Last post on September 15, 2007. Oooh, that's a long time back!! Well, as all of us know the Indian team has been sent to the cleaners by poor umpiring, the whole nation is reeling under the injustice meted out to poor Bhajji. The scheming BCCI while seeming to support the Indians down under has not provided legal assistance to Bhajji...am I the only one or does anyone else feel there has been an overdose of the controversy?
While the umpiring has been bad, it would do good to the team if it analyzes its own performance without taking into consideration the decisions that have been deemed unfair to it. It has been said that the actual Australian pitch will be experienced by the Indians only in Perth. This has been said by Jadeja and a similar statement has also been made by Wasim Akram. Let us see how it holds up against Australian fast bowling on such a track.
Somebody please tell Mr. Sharad Pawar to be more active in what is actually (I hope I am right) his rightful role, that as the union agricultural minister. He seems to be more active in activities concerning cricket than others. One can only wonder at the state of India's cricket today - a selector thinks it is more important to write columns in a newspaper than to do his actual job, a manager who is media-hungry and who runs and poses with the team members whether or not he has had anyting to do with their victory, so on and so forth.
Another item that has been in the news is the recent fire in Kolkata. I have heard one or two interesting theories about it which I would like to share here. One, shared by a taxi driver is that the promoter wants to construct a new building in place of the existing one. The shopkeepers are not vacating their stores and hence the fire. Another one is that the fire loss will be shown to reduce the tax that needs to be paid to the governement!
Lastly, if anybody wishes to write either GRE or GMAT, please be warned that the post-test application process is a Pain with a capital P you know where. There is a saying in Telugu that only a person who gets into the water can judge how deep it is. Trust me, occasionally you will feel like just bashing your head against anything solid.
While the umpiring has been bad, it would do good to the team if it analyzes its own performance without taking into consideration the decisions that have been deemed unfair to it. It has been said that the actual Australian pitch will be experienced by the Indians only in Perth. This has been said by Jadeja and a similar statement has also been made by Wasim Akram. Let us see how it holds up against Australian fast bowling on such a track.
Somebody please tell Mr. Sharad Pawar to be more active in what is actually (I hope I am right) his rightful role, that as the union agricultural minister. He seems to be more active in activities concerning cricket than others. One can only wonder at the state of India's cricket today - a selector thinks it is more important to write columns in a newspaper than to do his actual job, a manager who is media-hungry and who runs and poses with the team members whether or not he has had anyting to do with their victory, so on and so forth.
Another item that has been in the news is the recent fire in Kolkata. I have heard one or two interesting theories about it which I would like to share here. One, shared by a taxi driver is that the promoter wants to construct a new building in place of the existing one. The shopkeepers are not vacating their stores and hence the fire. Another one is that the fire loss will be shown to reduce the tax that needs to be paid to the governement!
Lastly, if anybody wishes to write either GRE or GMAT, please be warned that the post-test application process is a Pain with a capital P you know where. There is a saying in Telugu that only a person who gets into the water can judge how deep it is. Trust me, occasionally you will feel like just bashing your head against anything solid.
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Honestly.. i did not know that sharad pawar is Union Agriculture Minister.. !!
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