Sporting Sunday

Sunday seems to be the Sports day almost every week. There was Cricket, F1 race, Golf and the count down to the Olympics on TV. I am most interested in the Cricket and F1 race.

As it turned out, I switched on the TV late in the afternoon and was quite pleasantly surprised at the score. SL were tottering on 132/8 and India were on the brink of a resounding victory. Indeed, it was a matter of two overs and the spin twins of SL were out. All credit goes to Veeru for his awesome batting. Youngsters must see his appetite for runs and try to emulate that. Kudos to Bhajji too for some great off spin bowling and a deserving 10-for in the match. Gambhir also batted brilliantly. The big wigs should take a leaf from the openers and hopefully come good in the last test.

The F1 race was at Hungaroring this weekend and again Hamilton was on Pole. But Massa got a very good jump on him at the first corner and never looked back. Although Hamilton was within 4 seconds, he was let down by a tyre puncture. He did fight back to take 5th place, but would have rued the puncture. He would have won the race if he were driving behind Massa when Massa's engine blew up 3 laps from the finish. Hekki scored his first F1 victory and the driver's championship is again ever so close.

Lastly, Nadal lost in the semi-final of the Cincinnati Tennis tournament to Djokovic. But since Federer lost in the second round, he lost his no.1 spot too. Nadal will be crowned no. 1 in a couple weeks. I sincerely hope that Federer regains some of his form and win the Olympics Gold and the US Open to round of his most disappointing year, since 5 years.

Have been following the MLB and the Chicago Cubs. More on that in my next post.

~Sandeep