"If you have just joined us, where have you been?"

First the runs. Skipped running yesterday on account of a sore calf. Today I was feeling a bit lazy, but decided run anyways. After my usual warmup, I ran a well paced first lap at 3:16. During the second lap, I noticed a PYT who had started running too and decided to pace up ... did n't want to be overtaken by her (the games we play when we run...a topic for a post some time). Anyway, ran 5 laps in 16:13 mins which averages to about 3:15 per lap and then stopped. Walked for one lap to catch my breath and then ran the remaining 2 laps in about 7 mins with another PYT. Total 7 laps (4.48K) in 23+ minutes. The good part about today's run was the pace and... the pace makers :o).

Last night's India-England Twenty20 match was a corker. Tremendous entertainment, definitely "paisa vasool". At the beginning of England's innings, the TV commentator on ESPN retorted "If you have just joined us, where have you been" ... he was so right.
In the penultimate over of the Indian innings, Yuvraj Singh conducted a clinical demonstration of cricketing DEMOLITION. Six times, Stuart Broad bowled, and six times, Yuvi sent the ball out of the field. The first "six sixes in an over" in International Twenty20 for sure, Yuvi joins the greats - Gary Sobers and Ravi Shastri (6 sixes an over in first class cricket), Herschelle Gibbs (6 sixes an over in ODI)and also gets the record for the fastest fifty in T20 - off 12 deliveries.

England came back, tame in the beginning, but making steady progress, helped by dropped catches (Joginder Sharma was singularly unlucky with two catches being dropped on his bowling, robbing him of what would have been his first T20 wickets), but in the end, that one over made all the difference. India meet South Africa tonight.... a win and a ticket to the semi-finals, a loss and they are out of the competition. Fingers crossed.