World Cup Eleven

On popular demand, here is an encore on the funny tweets on ICC World Cup 2011 Finals, in Shiv's Sixth Sense. Presenting the final eleven ;-)

Just saw a SL fella drinking tea out of a saucer. He said "The Indians took the cup" (by @sachi_tom)

MS Dhoni. First time an MS product has delivered without crashing. Ever. (by @mojorojo)

IIMs will induct the #WC11 victory in their curricula. Arindam will dare to think beyond and induct Poonam Pandey (by @Roflindian)

Sree's dad: India won, but still i'm proud of my son! Someone: matlab? Dad: He tried his best 2 save 'Indian Culture'..! #PoonamPandey (by @IamAmbrishious)

Sure enough, after the victory: http://PoonamPandeyNude.com :-) (by @maheshmurthy)

I'm betting Sanga is secretly happy India won. So that nobody will make a huge issue of the toss (by @kalsnats)

We have come a long way: didn't need help from God (Sachin) or Monkeys (Sreesanth, Chawla) to beat the Lankans last night (by @_PGN)

Ramayan: Bala Kand, Ayodhya Kand, Aranya Kand, Kishkinda Kand, Sundara Kand, Yuddha Kand, Uttara Kand, and finally Jhar Kand (by @diogeneb)

It takes a delhiwala's duck to win a world cup final; in 83 it was Kirti Azad, in #wc11 its viru sehwag LOL (by @shuvankr)

Unhoni ko honi karde, honi ko unhoni.. Ek jaga jab jama ho teeno.. Gajni, Rajni and Dhoni (by @RenisaUdhas)

Conversation after 20 years: Once Rajini went to watch cricket and India won the World Cup (by @SeeThruHasimEye)

Heart-tweet of India through World Cup Semi Finals

As India batted in World Cup Semi Finals against Pakistan, the tweets were a pleasure to read. Here is a sample, on the eve of Finals Match!

Pre-match & Early-stage-of-the-match focused on Indo-Pak diplomatic relations:

Playing Ashish Nehra in the match is a Confidence-Building Measure for future foreign
secretary level talks (by @SachinKalbag)

Dear Misbah Ul Haq : Thanku 4 dropping Sachin's catch.This will take the Indo-Pak peace process forward (by @jhunjhunwala)

While Sehwag didn’t blink before asking for UDRS, but got out; Sachin consulted Gambhir and the review showed him not-out! That triggered this tweet:

what if Gambhir had advised SRT not to take the review. He wud have become the new Nehra (by @_fakeiplplayer)

Most of the tweets that followed focused on Tendulkar’s many lives and Pakistan’s drops:

So Tendulkar is now 47 for 4; India 73 for 1 (by @saliltripathi)

Somewhere Sachin's mother must be singing, "tum jiyo hajaaro ball..." (by @NagPingili)

Match is fixed by both sides! sachin wants to throw the wicket but no pak fielder wants to catch (by @sgurujee)

Pakistan should acquire dropbox. Tremendous syncing opportunities. :p (by manuscrypts)

Notwithstanding all those lives, Sachin is God for many! This is what they tweeted:

Can't stop his 4s, Can't hold his Catches, Can't get him out, don't they know God is invincible (by @TusharG)

Guys Stop praying. u r distracting GOD, let him play in peace... (by @JoyAndLife)

Not a single person is blaming Sachin for being stupid with those shots. Maybe this is what godliness is all about (by @Shakti_Shetty)

god is testing us all today.. he wants us to have strong hearts..!! (by @adived)

India’s middle order collapse led to these tweets:

If India's run rate is plotted on a graph, any cardiac specialist seeing it would call for a
bypass (by @prempanicker)

When was the last time Dhoni batted the way he does in the ads? (By @greatbong)

Dear Dhoni- You deserve to be OUT. Put Reebok Shoes and run back to the pavilion. Watch replay on Sony Bravia & phone wife on Aircel (by @jhunjhunwala)

If only sehwag got one life (by @bpraneeth)

Match started like a Rajnikant film with Sehwag,Then turned into an Abhishek Bachchan,now collapsing like Uday Chopra film Climax (by @jhunjhunwala)

In the end Raina steadied the innings, bringing some life and poetry into Twitter:

Raina tu ....Rehna tu hai jaisa tu, Thoda sa dard tu, thoda sukoon, Rehna tu hai jaisa tu, Dheema dheema jhonkha, Ya fir junoon, (by @Soma_G)

India’s score of 260 was well short of crowd expectations, and this is what we heard at the end of the innings:

All those who bunked office to watch this, serves u right!!! (By @_fakeiplplayer)

Importance of Timing

Today morning I received an SMS from my daughter:

Cricket has reached exciting levels after T20 was introduced. Infusing the same ideas into exams, here are some suggestions for creating excitement among students...

1. Reduce exam duration to one hour and marks to 20.

2. Introduce strategic break after each 30 mins.

3. Give free hit, ie a chance for students to frame their own questions and write answers.

4. First 15 minutes should be Power Play i.e. no invigilator in the exam hall.

5. Introduce fair play awards, just in case there are old school kids!


Talk about bad timing in messaging! I could respond:

The new excitement in Cricket is India becoming Number One in "Test Cricket" ;-) Now ROFLOL :))

Poor thing. Learnt a lesson or two on "timing", that's so important in Cricket!

PS: For those who may read this many days later - Today India won the Cricket Series over Sri Lanka and became Number One in ICC Rankings