It was a very sad ending to a pretty decent performance by the Indian cricket team in the Asia Cup. Though I didn't miss any of the league matches that we played, I completely forgot about the final and the result of which I knew only when my roommate said about the dismal performance some half hour after the match ended.

The transition from 20-twenty to the longer 50 over version was very much tiring and boring for me and in one of the matches giving way to boredom I took my favourite position in front of the tv with my laptop besides me, jotting down some of the statements given out by the commentators.

It is not purposefully that Arun Lal and Ramiz Raja' s commentary is mentioned here. They just happened to be there when I was writing down their words of 'pearl'. There were umpteen mistakes in identifying the names of the fielders which I myself found very easy to spot than the 'glued to the field ' commentators.

India Vs Pakistan in one of the matches in which India won quite convincingly.

Arun Lal

After being promoted from the monotonous Hindi commentary in DD to the English one in ESS he continued his monotony by just translating the whole of his Hindi commentary into English.

"Still lot of cricket left Ramiz" this was said by him in the 7th over of the match when he was discussing about the tactics that will employed by the Pak skipper which was repeated again in the 43rd over (See I have toiled very hard to bring out the minutest detail)

The ball has been struck nicely.......it is running on to the….fielder...(in minds instead of the fielder 'boundary' seemed natural). Think the commentators, like us, have access only to the TV coverage.

A single conceded at this stage is a dot ball - this being said during the final overs of the match in contrast to being said in the middle overs that every run matters.

Ishant sharma isn’t in his best of days, I am afraid......wonder why he is afraid?

Every run matters - doesn't everyone know about it? (repeated every 5th over I suppose)

Strong powerful hitter, makes room and bludgeons it, knew very well what he is doing. Isn't how a player plays?

Ball outside the offstump, don’t give any room - what does he mean by it?

Looking for about 300….4, 5 - resulting confusion or incapability to know what is beyond 300?

Eased themselves into the equation according to their strategy the traditional way - E=mc2 must be the equation.

300 is going to be very difficult for India - Great prediction when in the pitch report itself it was mentioned anything in excess of 300 was chasable and also it was mentioned that India would be very happy if they keep the target below 300.

Ramiz Raja

Was in direct competition with Arun Lal to get the coveted 'most distractable commentary of the day'.

Mohammed Yousuf is a classical batsman - This I am hearing for the first time.

He has been run out 36 times, very consistent (after a run out replay) - must have got mistaken with the batting average when the statistics was displayed (poor fellow), as luck would have it, he was run out the 37th time 2 overs later.

Terrific shot because, it came off the middle of the bat and reached the fielder in no time - what a definition for a 'terrific shot'.

Ball goes much wider than the white mark indicating the extent to which a ball can be bowled wide (batsmen was moving, he could have hit it - was his comment, must be his patriotism was speaking for him)

Anything under 300, India will be very happy - this was said a couple of balls after Lal commented that 300 was going to be difficult for India.

He can swing the ball, infact swing the bat over anything - What an inference, I was dumbstruck.

Last ball, this is really a big delivery - I had to wait 49.5 overs to see this big delivery being hit for a single. WTH?

Posting 300 against India is a big psychological advantage - Again contradicting his earlier statement that anything under 300, India will be very happy. So +1 run really tilts the tale?

It was too much to ask from me to write down the complete transcript of the day's commentory. In the end India won in less that 44 overs scaling the psychological advantage of Pak of posting a 300 target.

PS: Missed Ravi Shastri who still haven't lost his knack of taking wickets, especially when India is batting. No sooner than he starts commenting, a wicket of a well set batsmen falls. I seriously doubt that the opposition team is using him against us in crucial situations whenever we are having the upper hand. What else can explain the mysterious falling of wickets with Shastri's commenting. And he disappears from the scene as swift as his arrival in the commentary box.