make any sense. Sri Lanka have also produced some of the best players to play the game. Sri Lanka not being able to take up football even if they tried is of no relevance. All of England can take up any sport, they still won't be able to win the WC :P
The only reason Britain isn't the best in the world is because we invented loads of sports and have to spread our talent over all of them. Hence we have good, but not great, teams in football, rugby, cricket, athletics, hockey, golf, tennis etc.
If we put all our best sporting talent in any one sport, obviously we'd be the best. You know it makes sense.
If we put all our best sporting talent in any one sport, obviously we'd be the best. You know it makes sense.