IMG_0789
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Have been lazy for most of the time.
But here I am, presenting a beautiful flower for your viewing pleasure.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Long time, no flower
IMG_0789
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A Scene from a chess tournament in Kolkata
Table 1 Round 6
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A picture from the Grandmaster Tournament held at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata.
Friday, March 23, 2007
India Face Exit in the ICC World Cup 2007
What a disgrace? Shameful.
India is virtually out of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 after their second loss in the preliminary round robin league phase. The first loss cam against the relative minnows Bangladesh, and yesterday the Indian team took the thrashing meted out by the Sri Lankans. India lost by 69 runs, getting nowhere close to the target and not giving any fight at all. Lame losers.
And now the team that was the runner up last time around, will not even feature in the top 8. What curse has befallen this erstwhile cricketing glory?????
Curse or not, Greg Chappel has to answer a few questions and whatever the answers he needs to be sacked immediately. Immediately. Many of the fans were vocal against his experiments throughout the last 2 years, but a far greater number was willing to take a chance, with a hope to win the World Cup. Greg kept on saying that he was focusing long term, and had the World Cup in sight. And what has he given in the World Cup? A first round exit to the last time runner up???????
Chappel got into controversy with Sourav Ganguly, universally acclaimed to be the best all time captain of India, and also the most aggressive, in Zimbabwe, and pulled many ropes to axe the glorius Sourav out of the team. To win the World Cup?
Irfan Pathan became a prolific batsman under Guru Greg’s motivation and hawk eyes, to win the World Cup! How many matches was he fit to play in the World Cup? He cannot even feature in the first XI. And he was such a good swing bowler. Greg wasted him.
Under Greg’s patronage, Dravid tried to play the role of the schemer. All his schemes well anticipated by almost all the oppositions and falling flat in most occasions. His on field captaincy was horrible and he never seemed to inspire any one to do anything much, forget about anything extra. Absolutely no aggression, no feeling for the team, just robotically changing the bowlers. And what was he doing batting so low down the order? His 60 in the match against Sri Lanka would have been more meaningful at no.3. So what was he doing so low down? Making room for buddy Virendra Sehwag. Viru, of all people has been off form throughout the last one year but has only been dropped for a couple of matches. He should be dropped forever, if Sourav could have been dropped for almost 10 months.
I am afraid, changes are required. Bold ones at that. But will Vengsarkar be the strong man he is rumored to be?
Greg must be sent packing to Australia straight from the Carribean Islands. For security reasons, at least. Dravid, as a captain, should be sacked immediately. Sehwag dropped for at least a couple of series, during which he could try county or domestic cricket and regin his form and fitness and in the interlude lose at least 10 kgs. Sachin must retire. If he doesn’t, he should be dropped. The reins of the team should be passed on back to Sourav and Yuvraj should be his deputy, and should be groomed to handle the reins by the end of this year, when most probably Sourav retires. It should be mandatory for the selectors to select the highest and second highest run getters and wicket takers in the Ranji matches, into the national side. Dhoni should be asked to get himself a haircut for a month in Ranchi and Kaartick can keep the stumps for while.
Their combined effort has stunned the millions of fans across the globe. Hoever, the chances of India qualifying into the next round is only academic. Bermuda must defeat Bangladesh by a good margin. I see no probability there. But my heart wants that to happen. What a shame, the fate of Indian cricket to be decided in a match between Bangladesh and Bermuda. Isssssssssssssh!
India is virtually out of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 after their second loss in the preliminary round robin league phase. The first loss cam against the relative minnows Bangladesh, and yesterday the Indian team took the thrashing meted out by the Sri Lankans. India lost by 69 runs, getting nowhere close to the target and not giving any fight at all. Lame losers.
And now the team that was the runner up last time around, will not even feature in the top 8. What curse has befallen this erstwhile cricketing glory?????
Curse or not, Greg Chappel has to answer a few questions and whatever the answers he needs to be sacked immediately. Immediately. Many of the fans were vocal against his experiments throughout the last 2 years, but a far greater number was willing to take a chance, with a hope to win the World Cup. Greg kept on saying that he was focusing long term, and had the World Cup in sight. And what has he given in the World Cup? A first round exit to the last time runner up???????
Chappel got into controversy with Sourav Ganguly, universally acclaimed to be the best all time captain of India, and also the most aggressive, in Zimbabwe, and pulled many ropes to axe the glorius Sourav out of the team. To win the World Cup?
Irfan Pathan became a prolific batsman under Guru Greg’s motivation and hawk eyes, to win the World Cup! How many matches was he fit to play in the World Cup? He cannot even feature in the first XI. And he was such a good swing bowler. Greg wasted him.
Under Greg’s patronage, Dravid tried to play the role of the schemer. All his schemes well anticipated by almost all the oppositions and falling flat in most occasions. His on field captaincy was horrible and he never seemed to inspire any one to do anything much, forget about anything extra. Absolutely no aggression, no feeling for the team, just robotically changing the bowlers. And what was he doing batting so low down the order? His 60 in the match against Sri Lanka would have been more meaningful at no.3. So what was he doing so low down? Making room for buddy Virendra Sehwag. Viru, of all people has been off form throughout the last one year but has only been dropped for a couple of matches. He should be dropped forever, if Sourav could have been dropped for almost 10 months.
I am afraid, changes are required. Bold ones at that. But will Vengsarkar be the strong man he is rumored to be?
Greg must be sent packing to Australia straight from the Carribean Islands. For security reasons, at least. Dravid, as a captain, should be sacked immediately. Sehwag dropped for at least a couple of series, during which he could try county or domestic cricket and regin his form and fitness and in the interlude lose at least 10 kgs. Sachin must retire. If he doesn’t, he should be dropped. The reins of the team should be passed on back to Sourav and Yuvraj should be his deputy, and should be groomed to handle the reins by the end of this year, when most probably Sourav retires. It should be mandatory for the selectors to select the highest and second highest run getters and wicket takers in the Ranji matches, into the national side. Dhoni should be asked to get himself a haircut for a month in Ranchi and Kaartick can keep the stumps for while.
Their combined effort has stunned the millions of fans across the globe. Hoever, the chances of India qualifying into the next round is only academic. Bermuda must defeat Bangladesh by a good margin. I see no probability there. But my heart wants that to happen. What a shame, the fate of Indian cricket to be decided in a match between Bangladesh and Bermuda. Isssssssssssssh!
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Holi
Holi
Originally uploaded by ranjansaras.
This is the before shot. We started out after this shot. And u can well see what happened next. Check out the following two entries to get the clear picture.lol
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