The sorry state of women's cricket

I guess most of you would have read about the Indian team losing to Australia in the final of the Women's cricket world cup. Guess how much the team won for finishing up runners-up .... a paltry US$1600. I guess the team members would have been better off applying to grad school in the US :P

As usual, the US media is back doing what it is best at - building up hype. After Tiger won his 4th Masters on Sunday, already there are umpteen articles and polls around speculating whether Tiger is going to complete the Slam this year! Please give me a break. Anyone who saw Tiger facing off with DiMarco on Sunday will know that the title could have gone either way until the very last hole. The 16th hole was clearly a fluke (for the poor souls who didn't get to catch it live or on the infinite number of reruns on SportsCenter, here's a video clip; found this on some random blog and was shocked to see that he's using Coral!) and DiMarco's chip shot on the 18th didn't go in because the ball bounced off the flag-pole. So, I am certainly not optimistic of Tiger sweeping all the majors this year. Anyway, even if Tiger retains his good form, I hope atleast one of Mickelson, Vijay and Els will give him a good fight the next time round.

Cheers,
Harsha