Cricket got back at PCG and a day of insanity and mayhem when the PCG was taken away from us by some overzealous security guard and arbit high school vice principal. Thank God i wasnt around to go through the tribulation myself...might have been too much for me (cricket is 2 precious a thing to be lost for an entire period of 4 months).I guess the PCG junta felt pretty much the same and they were all charged up for the return game after the hiatus. Had 3 awesome games at PCG (wudnt hurt to add that my team made a clean sweeep) with the last one taking the cake. The last one was marred by some questionable umpiring decisions that were contested by both the fielding and batting team. I would just like to add my take on that. I feel that when you send in someone to umpire then you are indicating faith in his cricketing abilities and if you begin to question this faith mid way through the match and offer to replace him then its not fair on the individual and the game. Thats like tampering with the game and trying to influence it with an aspect which pertains to neither batting, bowling and fielding. As i saw from yesterday there were a few decisions that apparently went against both the batting and fielding teams as felt by the aggrieved parties and eventually it all balanced out in the end. I personally it was top umpiring by the person concerned to stand by his decisions.Another issue is the sledging that is going around with our games at PCG. While general banter is always good for the game i feel that off late a particular individual's been targeted too often (i personally plead guilty to that charge too) and he kinda snapped at one point yday(quite rightly so). Mebbe its time we need to reassess that aspect coz i tried putting myself in that person's shoes and realized it wasnt the most comfortable of places to be in. I suddenly realize that i personally am not a target on such a treatment (which is a good thing guys plzzz remember.....kudos to u guys for that)even though i am guilty of it at a lot of occasions .
P.T.(passing thought for the uninitiated) what's so uplifting abt ending sleep that its christened 'waking up' and wats so bad abt being in love that its christened 'falling in love'
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