Baaaastard, sonnafa..

This is minutes after I thought to myself, oh.. oh, he's not gonna make it, (I was almost certain when Botham commented he does not get nervous in the nineties.. oh, Sir Ian, did not you ever see him bat? When he's in the nineties.. people should stop talking, thinking even.. expectations are like Kryptonite for the man.. shush, you venerated moron.. sire!!)

Tendulkar is aghast - he cannot believe it. Nor, I hasten to add, can Collingwood. Or us. But up goes the finger, and off goes Tendulkar.

107.6 Collingwood to Tendulkar, OUT, and he's got him - Tendulkar can't believe it. Just outside off stump, Tendulkar took a big stride down the pitch but offered no shot. A huge, lengthy appeal from Collingwood and the wicketkeeper - and Taufel, after a long Bucknor-like delay, raises his finger, though replays suggest it's a poor decision, the ball missing the off stump

SR Tendulkar lbw b Collingwood 91 (197b 12x4 0x6)

I am overcome with that ever so familiar feeling of disgust accompanied by the vacuous-punch-in-the-stomach feeling (that religiously follows a Tendulkar dismissal), topped prolly only with a grouchy sense of unbelievable acerbity for umpires all over the world.. remind me why need them again!!

Life, you friggin' sadistic ball of wool. Perverse and heartless in your most inhumane fiendish ways.

Great, what a way to start off the day!! Blasted buggers of barbarous bitchasses!!


10 minutes later (the winds blow a lil softer now, dark thunderous clouds over the head have quietly drifted along, smoke ceased to emanate from facial orifices): Ah, well.. Partha, 91 is still 3 more than 88. Now, go Dada!! =p