{"id":941,"date":"2007-01-08T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/941"},"modified":"2007-01-08T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T12:56:00","slug":"gaurav-shut-up-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/gaurav-shut-up-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaurav, Shut up. Please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gauravsabnis.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/in-defence-of-sehwag.html\">Gaurav explains why Sehwag should be persisted with.<\/a> These patronizing  fug heads I tell you. Sehwag should be dropped because he failed to deliver. Consistently. If he were pushed down the order yada-yada is bull shit. By that logic, we should have never dropped Ganguly and we should have thrown Sachin to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/search?hl=en&#038;q=stray+dogs+chandra+layout&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=\">stray dogs of Chandra Layout<\/a> three years back. You can be a fan all right, but giving Sehwag a public bj is too much. And sister, &#8216;bad patch&#8217; is not a good excuse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<map name=\"google_ad_map_070108124103070108122600\">\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/070108124103070108122600?pos=0\" coords=\"1,2,367,28\"\/>\n<area shape=\"rect\" href=\"http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg\" coords=\"384,10,453,23\"\/><\/map>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" usemap=\"#google_ad_map_070108124103070108122600\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=ca-pub-1259014363012020&amp;channel=9138153052&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=070108124103070108122600&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fyakpad10.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F01%2Fgaurav-shut-up-please.html\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaurav explains why Sehwag should be persisted with. These patronizing fug heads I tell you. Sehwag should be dropped because he failed to deliver. Consistently. If he were pushed down the order yada-yada is bull shit. By that logic, we should have never dropped Ganguly and we should have thrown Sachin to the stray dogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cricket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Gaurav explains why Sehwag should be persisted with. These patronizing fug heads I tell you. Sehwag should be dropped because he failed to deliver. Consistently. If he were pushed down the order yada-yada is bull shit. By that logic, we should have never dropped Ganguly and we should have thrown Sachin to the stray dogs&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gbk8-fb","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":511,"url":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/gangulys-dumb-ass-tactics\/","url_meta":{"origin":941,"position":0},"title":"Ganguly&#8217;s Dumb-Ass Tactics","author":"Suman Kumar","date":"January 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Ganguly's Dumb-Ass Tactics In today's one-day match against the Aussies, Ganguly waited till the freaking 40th over to get Sehwag into the bowling attack. And Sehwag took a wicket on the fourth or fifth ball of his over. 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