Terrence Howard, Peter O’Toole, Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella have something in common. All of them were nominated for the Academy Awards (Oscars) but did not win.
That does not undermine their talent, or importance.
Something that could certainly undermine it would be if they were not invited for the mega event. Imagine a nominee who is not invited to walk the red carpet! Now that would be strange. Really strange.
Imagine the magnitude of the effect on the egos of the said 4 people, if they were just not even aware that they had been nominated till after the awards were doled out to the respective winners (they not winning of course).
Something similar happened to this blog.
It was nominated at the Cricket Websites Awards 2009, constituted by the World Cricket Watch in the category Best New Cricket Blog, alongside Against the Spin, Thoughts from the dustbin, Pongo Cricket and of course, the Test Match Sofa.
As I have already tried my best to explain in a not so subtle way, I was not even informed of my nomination, and all this while I was sucking up to other cricket blogs who were nominated and lobbying my friends to vote for them.
In retrospect, I blame myself, as all I had to do was check. Low expectations, eh! Naah, I was just being a little modest. A little? Yeah, whatever.
So I was saying, the results are out, and here they are…:
Yes, I came last, but that’s not the point. I could have come third, if I had lobbied. That is not the point either. The point is I was nominated. So I am happy.
Did you notice how I subtly changes the context of this post from ‘this blog’ to ‘I’. Maybe that is why no one tells me what the hell is going on.
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By Guest Blogger Uncle J Rod, the ballsiest blogger in the milky way
- Thou shalt not use reason, you are not a journalist, you are a blogger, be as unreasonable as you need to be.
- Respect thy domestic competition, but do not make love to it.
- Thou shalt always be willing to fall in love with a cricketer, no matter what his ethnicity is, or how much he kills your country, conversely feel free to hate cricketers from your own country.
- All blogs were created equal, but then page rankings took over, so link up fool.
- Idolize your favourite cricketer, not like they are God, but like they are way cooler than God.
- On the seventh day, take the piss, even a serious cricket blog needs a day when you just sit back and take the piss.
- Thou shall look outside the big three, reach beyond India, England and Australia, you will find things happen in other countries as well.
- Feel free to bag the ICC at all times, will never lose you fans my son.
- Do not use carven images, use Google images of sexy cricket shots.
- And remember, if you can’t say anything nice, say something with such vitriol that people are afraid to meet you in real life
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The Indian cricket team is in some sort of a media-created crisis. Everyone worth his penny is coming out and sniggering at MS Dhoni’s comments and his leadership. The same people, of course, never stopped short of showering accolades for him. That is ok, though. Happens in the world where any footage is good for a career as a cricket commentator.
The ICC meanwhile, has not considered those comments. In fact, it loves MSD as a skipper, so much that he has been made skipper of both the World XIs in the annual ICC awards this year. That is little consolation for a guy who, for the first time, is being doubted by the best.
Here is the list of awardees this year:
The awards were based on the performance of the team and its players for the period between August 13, 2008 to August 24, 2008 which included events like the ICC World Twenty20 2009 in England, the ICC Women’s world cup 2009 in Australia, the ICC cricket world cup qualifier 2009 in South Africa and many other bilateral test and ODI series.
Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd headed the five member selection panel for the nominations. The panel included former cricketers like India’s Anil Kumble, Pakistan’s Mudassar Nazar, England’s bob Taylor and New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming.
Here is the World Test Team:
and the World ODI Team:
That’s it for now. I am tired.
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