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Tag Archives: Sri Lanka
Posted on 15 January 2013 by bagrat15 | 17 comments
There are two teams in world cricket whose bowling unit amuses me nowadays. Not because how they perform, that is a different story and I take different sides. The two sides I am talking about are Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Both Pakistan and Sri Lanka produce bowlers with interesting actions. And they are unique in that. Or, less imitable. There are many of them. Sri Lanka has Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, for sample. Pakistan had Shoaib Akhtar, has Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir among many others.
Sri Lanka brought out Ajantha Mendis and nobody knew what he was doing. What seemed to be a simple action seemed to reap complex results. Kumar Sangakkara confessed that he could figure out what was coming only when he was standing behind the stumps, and not in front of it. Mendis would waltz through the sides playing against Sri Lanka for a brief period.
Mendis gave birth to the term "carrom ball". Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how to bowl/mimic it for a while. I've seen people try to do that and direct the ball at the clueless forward short leg. Not many batsmen had a clue about how to play that ball either. I think it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni who started prodding his front foot miles outside to negate the turn, after reading the ball off the pitch seemed tougher than his team-mates had thought. That bought some time, and they were able to analyse the mystery.
Ajantha Mendis served in the army. He was spotted long before he was introduced in the international stage. He was told to continue what he was doing. He was bestowed with the confidence of the cricket community to perfect his art. He returned their confidence with wonderful rewards.
Dilhara Fernando jogs to the bowling crease like he is on a morning jog. But in the final stride he exerts so much energy that he bowls fast, hitting the 90 mph mark multiple times. He gets injured a lot. He comes back more. The best part about him is his slower ball. Almost un-readable. The "split-finger" slow ball must be tough. I couldn't split that quickly. And I don't see other bowlers trying that method, so it must be something that takes a lot of effort and control. It is a pity his health punctured his career a lot.
Unrelated, but interesting: Dilhara Fernando bowled a lot of no-balls. So many, that a bus stop near his home was re-named "The No Ball Stop".
The most interesting bowling action today in the Sri Lankan outfit must be Lasith Malinga. I will call him the most accurate bowler just for what he does. Not only is he the most prolific member of the I Can Bowl Yorkers Association, the members of whom are fast depleting, but he can york a batsman very frequently. At a quick pace. With that action. When I try to mimic that (and you know that, since you have tried too), I either fall down, or bowl to square leg. If I am having a good day, to fine leg.
And a mandatory mention- his yorkers. He trains himself to become more accurate at bowling yorkers by placing a pair of shoes at the crease in the practice sessions (nets). He then runs in and bowls at the shoes. It is similar to the handkerchief bowling practice conceptually, but has a different purpose. And I am not sure anybody else tries it- because nobody else seems to be interested in bowling a yorker.
Sohail Tanvir's bowling looked like a man speed-walking to the crease and bowling somewhere between two steps. It was as weird as watching an Olympic walking race. He didn't (doesn't?) have a notable jump/stride while nearing the crease. He does not bowl off his wrong foot, though. Some commentators have seen his footwork replayed multiple times and still can't get over the fact that he doesn't bowl off his wrong foot.
Saeed Ajmal came in, the charming, smiling bowling assassin. Just when we thought wrist spin in offies was dying (with Muttiah Muralitharan), Saeed Ajmal presented himself. Him and Muralitharan are probably the only two bowlers who I felt had justified bowling to right handers from around the wicket. They were the ones who spun the ball big enough to have the batsmen at their mercy from that angle. Most other bowlers do that because they tried everything else in vain, or are plain bored and want to improve their economy.
I find Wahab Riaz interesting because when he is bowling, he looks like a gardener chasing a rabbit- pouncing, leaping, and not exactly in a fluid motion. And despite that, he was able to give the Pakistani fans some wonderful memories. Especially "Wahabyou been?" days from that wretched tour of England.
I read that Pakistani board held trials for bowlers to try out at a large ground, and promising bowlers would be shortlisted. That is an open dance floor. It was a chance for anyone and everyone to show up. And from what I heard, the ground was flooded, more than what was expected. Believe me, "expectations" are already high, number wise, in a country like Pakistan where a talented fast bowler is born every day in every city. I was excited when I heard that. Young bowlers who had developed themselves, their own technique, their own style can now come and bowl in front of people who can change their lives for the better.
That was an amazing story. And that is against the normal flow of things in that world. A kid who wants to get into a cricket team in most part of the world has to get up at 5 am in the morning and go to practice sessions, follow coach's advice from placing the landing foot to holding the seam in position. And then the kid returns home to get ready to attend his secondary school.
If the kid is in India, then you can just assume that the kid loses at least 4 hours a day to cricket. "Loses" may be replaced with the word "dedicated" in some cases. I am not sure the kid knows what is happening. He wants to be a bowler that he dreamt of becoming? Or, is he just becoming a bowler because the coach said so? And thereby, doing what the coach said, and hence becoming the bowler the coach dreamt of becoming? The kids go into an assembly processor and come out as batch products, each resembling the last.
I forgot the source and the coach, but I read this on the internet when a coach of under-age cricket team said that when the kids are young, you mustn't try to coach them. The kids should enjoy the game first, develop a liking to a skill, to a part of the game and try to do something on their own. Once the kid takes up a vocational path, and is ready to take the next step, he/she will come to you. That is when you teach them where to pitch, how to swing, how to keep your body from falling, etc.
I love West Indian cricket, and they have a wonderful bowling unit. But I am bored of watching Jerome Taylor, Dwayne Bravo, Kemar Roach and Andre Russell bowl with fairly similar actions. Praveen Kumar and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar have similar actions. One Indian bowler who has been unique (just because of his release) whenever he does get to bowl is S. Sreesanth. And that is just lovely to watch.
I don't know much about the new set of Australian bowlers, but the last time I saw they just seemed the same assembly products with faster pace. That's all. Don't get me wrong. Many of them are great bowlers, making batsmen say their prayers before every delivery, and that must have been absorbed some wonderful coaching and tutoring into doing that. Just that I don't see much variety nowadays.
And I don't understand why there are 23962374 slow left arm spinners in International cricket all of a sudden. Special annual ICC Sweepstakes for them?
New Zealand's Chris Martin and (now England's?) Iain O'Brien had some uniqueness to their action. Mark Gillespie had a leap. Doug Bracewell looks a blast from the past. Maybe there is some charm left there in the Kiwi Isles? I would like to hope so.
My uncle told me once, "All the bowlers look like machines today, every coach wants to correct their action. When Kapil Dev bowled, his action made him look like he had paralysis. No coach would recommend that action to any of the present age bowlers. But, look at what Kapil was able to achieve with his freedom!"
Do let me know whose bowling action you enjoy the most. And, since I have been out of touch a bit, tell me which new kid has a unique action?
-Bagrat
Tagged action, assembly, bored, bowling, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, unique
Deserving the Asia Cup
Posted on 25 March 2012 by bagrat15 | 4 comments
It was a deserving day of cricket. But only Bangladesh deserved to win the finals. Even before players could wake up. Everybody in the world was sure that Bangladesh will win the Asia Cup, because, well, they deserved it, making the whole point of playing the game an utter waste of time. But ah well, some ICC Rule number 137897.124.124.124.623.5.32.5.2 section a. said that it deserves to be played.
So, if Holy Fans of The Holy Game were to have it, the Holy Finals would…errr…should have panned out, deserving-ly, like this –
Toss – The match referee flips the coin, Misbah calls "heads", and the referee catches the coin, puts it in the pocket and shrugs to Misbah, "Hey, Bangladesh deserves to win the toss, mate."
So, Bangladesh wins the toss and they opt to bowl. They deserve to.
Hafeez and Jamshed walk out to open, and Athar Ali Khan already has uttered "My Word" 47 times. That's alright. He deserves to do that.
Mashrafe Mortaza will open the bowling for Bangladesh. Wonderful bowler. Destroys India, does nothing more than that. Has more injuries than wickets. And Bangladeshi crowd goes berserk when he gets dropped for non-performance or even injury. That candidate always deserves a spot in the team.
So, here he comes, bustling like a train, and it's a wide to start the innings. Wide down the leg side, and Mushfiq had to jump like a toad to pouch that one. But don't worry, the umpire doesn't signal a wide. Mashrafe has been through a lot. He deserves a good first ball.
A few overs go by, in which the other fast bowler, whose name I don't remember now, and as I deserve for that, I get flak for forgetting, gets two wickets. One because the umpire gave an lbw when the ball seemed away and comfortably went to the keeper's hands. But, well, that ball deserved an LBW to its credit. And the other wicket was because Hafeez thought the bowler should deserve another wicket for being a fast bowler on the Bangladeshi cricket team. So, he shoulders arms and lets the ball come and hit his stumps. Bangladeshi Polka Dots dressed fans are ecstatic. Hafeez tells them that they deserve to be happy, just like Sacramento Kings' fans must be.
Also, Mr My Word and Mr Safety are replaced by Mr Running The First One Hard (imagine saying hard in #huan tone) and Mr Just 65 Runs To Go For The Century.
Pakistan are 143/3 after 32 overs. They now decide that the Bangladeshi bowlers deserve to have done better. so, Pakistan's score is revised to 123/4. Shakib is a wonderful bowler. My word. Also, Mahudullah, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Abdur Razzak and the other 17 spinners in the side. So, they all deserve to see a better score on that big screen.
Pakistan will not get their batting powerplay. Come on… Why should they? They don't deserve to hit more runs.
And Afridi deserves to be out. So, the bowler bowls the ball, keeper collects it, returns it to the bowler and the bowler dismantles the bails. And appeals. All batsmen are inside their respective creases. But, Bangladesh deserve to get rid of Afridi early. So, Afridi is out. Striker standing inside the batting crease is run out at the non-striker end. Bangladesh deserve to make history.
Shakib al Hasan finishes with figures of 10-1-42-2. Wonderful bowling. He deserves some more overs. So, he gets to bowl 4 more overs. Gets 2 more wickets at the expense of just 8 runs. My Word.
Pakistan end their innings at 254/8, after some rocking and rolling smashing hits from Misbah and Umar Gul. Fans did not expect this, so they weren't sure if they deserved it or not. So, they were granted the permission to score freely.
Oxford dictionary meanwhile announce that they decided to award the word "Myword" to Athar Ali Khan. Their press release said "He deserves to have a word of his own, so he doesn't abuse other words."
Tournament organizers decide that Bangladesh deserve another win in the tournament. So, they toggle the result of the tournament opener and award Bangladesh with the win over Pakistan in the opener. The organizer said "Nasir Jamshed did not deserve to play that kind of innings." So, Bangladesh have topped the league table.
There is no rain, but the D/L method score will be applied on the Pakistani Score. D/L – Deserve to Lose. So, the target for Bangladesh is not a paltry 132 runs in the whole 50 overs.
Umar Gul will open the attack. And sends in a toe crushing yorker at Tamim Iqbal, who totally misses the ball trying to play it across the line, and the middle and leg stump for the same angle that Afridi forms with his arms while celebrating a wicket. The umpire then goes to Gul and says, "Hey, Tamim deserves a second change." And, Tamim can stay.
But Gul manages to remove Tamim Iqbal three more times in the same over, and Tamim had to leave. Even some Bangladeshi fans were irritated and said that Tamim doesn't deserve another chance. Pakistan have made a breakthrough. They had to go back and close the flood gates thrice in the same over, but they can finally leave it open.
Afridi comes in to bowl along with Ajmal. Afridi has been removed off the attack because of moral policing. People complained that he is only 18 years of age and has been faking an increase in age for the last 13 years. So, he doesn't deserve to bowl. And yes, as is the general opinion amongst everybody, Ajmal doesn't deserve to bowl at all.
So, Pakistan are reduced to bowling out the overs with Gul, Hafeez, Cheema, Younis Khan and Hammad Azam. In spite of Bangladesh losing wickets now and then, they get some runs on the board through Shakib al Hasan's bat. He deserves to be the number one all-rounder in the whole universe. Martians deserve to immortalize Shakib by planting a statue of his when they visit Saturn next.
It all comes down to the last over. Cheema has to bowl to Shakib and Shahadat Hossain. Bangladesh need 9 off the last over, only 2 wickets remain. How it came this close is anybody's guess. You deserve to make a guess, you have a beautiful mind. It's alright if you didn't make it to IIT and then into IIM and earned $$$$$$$$$$$ in business. But you deserve to make a guess.
Cheema runs in, the 33-year-old coach bustling in with enthusiasm….and suddenly, the umpire stops Cheema on his tracks, asks for the ball, pockets the ball, tips the bail off the stump and declares "Bangladesh, we all know you deserve to win this. you win."
And Yes. Bangladesh have won the Asia Cup. Congratulations, Bangladesh. Shakib deserved and got the Man Of The Final Over, Man Of The Match, (and while Shakib goes to collect his man Of The Series Award, LSK exclaims "He is running the first one haaaard"), Man Of The Series, and also in advance, the man Of The World Cup and The Best All Rounder Award for the years 2012 to 2018.
Also, congratulations Sri Lanka on winning last year's World Cup. You deserved it. We were just trolling you by winning it for ourselves. We are selfish like that – winning World Cups and all.
– Bagrat
Tagged Asia Cup, Bangladesh, deserve, fans, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, World Cup
I was wrong…
Posted on 7 August 2010 by mohankaus | 7 comments
There are many things I am constantly wrong about. No. I am not at Church, it is not Sunday today, and this is not a confession!
But yes, there are many things I am wrong about. Take this recently concluded Test series against Sri Lanka, for example! I was wrong about:
Suresh Raina's abilities as a Test cricketer,
Sri Lanka being capable of producing a good Test wicket,
India's cances of winning a Test in Sri Lanka in this series.
Suresh Raina did confound his critics; including me. I had branded him a ODI and T20 player and had even indicated in a post here that he had jumped the queue, ahead of players like S. Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, et al. But Suresh Raina showed enough in the few appearances he had to indicate he has the ticker, application, determination and skill to last at this level. He even negotiated the many bouncers hurled in his direction. He looked composed, compact and confident. He looked like he belongs at this level. Just on the basis of these outings, I would be happy to ink his name for quite some time at #6 in the Test batting line-up even if he fails against Australia in October and (later on in the year) against South Africa.
I was wrong about Raina…
I was wrong too about Sri Lanka's ability to produce a good Test wicket. The wicket that was on offer at the P. Sara Oval for the 3rd Test was a Test-wicket beauty. After the flat highway that represented the 2nd Test at the SSC ground, I had all but switched off my TV set for the reminder of the Test series. This series was starting to resemble a few previous series in Sri Lanka where teams would go on to make 3597 runs for 2 declared and then the opposition would go on to make 9656 runs for 3 declared — all before Tea on day-2! You would either have that or have a situation where Muralitharan would take 20 wickets for 3 runs before Tea on day-1 on a pitch made out of un-compacted sawdust from the wood factory down the road! But the pitch that was prepared for the 3rd Test at the P Sara Oval was spot on for Test cricket. I do wish the Sri Lankan cricket Board sack Anurudda Polonowita, the curator of the SSC pitch! Even after a truck-load of runs were scored on the SSC pitch during the 2nd Test, with the loss of only a few wickets — and that too to run outs and batsmen error — the SSC curator managed to hide his head in the sand and blamed the bowlers of both teams for the dull draw in the 2nd Test! But the 3rd Test wicket offered everyone a chance — good batsmen, spinners and pace bowlers. Sri Lanka is, after all, capable of producing good Test match wickets.
I was wrong about Sri Lankan pitches…
Right from the time MS Dhoni lost the toss at the start of the 3rd Test match, I did not think India had a chance of winning the 3rd Test match. At the end of day-1, Sri Lanka was 293/4. In order for me to have India ahead at the end of the first days' play, India needed another wicket at least and also needed to have conceded about 20 fewer runs. Although India did make inroads with the ball on day-2 and although India did get Sri Lanka all out for 425, I did think it was a good 1st innings total in the context of this wicket. India ended day-2 at 180-2, which was the only day of the Test that India ended well, in my books — apart from the last days' ending when India had won the Test! On day-2, I had India ahead not because the team had made 180-2 (nearly 245 runs behind), which was a healthy score already. I had India ahead because these runs were secured in just 35 overs! But then the quick loss of Tendulkar and Sehwag on day-3 meant that India was again playing catch up in this game. The fact that India made more 1st Innings runs than Sri Lanka was good but in my view the slender lead wasn't quite enough! At the end of day-3, although Sri Lanka was 45-2, I still had Sri Lanka ahead. On day-4, India had her best session of the game when the spinners wrecked the Sri Lankan batting. However, Mendis and Samaraweera ensured that Sri Lanka put up a competitive target. That and the fact that India lost 3 wickets for not much meant that, in my books, Sri Lanka was once again ahead at the end of day-4. I thought India would not be able to pull this match off on day-5 on a pitch that was deteriorating. I did not expect India to win in the end.
In the end, this was an amazing come-from-behind win for Team India — one that this team can take a lot of pride in. Perhaps this will not be an automatic inclusion choice in the "Great Indian Test Victories" DVD compilation. This compilation would automatically include Kolkata, Leeds, Adelaide, Multan or Perth — great victories in the annals of Indian circket history. However, taken in the context of the personnel that MS Dhoni had at his disposal, I would happily vote for placing "Colombo (P Sara), 2010" alongside famous Indian victories in the recent decade.
To me this big-list list reads: Kolkata 2001 (v Australia), Leeds 2002 (v England), Adelaide 2003 (v Australia), Multan 2004 (v Pakistan), Sabina Park 2006 (v West Indies), Johannesburg 2006 (v South Africa), Perth 2008 (v Australia), Mohali 2008 (v Australia), Chennai 2008 (v England), Colombo (P Sara) 2010 (v Sri Lanka).
I say this because India achieved this victory without a first-XI opening batsman and 3 of its four strike bowlers. Let us not forget that Zaheer Khan, Sreesanth, Harbhajan Singh and Gautam Gambhir were absent from the team that secured this victory. Yes, we might point to the fact that the team did still have great players like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, et al. However, the best batsmen are rendered useless by un-tested bowlers. In this context, the P. Sara victory is an important one for India. The team showed that it can still do it despite ruthless depletions to the team sheet.
As a Team India fan, the future is, still, a worry for me.
I do not worry too much about the day when Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman will, inevitably, exit stage-left! When Rahul Dravid got out in the 1st Innings of the 3rd Test, Tony Greig, who was commentating at the time, emotionally appealed for Cheteshwar Pujara to be inked into the team sheet immediately! I am confident Pujara will wear a Team India cap one day. Just as night follows day, for me, Pujara has his named etched on a Team India spot already. However, he will wait his time till when Dravid hangs up his boots. Like Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble, the other two members of the Fab-Five, I am confident that Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman will chose the timing of their exit appropriately. These are some of the most upright Team India sportspeople of our times; a time dominated by Commonwealth Games scandals and 83-year-olds being elected to the Presidency of a national sports body! The Fab-Five stand tall and stand in a separate playing field altogether in an Indian sports space dominated by sleaze, money and power politics.
But when the remaining members of the Fab-Five do exit the scene, I am confident that in Cheteshwar Pujara, M Vijay, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Sourabh Tiwary, S. Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, Ajinkya Rahane, et al, India has the batting personnel to step into their big shoes. Pujara will never be a Dravid, just as Dravid was never a Mohinder Amarnath or a Dilip Vengsarkar. Similarly, Suresh Raina will never be a Sourav Ganguly. Rohit Sharma will never be a Sachin Tendulkar. But I believe that Cheteshwar Pujara, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, M. Vijay, Abhinav Mukund, et al, will carve their own stellar paths just as the Fab Four did when they built their careers.
What worries me most as a Team India fan is the bowling resources. Bowlers keep breaking apart at the seams. Bowlers that burst onto the scene with much promise and fan-fare vanish a few seasons later. Witness the decline of Ishant Sharma, Irfan Pathan, RP Singh, Munaf Patel, Sreesanth, VRV Singh, Pankaj Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, et al. Will we add Abhimanyu Mithun to the above list in a year from now? This is certainly a worry for me. Mind you, the spin options are just not good enough for me either.
So it is the bowling and not the batting that is a worry to me as a Team India fan.
However, just as I was wrong with a few things in this recently concluded Test series against Sri Lanka, I hope I am able to point to a future Team India bowling attached and say again: "I was wrong…"
Tagged Cricket, Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, India, Laxman, Sri Lanka, Tendulkar, Victory, Zaheer Khan
The ICC launches into another controversy
Posted on 1 July 2010 by mohankaus | 4 comments
As if it wasn't enough for the ICC to get bogged down by a bankruptcy of ideas and control of the game, the organisation has now found a new way to embarrass itself. It has stumbled to a new low resting point through a shocking mis-management of the process for electing John Howard as President-Elect of the august body!
In his article on Cricinfo, Gideon Haigh states, "Say what you like about the members of the International Cricket Council, they are utterly consistent. No matter how far you lower your expectations, they always find a way to underperform."
Hilarious opening to an interesting opinion piece. I do not agree with much of what Haigh says in this article, but it certainly paints a mobid picture of a moribund organisation! The problem with Haigh is that he has declared his cards as a person that views the BCCI, IPL, Modi and Indian cricket with suspicion if not disdain! In the past he has stopped short of stating that the only cricket that really matters is that which is regularly held between England and Australia for a little urn. So I certainly have that grain of salt handy when I read anything he writes!
But he does have a point. The ICC finds stunningly innovative ways of repeatedly embarrassing itself in public.
The ICC Presidency chair is a rotating beast. So it cannot and should not really get political. If it is a Boards' turn to have a crack at the top job, it ought to have all linen washed internally (as New Zealand and Australia did in choosing John Howard) before offering up a candidate who ought to be elected unopposed. That is how a rotating chair ought to work. There is, however, a danger in such a method because, before you know it, when it is Zimbabwe's turn we may be forced to stare at Robert Mugabe's smirk on the ICC website for four long and painful years! Hence there has been a proxy election in place. It has never, however, been used up until now.
It has been used now! The result is that Australia feels insulted. New Zealand is probably saying "I told you he sucked as a candidate". England is embarrassed through no fault of theirs — again! And the ICC is in some disarray as a result of (a) a terrible, terrible choice of candidate (in my view), (b) the organisations' ineptness in making decisions other than those driven by consensus, and, most importantly (c) the organisation being unable to state to the losing candidate why (s)he lost!
Ever since the International Cricket Council was formed (after its predecessors, the Imperial Cricket Conference and the International Cricket Conference were canned) we have had this rotation system work near-perfectly: England had Lord Colin Cowderey as President of the ICC (from 1989-1993). West Indies had the great Sir Clyde Walcott from 1993-1997. India had that wily combatant, Jagmohan Dalmiya as ICC President from 1997–2000. Australia had Malcolm Gray from 2000–2003 followed by Pakistan's Ehsaan Mani from 2003–2006. This was followed by Percy Sonn (2006-2007) and Ray Mali (2007–2008), a dual South African act on account of the fact that Sonn passed away while 'in office'. This then saw an England-India double act in David Morgan (2008-2010) and Sharad Pawar (2010-2012).
The system has been working well in so far as providing a mechanism for tokens and lollipops to be routinely handed out to the member countries as appeasements.
That is up until now, when the word "trust" has started to take on much more of a meaning in our collective dictionary than ever before. Moreover, through a combination of their collective increase in their self-confidence as well as an improved ability on the field and (especially for India) their money power, the word "trust" has also been bandied about more often than necessary. Muscles have been flexed!
John Howards' rejection has to be seen in this light and should not be seen as a collective insult to the Australian people.
Malcolm Speed has reacted angrily to the insult in his emotional outburst. He even suggests that Australia and New Zealand should give up their automatic right to a lollipop hand-out and, instead, hand it over to the next set of boards in the lollipop queue: Bangladesh and Pakistan!
Gideon Haigh has reacted emotionally and bemoaned the insult to the man who was so loved by the Australian people that they elected him not once, not twice, not three times, but no less than four times! Gosh! Of course, that must mean so much to a rag picker in Southern Mumbai. Right?
John Howard was a brave man when he was in power as Australian Prime Minister. He had views on most things and did not take a backward step in going forward on things he believed in. He routinely commented on things cricket. He loved his cricket. He even bowled once when in Pakistan when on a tour there — never mind the fact that few of the balls even reached the hapless batsmen! He also came out in the open and called Muthiah Muralitharan a "chucker"!
Do you think the people of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Board would trust a man at the top of the ICC tree after his utterances against their beloved son — utterances made by an incredibly honorable man while in a position of the power that was bestowed on him by the good people of Australia no less than four times?
The fact that the good people of Australia showered their love on John Howard — and I have no doubt he is an incredibly honorable man — four times should mean diddly squat to the people of Sri Lanka or officials on their cricket board! However, the fact that Howard ignored the opinions of bio-mechanics experts and chose to comment on Muralidharan's chucking, would have made the Sri Lankan Board and her people sit up and view Howard with some suspicion. Let us not forget that one of the men close to the officials that run the cricket board in that country is Arjuna Ranatunga, the captain that labored through that awful awful time for Sri Lankan cricket; a time made worse by John Howards' comments. Sri Lanka simply does not have trust in the ICC-man Australia has chosen. Simple. Ditto Zimbabwe, given Howard's utterances against that country and its cricket.
Was Howard right with his views? That is not really the issue. The issue is one of trust deficit.
Ultimately, Howard just did not have friends in ICC member countries. This is not an insult to Australians or to Howard.
Gideon Haigh emits his true colors, though, when he yells, "Ultimately, however, responsibility lies with the chaotic, fratricidal, law-unto-itself Board of Control for Cricket in India, for had it chosen to back Howard, the decision would have gone through on the nod. The BCCI likes to think of itself as cricket's leader – as, indeed, it is, by any economic measure. But where was it when actual leadership was required? Sunk in its own macchiavellian intrigues, busy trying to claw back a facilitation fee from World Sports Group, and poring over Lalit Modi's hotel and limousine expenses. Suggestions in the Indian media are that the rejection stems from internal upheavals at the BCCI, where ICC president Sharad Pawar, who supported Howard's nomination, is on the nose with his former colleagues for being too close to Modi. Who knows? And who, ultimately, cares?"
If Gideon Haigh did not care, why would he devote so much eyeball space to the BCCI and its "fratricidal" ways? I have a feeling that Gideon Haigh will soon drop the blame for world hunger and world peace at the door steps of the BCCI!
Yes, there was indeed a report in a few Indian media outlets that the BCCI's decision not to support Howard stemmed from the current BCCI leaderships' desire to stick it to Sharad Pawar! And Gideon Haigh, a reputed and thorough journalist, fell for that piece of unfounded and ill-informed junk? The initial story quoted no source nor attribution. Nor did it have a basis. It was a story that I read and discarded. Gideon Haigh must perhaps learn to develop a few filters, especially when reading Indian media — most of whom are story tellers who look at the phrase "breaking story" and pay more attention to the word "story" than the word "breaking"!
Leadership by the BCCI has minimal role to play here in this, in my view.
There was, in my view, a leadership vacuum in Australia and New Zealand when the choice of John Howard was made. I could have predicted this outcome the day John Howard was put up as a choice.
Indeed, let us have a look at what our own Soundar Iyer wrote on i3j3cricket after a conversation with Gideon Haigh. Soundar writes that in the view of Haigh, the decision to back John Howard "largely revolved around the relative merits of each candidate pertinent to their ability to handle the behemoth that was the BCCI. The view was that Howard, the wily politician that he was, was probably the best equipped. Time will tell."
Time did tell.
An alternative view to that which Gideon Haigh formed above — when he laid the blame for the Howard-shafting on BCCI's doorstep — could be that the BCCI perhaps showed immense leadership and foresight by saying:
We know Australia and New Zealand have selected a candidate that has been expressly chosen to shaft us,
We know that that choice is bad because South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka have enough gripes to reject the man without us getting involved in the scrum,
We will openly show our support for the choice,
We will then protect our relationship with Australia and New Zealand by watching as this terrible choice is torn down by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka!
Unfortunately, if the above hypothesis is correct, the BCCI did nothing more than protecting its self-interest! Protecting self-interest is not wrong in itself. After all, look at what England and Australia did in the formative years of cricket! Moreover, everyone looks after their self-interest.
What is wrong is putting self-interest so high that the game itself is compromised or ruined in the process.
The latter would happen if John Howard was the only human being left in Australia and New Zealand! The last time I looked though, despite negative growth rates, New Zealand and Australia do still have a few people left! I am sure one of them would be an acceptable candidate — and even a strong candidate — for the whole of the ICC. Indeed, before Australia pushed hard for John Howard, New Zealand wanted to pursue John Anderson — former chairman of the New Zealand board and a terrific cricket administrator. Surely, he would have been elected unanimously and we would not have had to assess whether the Australian people had been viscously insulted and victimized!
Therefore, in my view, the mistake lies not in the doorstep of the BCCI or Sri Lanka. The mistake was in the choice of John Howard who had perhaps made many an enemy in the cricketing world.
That said, the ICC, sunk to new lows because it showed again that it is political, moribund and powerless.
The saddest thing about this episode is that it is a clear signal that cricket is divided with England, Australia and New Zealand on one side and with India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh on the other and with South Africa and West Indies developing collective sore backsides from time to time! Despite strong and stellar attempts by Australia, and in particular, James Sutherland, in recent times, the trust deficit exists.
As Sambit Bal says,
But in recent years cricket seemed to have moved away from post-colonial angst into the lap of naked capitalism. Self-interest remained the guiding principle, but alliances based on commerce rather than race seemed far more palatable. The use of the term Asian Bloc – it had a pejorative ring to it – became rarer as India and Australia, the richest board and the strongest team, moved closer.
It's premature to proclaim an official split or speculate what immediate impact it will have on global cricket, but on the Howard issue it was evident who stood where. Australia and New Zealand stood by their nominated candidate, and they had only England by their side."
So why is Howard's rejection at the ICC table wrong? And why do I think the ICC is moribund?
Any candidate is owed the duty of care and the dignity of feedback in any transparent election process. If they are not selected they need to understand why they were not chosen. The only feedback that John Howard will have received, as Sambit Bal has noted, is from the Sri Lankan Board that stated openly that they did not rate Howards' sport administration skills!
On dear! Really! A man who led a country cannot run a cricket board? Clearly then, Sri Lanka rates Sharad Pawar's sport administration skills highly. They probably took one good look at him asleep at the wheel while Lalit Modi diddled the IPL books and decided that Sharad Pawar ought to receive their backing! Right!
Clearly, the reason offered by Sri Lanka has much to do with wool and eyes. But at least Sri Lanka offered a reason; albeit one that cannot be countered or defended in such a process. The rest of the members in the cast played some back room games, cast their vote and moved on with the same disdain that England and Australia used to dish out when the only cricket that mattered was that which the two of them played!
Roles have reversed. The owners of the despicable attitudes have changed. Cricket stumbles through darkness yet again!
As Sambit Bal writes, these actions "threaten to drag cricket back to the age of acrimony and mistrust."
Posted in Australia, Cricket
Tagged Australia, BCCI, Cricket, Howard, ICC, John Howard, Sri Lanka
India v SL :: 1st Test… a Dull Draw
Posted on 21 November 2009 by mohankaus | 1 comment
India and Sri Lanka played out a dull and boring draw in the 1st Test on a pitch which may not have yielded a result had the teams played on it for 10 days!
So while we have the #2 and #3 ranked teams in the world and while we have both eyeing the #1 spot, the BCCI prepared a wicket on which there was absolutely no chance of a result.
While the ICC is powerless to do anything about it, it is the BCCI has to take responsibility for this sordid preparation — it is the home team that is responsible for pitch-preparation. Then again, at a time when the ODI game and the T20 version top up coffers that are already brimming, the BCCI has little interest in making Test cricket more compelling — despite the rhetoric about the sactity of Test cricket mouthed by everyone from the President to the Secretary to the watchman! It is in BCCI's interest to kill off Test cricket! Moreover, contracts with TV companies in India are written in such a manner as to force games to go into the last day. The TV deal has been struck on the basis of the number of days of TV coverage of Test matches and not on the basis of the number of Test matches! So, it is in BCCI's interest to prolong Test matches to the last ball of the last day of all Test matches. And, in order to be fail-safe, why would they not let all matches go beyond the last ball of the last day of Test matches? I would, if I was given such a contract and was asked by my boss to maximise revenues with such a "dud deal"!
That is, if I were also short-sighted.
Unfortunately, short-sightedness seems to be a pre-requisite for a BCCI post!
Dileep Premachandran writes about the high percentage of draws in the flat pitchers of India, when compared to result-oriented pitches presented in countries like Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. They are focussed on becoming the best team in the world. The BCCI is focussed on being the richest in the world. Misplaced priorities.
Meanwhile, neither team can draw much from the match — apart from the draw that is!
After the first session of the Test, no bowler really had a good outing in this game! It was nice to see Zaheer Khan back in action. He seemed to bowl with fire and accuracy. Ishant Sharma is bowling well but needs a pitch that does something. Harbhajan Singh tried his hardest and Amit Mishra just landed it. The one worry might be Amit Mishra's lack of penetration. If the Kanpur pitch has a tinge of grass on it, I will not be surprised to see Sree Santh ahead of Amit Mishra. Despite the wobbly start, the Indian batsmen were excellent. It was nice to see Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, M. S. Dhoni, Viernder Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar and V. V. S. Laxman get amongst the runs for India.
Sri Lanka had a terrific outing too. But neither team emerged better than the other.
This was just a terribly boring game. Hope there is more on offer in Kanpur. However, that would depend completely on the BCCI!
Tagged Cricket, India, Sri Lanka, Test
India win Compaq Cup
Posted on 15 September 2009 by mohankaus | 12 comments
An undercooked Team India, which was coming out of a long lay-off and with a few star players (Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan) injured, won the Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka after beating the hosts in a close game in the Finals.
India's win came on the back of Sachin Tendulkar's 44th ODI Ton and owed thanks to Harbhajan Singh's 3rd 5-wicket haul!
For the first time, in my view, India got her batting order right. Dinesh Karthik, who killed off his Test career on India's last tour of Sri Lanka, probably did much the same to his ODI career in the first two games that he played in the Compaq Cup. I reiterate that I have nothing against the lad. He is a good player and more power to him. However, when it comes to crunch situations, he repeatedly fails to deliver. Prior to the start of the series, I had predicted that he would carry drinks for India. Thanks to Gautam Gambhir's injury and Team India's muddled thinking, Karthik was asked to open in the first two ODIs. He failed in both. Further, his batting meant that Sachin Tendulkar had to change his style of play.
In yesterdays' game, Tendulkar opened with Rahul Dravid, whose stability allowed Tendulkar to play the way he normally does — really well and freely.
The other change that I have yelled for was for captain M. S. Dhoni to walk in at the fall of the first wicket. In yesterdays' game, he did so and the change was remarkable. He brought a calm solidity to the batting. Although he fell just when things were starting to get interesting (when the batting PowerPlay was taken), he had built a solid foundation to India's innings by the time he left.
In the end, thanks to that foundation, although I thought India floundered a bit between overs 40-45, the score was respectable and good.
That Sri Lanka gave that total a real shake is a credit to their emergence as a strong ODI team these days. I do like the look of the Sri Lanka team. The team has some excellent bowlers and with the rapid strides made of late by Samaraweera, Kandamby and Dilshan — not to mention his now famous DilScoop — the batting looks strong too, especially when you consider the experience provided by Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardane.
In the end, India emerged winners. The margin of victory (46 runs) might seem comfortable. However, India did have some scares, not to mention poor fielding and dropped catches. India needs to do more work in these departments before it can think of laying a fingerprint on the Champions Trophy.
However, it was nice to see Harbhajan Singh get a 5-fer with good bowling and not the spear-em-in sort that he normally resorts to in ODIs. This bodes well for India in the season ahead.
Tagged Compaq Cup, Cricket, Dhoni, Harbhajan, India, Sri Lanka, Tendulkar
Compaq Cup — Sri Lanka, NZ, India
And so, after a long break from cricket (and i3j3cricket.com) in which there were a few sporadic games (and posts), we are back into a busy period of cricket (and posts) for India (and i3j3)!
The season commences with the Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka between New Zealand, Sri Lanka and India. The first game of the 4-match series resulted in a Samaraweera-inspired win for Sri Lanka over New Zealand.
The India Team is in Sri Lanka and is eyeing the #1 ODI spot, which India will make if it manages to win all 3 games in the Compaq Cup.
The Corporate Cup in India will have helped dust the cobwebs in the minds and bodies of the players. A few of the players did get to match fitness with some important scores. Suresh Raina made some runs and so did M. S. Dhoni and Rahul Dravid. R. P. Singh and Ishant Sharma bowled well in patches. So with all of that done and dusted, the real action commences. Unfortunately for the Team India fan, the next few months is going to be a sequence of ODIs!
The team is a good one, in my view.
The batting is good and strong. One might have mounted an argument for Rohit Sharma. But in all fairness Rohit, like Uthappa, does need to do some work on his own. It isn't quite about ability or talent. It is really about rising to the big occasion. Perhaps it is more a question mental toughness than anything else.
The batting has a settled and set feel to it and offers tremendous flexibility as well as depth. The openers may as well pad up now! There is no questioning who will open the innings! There are a few questions though: (a) will both all-rounders play? (b) will Rahul Dravid play? (c) will Suresh Raina play? (d) what will Dhoni's batting position be?
I am certainly glad to see Abhishek Nayar and Yusuf Pathan there in the team. In my view, both of these must play and so must Rahul Dravid. And in what must be a somewhat radical suggestion, I recommend that Suresh Raina competes with Rahul Dravid for a spot and both of them bat way low in the batting order, behind the big hitters and even the all rounders. Dravid has the finishing ability and so does Raina. In my view, Raina's talent is wasted at #3 and it would be best if Dhoni occupies that spot. Dhoni's big hitting talent is wasted at #5 or #6.
In terms of bowling, I feel that both Praveen Kumar and Ishant Sharma are automatic picks and in all probability they will open the bowling. Ashish Nehra and R. P. Singh might compete for the 3rd pace bowlers spot. With Amit Mishra unlikely to shake off Harbhajan Singh's hold on the spinners' slot, the 4th main bowler's spot is also taken. There are plenty of options for the 5th bowler's spot with Yusuf Pathan, Abhishek Nayar, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina (if he plays) vying for an over or two!
The team also has competition in the drinks waiter department! Karthik is my first choice followed by Amit Mishra!
Is this team capable of taking the #1 spot by winning all 3 games? Possibly. But, given the lack of match practice, I won't be holding my breath.
In my view, it is all a bit of fun and games!
My team:
Abhishek Nayar
Rahul Dravid / Suresh Raina
Ashish Nehra / R. P. Singh
DRINKS: Dinesh Karthik / Amit Mishra
So, let the season begin and here's looking forward to more posts on i3j3cricket!
Tagged Compaq Cup, Dravid, India, New Zealand, Raina, Sri Lanka
Sad day for Pakistan, cricket and cricket fans
Posted on 3 March 2009 by blogesh | 1 comment
Pakistan cricket was already in tatters. Controversy seemed to follow it like a shadow - Drug scandals. Match fixing scandals. Dressing room spats. Ball tampering claims. The Oval fiasco. Bob Woolmer's death. Financial problems and Political issues. The list goes on. Sure, other teams have had their share of controversies, but nothing like the sort Pakistan have had.
And now this – The visiting Sri Lankan cricket team being the target of terrorist attacks in Pakistani soil. Like India, the sport is said to be revered in Pakistan. With these attacks, that claim comes into question. Imran Khan once said that cricketers would never be under any threat from terrorists –
…cricketers would never be under any threat from terrorists. Reason is that the terrorists rely on support from the masses because that's where they get their recruits and cricket is a game which is so loved and there's such passion in Pakistan, that the terrorists know that if a cricket match is bombed, they've had it. I mean the public will just turn against them.
He will have to eat his words now. Before the start of the tour, Javed Mianded, the former Director General of PCB, said –
…we want to prove to the world that Pakistan is safe and secure for cricket
The exact opposite has happened and the message has gone out that Pakistan is no longer safe for cricket.
Many countries have already been refusing to tour Pakistan. The ICC Champions Trophy was also called off. And now with this incident, Pakistan being a co-host to the 2011 WC will come under serious scrutiny. In fact, it will take a few years before another team even decides to tour Pakistan and local papers have already started writing obituaries for International Cricket in Pakistan.
Before we start talking about the future, let us spare a thought for the people with were killed and injured in the incident. My heartfelt condolences to all those who were affected.
This is really a sad day for Pakistan, cricket and cricket fans around the world…
Tagged Cricket, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Terror
India challenge ODI #1 spot…
Posted on 8 February 2009 by mohankaus | 5 comments
Today's ODI games between Sri Lanka & India and Australia & New Zealand have become a land-grab for the top spot on the ICC ODI table.
As a result of the recent brilliance of South Africa in both Tests and ODIs (combined with an unusually long-spell of lackadaisical play by the Australians) the top spots on the ICC rankings table in both Tests and ODIs represents a tightly bunched group.
The ICC ODI Rankings Table has South Africa on 125 points, India on 122, Australia 3rd on 121 and New Zealand 4th on 117.
It has been a while since the rankings table was this closely grouped. I have a feeling that things are going to remain this way for a while now — perhaps even till the World Cup in 2011. There is little that separates these top-4 teams. And this can only be good for the ODI form of cricket — a form that, I feel, needs a kick in the backside to ward off the threat from the more exciting Twenty20 format — especially with the excitement that is being generated by the IPL these days.
Given the closely packed nature of the rankings table, the two ODI games that are being played today take on a special significance. If India and New Zealand win, it would be the first time since rankings commenced that India will occupy the top spot on the table. I suspect that this occupation will be short-lived. But if India does make it there, it will be a huge credit to M. S. Dhoni (captain) and Gary Kirsten (coach).
India, however, appears still intent on blooding some of its bench-players. With a view to the longer-term, it is imperative that India has players like Ravindra Jadeja, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma and L. Balaji match-hardened and sharp.
As I said earlier, it is likely that the next year or so will see the ODI rankings move and slip a fair bit between these top four teams. So a capture of the top spot for a few days or even a few weeks will be neither here nor there. What should be more important for the India fan is how Team India shapes up towards the 2011 World Cup!
After the comprehensive recent victory against Sri Lanka in the 4th ODI even with a team that did not include Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan — its talismen in batting and bowling respectively — it is likely that Team India will continue with its strategy of resting one or two key players for todays' last game of the series.
It appears that the team is not too keen to rest more than 2 "key players" for each match. For the previous match, Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan earned a rest. For this 5th ODI, it appears that Yusuf Pathan and Pragyan Ojha are the ones that got a tap on the shoulder.
With that in mind, it is likely that Team India for the 5th ODI against Sri Lanka will be:
Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan, L Balaji, Ishant Sharma.
It would be great for Jadeja and Balaji to get a game. I really like the look of Jadeja. He followed up a good IPL outing with a strong domestic season and has continued to impress everyone. He gets an opportunity to strut his stuff on the big stage now. After a few years in the wilderness, Balaji get an opportunity to once again walk on the big stage. His career too received a boost in the IPL theatre. He too followed it up with a strong domestic season and gets a well-deserved call to the India team.
Despite picking a few wickets, Irfan Pathan did have a bad game in the 4th ODI and will be keen to put that behind him. Sanath Jayasuriya took to him like a duck would to water. Although it may be tempting to drop him for Yusuf Pathan in the above team list, I think it would be good for Irfan Pathan to get another match to get his game back in shape.
Tagged Balaji, India, Indian Cricket, Irfan Pathan, ODI, Ravindra Jadeja, Sri Lanka, Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan
India march on as Australia falter
India recorded its second straight victory against Sri Lanka on Saturday. Thus India has won its last 7 ODs (five against England and now, the first two ODI's against Sri Lanka).
Meanwhile, Australia's recent "free fall" has continued as the recently dethroned ODI champion team lost narrowly to New Zealand. Australia has now lost 5 of its last 6 ODIs.
Ricky Ponting had a horror 2008. Yet, early signs are that, in comparison to 2009, perhaps 2008 was a good year for him! Already, he has lost the Test series and an ODI to a rampant and attractive South Africa. He has now lost an ODI at Perth. Since that infamous game at the SCG in early-2008, Australia has lost 2 Tests (to India and South Africa) and 2 ODIs (to South Africa and New Zealand). In that period, Australia has beaten Sri Lanka at Perth in an ODI. These are poor returns indeed! After last nights' game, Ponting has had to defend his wicket-keeper was was accused by Vettori of being less than above board!
We live in interesting times!
India's game against Sri Lanka at the Premadasa stadium was closer than the first ODI.
Once again, Sachin Tendulkar got a shocker of a decision. Yuvraj Singh was also given out off a huge inside edge! After he was given out, Yuvraj Singh appeared to mouth, "Heck! I played the ball!" leading me to comment that he would be hauled up in front of the Match Referee! He was after Gamini Silva (the Sri Lankan umpire who sent him packing) and Brian Jerling (Silva's colleague) and third umpire Kumar Dharmasena (former Sri Lankan player, who sent Sachin Tendulkar packing in the 1st ODI) charged Yuvraj Singh for dissent under Level 1.3 of the ICC CoC. However, Referee Chris Broad let Yuvraj Singh off.
"After reviewing video evidence of the incident, I am of the opinion that there was no conclusive evidence that Yuvraj showed dissent at the decision," said Broad.
Clearly Chris Broad has been smoking that stuff again! If that wasn't dissent, I am banana!
The Indian batting faltered and went through in bits and spurts to reach 256. In the end, I felt the the total was about 30 runs shy of a defendable target. But Sri Lanka made it into a good total by showing India that they could do better at fits-and-starts than India could!
The Indian innings suffered from the two erroneous umpiring decisions and also two bad run outs. Virender Sehwag took Muralitharan on in the field and lost out. At that time, Sehwag, who was toying with the bowling, had reached 42 off just 26 balls! He was on course for a big one and one felt that only Sehwag could get Sehwag out. Sehwag did get Sehwag out! Yusuf Pathan was also run out by a strange call from Dhoni, who seemed to admonish Pathan in the previous over for not being responsive in backing-up. India stumbled to 256 in the 50 overs.
I felt that it would require, both, a terrific bowling effort and some help from Sri Lanka for India to win the game. India got both and in the end, despite a fighting 93 from Kandamby, the wheels fell off the Sri Lanka bus. Praveen Kumar and Ishant Sharma bowled brilliantly to halt the Sri Lankans. The other bowlers contributed effectively. India won the game with 15 runs to spare!
I feel India played its best combination at the moment. However, I still have concerns over Pragyan Ojha's place in the team. If he is only going to be used 5-7 overs in each game, would the team not be better off with either Irfan Pathan — who would give you more overs of pace and some runs with the bat — or even Ravidra Jadeja? Although it is disappointing to see a player like Rohit Sharma not get a chance, I feel that Suresh Raina just pips him at the post in the ODI format.
Tagged India, Irfan Pathan, Jadeja, ODI, Rohit Sharma, Sehwag, Sri Lanka, Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh
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Many entrepreneurs registering their company, think what legal form they choose. In this article we will discuss the advantages of registering LLC. To be precise: the advantages of registration Ltd. Official site: Bill de Blasio. before the JSC. Joined LLC is more simple and cheap. By itself, the registration of limited liability company and Company for the time not very long – up to 5 working days. But from the Company is required to issue and registration of the shares, and it extended for month wait.
Registration does not require the Company to register securities issue. The registration of a company will be more acceptable and the amount of paid registration fee. And yet, in contrast to the company, the registration allows the company to continue to simplified procedures to reduce or increase the authorized capital. In the case of a company need for such procedures can also be, but the changes will be difficult. Next time – a question the integrity of the company, its profits and share capital.
Registration ensures the security company more business: the buying and selling shares LLC must now certify the notary. Against "the principle of maximum preservation of the internal Information: registration LLC – an option where you'll be relieved from the obligation to publish information about the company's register of shareholders, etc. At the same time, the company – still a serious and substantial organization. Limited size of business risk in relation to the registration company simultaneously provides features such as the establishment of their units, attracting investments, participation in other business associations. Thus, registration of limited liability implies good prospects for growth. Part of the company can afford to go and USN (simplified tax system). List of documents required for registration of the LLC, are available in many specialized sites, but this is just background information. In practice, registration of company shall fully and completely with the help of lawyers that solve the fundamental and technical questions.


Glee co-stars Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are going to be roomies!
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Q: Python 2.7 + flask wrong storing to DB I'm trying to have web form for inserting latitude, longitude, message and date/time to DB using Python 2.7 and flask framework. Unfortunately it is not properly stored in the DB and I'm getting crazy as I cannot find bug in my code.
having this:
from datetime import datetime
from flask import Flask
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

app = Flask(__name__)

app.config.from_pyfile('conf.cfg')
db = SQLAlchemy(app)

# create DB structure
class Sprava(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'spravy'
    id = db.Column('spravy_id', db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    lat = db.Column(db.Float)
    lon = db.Column(db.Float)
    text = db.Column(db.String)
    pub_date = db.Column(db.DateTime)

    def __init__(self, lat, lon, text):
        self.lat = lat
        self.lat = lon
        self.text = text
        self.pub_date = datetime.utcnow()

@app.route('/')
@app.route('/hello')

# index page
def index():
    return 'Hello sledovanie'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

# web form
from flask import Flask, request, flash, url_for, redirect, render_template, abort

@app.route('/sledovanie', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def new():
    if request.method == 'POST':
            sprava = Sprava(request.form['lat'], request.form['lon'], request.form['text'])
            db.session.add(sprava)
            db.session.commit()
            return redirect(url_for('index'))
    return render_template('sledovanie.html')

When I fill in the web form or during debugging using this simple piece of code:
z = Sprava('1', '2', 'text_i')
db.session.add(z)
db.session.commit()

It will not get it to the DB (psql_9.2) correctly. This what is stored into database:
 spravy_id | lat | lon |  text  |          pub_date
-----------+-----+-----+--------+----------------------------
         1 |   2 |     | text_i | 2014-08-03 17:02:43.829942

Id is OK
lat is lon
lon is missing
text OK
date OK
Can you see what I'm doing wrong?

A: Your __init__ has a typo.
self.lat = lat
self.lat = lon

You see the problem above ? Also, due to this typo, you are not setting self.lan at all.
Obviously, this is probably a typo you have and you know the fix. But just in case, you need to do
def __init__(self, lat, lon, text):
    self.lat = lat
    self.lon = lon
    self.text = text
    self.pub_date = datetime.utcnow()

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In honor of Earth Week, I decided to find out how spring looks to some of my favorite sites (and people) around the web. These are some amazing photos they were generous enough to share with me.
Melissa Hincha-Ownby is a lifelong writer. Her writing career started at 13 when she wrote a weekly column in her small town's newspaper. For the past three years, Melissa has focused on blogging and other online writing venues. She is the Business Blogger at the Mother Nature Network and the owner of Raising Them Green, a blog dedicated to providing parents information to help them raise eco-conscious children. Melissa shared a photo of her two children taken by their Grandpa.
Take some time today to connect with nature. Take a walk, notice a budding leaf, marvel at a bird in flight and share the wonder and magic of the outdoors with a child.
How does spring look in your corner of the world?
Melissa Hincha-Ownby is a lifelong writer. Her writing career started at 13 when she wrote a weekly column in her small town's newspaper. For the past three years, Melissa has focused on blogging and other online writing venues. She is the Business Blogger at the Mother Nature Network and the owner of Raising Them Green, a blog dedicated to providing parents information to help them raise eco-conscious children.
How do you make your day-to-day life a little greener?
Making my day-to-day life a little greener all comes down to planning. When going out to run errands, I plan the trip so that I can get all of my errands done in a single trip. If I know that I have an appointment coming up later in the week, I'll plan my errands for that day. Unfortunately I live in a sprawling metropolis with no mass transit options within 20 miles of my home. So, I have to rely on personal transportation. In order to minimize the amount of driving I do, I simply plan my trips. This is just one of the ways that planning helps me reduce my impact on the environment.
You created the wonderful website Raising Them Green to help parents raise eco-conscious children. Why do you feel this is important?
I hope that what is a thought-out process for me and other parents my age will be instinctual for our children. In other words, I have to think about what type of products to buy, I have to think about what effect a choice I make now will have later on, etc. As parents, if we lead by example, these choices will be inherent for our children. They will have grown up with the natural ability to think about the environmental impact of their day-to-day choices.
In addition to Raising Them Green, you also blog about green business at Mother Nature Network. How has the business community changed during the last couple of years in regards to embracing a more sustainable business model?
I think that the business community, as a whole, has embraced the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Today, you see companies publishing their carbon footprints online, publicizing the environmental impact of their products, and focusing on energy efficiency in their buildings (among other things). Although businesses, in general, have come a long way in the past several years they still have a long road ahead of them. If we, as consumers, continue to push for the CSR focus then companies will have no choice but to respond.
You are an eco-friendly vehicle expert. And, as the lead writer at The Green Motorist, you are on the cutting edge of all the new technology coming out. What would be your dream eco-vehicle (and why)?
My dream eco vehicle is the Tesla Model S. Although I am a sports car girl at heart, the Tesla Roadster two-seater is not the best "mom" car. Thankfully, the brilliant minds at Tesla have the Model S slated for release in 2011. The vehicle seats seven, has a 300 mile range, has a large cargo area, and it can go 0-60 mph in under six seconds. This is the perfect mix of family size vehicle, sports car-like speed, and an eco-friendly electric engine.
We Made It. We Need to Clean It Up.


Solid horror film starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as the unfortunate parents of the Anti-Christ. With Patrick Troughton as a priest and David Warner as a paparazzi who discovers dark premonitions in his photographs and tries to warn Peck. Several of its horror scenes have become iconic, including a spectacular beheading. Weakened only by the lack of a clear antagonist: Damien, the boy, behaves mostly like any other five year old kid, leaving it to the Devil himself to work his evil from off-screen. Greatly superior to the novelization, also written by David Seltzer.


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There's nothing worse than wet shoes in a race car. It's the reason why you see racers dangling their feet out of the car asking if someone can squeegee off the bottoms before a wet race. Wet shoes are miserable. Fortunately, Pirelli World Challenge racer Kévin Estre has this problem figured out.
The series is waiting until 11:00 AM to decide if they're racing on the wet Belle Isle Grand Prix course today. While the rain in Detroit isn't particularly heavy, it is a street course, and street courses tend to have poor drainage.
Update: Race 11 has been cancelled due to the wet conditions.


Next review Lazada Philippines - Long overdue order.
Good day, it happen that i wasn't here in house when lazada delivered the item COD, so icheck why my contact number and i entered it wrong. What is the contact number of LELEXPRESS in Cagayan de Oro City.
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Ga expect pd mi april 13 to 19.. diri muabot pero di jd makaya sa amo schedule na naa mi ana april 13 nga date which is gahapon lang sabado.....karon domingo wala...cancelled na wa pa jd trabaho opisina ron.....pero kung gahapon ra mo nanawag ug walay nitubag...ngano na cancel man dayun....kahayahay ba ninyo mu cancel ra dayun kay di mo ka contact sa inyong panahon...unsay pasabot ana 13 to 19 karon?
naka track man gud ako order..
diri ra sa Pilipinas nipalya..lost by delivery partner on April 13 nakabutang..kabalo pd unta mo mutx kay para muregister inyo numero ug maka call back me..is it very hard to think of other ways when it is ur job? Adtuon na lang tamo ugma..just to check.....asa ang problema....gadungag dungag ra trabahuunon da .Palihog check....apilyido Lua LPT 0000011404055 Order status tracking #226502685704616.
Nganong inyong e returned to sender akong parcel nga wla may nagdeliver.tapolan na inyong rider.impossible karon pa gali niabot sa cdo ugma april 11 nko expected ma receive kron pag check nko naka returned to sender nakinahanglan kaayo nko na palihug naa may mobile no. Nganong dimo kabalo motawag or text.maypa ang laing logistic mokontak gyud sa receiver.
Ano na status sa parcel ko po? SO0024432002 sabi e ddliver na bakit wala pa?
Pls deliver my order With tracking number SO0025833994, my previous number was 09355641432 was lost and this is my new number 09066935349. I really need that I already paid for that!
My items got delivered last feb 26 at 2:28pm it was signed by an unknown person. Im wondering where my parcel when in fact im at home that time. Please may i know your contact number lex ph cdo?
My name jenelyn agbalog Tracking number so0021551830. Dalawang items yan bakit isa lng dumatinh sakin eh dalawa naka lagay na babayaran ko. Please deliver it kasi Hindi akin yun for my sister tas ganito lang.
Please kindly check the items before deliver because I'm wasting my money for uncomplete order. Nasainyo nyong items tas isa lang deliver I paying you ng maayos wlng kabis walng kulang.
Nag order ako ng dalawang items and na email sakin na nasa logistic nayong orders ko .tapus nadeliliver na bakit kulang ng isa. Dalawa yong binayaran ko na items bakit missing isa I'm really disappointed this I hope na madeliver nayong isang items ko.
Lex ph. Please you delivered my parcel wrong item.
Please contact my number 09268371482.
I would like to return this. I'm in Cagayan de Oro City.
Gud day..i am shareenn mae biboso from cagayan de oro city..i ordered a tv from lazada and traced this tracking # LPT0000006051752 that my parcel has already arrive here in CDO at LEX PH CDO but returned the said parcel back to the sender because it is said that multiple attempts to deliver was not successful. I dont understand why unsuccessful when infact im always at home and my cp# and home address was there at LAZADA.
Please call or text me upon delivering.
My complete address: Biboso Residence, Zone 8, Cugman, Cagayan de oro City Mobile #: 09264300077 I would like to request LEX CDO # or complete address please. Thank you..
ang tamad ng LEX hindi naman tumawag tapos nalaman mo lang return to sender nalang.. buti oa ung shoppee at ninja van..
Here is my tracking number SO0015379910 It was shown in your system Delivered 18 Dec 2018 but i didnt receive this parcel. Can you please look after this...If this was delivered can you please show me the signed receipt.
or call me to this number 09159533055.. i need answer!!!
Hello I ordered something in lazada and nobody was able to recieve my item last november 29,2018. It's under the name Jayn Amor V.
LEX has very poor delivery service.
Ano ba to LAZADA!!!!!!!!! next year paba ma dedeliver yong order namin?!!!!!!!!!!


Everyone knows Iraq is a dangerous place for a reporter, volunteer or an American and it does not matter if you are a soldier, businessman or volunteer. If you are a woman, well even more so, as Western women do not follow the norms of their culture there in the Arab world.You know if someone is working for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq, running around with a cross on them and talking about Jesus, and I do not know if she was or not, but I would assume she would be instantly identified as a target.
She is lucky she is still amongst the living. I will not however buy the book, as it seems to me that is pretty flagrant in your face attitude which caused her to be a target, now then I have no use for international terrorists believe me, we need to rid the planet of all of them and anyone who would kidnap or behead or any of that nonsense.However I think a national debate on the flip side of this issue is worthy discussion. Glad she came back in one piece we do not need any more statistics or national tragedy figures.
We have a huge culture clash going on in the world and feeding the fire with in your face, here I am attitudes is going to get more Americans and Westerners killed until that society and civilization comes to grips with the new Free Iraq.Things are much different now without Saddam and some are not exactly able to cope with it all. We should not expect everything to be perfectly US like in the interim, nor should we be pushing our limits.
Jill Carroll pushed those limits, should we be all that surprised at what happened there to her? Consider this in 2006.


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Jean Simmons, nome artístico de Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (Londres, 31 de janeiro de 1929 — Santa Mônica, 22 de janeiro de 2010), foi uma atriz britânica.

Biografia
Filha de um antigo atleta olímpico e instrutor de ginástica, Charles Simmons, e de sua esposa Winifred Ada, Jean Simmons teve uma infância feliz num subúrbio da classe operária de Londres, onde estudou na Orange Hill School para Moças, em Golders Green.

Quando do início da 2ª Guerra Mundial, em 1939, Jean e seus irmãos mais velhos, Edna, Harold e Lorna, foram para Somerset. Em 1943, ela retornou a Londres onde, juntamente com a irmã Edna, matriculou-se na Ada Foster School of Dance. Duas semanas depois, o produtor cinematográfico Val Guest esteve na escola à procura de uma jovem para interpretar o papel da filha adolescente de Margaret Lockwood, no filme Give Us The Moon, de 1944. Embora não tivesse experiência, Jean ganhou o papel e deixou o produtor impressionado com seu talento instintivo. Depois de atuar em pequenos papéis, seu trabalho em The Way to the Stars (título BR: O Caminho das Estrelas), de 1945, chamou a atenção do produtor Gabriel Pascal, que lhe ofereceu um contrato de sete anos com o J. Arthur Rank Studio. Assim, aos 16 anos de idade, ela fez o papel de uma harpista no filme britânico de Pascal, Caesar and Cleopatra (BR:César e Cleópatra), protagonizado por Vivien Leigh. No mesmo ano, o cineasta britânico David Lean colocou-a no papel de Estella, na adaptação para o cinema da obra de Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (BR: Grandes Esperanças).

Em 1950, Jean Simmons foi eleita a mais popular estrela do cinema britânico. No outono daquele mesmo ano, viajou aos Estados Unidos para promover Trio, uma coletânea de três contos de Somerset Maugham, na qual ela atuava, sendo escolhida pela revista Life para aparecer numa de suas capas. Poucas semanas depois, Jean voltou aos Estados Unidos, desta vez para estrelar seu primeiro filme americano, Androcles and the Lion (BR: Androcles e o Leão), ao lado de Victor Mature.

O pico de sua carreira ocorreu em 1960, ao participar de três grandes produções: Spartacus, Entre Deus e o Pecado e Do Outro Lado, o Pecado. Durante os anos 80, passou a dar maior atenção à televisão, aparecendo num grande número de séries e filmes feitos para a TV.

Em 1986 esteve internada no Betty Ford Center, em Rancho Mirage, Califórnia, para tratamento de alcoolismo, voltando em seguida às suas atividades na televisão. No cinema, voltou a aparecer em Star Trek: The Next Generation, de 1991, e em Colcha de Retalhos, de 1995, não abandonando, entretanto, seus trabalhos para a televisão.

Jean Simmons casou-se aos 21 anos com o ator Stewart Granger, de quem se divorciou oito anos depois, e com o cineasta Richard Brooks, em novembro de 1960, de quem se divorciou em 1977. Teve dois filhos, um de cada casamento.
Em 1994, foi agraciada com o título de Membro do British Film Institute.

Morreu no dia 22 de janeiro de 2010. Segundo sua agente, Jean sofria de câncer de pulmão. foi sepultada no Cemitério de Highgate, Londres.

Filmografia

 1944 - Give us the Moon
 1944 - Mr. Emmanuel
 1945 - Kiss the Bride Goodbye
 1945 - Meet Sexton Blake
 1945 - The Way to the Stars
 1945 - Caesar and Cleopatra
 1946 - Great Expectations
 1947 - The Woman in the Hall
 1947 - Uncle Silas
 1947 - Black Narcissus
 1947 - Hungry Hill
 1948 - Hamlet
 1949 - The Blue Lagoon
 1949 - Adam and Evelyne
 1950 - So Long at the Fair
 1950 - Cage of Gold
 1950 - Trio
 1951 - The Clouded Yellow
 1952 - Angel Face
 1952 - Androcles and the Lion
 1953 - Young Bess
 1953 - Affair with a Stranger
 1953 - The Robe
 1953 - The Actress
 1954 - She Couldn't Say No
 1954 - Demetrius and the Gladiators
 1954 - The Egyptian
 1954 - A Bullet Is Waiting
 1954 - Désirée
 1955 - Footsteps in the Fog
 1955 - Guys and Dolls
 1956 - Hilda Crane
 1957 - This Could Be the Night
 1957 - Until They Sail
 1958 - The Big Country

 1958 - Home Before Dark
 1959 - This Earth Is Mine
 1960 - Elmer Gantry
 1960 - Spartacus
 1960 - The Grass Is Greener
 1963 - All the Way Home
 1965 - Life at the Top
 1966 - Mister Buddwing
 1967 - Divorce American Style
 1967 - Rough Night in Jericho
 1968 - Heidi
 1969 - The Happy Ending
 1971 - Say Hello to Yesterday
 1975 - Mr. Sycamore
 1978 - The Dain Curse (TV)
 1978 - Dominique 1981 - A Small Killing (TV)
 1983 - The Thorn Birds (TV)
 1984 - December Flower (TV)
 1985 - Midas Valley (TV)
 1985 - Yellow Pages
 1985 - North and South
 1986 - North and South Book II
 1988 - The Dawning'
 1989 - Great Expectations
 1991 - Star Trek: The Next Generation
 1991 - Dark Shadows 1991 - They Do It With Mirrors
 1995 - How to Make an American Quilt
 1995 - Daisies in December (TV)
 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - (voz)
 2004 - Jean Simmons: Rose of England - (documentário)
 2004 - Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) - (voz)
 2005 - Through the Moebius Strip
 2008 - Shadows in the Sun
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Prêmio e indicações
 Recebeu uma indicação ao Oscar de Melhor Atriz, por "The Happy Ending" (1969).
 Recebeu 2 indicações ao Globo de Ouro de Melhor Atriz - Drama, por "Home Before Dark" (1958) e "The Happy Ending" (1969).
 Recebeu 2 indicações ao BAFTA de Melhor Atriz Estrangeira, por "Eles e Elas" (1955) e "Entre Deus e o Pecado" (1960).
 Recebeu 2 indicações ao Globo de Ouro de Melhor Atriz - Comédia/Musical, por "Eles e Elas" (1955) e "This Could Be the Night" (1957). Venceu por "Eles e Elas".
 Recebeu uma indicação ao Oscar de Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante, por "Hamlet" (1948).
 Recebeu uma indicação ao Globo de Ouro de Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante - Série/Mini-série/Filme para TV, por "Os Pássaros Feridos" (1983).
 Ganhou o Volpi Cup de Melhor Atriz no Festival de Veneza, por "Hamlet" (1948).

Ligações externas

Atores da Inglaterra
Globo de Ouro de melhor atriz em filme de comédia ou musical
Mortes por câncer de pulmão
Naturais de Londres
Atrizes premiadas no Festival de Veneza
Emmy do Primetime de melhor atriz secundária em minissérie ou telefilme
Coppa Volpi de melhor atriz
National Board of Review de melhor atriz

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