Test Cricket

I have been a regular test cricket follower from the 1969 tour of Australia in India when Bishen Sing Bediwould open the bowling for India to watching the late EKNATH SOLKAR fielding at silly point without the luxury of a helmet and converting a ordinary ball which was played down the ground just a foot and a half to two feet which which he would pluck out of thin air into a catch. He was h the son of the pitch curator or groundsman. Unfortunately all his ex friends from Maharashtra left him to die an alcoholics death. Those days it was a precondition that 5 to 6 players were from Bombay 2 from Hyderabad and. 1 each from Chennai and Bangalore and once in a couple of years one from Bengal. The odd player from Haryana or other players would to virtually do the job of 4 players to win the match This was because the entire Bombay players would only function to 50 percent of their capacity. Even now when Dravid was the only player who did reasonably in West Indies and an excellent tour of England to the degree that was called out of retirement from one day matches, all it took was one bad tour of Australia that made the Mandarins of cricket to gun for his resignation, and gentleman that he was he obliged immediately.Interestingly the God of Cricket played all the above series except for probably one occasion at the most. I was surprised to find the little Master speaking about the failure of 4 of our batsman except the the God of CRICKET, I just thought to myself that he didn't want to waste time about a player who has an assured place in the team for as long as he wants.

Junkets funded by Govt from MLA's to President of our great Country

There is a lot of furore over the State sponsored junkets in Karnataka, which is perfectly justified but should viewed in the overall context of similar happenings in other states to Ministers in the Union Cabinet to the previous President who chalked up almost. Rs 300 cores excluding security and other incidental expenses which was the sum total of money spent by all the PREVIOUS PRESIDENT's of India put together.

Some thing interesting about the various scams and state sponspored terrorism
Last night I happened to watch TimesNow and Observed two leading legal lawyers of the the Congress, Mr Manesh Tiwari and  Gen Sec  Digvijay Singh trying to maim Narendra modi forgetting  the followings of Mrs Gandhis assassination almost 30 years back when thousands of Sikhs where slaughtered for 3 full days.  In fact one of  the main accused namely Jagdish Tytler when to become a Union Minister the other being Sajjan Kumar. Similarly when anything wrong is pointed instead of attributing reasons they just turn around and say that you committed the same during your 5 to 6 years of  rule. After all we have been in power for 53years since independence.The point I'd like to stress upon is that 2 wrongs dont make a right and people living in glass houses shouldn't  throw  stones at others.
Till next week.