<div><img src="/imagedata/2012/feb/lindsy-op1.jpg" border="0" align="left" alt="" />Cricket was, surprisingly, still on a lot of minds as the first T20 international, Australia versus India, kicked off. The game didn't make many happy. As Harshad Apte put it: 'Team India has befuddled critics who are now wondering whether T20 is to blame for our Test performance or if it is the other way round.' In AmreekanDesi's words: 'The good thing is India can't lose by an innings.' Raj Waghray weighed in with this: 'So what if it is T20, we will still not bat the 20 overs.' And from James Macpherson: 'T20 is for people who don't mind a smattering of cricket with their pop songs, dancers, fire show, group singing and Adams Family theme music.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Out of luck</b></div><div>The Income Tax Department conducted searches at the premises of prominent Uttar Pradesh-based liquor baron Ponty Chadha, making him a hot topic of discussion. Kamlesh Singh tweeted: 'Many refer to Chadha as Mayawati's man. Not true. Ponty has his men and women. Maya is just one of them, like it or not.' In Shiv Aroor's words: 'Without Chadha, UP is a dry state, boss.' And from Vinayak Bhushan: 'Ponty Chadha sounds like a fraud's name, but the man serves millions of people in desperate times.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New beginnings</b></div><div>For reasons unknown, the words 'Hi February' clogged timelines for a while as people welcomed the first day of the month. There were some voices of sanity though, like Nien Nunb who tweeted: 'I bet people who type Hi February and Bye January actually expect the month to respond. Morons.' And Tim Roberts: 'Hi February is trending. If you feel the need to say hello to a month, your life must be desolate, desperate and over.'</div><div>The last word</div><div>From filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma: 'I pray to all Gods so as to not take a chance on which God will be up there.'</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>-- Lindsay Pereira is Editor,u00a0MiD DAY Onlineu00a0(twitter.com/lindsaypereira)</b></i></div>        

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