Tight Indian Cricket Calendar 2009

      World’s cricketers always complaint of too much cricket which effect on to their performances’ and even often it leads to injuries to the players who keep on playing series after series as cricket playing nations have commitments towards the itinerary of International Cricket Council (ICC) and now a days series comprises three type of cricket which is T20,One day International and Test Matches plus if some series important, consider by the respective boards, then they also include some practice matches so that touring team players acclimatise in the playing conditions of visiting countries; two world cup held of T20 and One day International; Indian Premier League ;Champions League and county contract of some players. Depending upon the popularity some players are playing almost every match, which for a human beings is not a easy task to keep himself fit ,then either they skip some series or their injuries not allowed them to play matches’ and in this we can count the names on to our fingers of Indian cricket team who are not part of recently held series Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, and Gautam Gambhir and to prove point correct below is Indian cricket team’s fixture of all the games they had played and some games they have to play in the year 2009 and seven to eight players are picked for the all the games –

• January 28, 31, February 3, 5, 8 of this year Indian Cricket team played five One day international matches in Sri Lanka.
• February 10, 2009 India played T20 Game against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka.
• February 25 and 27 India played two T20 Games against New Zealand in New Zealand. 
• March 3,6,8,11,14 India played five one day International games against New Zealand in New Zealand.
• March 18 to 22, March 26 to 30 and April 3 to 7 India played three test matches in New Zealand against New Zealand.
• April 18 to May 24 Indian players played T20 games in South Africa for covetous Indian Premier League tournament season 2.
• June 5 to June 20 ICC T20 world cup held in England.
• June 26,28,July 3,5 India played four one day international against West Indies in West Indies.
• September 11,12,14 India played tri series in Sri Lanka and third team of the tournament was New Zealand.
• September 22 to October 5 India played ICC One day World Cup in South Africa.
• October 8 to 23 Airtel Champion League held in India.
• October 25,28,31,November 2,5,8,11 India played seven one day international series in India against Australia.
• November 16 to 20 India played against Sri Lanka Test Match in India.
• November 24 to 28 and December 2 to 6 India has to play two more test matches against Sri Lanka in India.
• December 9 and 12 India has to play two T20 Games against Sri Lanka in India.
• December 15,18,21,24,27 India has to play five one day International Games against Sri Lanka in India.

       So above coded is Indian Cricket team’s series and tournament they have played and if one focus on to the gap between series then he will be surprise as it has very few days to prepare for next series ignoring traveling and tediousness. If players are voicing of too much cricket then they are not wrong and as always they are listen with deaf ears by administrators then they end up resting for some time courtesy injuries, if administrators want to keep on getting best performances from their players series after series then they have to make contract with 30 to 35 players and then entitle different players to get chance to play in different series. This way every series will be watched by crowd enthusiastically and chances of winning series will be increase, players will get sufficient rest physically and mentally.

Mobile Number Portability

   Mobile Phone as status symbol in the 1995 become necessity in 2009 because this tiny device gives so much comfort to it’s user, now prices’ of calls have gone so much down that it can be afforded by anybody and everybody, major reason of price slashing is that in every circle six to seven service providers are giving services and in the environment of stiff competition to lure customers they are coming up with attractive packages on weekly basis on an average, the subscriber base of mobile user in India till October,2009 is 471 million which is far more then landline user which is 37 million. Gradually people are now finding landline phones as less attractive when they compare it with mobile phones.
    Despite having countless facilities to carry mobile phones, yet subscriber sometimes find their current service provider service less competitive or attractive then other service provider but still not able to switch to other service providers because if they are prepaid customer then they are bound with service provider for certain period and if they are postpaid customer it is not easy to opt another service provider immediately and then forward the number to everybody he have in his contact list because then he have to call his all the contact so that they get information about new number, so that is why they avoid to switch over. It will be a big news for such customers who want to move from one service provider to other if they find other service provider is giving good service or have attractive tariff plan as TRAI (Telecom Regulator Authority of India) announced the rules and regulations to be followed for the Mobile Number Portability in their draft release on 23 September 2009. Mobile Number Portability (MNP) allows users to retain their numbers, while shifting to a different service provider provided they follow the guidelines set by TRAI. Users are expected to holding the mobile number with a given provider for at least 90 days, before they decide to move to the other provider. As per news reports, Government of India decided to implement MNP from December 31st, 2009 in Metros & category ‘A’ service areas and by March 20th, 2010 in rest of the country. To use MNP service user has to pay only Rupees 19 and within maximum four days his/her same number will work with new service provider. It could intensify the stiff competition in the world's fastest-growing telecom market and push call charges ever lower. This means a BSNL user can choose to move to CDMA-based mobile services of Reliance Telecommunications and retain the original phone number. This will increase competition levels in the market and force operators to offer better quality of services and lower tariffs.
   Begin January 2010 in Metros and March 20 rest of the country Cell user will get a tool to dump their service provider all it need is Rupees 19 and wait of four days plus he must have to be with service provider for at least one quarter of year .MNP is must when we are in era of stiff competition and companies are coming up with schemes on every passing week so this will help customers to enjoy best deal and service at their will not what companies are claiming in their publicity campaigning.

Inflation !

      From this year’s April month onwards prices’ of essential commodities is increasing at unexpected speed and it has spoil the budget of common people of the country, different people have different opinion of rising prices’ of essential commodities. It all started when rainy season begins with shortfall of rain in the very first month of season and when farmers’ need of water for farming and the rainfall was at such a low level that in some areas of country farmers delay and drag for seeding of crops because metrology department of country keep on predicting that no body should panic if in particular month there is shortfall of rain then until and unless rainy season is not over we cant specifically say about rain percentage ,so farmers and people were waiting positively for next few months so that deficit of rain adjusted as countries more then seventy five percent of farmers are dependent on rain for farming but at the end of season this year rainfall was such a low that in lot of areas of the country they were declared drought hit, resultant shortage of lot of crops yield but with the statement of agriculture minister Mr.Sharad Yadav that this year because of countries lot of parts hit by draught so there will be big shortage of demand and supply of essential commodities, taking advantage of statement big traders started hoarding of pulses, sugar and other essential commodities which become reason of shortage of essential commodities in the market and there prices; started soaring and as the time gone by of festival season prices’ of sugar also double from the month of February. In the November month lot of essential commodities prices’ are more then double from February month’s prices’ and below is glimpse of some of items –
 Vegetables :

•  Onion from four to five rupees kilogram to twenty to twenty three rupees kilogram
• Potato from three to four rupees kg to eighteen to twenty one rupees kg
• Beans at one hundred twenty rupees kg
• Cauliflower at fifty rupees kg
• Carrot at forty five rupees kg

   In nutshell all the vegetables available in the market were costing around fifty rupees per kilo which remain at twenty to twenty five rupees per kilo after the rainy season and arrival of fresh crop.
  Pulses and Ghee :
   Not any single pulse is available in the market below fifty rupees per kg and some even crosses the mark of one hundred rupees for the first time, mustard oil crosses’ the mark of seventy five kg, refined oil were also selling at eighty two rupees per kg, rice basic variety touches the figure of 45 rupees per kg. Sugar first time cross the forty rupees per kg barrier.
   Till date all the above mentioned essential commodities are selling at almost same prices and people are making lot of noises that inflation has disturb their budget but unfortunately they are listen by deaf ears by concerned ministry and till date they have not taken any action to curb the inflation so that rising prices could be checked and essential goods make available to the common people of this country at an affordable prices, but ironically instead they are moving opposite directions and increasing the slabs of items which are under their domain like electricity, municipal corporations, court fees which make people angry because they unable to cope with all round attack of inflation, yes government keep on coming proposal for their employees with revise D.A. slabs which give relief to some category of people but unfortunately they are handful of people rest have to feel the heat of inflation. It is the responsibility of efficient government to take care of basic necessity of their countryman and if prices’ of something gone through roof then it can be harmful at the time of elections as it had experienced by BJP party when they were governing Delhi state and price of onion were selling at 50 rupees per kg then they lost the election badly and till date they are unable to come power despite after this two time assembly election held, but instead of advantage taken by opposition party at election time ruling party should feel the heat and take effective and fruitful steps to give relief for the people of their constituencies, because it is their votes which give them power to rule.

Patriotism at Stake?

      Many sources offer different answers and depending upon the source right now there are 189 to 195 independent countries in the world. It is the citizen of the countries which have identity and recognise by the world with their National Anthem, Flag, Language and Culture and individual have no existence without their country, so whenever time comes true patriotic citizen will die for their country and never compromise with their patriotism. This is must for a country to compete with other countries of globe economically, fight against foe, terrorism, but sometimes some action, criticism, remark, statement or article by some renowned personalities on to other well known faces of country can be prove boomerang.
     India is democratic country and every countrymen of this country has right to speak what ever he think, but from past few years our politicians are involving themselves in every part of society whether it belong to them or not just to get mileage from other parties or in search of to gain their lost ground, neglecting it can be harmful and dangerous to the society and can create rift between communities. Maharashtra state capital from past few months become battle ground of hatred politics for some political parties which started before Maharashtra state Assembly election to make impact on local Marathi communities. First they try to make voices that Mumbai belongs to local Marathi’s and other states residents are outsiders. When other states local oppose this then their party’s members start creating problems for them and then opposed had to apologise; then other states resident especially of Bihar state treated as if they are not part of country and living in other country; recently when a bank has to recruit employees and exams was going to conduct then again a political party head in a statement said that bank should bar candidates who are not Marathi to sit in exams if they allowed to sit then their parties workers will oppose this and try to stop them for entering in examination hall, then to cope with this problem authority deploy tight security so that unruly scene cant take place and with the help of security personnel examination held successfully; then a famous director and producer, in his film a character call Bombay instead of Mumbai ,ten to twelve times and previously Mumbai had name Bombay but it was changed on the recommendation of a party to Mumbai, so he seek apology from a party on to this then he feel relax and safe; Sachin Tendulkar well known batsman of world who just touched milestone while playing cricket for country, then while talking to media person he said that -
I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
     very next day he was criticised by local party head in a newspaper that Sachin should concentrate on cricket and not involve himself in politics. It appear as if the party is desperate and trying to gain its ground which it has lost because that is why third time consecutively Indian National Congress led alliance comes to power and keep away the party which is communal to get majority and form government by people in their verdict but surprisingly here to code that his alliance partner BJP immediately without loosing anytime declare that their party not agree with their alliance partner and Sachin is icon and belong to country. If we go through Sachin statement then he code nothing aggressive nor any politically motivated statement but it was a gesture of a patriotic countryman and to get any wrong meaning and connect it to politics is totally a blunder because his intention was not to restrict his achievements with the region he belongs but want to dedicate to whole country, If we look around the globe then any achiever of the country never ever dedicate his milestone to the region but he dedicate to the whole nation. By criticising, party want to prove that on the achievements of individual region has first right he belongs and then to country but it is totally a ideology of a negative and frustrated person or party.

Time to Erase Wound !

    Indian Cricket team before the start of one day series against Australia had chance to become number ODI team by defeating Australia but it not happened because India lost the series 4-2 from Australia and slip to number three which hurt countless cricket fans, now Sri Lanka’s cricket team is in India to play three test matches, Five One day Matches and two T20 Matches and for Indian Cricket team test Matches are very important because if they beat Sri Lanka 2-0 then India will become number one test team which will be first time in the history of Indian cricket team that they will be number one but to beat Sri Lankan cricket team it’s the players who have to perform on the ground and nothing else will work like wishes, huge presence of crowd in the grounds or luck or big names it wont make any much difference to beat opposition team. Today first match started and itinerary of the three test matches are-

1.  16 November, 2009 to 20 November, 2009 will start at 09.30 a.m. I.S.T. at Sardar Vallabh Patel Stadium, Ahmedabaad.
2. 24 November,2009 to 28 November,2009 will start at 09.30 a.m. I.S.T. at Green Park, Kanpur
3. 2 December, 2009 to 6 December, 2009 will start at 09.30 a.m. I.S.T. at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai.

        Hopefully this time result of Test Match series against Sri Lanka will give Indian Cricket Team and fans to cheers and make Indian flag hoist at the top of ICC test team ranking, India has to beat team ahead of them in ranking that is Sri Lanka to climb the table as it was when Indian Cricket team played One Day series against Australia to reach the top of ranking by beating Australia at the same time to beat Sri Lanka 2-0 it wont be a easy ride for Indian as Sri Lankan Cricket team are with lot of starts who can turn the game in span of few overs. Below is latest ICC latest Test Match ranking -

Ranking	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	South Africa	30	3672	122
2	Sri Lanka	27	3248	120
3	India	28	3327	119
4	Australia	31	3600	116
5	England	39	4102	105
6	Pakistan	17	1424	84
7	New Zealand	25	2001	80
8	West Indies	25	1910	76
9	Bangladesh	19	255	13

      First test match begin, India won the toss and opted to bat first, but MS Dhoni’s decision to bat first appears blunder and at the time of lunch break score readings are not attractive for Indian as India were 105 for the loss of four wickets but India lost is all the four wickets in 7.4 overs at the score of 32 and players who out are Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman and at the crease are Rahul Dravid (45) and Yuvraj Singh (35).

Children Day !

 Today India is celebrating birthday of first Prime Minister of independent India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also known as Chacha Nehru and his birthday is celebrate as Children day. He was born on 14th November, 1889.His Father Pandit Moti Lal was well known barrister of country and in the house every type of facility was available and if Pandit Nehru wish then he could spent life full of luxury but he opted path of freedom struggle. He had very soft corner for kids in his heart and due to his love for kids he got the name “Kids loving Chacha Nehru” and later on in the year 1956 decision taken to celebrate his birthday as Children Day.
   He did his schooling from Harrow and completed his Law degree from Trinity College, Cambridge. The seven years he spent in England widened his horizons and he acquired a rational and skeptical outlook and sampled Fabian socialism and Irish nationalism, which added to his own patriotic dedication and came back to India in 1912. In 1916, by his parents' arrangement, he married seventeen-year-old Kamala from a Kashmiri business family in Delhi. Nehru family changed its family according to Mahatma Gandhi's teachings. Jawaharlal and Motilal Nehru abandoned western clothes and tastes for expensive possessions and pastimes. They wore a Khadi Kurta and Gandhi cap. Jawaharlal Nehru took active part in the Non- Cooperation Movement 1920-1922 and was arrested for the first time during the movement. He was released after few months.
    Jawaharlal was a prolific writer in English and wrote a number of books like ‘The Discovery of India’, ‘Glimpses of World History’, his autobiography, ‘towards Freedom' (1936) ran nine editions in the first year alone. Emotional sensitivity and intellectual passion infused his writings, giving them unusual appeal & topicality even today. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1955. Jawaharlal Nehru remained the Prime Minister of India for 17 long years and can rightly be called the architect of modern India. He set India on the path of democracy and nurtured its institution - Parliament, multi-party system, independent judiciary and free press. He encouraged Panjayati Raj institutions.
    Jawaharlal served as the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee. In 1928-29, the Congress's annual session under President Motilal Nehru was held. In December 1929, Congress's annual session was held in Lahore and Jawaharlal Nehru was elected as the President of the Congress Party. January 26, 1930 in Lahore, Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled free India's flag. Gandhiji gave a call for Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930.Nehru was elected to the Congress presidency in 1936, 1937, and 1946, and came to occupy a position in the nationalist movement second only to that of Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested in 1942 during Quit India Movement. Released in 1945, he took a leading part in the negotiations that culminated in the emergence of the dominions of India and Pakistan in August 1947.
    We observe his birthday as Children day and best tribute to him on his birthday will be if we put future of India on right track by making mandatory education to every kid of this country and stringent law against child labour and if their family need financial help due to child skip from work then government provide financial assistance so that they read without any burden on their mind and concentrate fully on to study which will make better prospect for themselves instead of live life of a illiterate kid who depend on others even on smallest matter to read or write anything.

Opposition Parties

    India is multi party country and whenever people verdict fragmented in polls then small parties or independents become important or king makers in forming a government, then small parties or independents do the deal behind the curtain and demand important portfolios ,over sighting parties preferences and manifesto announcement which become sometimes obstacles on their way to work during their office term or even sometimes during running office and it’s example is Indian National Congress in the fourteen Loksabha which had 145 seats and led United Progressive Alliance but to form government they were in need of further 127 members to form government ,then with the support of lot of parties rule for five years but it was not smooth and easy ride in the office as their one alliance (Communist Party) who was supporting from outside and had quite good numbers in the parliament ,always create problem for U.P.A. to work as per their vision and whenever they took any decision out of ten times more then seven occasion on an average oppose by Communist Parties and playing role of opposition party ,gradually their togetherness in U.P.A. was impossible in the fourth year of Office when Communist Parties pull back their support to Indian Congress Led U.P.A. on nuclear deal with U.S.A.,so it was unity of two different ideologies just to keep away B.J.P. and it’s allies away from power as both consider them communal but at the same time two different ideologies cannot remain together for long .
    Despite being multi party country it is the tragedy that opposition parties remain calm and keep on ignoring the problem face by common people of this country and not take any initiative, agitation to get relief for them and during parliament session they raise voices but to get mileage and often on any small issues opted to walk away from parliament, thus interrupt the proceeding of parliament and become reason of wastage of lot of tax payers money which goes in for parliament proceedings. They wait for election time and then announced populist declaration in their manifesto which they never consider that it is never possible but if implemented then it can be harmful to country or state below are example of this-

• Last time when election held for Assembly election of Tamilnadu at that time Jayalalitha was ruling the state and she and opposition party of Karunanidhi in their respective manifesto’s announced lot of populist schemes for poor category of people and resulted now Karunanidhi is ruling the state but his schemes mentioned in their manifesto putting extra and additional burden on state government exchequer.
• Same was happened when Election held In Andhra Pradesh and Chander Babu Naidu was ruling the state at the time of election he announced if he will comes into power again then his party will distribute rice at 2 Rs kg which mean directly burden on state government coffer but his party lost election so it remain part of their manifesto and it never get chance to become reality.
• In Punjab Sate during election Shiromini Akali Dal in their manifesto announced they will give persons who are below poverty live rice at 4 Rs Kg and pulse at Rs 20,and will give electricity to farmer on subsidy rates and waive electricity rent to certain category of people and after winning election now they are giving announced facilities to concerned but this is putting lot of financial burden on government earnings and to balance on schemes and generate revenues they have revised lot of slabs ,with this no doubt they will earn money but at the same time other categories of people are feeling as if they are cheated because it has haywire their budget and inflation is rising and essential commodities prices are going through roof.

   Taking advantages of this opposition parties try to get mandate but they are also without any goal and plan in their mind how to cope of the situation created by predecessor thus pass on the blame to the former government and spent their tenure without any productive outcome and this cycle keep on repeating after every five years but in this cycle resident of states are major loser as they have to feel the heat without their any wrong doing.

Opportunity Wasted

      Australian Cricket team tour of India begin with hype and they were here to play seven matches one day series and at the time of beginning of series it was believed that India will defeat Australia easily and it had lot of reasons which were in favour of India and will reach on top of one day international ranking after completion of series as Australian Cricket team is number one team with 128 points after playing 33 matches and India is number two team with 124 points after playing 31 matches. Circumstances which were in India’s favour that India will become number one team after defeating Australia in their home turf were-       India was playing in their home conditions so they know much more about local condition weather wise, and track prepared for the series was considering India’s plus points like turning tracks and batsman friendly as Indian cricket team is known as best squad of spinner and it’s batsman. Whenever Indian cricket team play cricket matches anywhere in the world it is supported and greeted by huge number of local Indians who present in the ground only to back up Indian team. One more reason which was in India’s favour was that Australian Cricket team’s lot of senior player like Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Mathew Hayden, Shane warn and Glenn McGrath retired and recently joined squad James Hopes, Brett Lee, Tim Pains and Peter Siddle injured themselves in the first two matches all it make Australian Cricket team with new players or second level team when we compare them with Indian Team which had all the known faces whom we give them the name of Superstars.
To refresh memory here is brief recalling of seven matches –

1.  Match played on 25th October, 2009 at Reliance Stadium, Vadodara and it was day match. Australia won the toss and opted to Bat first. In their allotted fifty overs Australia made 292 scores after loosing eight wickets and in reply to Australia Indian were able to make only 288 scores and lost eight wickets in their fifty overs thus Australia won by four runs and India down in the series 0-1;MEK Hussey of Australia declared Man of the Match.
2. Match played between the team on 28th October, 2009 at Vidarbha Cricket Association Cricket Ground, Nagpur and was day and night match. Again Australia won the toss but this time opted to field first considering that in the night dew factor will hamper to bowl effectively, India made 354 runs losing seven wickets in their fifty overs, but Australia all out in 48.3 overs made 255 runs, India won the match by 99 runs and level the series 1-1; MS Dhoni declared man of the Match.
3. Match played on 31st October, 2009 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi it was also day and night match. Australia third time in row won toss and this time opted to bat first. In their allotted fifty overs Australia made 229 for the loss of five wickets and while chasing India reach the target in 48.2 overs for the lose of 4 wickets and won the match by six wickets with ten balls remaining. India get lead in the series 2-1; Yuvraj Singh declared man of the Match.

   India need to won the next match to become number one cricket team of the world while snatching the top position from Australia by defeating Australia, so next match was very important for both the team.

  4.   Match played on 2nd November, 2009 at Punjab Cricket Association, Mohali it was day and night fixture. India won the toss first time in the series and opted to field first. Australia all out in 49.2 overs and made 250,but India bundled out for 226 in 46.4 overs, Australia won the match by 24 runs, SR Watson declared Man of the Match, so Australia square the series 2-2 and become obstacle in India’s way to become number one team.

  5.   Played on 5th November, 2009 at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad and it was schedule to play day and night game, Australia won the toss and choose to bat first and made 350 runs in their fifty overs for the loss of 4 wickets, India all out and manage to make only 347 runs in 49.4 overs, India lost the game by just three runs in nail biting finish. Australia get the lead in the series 3-2; Sachin Tendulkar declared Man of the Match.

  6.   Game played on 8th November, 2009 at Nehru Stadium, Guwahati and it was day game, India won the toss and elected to bat first but they were bundled out for only 170 runs in 48 overs and Australia reach the target (172 runs) in 41.5 overs after loosing 4 wickets; and get the undefeatable lead in the series 4-2; DE Bollinger adjudged man of the match. For India it was all over to become number one team in one day international ranking after this series and next match for India was only a formality and they have to play for pride.

 7.   Game had to play on 11th November, 2009 at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai but match was abandon without a single bowl deliver because of bad weather.
     Now the ODI ranking which was updated on November 11, 2009 first three position changed, they are-
1. Australia played 39 games and has 130 points.
2. South Africa played 23 games and has 122 points.
3. India played 37 games and has 122 points.
     It is lesson for our players to learn that games are played on the ground not on to the pitches of media as Harbhajan Singh said lot of time in the media that Australian team is not invincible and then instead of focusing on and practicing they were busy in for shooting advertisement. So if Indian has to retain number one position then they have to practice hard on the ground and avoid putting pressure on themselves by issuing any statement.

Injuries : Whom to Blame ?

   One of the most famous phrase which is effective everywhere and in every sector of human existence that is “Excess of anything is bad”, Indians understand better & easily, if it has any link directly or indirectly with cricket or bollywood. Right now Indian cricket team is playing crucial one day series at home against Australia and today is the last match of the series but other then matches on the field lot of other issues were also part of the series and top of all other then matches is injuries to the players that is why lot of known players of both cricket team either unable to play matches or in between left their respective team and gone under treatment, injuries to most of the players of both sides it is believed that too much cricket is responsible.
   Australian Cricket team tour India to play one day series against India, matches are schedule from 25th October,2009 to 11th November ,but before the start of series regular & known players from both sides which were not part of their teams were –
  Australia -

• Michael Clark
• Nathan Bracken
• Brad Haden

 India –

•  Zaheer Khan
• Gautam Gambhir ( not played first three games)
• Yuvraj Singh ( not played first two games)

  and as the series progress list of injured players keep on stretching especially of Australian players despite they are under phase of transition and their known senior players retired and it has name like –

• Adam Gilchrist
• Mathew Hayden
• Glenn McGrath
• Andrew Symonds

  after playing five games of the series Australian players unable to complete the series courtesy injuries and they are –

•  James Hopes
• Tim Pains
•  Brett Lee
• Peter Siddle

    barring one or two all the above mentioned players are injured because of playing lot of Cricket because all the countries of the world which are permanent members of ICC have tight schedule and players hardly find sufficient time to rest as there is very few days gap between two series and despite lot of players keep on raising the issue of lot of cricket administrator of respective countries and ICC never ever give focus and attention to their genuine problem ,just two years back begin lucrative Indian Premier League and one more form of cricket T20 matches and T20 World Cup included in their schedule which will now increase more names in the list of injuries and reduce the tenure of their career, to avoid solution is either players skip some of series or administrator start rotation policy this way players can get little relief from injuries.
   If ICC interested that Cricket wont lose its shine then they have to reconsider their strategy instead of quantity of Cricket they should consider quality of Cricket which is possible only if regular and known names keep on playing series but if they skip or keep on injuring their bodies then day is not far away when people will slowly slowly loosing interest in cricket and to keep any business or game running money is vital ingredient which generate only with fan following.

Happy Birthday

We are three brothers by name Parth Jaswal, Jogeshwar Jaswal and Nartan Gulal. Today is Birthday of elder brother Mr. Jogeshwar Jaswal and on his birthday family wishes him very best of luck and pray to Almighty God for fulfillment of his each and every desire and hopefully this year of his life will prove for him full of happiness and completion of his wishes .His personality and affection have lot of shades for family members ,little glimpse of it which is related to me and I confess he is very kind towards me and responsible for digital technology used by me in the house which is as per Indian environment is very costly and used by only professionals, to own it is the dream of millions in India despite required by their professions, not only I have personnel computer but also subscriber of broadband connection which is once again very costly as per Indian environment and very rare access by individual’s but I have it from last three years and it’s not stop here additional digital devices’ also own by me in nutshell one can say I have small office in the house. We members of Family Trilochan Jaswal greet him on his birthday for health, happiness and prosperity.

Madhu Koda: Villain?

    Politicians of this country after winning elections suppose to do work for the development of his constituency and provide the best services’ of all kind to the people of his area whom they badly needed but unavailable to them because of financial compulsion or because of one reason or some other reason but unfortunately it is the tragedy of Indian that at the time of elections every political parties in their respective manifestos declared populist announcement but once they comes into power they forget their promises and try to do each and everything for themselves or for their relatives or for friends by manipulating each and every law of this country and at the time of next elections when they lost they simply comes with conclusion that they lost because of anti incumbency factor and ignoring the fact that they did nothing for their constituency honestly and democratically ,whose result is voters make distance from them simply by giving chance to another candidate in hope of good work. Politicians wrong doing and earn money for themselves, its latest but shameful example is Mr. Madhu Koda, who is former chief minister of Jharkhand State.
       Now a days former Chief Minister of Jharkhand Mr. Madhu Koda ( 38) is in news because of wrong doing during his tenure and it is believed that he has amassed illegal wealth worth around Rs 2,000 Crores .The Income Tax department has been probing a disproportionate assets allegation against Koda and his associates and just gone Saturday conducted raids at 70 places in eight cities and discovered documents relating to illegal transactions worth Rs.2,000 crore (Rs.20 billion) but as per Income Tax officials Mr. Madhu Koda is not cooperating with the authority. Koda was interrogated on camera by the IT sleuths and was charged with not cooperating with the investigation. Koda is not fully cooperating in the investigation. The search operations would have concluded had Koda been cooperating fully, IT department's Director General for Investigation Anjani Kumar had told reporters on Monday. After complaint of severe stomach ache he was admitted to a private hospital by name Apollo Hospital here on Tuesday.
      Fresh raids were carried at the Kanke Road residence here of district mining officer of West Singhbhum (Chaibasa) R N Prasad. The search at Prasad's residence was led by additional director (investigation) A K Srivastava. The unaccounted money involving Koda and his associates, Sanjay Choudhary and Vinod Sinha, is expected to be over Rs 2,000 crore. This includes Hawala transaction to foreign countries by a Mumbai-based corporate house of Rs 1,300 crore and business investment of over Rs 500 crore. Foreign transactions were made through two Mumbai-based operators Lalit Jain and Arvind Vyas in various countries including UAE, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.
     As very soon State Assembly elections in Jharkhand is going to held, the operation reflected the UPA's anxiety to distance itself from the rampant corruption that allegedly marked Koda's chief ministership. The tribal MLA was sustained in power for two years by UPA allies - Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Lalu Prasad's RJD. Both the I-T and ED report to department of revenue in the Union finance ministry. A complaint against Madhu Koda and three of his ministerial colleagues. Kamlesh Singh, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Bandhu Tirkey, all Independents like him who leveraged political instability to garner positions of power and pelf-under PMLA had been registered on October 9.
    As officials are busy in conducting raids and probing, so exact picture will be emerge after the completion of raids & probe and how much public money siphoned by Mr. Madhu Koda and his associates, future will have store shameful revelation.

Birthday Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji

     Today is Guru Purab also known as Guru Nanak Jayanti or birthday of first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of the Sikh faith, was born in the month of Kartik (October/November). He was born in 1469 A.D. at Talwandi near about 30 miles from Lahore. The anniversaries of Sikh Guru's are known as Gurpurabs (festivals) and are celebrated with devotion and dedication. Sikhism preaches the existence of one God. They do not believe in idol worship and in fact, they are not allowed to place any idols in their homes and Gurdwaras. Sikhism also preaches good and healthy living, service to others, tolerance and love towards all. Apart from Guru Nanak Dev Ji, there were nine other Gurus who spread Sikhism.
    From the very beginning, he was not as other children. In school, he picked up the wooden plank that served as his slate, and wrote on it an acrostic using all 35 alphabets to compose verses that questioned the meaning of learning without understanding, a verse that forms part of the Granth Sahib.
    Often the father must have got impatient indeed; when sent to buy goods from the marketplace, he gave away all the money to a band of indigents that he saw in the bazaar. In the store where he was sent to work, he weighed out goods, but when he got to “tera” (thirteen) the word was chanted repeatedly like a mantra : “Tera (thine), O Lord, tera, I am Thine...” His father sent him away to work in his sister’s village, thinking that this would steady the youth; but his mind was preoccupied with the contemplation of the universal nature of God.
    Many inspiring stories which are lesson for mankind by Guru Nanak Dev Ji are found, few are mentioned here –

• Once in Mecca, he slept with his feet in the direction of the Holy Ka’aba. This was viewed as an insult by the Mullah, who kicked him and reproached him for turning his feet in the direction where God was. Nanak replied quietly, “Turn my feet in the direction where God is not...” Thus saying, he effectively silenced his critics, for they too believed as written in the Quran that God is everywhere.
• Yet again, when he was on the banks of the Ganga in Haridwar, he saw pilgrims throwing water in the direction of the rising sun. Why, he asked, and was told that they were offering oblations to the spirits of their ancestors. Thereupon, he too started flinging water in the air, but in the opposite direction, towards the west, and when asked why, he replied, “I am watering my fields.” The people laughed scornfully. “How can this be?” they asked. “How can you water your fields from such a great distance?” “Why,” said the Guru, “if your oblations can reach the other world, cannot these drops of water reach my land in Punjab, which is much closer?”
• When in the east, in Orissa, he visited the temple of Jagannath in Puri. It was evening, the time of the aarti offered to the deity with lamps and flowers. Guru Nanak stood silent, not participating. This, he said, was not homage enough to the glory and wonder of God, to whom Nature paid a far more sublime tribute.

Celebrations  - The akhand path or the continuous reading of Granth Sahib, the sacred book of the Sikhs, begins three days before Guru Nanak Jayanti. The sacred scripture is read non-stop from beginning to end. The Akhand Path culminates on the day of the Guru Purab and the holy book is then taken out in a procession. It is beautifully decorated with flowers and carried on a float. Children participate in the procession and march to the tune of local band playing religious hymns. Five armed guards who are called the panj pyare lead the procession. At the head of the procession is the Nishan Sahib or the Sikh flag.
Prabhat Pheri  - A few days before Guru Purab, people take out Prabhat Pheris or the early morning processions from the Gurdwaras. They go around their locality singing shabad or the religious hymns.
Langar - Later in the day, special kirtans are arranged in the Gurdwaras. The devotees attend Langar or the common meals where everyone eats the same food irrespective of caste, class, or creed. Devotees offer their services for cooking food, cleaning the Gurdwara or carrying out other chores. This is called the Kar Seva.
    He was not only the founder of the Sikh religion; he was a great poet, philosopher, humanist and a powerful social reformer, a teacher of mankind. Guru Nanak Dev Ji said that one need not become a sanyasi sacrificing one's family, to please God. Those who practice devotion, whose mind is pure and who have sympathy, patience and honesty, are in no way inferior to a Sanyasi.