Pink Floyd and Cricket.

I dont know if the group had something to do with cricket. Though I would have loved if either Gilmour, Wright, Mason, Waters or Barrett was as attached to it as Mick Jaggers is. But I found a link. I love Pink Floyd and think they are the best thing in music and I adore the game of cricket. So the title of some of Pink Floyd songs make me associate the title to certain things in cricket.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Brian Lara, when he hit the double century against the Aussies recently.

Coming Back To Life: English cricket teamand English cricket in general, after the English team won 'The Ashes'.

Wish You Were Here : The absense of SR Tendulkar from the team during the Ganguly Chappel fiasco, BCCI election and whole lot of ugly things, and when I so yearned for the worshippers rather than the prospectors.

We Don't Need No Education: Pakistan Cricket Team....absolutely.

Keep Talking : Warne... just let your deliveries keep talking and asking questions.

Comfortably Numb: The Indian cricket follower

Lost For Words: Ah!, that Tendulkar straight drive. Its.....(lost for words!)

Paranoid Eyes: Mutthiah Muralitharan. His eyes just at the moment of delivery, make me go paranoid.

Learning To Fly: Everytime I hold a bat or a ball or practice a shot in the air...and that feeling of ecstasy. Its sad I didnt play cricket in any form.

Saucer Full Of Secrets(album name): Pakistan fast bowlers who at one time and maybe still are the only ones privy to the art of reverse swing.

Great Gig In The Sky: Jonty Rhodes and those fabulous catches he took in mid air.

Us And Them : India vs Pakistan

The Wall( album name): We all know it, Rahul Dravid

Welcome To The Machine: Glen McGrath for his absolutely phenomenal ability to strike the deck again and again and continuously.

On The Turning Away: Those off-cutters. Batsmen reach out to the ball and the ball says teasingly we'll meet at the turning away.

Fat Old Sun : Arjuna Ranatunga & David Boon

Let There Be More Light : To the BCCI and Indian selectors.

Remmember A Day: SRT's back to back centuries in Sharjah against the Aussies

Finally

A Great Day For Freedom: Typical warm, sun lit, early winter Sunday morning of my home town. Watching a cricket match on the tube in the terrace of my house. Sachin Tendulkar carving one of his majestic innings against McGrath, Warne & Co, for ecstasy and aaloo ke paranthe, lassi and achar for my taste buds. Amen.

PS: The lyrics of a number of songs donot match my imagination.