If you are in India, no matter where you are, you can see some works going on in your area (like laying roads, etc.) at rocket speed. I really wonder what an intelluctual idiots these politicians are! Do they believe that only because they lay road in my area, I will vote of the alliance of the ruling party? This is bullshit. But still this will work out in the rural areas. People should be pretty analysing before they cast the vote. Especially educated people should defintely cast vote. But the big question is “For whom should I vote? I guy is bad. Another one is worse and the another is worst!”.
The final ODI between India and Pakistan was almost treated as a world cup final match. For the disappointment again, India lost the toss. I heard from someone that Ganguly has never won the toss against Pakistan and this is the 9th time Ganguly loses the toss to Pakistan. But for suprise, Inzamam put India to bat first. As usual now-a-days, Indian opening order failed to put a great start. Again the middle order played a sensible innings. Thanks to Lakshman who came into form in this match where it is needed. His strike rate was also above 100 unusually. When India put up 293 on the board, it seemed to be doable.
Balaji gave the early break through by dismissing Shabber, who was in a good form throughout the series. It was lack of foot work from Shabber. One remarkable thing in this match was umpire David Shepard's mistake in the dismissal of Yosuf Youhana. It was a rising delivery and had a minor edge on the bat. Well, to err is human. Sachin took a wonderful catch to dismiss Inzamam. In my lifetime, I never seen Sachin so excited. He knew how much Inzamam's wicket meant for Indian victory. That was really the turning point of the match. Once Inzamam is out, the result was decided and nothing much to impressive. But Pakistanis put a great effort in avoiding an embarrasing defeat.
Hats off to Indian team!
In-spite of the fact that Water Supply Board quenching the thirst of people, it also threaten the life of people who are passing by with two wheelers. Today, my friend Vijay Prasad got skit from his two wheeler near the Fore Shore Estate tank of WSB. The lorries that carry water from these tanks are highly irregular wasting almost 20% of the water on the roads which creates muddy roads nearby. A fortnight ago, the son of Film Director R. Sundararajan was dead due to the same sort of accident near the Valluvar Kottam water tank. Vijay managed to escape with some minor injuries. Some action should be taken against this issue! Will the Government look into this seriously?
After a long time, today I thought of viewing the full match between India and Pakistan. I felt things messed when India lost the toss for the fourth time to Pakistan. As expected for any day-night match, Inzamam opted to bat first. But Inzamam did not got a good support from his batsmen except himself and Hameed. At one stage I thougt Pakistan will put up something around 250 on the board. But Inzamam gave some splendid acceleration to the score (Thanks to Yuvaraj for his couple of overs that has a lot of wonderful short pitches).
When India started their innings chasing 294 which was greater than the average score 263 on Lahore, I thought it is going to be tough one. The statistics added to my fear. It was sorry to see Sachin failing again for a simple in-swinging delivery. The hope was really gone down. When the score was 90-4, I thought that some miracle should happen to make India win. That happened too. It was wonderful seeing a solid performance from the Indian vice-captain. Kaif gave him a good support. Even though Kaif struggled by a lot of inside edges and other thing, Dravid seemed to be rock solid and cool. Indian middle order proved it again. Thanks to the extras that were conceded by the Pakistani bowlers. Inzamam should look seriously into this. Hats off to Indian team!
Registered with Live Journal a.k.a. LJ. Thanks to Suraj for introducing this. I didn't have time to experiment more with LJ. Will do it later (may be this weekend)! Some of the recent photos that I shot are here.