Harsha tales...

Just a day where I am still not able to hit the hay for some reason and the fourth dimension ticks half past 12, midnight!! Feel I have to pen down something in my blog to end the day.Let me doodle something on Cricket. The topic which I have kissed the least in my blog.

I have always loved cricket and have very less clue on the origin of my love affairs with Cricket.To be frank, I was never a good player of cricket domestically(ironically true though looking at my elevation or rather height(to reduce the controversy) many keep getting deceived:P) and genuinely feel it has to be the live-TV that made me acquainted to it.Sachin is still the most potent God in my Cricket love-life and if I have to show off any other substitute to Sachin, it has to be Harsha Bhogle himself!:)

I was amid those who were particularly let down to see the presentations during the World Cups and IPL1.With nescients like Mandira Bedi and co. babbling about Cricket,I chose to join the matches directly rather than pursuing the pre-match psychoanalysis and also the post match autopsy.The haleness of watching a Cricket match is to watch the whole package.And with Harsha doing it,you can be rest assured that you will get nothing less than the "best".

Google recites me that he first came into the placard of Cricket devotees when he first commentated in the Benson & Hedges World cup,back in 1992.Later there was no glancing back.Be it a series "Down Under" or at "the Lords", this "Hydrabadi" has always treated us with his scrumptious "Biriyaani" every time he has held the microphone in the commentary box. At times even the likes of the great Gavaskar and Boycs too stand mute confronting the persona of Harsha and realize what artistry the man possesses when you listen to the psyches like Arun Lal and Ranjit Fernando doing Cricket commentary. Off the field too,ESPN School Quiz shows magnetized me and also helped me in finding my own Quizzing abilities.ESPN also aired a show named "Harsha ki Khoj"for the wannabees like me attesting the sheer versatility of the person but I am sure they were not able to find one to replace.

Let me provide you with some of the transcripts testifying the Einstein in this IIMA graduate.

> "Oh what a shame.It was reminiscent of a soldier who survived the war when the bullets were flying by his nose and then got run over by a bicycle in his native town"

> "Nasser Hussain is trying desperately hard to find innovative ways of getting himself out"

> "Had that stand not been there they would have had to bring a bus to go and fetch the Ball"

> "If you take out the character out of Sreesanth, he is quite a good bowler!!!"

> "The last time Rudi Kuerzten smiled, there was a peace in West Asia"

Now let me get philosophical..What is my idea of a perfect day?

India against Aussies on a weekend, Sachin facing Warnie, on a lush green SCG, over a cup of chocolate drink(not coffee or chai:P) and Harsha Bhogle in sync with the legendary Boycott...Wow, Priceless :) God,can I ever get back to those days again???