Thursday, September 29, 2011

INDIAN WALL




The real definition of a TEAM PLAYER

Record performance by our great wall
" RAHUL DRAVID "



Awesome performance by Rahul dravid




FULL STORY :


Another monumental performance from Rahul Dravid on the fourth day of the fourth test at the Oval delayed England's progress towards a series whitewash over India.

Dravid became the third Indian batsman to carry his bat in a test with an unbeaten 146 compiled in six hours 19 minutes in his team's 300 all out in reply to England's 591 for six declared.

He was soon back in the middle after England enforced the follow-on and frustrated England for a further 55 minutes before departing caught for 13.

Despite Dravid's heroics, England still need only seven wickets to win the series 4-0 on final day after India ended on for 129 for three, still trailing by 162.

Sachin Tendulkar, who received another standing ovation in what may his last test innings in England, was unbeaten on 35.

Dravid scored 103 not out in the first test at Lord's and 117 in the second at Trent Bridge and is the only Indian to reach three figures in a miserable series for the visitors.

A consummate team man who kept wicket briefly at Lord's when his captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni decided to bowl, Dravid opened the batting in Nottingham and again at the Oval in place of Gautam Gambhir who was injured on both occasions.

He completed his 35th test century to move ahead of his boyhood hero Sunil Gavaskar and West Indian Brian Lara in the all-time list behind Tendulkar (51), South Africa's Jacques Kallis (40) and Australian Ricky Ponting (39).

He emulated Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag by batting throughout an innings and became the first man to face 30,000 test deliveries.

Dravid's heroics at least guaranteed a competitive day's cricket in a one-sided series during which England took over the world's number one ranking from India.

Resuming on 57, he could have been run out four runs later after a mixup with Dhoni. Otherwise his footwork and concentration were impeccable as off-spinner Graeme Swann, who took three cheap wickets on Saturday night, toiled in vain from the Vauxhall end.

Dravid moved through the 90s with three sweetly timed boundaries in a Swann over and reached his hundred with a late cut for two off Tim Bresnan.

He had lost Dhoni caught behind by Matt Prior off James Anderson for a sketchy 17 but found a useful partner in leg-spinner Amit Mishra who contributed 43, including a six off the last ball before lunch from Swann, to a seventh-wicket partnership of 87.

The tail, including Gambhir who scored 10 batting at nine, contributed little but India's final total was still the only time they have reached 300 in the series.

Sehwag, who had failed to last longer than the first over in his three previous innings in the series, edgedAnderson's first ball of the second innings past his off stump to the boundary for four. He thumped a further boundary off the sixth ball.

Dravid was given out caught at short-leg by Alastair Cook off Swann for seven by umpire Rod Tucker and immediately called for a review which showed he had not made contact.

He had scored one more run when the same umpire signalled byes although television replays indicatedDravid had got an edge which eluded Prior.

Five runs later there was no reprieve when Dravid pushed forward again to Swann and Cook claimed the catch after the ball appeared to go from bat to pad. The batsman again appealed but this time third umpire Steve Davis ruled in the bowler's favour.

Sehwag departed for 33, bowled through the gap by Swann and Vangipurappu Laxman was given a life after he had scored 20 when Andrew Strauss dropped a low chance to his right hand at first slip off Anderson.

He scored only four more runs when Anderson ripped his off-stump out of the ground with a splendid delivery which left the batsman stranded.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

INDIAN PLAYERS & THEIR INJURIES



Here is list of players who have got injured in the current series :


1) Zaheer Khan :


If sachin tendulkar has been heart of Indian cricket , Zaheer Khan has been backbone of Indian bowling line up. Without him Indian bowling looks spine less . India got biggest blow of the series when zaheer got his hamstring pulled in very first match , very first innings. India didn’t recover from the blow and it showed how weak our side is without him. We can still win matches without any one distinguished batsman but without zaheer in the bowling attack , it becomes less probable for us to take 20 wickets in test format.


2) Ishant Sharma :


Ishant has got everything in him to make him lethal bowler. Ricky Pointing considered Ishan’t spell in one of matches against australia as one of best single spell he faced in long career. Ishant has not utilized his full potential and has been brilliant in bits and pieces but he along with zaheer can provide good combination. He is out due to Ligament injury in the left ankle.


3) Virender Shewag :


India missed him in present series. He was selected despite fitness issue. He had got operated due to shoulder injury. Sad part of story is he was suffering since long and had decided to get himself operatedafter world cup but his bosses of IPL didnt seem to like the idea and so shewag choosed to play for IPL rather than getting operated. Result is in front of us. Shewag is again out due to Shoulder injury and labyrinthithis of the left ear.


4) Gautam Gambhir :


He has been most consistent batsman in last two years for India. Like V V S Laxman he is expected to come up with solid innings in test arena. He got injured first in his elbow and was forced to sit out in next match. He again got injured when he got his head banged while trying to take a catch. Currently he is sufferingtemporary blur image and continuous headache hinder his ability to concentrate.


5) Yuvraj Singh:


Pappu can’t play test saala. The prince of Indian Cricket team who played extremely important role in India lifting the world cup 2011 , was found clueless against bouncers in front of england. He got fractured index finger as a result.


6) Harbhajan Singh :


He is expected to take wickets , especially after anil kumble call the day. But his form is under question and his ability to take wickets too is under scrutiny. Knowing harbhajan singh he would bounce back but as far as current series goes he has had disastrous tour taking only two wickets and giving 280 plus runs in two test matches.


7) Sachin Tendulkar :


Sachin tendulkar was expected to get his 100th century in this series. It didnt happen and barring for resolute 50 in one of test innings he looked far from his own self. He was ruled out on one day series due to toe injury.


8) Rohit Sharma :



Rohit sharma was called in for one day series but was soon ruled out due to injury . There is crack in his finger.


Friday, September 9, 2011

popular personalities



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1. Socrates

2. Cui Jian (father of Chinese rock music)

3. Vladimir Lenin

4. Prince Charles

5. Ramses or King Solomon or Sinuhe of Egypt

6. Bill Clinton

7. Tsar Peter The Great Of Russia

8. Charles de Gaulle

9. Margaret Thatcher

10. Ulysses S. Grant

18. Bill Clinton

11. Bruce Lee

12. Winston Churchill

13. Raphael Sanzio or Matisse (French Painter)

14. Robert Oppenheimer

15. Elvis Presley

16. William Shakespeare

17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

18. Genghis Kahn

19. Napoleon Bonaparte

20. Che Guevara

21. Fidel Castro

22. Marlon Brando

23. Lao zi or Hokusai

24. Marilyn Monroe

25. Yassar Arafat

26. Julius Caesar

27. Mike Tyson

28. George W. Bush

29. Luciano Pavarotti

30. Salvador Dali

31. Empress CiXi

32. Liu Xiang

33. Kofi Annan

34. Prince Charles

35. Ariel Sharon

36. Ho Chi Minh or Qi Baishi (Chinese painter)

37. Osama Bin Laden

38. Qin Shi Huang

39. Mikhail Gorbachev

40. Mother Teresa

41. Song Qingling

42. Otto Von Bismarck

43. Saint Peter or Rabindranath Tagore

44. Li ZhenSheng

45. Voltaire

46. President Hu Jintao

47. Dante Alighieri or Julius Caesar

48. Pu-Yi or Dai Dudu

49. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot)

50. Yi Sun-sin líder or Yue Fei

51. Michael Angelo

52. Hideki Tojo 0r Hiro Hito

53. Michael Jordan

54. Dwight Eisenhower or John Calvin Coolidge

55. Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter

56. Claude Monet

57. Mahatma Ghandi

58. Vincent Van Gogh

59. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

60. Marcel Duchamp

61. Confucius

62. Noah

63. Li Bai the Chinese Poet or Caravaggio

64. Mao Zhedong

65. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer

66. Zhou Enlai

67. Marie Curie

68. Abraham Lincoln

69. Pablo Picasso

70. Stephen Spielberg

71. Freidrich Nietzsche

72. Karl Marx

73. Leonardo Da Vinci

74. Josef Stalin

75. Queen Elizabeth II

76. Lu Xun, Chinese Comunist Writer

77. Jose Francisco San Martín

78. Deng Xiaoping

79. Sun Yat-Sen

80. Theodore Roosevelt or Gen George Custer or Maxim Gorky or Philippe Pétain

81. Saddam Hussein

82. Benito Mussolini

83. Adolf Hitler

84. Guan Yu

85. Pele

86. Bill Gates

87. Audrey Hepburn

88. Ludwig Van Beethoven or Chopin

89. Charlie Chaplin

90. Henry Ford

91. Lei Feng

92. Victor babes or Norman Bethun

93. Mike Tyson

94. Sigmund Freud

95. Erich Honecker (leader of the GDR from 71-89)

96. Vladimir Putin

97. Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)

98. Shirley Temple

99. Chang Kai Chek

100. Leo Tolstoy

101. Albert Einstein

102. Ernest Hemingway

103. Franklin Roosevelt

104. Woman from photograph by Cartier Bresson or Mother Teresa

105. Dolly (the cloned sheep)

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Onam - The harvest festival of Kerala

Onam is the biggest festival in the Indian state of Kerala. Onam Festival falls during the Malayali month of Chingam (Aug - Sep) and marks the homecoming of legendary King Mahabali. Carnival of Onam lasts for ten days and brings out the best of Kerala culture and tradition. Intricately decorated Pookalam, ambrosial Onasadya, breathtaking Snake Boat Race and exotic Kaikottikali dance are some of the most remarkable features of Onam - the harvest festival in Kerala.