The swordmanship of Kohli

Virat Kohli is a tattooed swordsman who knows how to paint with his sword.

One who wears his heart on his sleeves, Kohli has always dared to express his emotions on field. Not one to shy away from difficult situations whether it is a fight on the field or a verbal duel, Kohli has also shown he has the stomach to learn from his mistakes.

For someone who has been in fluent form for what seems forever, Kohli has shown that words such as "form" doesn't exits in his lexican. His shots against Australia tonight at the World twenty20 were all copybook cricketing shots, whether it was the leg glances, cover drives, straight drives or the shots where he opened the face of the bat at the last moment or the pulls using his bottomhand. Each of these shots would have made his icon Sachin Tendulkar proud.

The way he ran between the wickets seemed he could have given Usain Bolt a complex. Yuvraj Singh, despite all the good intentions, had slowed the chase because he was not able to respond to Kohli's calls for twos. But that didn't upset Kohli, instead the Delhi cricketer dug his heels and kept walking slowy and steadily towards the target, knowing fully well his time will come.

This innings once again proves that he has reached a stage where he dictates the terms of his innings. The maturity he shows on field has glossed over the brazenness that gave him bad press in the past. It seems he has a compass inside his head which knows which way to go, something which works on auto-mode. It only proves that in no time, he has become one of the cricketing geniuses who will end at the top spot in the hall of fame.

There is no doubt, Kohli will go down in history as the best batsmen in the world because never ever in the history of international cricket, any other batsmen has won his team more matches from such precarious situation. Not even legendary Sachin Tendulkar. Even Australia's Mike Hussey and Michael Bevan will take a bow before this new master of cricket. He certainly shut a certain Mitchell Johnson, who will be eating his words!!!

Ploys for Aussie Boys!!!

Battered and bruised in the Lord Test, Australia is still licking its wounds. While the tongue is busy lapping over its injuries caused by England, the eyes and ears are working as a radar to catch any (however trivial it may sound) news that can help them to save their skins. According to highly dis-placed sources, Australian players have taken it as a mission to teach the Englishmen a lesson and are employing some logic-defying and head-spinning ploys. Here are few of them:

1. Squirming from the wrath and curse of his mother, Mitch-es has decided to get over the glitches by brokering a cordial relation between his karateka girl-friend and his melodramatic mother and has contacted the king-of-melodrama Karan Johar, who has advised Mitch-es a twin dose: Watch K-3-G in the morning and K-A-N-K in the night and if that doesn't cure the sore, watch Sooraj R. Barjatya's H-S-S-H.

2. To get over the nightmare of Lords and seek divine intervention, skipper Ricky Ponting has rushed to the ghats of Vanarasi in the disguise of sadhus and stared awe-struck at the God's eye and sources say he also clicked a photo which he plans to keep in his left pocket like former skipper Steve Waugh during the rest of the Ashes series.

3. With arch-rivals Australia and New Zealand coming closer , a divine-struck Punter is convinced it is yet another call of the Almighty and so he has asked Cricket Australia to approach New Zealand Cricket Board to sent born-again Shane Bond to Edgbaston in place of a injury-struck Bret Lee.

4. Shane Watson's divine truth about Australia has set the players in a soul-searching mode and Punter has decided to leave all practice session in the backburner and look for some innovation in sledging and coach and players are idea-ting all day long to come up with some camouflaged version of sledging.