KANGA LEAGUE-A RAINY LEAGUE

All said and done.  Incessant rains during monsoon season took the shine out as well as academic interest of Kanga League matches seasons after season.  During rains it is difficult to reach the ground for players and arranging of umpires is another ticklish issue. As a cricket fan and cricket lover of Mumbai cricket I find the format is not useful to cricketers any way.  As a matter of fact now cricket matches are played on covered wickets and hence the experience of playing on wet wickets does not serve the purpose of playing during wet season. Mumbai monsoon meant incessant rains and regular interruptions in the hours of play stipulated.  So conducting cricket matches during this period is a futile attempt.  Groundsman and Umpires will have a tough time to prepare the wicket in time to start matches as per scheduled time.  By the time wicket is ready, the second spell of rains will start and inundate the ground for start of play.  This is happening for years and it was right time to scratch such a tournament instead of introducing in a new format as done this year.   MCA should plan something similar to Buchi Babu Cricket Tournament like TNCA instead of wasting time during week ends in Mumbai Grounds. It appears that Kanga League is a gone case and becomes a farce because most of the matches in a draw.  If MCA feels that just by reviving age old cricket tournament in Mumbai is not going to help MCAs out cricket.  We find that Ranji Trophy matches are decided on first innings lead and that played spoilsport as Indian Teams touring overseas play one innings decently and succumb to the pressure in the second essay.   Instead of spending huge amount and waste valuable time we can think about an alternative if MCA wish to make the tournament alive as a prestigious issue. It is indeed futile attempt.  Kanga League is simply a farce and does not help Mumbai Team in any way.

It is indeed a sorry state in the affairs of the main ruling party Congress at the Centre. A does not know what B is saying and vice versa.  This is going on for years and there is no control for some time.  But everything is blown out of proportion the fight is not between Congress and BJP but it is between Congress and Rahul Gandhi. " Throw out ordinance " the statement made by Rahul Gandhi was a slap on the face of the Prime Minister, who is undergoing a tour of US.  The timing of the statement was not proper and came at a wrong time when BJP is having an upper hand in exit polls as on date.  Thus the credibility of the PM was questioned by his own party man and that too in public.  Rahul Gandhi not only rejects the ordinance and left the PM in the lurch in the end.  It is now proved beyond doubt that the PM is just a puppet and the party men were after his blood for a very long time. Party cadres supported Rahul and his untimely statement and let the PM take his own stand whether to quit or just complete the term under the clutches of the likes of Sonia and his son. One other view in the air was that it was a scripted one and just a damage control.  Having a single digit popularity in the opinion polls PM is not an automatic choice for the coveted post once again. PM is at the fag end of his career and Rahul Gandhi was waiting for an opportunity and trashed Government ordinance.  It was a collateral damage to Manmohan Singh and his Government and he is embattled by his own people and pushed to a corner. It appears as though the PM is given a pink slip by the Congress VP Rahul.  Thus we witness a public fight between Congress and BJP and and Public snub to PM.  With a total divide in Government over the ordinance will the PM would be forced to quit when he returns from the US.  Now it is a matter of time for the marching orders

Twists and Turns

All said and done; Indian forces at the border, Police forces all become a peace keeping group as the Union Government does not have a vice like grip to curtail terrorism happening quite frequently. Twin terror attack crippled our stand on Pakistan and Kathua Police station,  Pakistan proved a point that they are ready for peace at any time and look for our heads all the time. The second attack was on a army camp that made our position more precarious.  Even though we could kill the terrorist in the counter attack it was too late.  This has happened 72 hours before the showdown between Indian PM and Nawaz Sharief.
LOC has become line of no control and the peace talks did not serve any purpose and attack is the best form of defence. What the Home Minister is doing when proxy war is taking heavy toll of our internal security.  Both PM and Defence Ministers are conspicuous by their absence even to issue a statement against unruly Pakistan Army. Home Minister is just good enough to look into the matter and such an attitude is giving scope for Pakistan to go all out and attack us at the border.  In the wake of uncalled attack on Indian force it is better to stop peace talk and issue a stiff warning saying that such terror attacks will end in a war in the end. Terrorists came in Army Uniform and cause damage.  India's concerns are too many but nothing concrete done to make the matter move in the right direction.  Terrorists could escape only to be caught later.  Such terror attacks make us feel that whether a Government exists or not.  Twists and turns in terror attack are giving us testing time.