Of course markings make no sense

After the end of a tour by Team India cricketers we analyse their performance on a particular tour giving weightage to their performances as in the past.  Even though it is hypothetical and not  a correct analysis we still do it for the sake of giving a boost to our players.  But the trust on our players is diminishing as they are losing series after series overseas and that gives us an impression that they are school boy cricketers in the learning process all the time.  As learners they are not going to get more marks for their pathetic show with both bat and ball and our approach to the game show all the weakness and there is no chance of improvement in the days to come unless the team combination is changed for winning the games and not just push on for ever with ordinary shows overseas and superlative show at home.

Kohli- 0 marks- He failed to bring the morale up of the team up and his captaincy left much to be desired-he failed when it really required

Dhawan -1 mark- Opener should set the ball rolling but Shikar was shaky on bouncy tracks

Rohit-2- His lazy approach made the matter worse and he should be shown the door sooner or later.

Rahane-3- Shaky from the start to finish but a better fielder by the by comparing to Kohli.

Karthik-1/2 mark- Failed behind and in front of the wickets

Jadeja-11/2-Joker in the pack-neither a bowler nor a batsman

Ashwin-4 marks- It is worth seeing Ashwin hitting the balls hard, fielding and catching and his bowling is the only consolation for Team India in Asia cup.

Shami Ahemad-2 marks-Super Fast Express Derailed in the end

Bhuvanesh Kumar-1-mark- Mockery of medium pace bowling

Amit Sharma-2 marks- Odd man out and will never become a Shane Warne at his best

Pujar - Minus 1- Warming up not only the benches but also his uniform

Aaron-0 mark- Speed thriller and Team Killer

Binny-0 mark-Chip of the old block; nothing to write to home at Bangalore

Duncan Fletcher-5 marks- For managing such a lackadaisical approach and its weak players

Team India succumbed to pressure

Arise Asia Cup failed to evince much interest for Team India as the home team could not make easy meat of the ultimate winner Sri Lanka and the runner up Pakistan.  We were expecting that everything will come India's way and waited up to the last over and the last over turned out to be a disastrous one as the so called young team could not stand up to the tension and succumb in the end.  Tactical error by skipper Virat Kohli cost us the game against Sri Lanka and the same complacency put paid our hopes against Pakistan also.  As a matter of fact, Afridi was fed with medium fast bowling,  a mediocre spin attack and lackadaisical fielding to support the bowlers.  Playing pathetic cricket Indian batsmen struck around for some time but wasted number of balls and that made all the difference in the end.  To compensate the weakness in the side, we should have pressed the option of playing with a pinch hitter upfront to boost the scoring rate.  We waited for things to happen and that never happened in the end and the early exist from Asia cup followed.
Senior Pros Afridi, Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardne all played timely knocks to help their sides to come out trumps whereas we do not have a match winner in the side despite having ICC no 1 ranked player Virat Kohli.  Captain did not come up to the expectation with the bat and his captaincy did not evince much interest.  In the end Team India capitulated and could not get past the first hurdle in a poor light. 

T-20 World cup is starting in Bangladesh from 16th of March 2014.  People are just looking for the hit and run game of cricket to go faster than ever before as the players are using swish hit, pedaling sweep, reverse sweep, Pallu shot, Upper cut etc etc.  Now the scene is set for fireworks in the Stadiums in Bangladesh.  

HERE ARE SOME MEMORABLE RECORDS IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

1. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.

2. Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. 

3. Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s. 

4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. 

This is how the over went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1 

5. Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut.

6. Ishant Sharma is responsible for all the three highest scores made by a batsman against India in the 21st century. 

7. On 12th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai. 

His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled. 

8. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored. 

9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket.

No, it’s not a typo. He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs. 

10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career. 

He never waited for his 200th first class hundred

11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls.

12. Jim Laker once took 19 wickets in a Test match. 

The only wicket was taken by Tony Lock, a left-arm spinner for England.

13. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup. 

Tendulkar does not have one in his 49 one day centuries

14. After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times. 

15. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup. 

16. Mohinder Amarnath is the only player to win Man of the Match Award in both the semi-final and final of the World Cup 1983.

17. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh.

18. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs. 

It all happened in Canada when Pakistan's Salim Mallik was in the opposing side.

19. Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket. 

Kepler Wassels played for both Australia and South Africa in test cricket.

20. Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a ODI match. 

21. In 1989, along with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debuts. The last one to retire before Sachin, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004. 

22. Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket. 

23. Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career. 

He is not sixer Bradman like CK (SIXER) Nayudu

24. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.

119 was scored in an IPL game. 

25. Wasim Akram’s highest Test innings score of 257 is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar's (who has 248 n.o. to his credit).

26. The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.

27. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

28. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.

30. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him.

 31. Sriniwas Venkatraghavan is the only Indian bowler to capture all the wickets of the opposition either in the first innings or in the second test-4th test against New Zealand in New Delhi-8 for 72 and 4 for 80- In all 12 for 152, 

Easing out at Examination Fear

It is examination time and students are under tremendous pressure to perform well at the final examination.  At this time the student-teacher relationship and the parent - student relationship should touch a new high to move things in a proper direction at this crucial hour.  The need for a smoothstudent-teacher relationship and the working partnership of parent and teacher need a new look after a spate of attacks on a teacher by student and the wrath shown by student against parents are all part and parcel now a days. Stabbing incident by student against a teacher was bad precedence but in practical terms the agitated student was to show his anger in one form or the other and that came out by stabbing.  So Children needs to be motivated and not to be sulked for any reason.  Going hand in hand will help to maintainStudent-teacher relationship.  Of course schools are second home for children, where they should learn the way of life apart from education part. Freedom for students is needed but it should not cross the limits. With love, care, security we can win the hearts of the students. Children are averse to criticism. It is needless to handle the situation in a smooth way without hurting the concerned parties. It is better to celebrate teachers birthday in a simple way and to have cordial relationship.  Teacher's day on Sept 5th of every year celebrated to commemorate the birth of ex-president Sarvapalli S. Radhakrishnan.  The particular day needs special mention to develop love and affection. Many parents to go out of the way and give their children too much freedom and commit the mistake of raising their kids in a wrong way.  Scolding of any type is not going to serve the purpose in any way. Dictator attitude needs to be avoided and parent should try to cajole and pacify children and treat them like delicate being.  Love must be passed on to the children but at the same time impart knowledge also in an easy and efficient way.  If we fail to do justice to the role of parent by giving undue importance to children and pester them too much praise, then the child soon turn a brat, the one who cannot tolerate a no to the demands and somehow get the things done.  One should get imbibed to understand the needs of children and their basic requirements.  Handling a spoiled child is a difficult proposition and test the patience of parents.  Children should no be pampered beyond a limit and they should be made to realize the harsh realities of life.

Whatever said and done students are under tremendous pressure these days.  With the present syllabus taxing the students with heavy load of work and too much strain home work which includes project work Children are put to test.  Add salt to the wound additional coaching classes and mid-term test makes the children work overtime and there is no time to rest. Such type of schedule takes heavy toll on children and we come across Children breaking down during the academic year and some of them going to the extent of committing suicides as well.  The present education pattern is really taxing students and the students need to get some rest before they can think about the next move.  Parents are putting additional pressure on students and a parent who makes an effort to recognize his wards learning style and make use of the same in proper direction achieve maximum success. After all, knowledge is power and achieving more and more knowledge is an additional qualification for children.  It is time for teachers to motivate and inspire children.  It is up to Parents to make all the difference and work for the betterment of children by working on a strict time schedule and a proper time table to impart knowledge to children. It is better to give some special time to relax for the children.

Anxiety,  tension,  brokenness, conditional love, death, dejection, Emptiness, insignificance. guilt, hopelessness, illness, falsehood and a sense of shame on failure or due to shameless act by colleagues creates suicidal tendency. Depression is a strong mood involving sadness, loneliness, discouragement, despair or hopelessness that lasts for weeks, months or ever for a longer period creates the guilty feelings. Over 18 million people suffer from depression every year. Many never seek treatment yet most cases of depression or treatable with effective therapies and medication.  When we think of a depressed child, we often envision a morose child, who is a consistently sad.  However, sadness, may not be the symptom that defines a depressed child.  A study of researchers at the Columbia University in New York city reported that bad parenting may put their children at high risk for anxiety and depression. Anxiety and Depression is the root cause for the most of the suicides in India. Stitch in time saves nine is true.  If the remedial measures are taken timely then the suicidal rate will diminish among students. A simple living and high thinking can bring cheer in life. 

That stress attack can upset your plans of studying and scoring good marks in the annual examination. Setting smart goals will be ideal instead of making big time goals.  One should have a terrific time management to opt for balance and pulling away from peer called pressure. It is indeed. The examination fever will not allow children to follow  busy cricket season.  So the children does have diversions and at the same time they will have to prepare well for their examination.  Hence a proper planning is required to make things move at a crucial time in the career of Children.  Motivation of Children will be a key word and to sulk under pressure should be stopped always.

HISTORY OF THE CRICKET BAT

This super pair of plaques depict "The History of the Cricket Bat" from c. 1720 to 1930. The first plaque consists of a display of eight 1/7th scale replica cricket bats taken from the M.C.C. collection at Lord's Cricket Ground. The have been authentically executed, with great attention to detail and are captioned as follows at the bottom of the plaque:

EARLY CURVED BAT C.1720

CURVED BAT C.1750

EARLY STRAIGHT BAT C.1774

'LITTLE JOEY' C.1792

E. BAGOT 'SKYCRAPER' C.1793 (misprinted as ' SKYSCAPER' )

FULLER PILCH'S BAT C.1835

JACK HOBBS' BAT C.1930

Early Curved Bat -Circa 1720- Before 1750 the cricket ball was bowled underarm along the ground. The hockey stick curve of this early bat enables the batsman to scoop the ball of the ground with a variety of offensive rather than defensive strokes.

Curved bat Circa 1750- The bat is a further evolution of the crooked club, its blade having more wight at the base as a counter to the underarm bowling of the period. The first known issue of the laws of cricket had been drawn up in 1744, however there were rules governing the size and shape of bats (some weighed over 5 lbs) and most of them were made by their owners. A left handed player would shave (carve) his blade in the opposite direction to a right handed bat. The whole is made from a solid piece of timber, the handle bound with cord 37 1/2" long 4 " wide, 2 lbs, 5 oz

Early Straight bat-Circa 1774- By the mid 18th Century the bowler was allowed to lob the ball albeit still in an underarm fashion. This gave a greater advantage against eh cruved bat so a new revolutionary shame evolved to counter the bouncing lobs. The design of this straight 'shouldered' type was the precursor to the modern bat and its development can be largely ascribed to the player and bat maker John Small (1737-1826). Small innovation changed the face of cricket and a now defensive system of blocking or stopping was adapted. The 34" long, 4 1/2 " wide, 2 lb 13 oz.

Little Joey-Circa 1792- At a match between Hambledon and Chertsey in 1771 Thomas White of Reigate went into play with a bat that was wider than the wicket. To avoid such absurdities by 1771 a ruling was brought in limiting the bat's width to 4 1/2". Little Joey belonged to the Hambleyer Ringh whose style of play originated the leg before wicket (LBW) rule.

E. Bagot Skyscraper -Circa 1793- By the end of the 18th Century the experimental nature of cricket bat disgn had at last come to an end. However there were still no restrictions as to the length of the bat or its thickness at the base. Some bats of this type employed a backward curve to their face.

Fuller Pilch's Bat Circa 1840- In 1935, the MCC restricted the length of the bat to 38" and the solid one piece-plain match- bat illustrated here continued in use well into the 19th Century. It is probable, however, that Fuller Pitch (1830-1870) played with both the one piece and the newly developed spliced bat.

WG Grace's bat_Circa 1901- By 1830s that first 2 part spliced bat had begun to appear. It's invention was most likely born from the necessity of the Bat makers constantly having to repair handles broken off from solid one piece bats by splicing a new handle into the blade. This new development considerably reduced the 'sting' occasioned to batter's hands by the fast bowling of the likes of Alfred Mynn or William Lillywhite. By 1860 the first sprung bats began to appear. The grace bat illustrated here has a cane handle spliced into a willow blade.

Jack Hobb's bat-Circa 1930- The 20th Century example illustrated here belonged to Jack Hobbs who is considered to have belonged to Jack Hobbs who is considered to have been England's greatest-ever-batsman. It consists of a willow blade with a cane handle layered into thin strips of rubber, bound with twine, the whole handle is sheathed in rubber to absorb shock if any at the time of impact with a cricket ball. 33 1/2" long, 22" blade, 2 lbs 6 oz.

Dennis Lillee brought the introduction of aluminium bat but he was prevented from using it for a longer period. And during an IPL season Mathew Hayden brought a Mangoose bat. Thus the game of cricket is changing to faster pace and the quality of bats are improving day by day to make the game of cricket totally a power game.

C.K.Cricket KricketSubramaniam