That's strange. Isn't it.. !!?

At times when I take the remote control and flip over channels I experience a very strange thing. When the picture frame changes from one channel to another, just for a split of a second I seem to have a glimpse of a cricket match ….!!! …As if mistakenly and very swiftly I’ve flipped past a channel that was televising a cricket match. This strange glance doesn’t stay more than a nano second or so. But within that tiniest fraction of time I seem to see a wicket, green outfield, two different shirt colors of the two teams, a bowler running in, batsman ready, fielders converging… I remember this used to happen to me (I used to have this same experience) 13 or 14 years ago when I used to live in a cricket crazy community, Dhaka T.T.C. At that time I took this strange experience as just a trick played by my subconscious or cricket obsessed mind. Now it’s happening to me again. But, I hardly have any connection with cricket now (I used to play the tapped tennis version in the past but was never regular). Does it or anything like it happen to anybody else?

Getting back the old unpredictable Pakistan team

Talk about restoring old Pakistani style of turning around, what could have been a better instance than tonight’s encounter...!!! What a partnership it was ..!! Subhyan Allah...!!  To give a single word expression about it, I ‘d say magnifi-splen-awesome-ndous would not just be enough. This is to me the much better, if not the best, ODI partnership in a long long time....from Pakistan team  Alhamdulillah, it changes a lot of things for the better. Chasing 247 getting to a  hopeless situation stage with 123 for7 and then winning the match is undoubtedly something extraordinary from Pakistan. This century partnership between Afridi and Sohail brings back that old confidence of “The Unpredictable Pakistan”, what I guess we haven’t seen much after the 90’s. This talented young boy Harris Sohail will remember this partnership with a very uncharacteristic and sensible Afridi. If somebody goes through his innings he didn’t provide any chance to the oppositions going less than or just around run a ball strike rate till 30 and then ending up with a run out after getting 61 of 51. The most classic part was that  Shahid Afridi was fruitfully chicky with the bat in response to the chicky slower deliveries from this new  Queue  quicker sensation “AF Milne”. This impressive young lad was consistently mixing up some 111 km or 115 km tricky back-of-the-hand slower deliveries with his 145 to 156 km/h cases. But ironically,  ended up without any wicket on his tally tonight. At one point when Pakistan was tottering with a score of 124 for 7 in the 31^st over of this chasing innings, in came the forgotten smashing and dashing sensation Boom Boom Afridi amid a “hardly any hope” situation for the team. With his sensible innings he also lets his team setting  a winning response to Ross Taylor’s brilliant century in the queue innings with a similar initially struggle.

......Relishing the mesmerizing lunar glow. Could it be a fantasy?.....

Confined home for last ten days. Actually suffering from a brand new physical complexity for the first time in life. And it turned so severe that I had to extend my leave for a week more.  Suffered a great deal indeed. But, Alhamdulillah,  things have improved a lot and hope to join work this Sunday In shaa Allah. All this time I was so occupied with this illness that I couldn't actually enjoy a single day as a pure holiday and was regretting my inability to sort out some personal affairs. You know ... like starting my thesis work , finding a good job to get out of this contract, talking to the GRE coaching center (again!!) to find me a new batch to start all over again, Finding a Data Science training program to apply for etc..etc... .
Somehow, all on a sudden I am again pushed towards a bit of hotchpotch with all my plans. But, there is a brighter side of this, what I am calling 'a mess'. I get to spend a few days with my parents and realized what I was missing for a while. Parents really are one of the greatest blessings of Allah.
Tonight when I have finally started writing a new post for my blog , I decided I should give it a title that I like or enjoy and have missed writing about in last one month or so. Yuh!!, it's that old moonlight fantasy. Cause right now the entire surrounding seems bathing with this mesmeric lunar flash. I think I should not call it a mere fantasy. At this time of the year I 've really enjoyed it all through my life like a spellbound spectator. So I don't really know the exact word. Well, whatever be the expression the word of thankfulness to it's Creator, Provider and Owner is even more pleasing: " Subhyan Allah "

Recalling Memories of the Final Match of FIFA World Cup 1990 ( Argentina Vs West Germany )

Need I say that like many others now I am recalling the memories of world cup final match of 1990 !!? 24 years ago as a 8/9 years old boy of class 4, I had to watch my favorite team Dona's Tina (Maradona's Argentina) ended up with 9 men on the field after getting 2 red cards from Codesal , the Mexican Referee. Maradona was being repetitively attacked and knocked down by the German players but all those attacks seemed just okay to Codesal. West Germany ended up winning that final 1-0 as that unforgettable world cup final referee Edgardo Codesal awarded them a controversial penalty at the 85th minute. I don’t remember the previous world cup ’86 , Because, I was only 4 or 5 then. But hearing so much about Maradona from my parents and many others in Barisal Polytechnic Institute, wasn’t I so eager to witness him becoming the hero of champion Argentina again !!? But this time 'like many others'  I wish to have In shaa Allah, a clean and fair game from both the teams and no more referees like Codesal who lifted his hands with joy blowing the final whistle of that match.

Few words on that incredible semifinal between Brazil and Germany

Argentina had Messi , Brazil had Neymar , Portugal had Ronaldo and it seems to me only Germany had a team.....!!! (yet to see Netherlands in a semifinal triumph this time ). I'm not a hardcore fan of Brazil ,  I rather used to support Argentina for a long time since world cup 1990. But watching last night's semi final , I can't imagine how the Brazilian ex-superstars like Romario , Ronaldo , Ronaldinho , Kaka , my favorite left winger Roberto Carlos etc., were feeling at those excruciating moments . It was really a terrible shocker what I guess they never had anticipated to experience in their own backyard.  Germany on the other hand, held on to their always formidable ' Power Football ' very confidently and effectively. They have mastered the art very well to deliver it on the field against any opponent in the most organized manner compared to any other team who might have tried that approach. Now! , in this world cup ,  they finally are looking incredibly and deservingly very close to get the ultimate reward of sticking to that matchless style of their own.

বিসিবি এবং বোর্ড প্রেসিডেন্ট পাপন সাহেবকে অভিনন্দন এবং একটি শংকা

বিসিবি এবং পাপন সাহেবের প্রতি আমি কিছুটা সম্মান ফিরে পেলাম , আলহামদুলিল্লাহ। বাংলাদেশ এর ক্রিকেট এবং সাকিব আল হাসান এর মঙ্গলের জন্যে এমন একটি কঠোর পদক্ষেপ গ্রহনের প্রয়োজন বেশ কিছুদিন ধরে অনুভূত হয়ে আসছিল। এই সিদ্ধান্তে অটল থেকে বিসিবি একটি দৃষ্টান্ত তৈরী করুক , এই প্রত্যাশা রইলো ইন শা আল্লাহ। বিসিবি কে অভিনন্দন , যেকোনো রকম ভাবে নির্বাচিত এর কমিটি কে অভিনন্দন , আমাদের স্কুলের কৃতি সন্তান , পাপন সাহেব কে অভিনন্দন। অভিনন্দন, বাংলাদেশকে !!  

অভিনন্দন তো জানানো হলো। কিন্তু কলকাতা নাইট রাইডার্স এর এত বড় ক্ষতি বাংলাদেশ এর এই সরকার শেষ পর্যন্ত হতে দেবে , এটা কিছুতেই মেলানো যাচ্ছেনা। ' প্রধানমন্ত্রীর বিশেষ অনুরোধ ' বা এই ধরনের একটা কিছুর কার্যকারিতা দেখতে পাওয়া সময়ের বেপার নয়কি ?

Majestic Return of the Carribean Power Cricket

Ma shaa Allah, the atmosphere just outside around the stadium was really something to take note of.....!!! They didn’t have tickets to get in, neither was there any giant screen installed outside the stadium... But that didn’t cause any lack in the enthusiasm of these wonderful local people of Mirpur.... Watching them having a happy hangout along with their families under the colorfully decorated streetlights, finding out some new friends, gossiping and having a good time with them made the evening really refreshing to me Alhamdulillah. My home team, Bangladesh had already lost the first match of the day against Australia. It was the last match for both the teams to take at least one win from this Super 10 round of this tournament. No wonder, Australia won it convincingly despite a much better show from the hosts in their batting innings. In the next match my favorite foreign cricket team Pakistan (Our bitterly and sweetly related departed brothers) was up against the charged up Windies. I was sitting with my new friends on the island of the street (blocked for vehicles, in match hours) where peoples of the neighborhood were freely roaming and enjoying the decorated lights and fireworks. And time to time was asking a boy earring on a cell radio, sitting just behind me, ”What’s the score now...!!”. At a stage W.indies were limping with 84/5 in 14 overs. The loud sound of cheers from the gallery was still making us enchanted. ....Then started the terrible Caribbean storm with Bravo and Sammy blasting off the next 6 overs for 82 runs....!!! Just then our heart sank a little feeling this could be the decisive turnaround of the match. And so it happened... ... They continued with that momentum wrapping up Pakistan for 82 wining the match by 84 runs..... And one indeed can say Calypso tune of power cricket is getting back in a majestic style......