Yes you all got it right, I am writing here about yesterday's Indian victory in a test match against Australia at Mohali.
I was reading about the scores in the previous practice match vs board XI and was upset to see the performance of our side and decided not to watch any of the tests. On that note I missed the first day of the test match and heard from a friend that Aussies were some 250 odd runs for 5. I was bit happy but then started thinking may be there is a problem with the pitch. A splendid inning by Shane Watson the lone century maker in this test. I am sure he love India as his resuruction from the ruins happened here in IPL season 1 from RR team. After the first day I could catch few glimpses of the postlunch and post tea session. A balance knock from Paine made sure that Aussis could cross 400 mark and Indians were under pressure.
Who can be the man than Mr. Viru for these situations ? The quality I like and hate sometimes in him is the no regards to the pressure. He will try to punish most of the balls. A blazing half century provided a solid foundation to Indian total. Night Watchman Ishant Sharma showed a good defencive technique to last for more than hour to score 10. The great wall of India on the other hand was solid as always. In came the GOD of Cricket Mr. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and with his arrival at the crease you could hear crowd going wild generally what is observed when a batsman reaches a ton! That is the persona Sachin has on the Indian well actually global crowd. The partnership between these two veterans made sure that India was back on track. Later Raina, a real finding for Indian cricket managed to score 86. Tendulkar once again perished in the 90's scoring a mamouth 98 runs on mind you a tough wicket by then. With that Indians could score 400 runs and the Aussies could get 20+ run lead. The only missing part was the nemesis of Australian team, VVS Laxman but who knew at that point of time that one can not keep Laxman away from scoring in a match against the Australians !!!
Australian second inning despite a good start from Katich and Watson could only manage 198 runs because of some firy balling from Ishant and support from Indian spinners. This gave a very good opportunity to the hosts to clinch the 1-0 advantage in the series.
I was travelling on the that day and could get only the info from calls from my brother. One such call came telling me India 48/3. I was furious on Indian batting line blaming all the way to them till my destination. Day ended with 50/4 India, requiring 170 or so runs to win with 6 wickets in hand. The fifth and final day saw a good start to Indian batting with Sachin providing some resistance to the attack. Once he got out, it was all over for India, thought almost all of us. Laxman, the superhero against Aussies and Ishant who showed some resistance in 1st innings were the warriors protecting the 10th Indian wicket with 100 runs required. Despite his injury, the weared out pitch, the old spinning ball, confusion of runner and the Australian tactics, the Very Very Special superhuman made sure that the game will not drift away to the aussis. Showing enough confidence over young Ishant where they put a solid 70 run partnership, they proved that its really tough to beat India on the home gound no matter the odds. I liked the efforts Ishant put in his defencive technique and one of his shots the cover drive that he played could have made an opening top order batsman feel proud.
You could see a pin drop silence because of the pressure on the crowd buy as soon as Ojha scored that last 2 runs off his legs, the crowd was on their feet. I have never seen an emotional Sachin but he came running to the batsmen in the centre and hugged them with great passion, respect, pride and joy. All the team was rejoicing with the success they got and in such a close game. This showed the mental toughness of the side along with skillset the posess. With this India took a commading 1-0 lead in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy !!!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
FACEBOOK and TWITTER – New medium of communications
When I first read this topic, I instantly remembered a lesson in my 6th standard English book named, “A romance of the mailrunner”. It described the adventurous, dangerous and challenging life of a mailrunner in old days when no other means of communication existed. When I start thinking of the evolution in the communication for last 4-5 centuries there are various significant milestones I can never miss out mentioning. In 1627 France introduced first registered mail. Then there was the morse code, telegraphs. The single person who can be give the credit of pioneering the distant communication is Sir Alexander Graham Bell, the patent holder of telephone in 1876 and followed by some groundbreaking work in optical telecommunication. This led the foundation for further research in telecommunication, mobile communication, satellite communication and the internet, the lifeline of everyone of us today.
Evolution of internet and computers in themselves have been rapid and quite thrilling. I used the first internet application when in 10th standard , an email via hotmail and then got introduced or can say addicted to chatting in following years via yahoo. Initially I used to chat with my brother in US and then started to chat with unknown people across the globe. I was very thrilled to chat, share, understand the thoughts, cultures, traditions from various countries. I realized the real meaning of a popular statement “communication has brought world closer”.
But on the other side I started realizing the amount of time I waste on these applications rather than doing some productive stuff. I consciously kept myself away from those for quite a while. After about four to five years a friend introduced me to social networking applications such as orkut, facebook and twitter. Orkut and facebook were found in 2004 while twitter came into existence in 2006. Today facebook is the web application with highest number of user count exceeding 500 million across the world. This number gets me thrilled but at the same time a thought comes to mind as to why people spend so much time on the web rather than doing things like chasing the hobbies and interests, exploring new things or even relaxing.
Entertainment Weekly put facebook on its end-of-the-decade 'best-of' list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" [So is the magic of these networking sites.
If I start recalling my initial phase of using these applications, I can see myself totally addicted with all the games that were there, old friends meeting online and talking about nothing (???) or making new friends, following the activities or twits of some of the celebs and similar activities. There was a facility to find the old out of contact friends (the ones lost in kumbh ka mela). There were also some links you can provide to your personal website and the blogsites. That is how I got whatever small audience to my blogspot. Recently these sites have introduced use of mobiles to connect, twit and chat. This add-on has been so successful that you can now see at least one or two out of ten having mobiles using these web apps. This phase was there for about one or two quarters.
When I see today the flip side of the facebook and twitter coins, there are number of flaws I could find. Let us recall the recent incidence of one of these being attacked by the networms. We have been told to change our passwords. This thing really questioned about the basic security available with these sites. We put our personal information, our friends contacts, a lot of people put their photographs, and many more things. If this goes in wrong hands I dare not imagine the consequences. The other problem I have seen of the sites is your messages are public where in anybody can read those which might be undesirable to few.
On a philosophical note, in day to day life we are not connected that well with even our neighbours, close friends or family members which are right there in the house, we claim these sites to be helpful for building social connections, we really need to sit quietly and think about this approach otherwise we will get a lot of long distant invisible friends and might miss onto the most dear ones seating right beside us !!!
When I first read this topic, I instantly remembered a lesson in my 6th standard English book named, “A romance of the mailrunner”. It described the adventurous, dangerous and challenging life of a mailrunner in old days when no other means of communication existed. When I start thinking of the evolution in the communication for last 4-5 centuries there are various significant milestones I can never miss out mentioning. In 1627 France introduced first registered mail. Then there was the morse code, telegraphs. The single person who can be give the credit of pioneering the distant communication is Sir Alexander Graham Bell, the patent holder of telephone in 1876 and followed by some groundbreaking work in optical telecommunication. This led the foundation for further research in telecommunication, mobile communication, satellite communication and the internet, the lifeline of everyone of us today.
Evolution of internet and computers in themselves have been rapid and quite thrilling. I used the first internet application when in 10th standard , an email via hotmail and then got introduced or can say addicted to chatting in following years via yahoo. Initially I used to chat with my brother in US and then started to chat with unknown people across the globe. I was very thrilled to chat, share, understand the thoughts, cultures, traditions from various countries. I realized the real meaning of a popular statement “communication has brought world closer”.
But on the other side I started realizing the amount of time I waste on these applications rather than doing some productive stuff. I consciously kept myself away from those for quite a while. After about four to five years a friend introduced me to social networking applications such as orkut, facebook and twitter. Orkut and facebook were found in 2004 while twitter came into existence in 2006. Today facebook is the web application with highest number of user count exceeding 500 million across the world. This number gets me thrilled but at the same time a thought comes to mind as to why people spend so much time on the web rather than doing things like chasing the hobbies and interests, exploring new things or even relaxing.
Entertainment Weekly put facebook on its end-of-the-decade 'best-of' list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" [So is the magic of these networking sites.
If I start recalling my initial phase of using these applications, I can see myself totally addicted with all the games that were there, old friends meeting online and talking about nothing (???) or making new friends, following the activities or twits of some of the celebs and similar activities. There was a facility to find the old out of contact friends (the ones lost in kumbh ka mela). There were also some links you can provide to your personal website and the blogsites. That is how I got whatever small audience to my blogspot. Recently these sites have introduced use of mobiles to connect, twit and chat. This add-on has been so successful that you can now see at least one or two out of ten having mobiles using these web apps. This phase was there for about one or two quarters.
When I see today the flip side of the facebook and twitter coins, there are number of flaws I could find. Let us recall the recent incidence of one of these being attacked by the networms. We have been told to change our passwords. This thing really questioned about the basic security available with these sites. We put our personal information, our friends contacts, a lot of people put their photographs, and many more things. If this goes in wrong hands I dare not imagine the consequences. The other problem I have seen of the sites is your messages are public where in anybody can read those which might be undesirable to few.
On a philosophical note, in day to day life we are not connected that well with even our neighbours, close friends or family members which are right there in the house, we claim these sites to be helpful for building social connections, we really need to sit quietly and think about this approach otherwise we will get a lot of long distant invisible friends and might miss onto the most dear ones seating right beside us !!!
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