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123

123

The nuclear deal is finally brought out as a complete draft with accordance to the 123 agreement as President George W. Bush signed in the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act today, and had given a wonderful speech earlier. During his speech he praised the great commitment and the courage of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and went on to describe him as a very dear friend. President’s talk about how these two great democracies went through difficult periods like colonization and how far both countries evolved thereafter was commendable. It was quite surprising and raised many eyebrows when President conveyed his greetings on Diwali for the people of India as a final touch.

Ricky Ponting proves a point again by hitting his maiden ton in test cricket against India in India as he scored 123 in the first day of the first test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Many had questioned ponting’s poor performance in India and believed he will continue to succumb in Indian pitches. But here is a man who holds 16 Hundreds to his name as a captain and only a 3 below to the Great Sachin Tendulkar in terms of total centuries scored in Test cricket and also he holds the highest Average among the top 10 run getters in test cricket. These statistics saying it all about this great cricketer of the modern era. And I believe if he continues to play this way he has a greater chance of beating Sachin’s records in terms of total number or runs made and centuries made.
At the same time we can take nothing away from sachin as well because the period when sachin started playing , the cricket world was dominated by some fierce bowlers like, Warne, Wasim, Waqar, Walsh, Ambrose, Alan Donald, Mc Grath, Mc Dermott. Lewis, and so on, but these days only a very few bowlers threatens the batsman against scoring runs the likes of Dale steyn and Vaas, so its an another advantage for Ponting to beat sachins records.

Anyway congratulations for ponting on his 123 and for the President and the Prime minister as well for their 123 agreement success.

Black day for WB

7th Oct, 2008

WB's Black day

From WB (West Bengal) one goes to home and the other to the saffron state of India.
It’s another blow to West Bengal as they lose Sourav Ganguly their only player for the state from the Indian cricket team; it’s an added insult to the already made injury due the exit of the NANO car project as nano hitting Gujarat today.

Geoff on FABULOUS 4

FABULOUS 4

Geoff Boycott’s comment on the FAB 4 of the Indian cricket team in the “Telegraph” was a bit hyped and he is unnecessarily writing off the player’s personal life i.e. endorsing advertisements. The ad companies interested in them and the people of India respect them. If they are not at their very best form ultimately the sponsors are going to withdraw the offer as Gillette did to Rahul Dravid. Our players are playing for our country and they know what to do on the field better than this man Geoff Boycott. Of course they are going through a difficult phase of their carrier and they have a point to prove in the upcoming series against Aussies. We will wait and see.