Listen to Lucky

I was totally disturbed and disgusted the way the game of cricket has been progressing these days. My first pranams to Mr Bob Woolmer who was such a magnificent cricketer and a great coach who was regarded as the father of modern day coaching who had the scientific temper to modernise coaching cricket. He was a great man, great visionary who transformed the springboks to came back strongly after the apartheid. I have always stunned by his coaching styles of introducing bowling machines,fielding coaches, use of laptops, understanding opponents bowling by watching the video footages etc. As Alan Donald, rightly put it, he spent his life for cricket and also paid for it. But still, it sucks to see the game of cricket has gone to such a horrible depths where media/threats/money play such a vital role and totally took away the charisma of "its another game". I would blame the media and advt companies, which unnecessarily adulates any xyz and make him a celebrity, patronises him by...

Quote: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. The nation's (Inda's) budget has been presented on 28th of February (which also incidentally to be our national science day). Time and again, i have seen our finance ministers who keep smiling with a brown coloured briefcase in his hand, spelling out the most (stupid) surprises every year. This year it was no different except for the finance minister to present his speech on native dhoti (Aam aadmi...yaar!!!). Coming to the point, if i go through the points which are highlighted in this year, I couldn't see a single point which is very much different from the previous year by PC. I believed that there might be major allocation happening on the Infrastructure/Primary Education/Agriculture to focus on the area which needs more long term vision and realistic goals. But most of the key points just resembles that the old wine has been well packaged in "Tetrapaks". I ...