Sunday, March 4

Ranatunga thinks everyone will get a beating

Over the past few days, writers and commentators have been picking their semi-finalists for the cricket world cup. Since this is the most wide open cricket world cup to date, it's interesting how they pick their favorites. Ranatunga's opinion, stood out for me, since his article entitled "India will take a beating", still concludes that India will win the Cup.

In fact, after reading the article, I'm actually interesting in how Ranatunga picked India, since he pretty much says everyone, including them, will get a beating. There is nothing particularly interesting other that in the article. We all pretty much know what every ones weaknesses are.

On the side note, I like reading articles by these ex-cricketers, for their insight, but also for the language they use. Ex-cricketers seem to have their own style, lingo, and certain catch phrases pop up every now then. Adam Parore for example, talks crap and writes rubbish. And remember Navjot Singh Siddhu? Siddhuism's were hilarious! Too bad he got convicted of manslaughter...

2 comments:

Omar said...

haha....no no dog, I think you misunderstood him. Ranatunga meant to say "India will take some beating"...i.e. "It will take SOME beating to get rid of India", i.e. it will take a helluva lot to beat India. Its retarded English. Abd the stupid editors probably screwed it up even more.

Unknown said...

Yeah - thanks for pointing it out. Though my point still stands! He may not use the word 'beating' everytime, but he pretty much says everyone will get thrashed....but India will win!

Jolly good!