Mind Blogging. Mind Boggling.

I will try not to be extremely vitriolic here, because I believe my sagacious comments on cricket do reach the highest echelons of the cricketing fraternity, and will be perused very soon by the subject of this post himself.

'The balls are not bouncing very much, and Kamran Akmal will have difficulty keeping them below his belt", remarked Mr. Ramiz Raja, former test cricketer and renowned commentator. Oh dear ! What a ridiculous blooper !

This is how Mr. Ramiz Raja proceeds to tear apart the respectable lexicon of the quirky and peppy cricket commentary. Mixing, with great zeal, high falutin words with the downright modest in one breath, corrupting ubiquitous English adages..this is one but one aspect of his commentary.

To add to his faults, his views are extremely partisan- looks at everything through green tinted Pakistani glasses ! Let's say Kumble's sends down a jaffa and rattles timber, shattering the defences of a bamboozled Younis Khan.

"Good Ball, but what was Younis thinking ! He ought to have stretched forward, and either taken it on his pads or tucked it away towards the vacant short leg region ! Poor batting ! "- Mr. Ramiz Raja's enlightening comments.

And take nit picking to further extremes, he needs a haricut badly. And he looks like that always.

The sonorous booming voice of Tony Greg, the endearing drawl of Boycott, the animated perkiness of Gavaskar, the grave authority of Shastri- now THAT is commentary, at it's very best.