In Oct 2015 : His retirement message reads : To
paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of my retirement yesterday was exaggerated!
However I have always done what I have felt was right and not what conformists
thought to be right. God has been kind and I have done what I wanted to do - on
the field and in my life and I had decided sometime back that I will retire on
my 37th birthday. His
dashing ability were often associated with audacity, and lack of footwork – but
if one could score the way, he did, footwork became meaningless. In a
Test at Lahore, he ended up the day unbeaten on 96 – of which there were 20
boundaries – 15 on the off - upper-cuts to third man, glides and square-drives
through backward point, and crunching drives through cover. He had a big
partnership threatening the best for Indian openers but was out at 410 having
made 254 off 247 balls with 47 fours and 1 six.
~ no
prize for guessing – it is the swashbuckler Virender Sehwag.**
In Internet slang,
a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or
upsetting people, by posting inflammatory messages in an online community ~ and many a
times British display their audacity, imagining that the Sun still never sets
on their empire ! Piers Morgan, is a
British journalist and television personality currently working as the US
editor-at-large for Mail Online. He was earlier hosting Live show on CNN.
Yesterday
at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England created history against Pakistan in ODI
no. 3773 – it was not the margin of win 169 runs but the total 444. The previous high was 443 by Sri Lanka
against Netherlands in Amstelveen in 2006. Alex Hales who played so well also
set a new England record scoring 171 beating the earlier 167* by Robin Smith
against Australia at Edgbaston in 1993.
England had reasons
to celebrate ~ but not overdo as Piers Morgan did. The British journalist found
himself on the wrong end of a social media trend (again) last week after he
tried to troll Indian sports fans, asking them about the country's woeful
performance at the Olympic Games. He quickly
discovered the ire of the scorned Indian sports fan, and several thousands of
them took to Twitter to blast Morgan. Among them was novelist Chetan Bhagat and
former cricketer Virender Sehwag.
Morgan
tweeted : Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals.
How embarrassing is that? …
✔@virendersehwag responded
: We cherish every small happiness', But Eng who invented Cricket,& yet2win
a WC, still continue to play WC. Embarrassing?
A lesser man would
have let it be. But Morgan is no lesser man. Showing incredible persistence, he
returned to the topic after a week – as England scored a record-breaking 444 against
Pakistan – this time throwing Sehwag a challenge:
This time it was
too irritating remark which read : Hi @virendersehwag, I bet you
1 million rupees to charity that England wins a ODI World Cup before India wins
an Olympic Gold. Accept?
Within seconds of
him having clicked on the "send" button, Indian Twitterati exploded
once again, this time furiously informing Morgan of India's stellar Olympic
record — including the nine gold medals its athletes have already secured. The
barrage forced Morgan to delete the older tweet and send in a reworded version:
Swashbuckler Viru
responded in typical fashion : @piersmorgan
India already has 9 #Gold medals, England has zero WC. As far as charity is concerned, you already
Owe us Kohinoor ……………
Interesting
!! In ODI – England has scored over 400
twice, India has done 5 times. England
highest individual total is this 171 ! ~ Sachin Tendulkar breached 200 in 2010
and there have been 5 more instances of 200+ .. the list is Rohit Sharma (264
& 209); Martin Guptill 237; Virender Sehwag 219; Chris Gayle 215.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
31st Aug
2016.
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