I am talking about none other than Mahendra Singh Dhoni, fondly called MS.
CAPTAIN COOL - MS DHONI
I think that would it make for a great comic book character which will be based on Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is a superhero with a bat. He is that- a superhero!! He is just so amazingly calm and yet so aggressive and has a perfect winning record under his captaincy. Some say he has got the midas touch. Well, lucky for us!! But also he is so cool and calm and composed and so positive. There is hardly anyone who does not like or appreciate Dhoni. Initially, some people criticized that he only did pinch hitting and that he was not really a fine batsman. Well , over the past many matches he has proved otherwise by scoring consistently. That pinch hitting is his strength should not be a problem. In him, India has got a wonderful gift. I am beginning to wonder if Indians are genetically gifted in cricket. The Britons, the inventors of the game have now been completely sidelined and are whining and complaining about the Indian ascendency on the cricket scence.
With IPL, we have just launched forward into the next tier of cricket and there will be no looking back now. Right now, it is all very positive and happening and looking good. With Dhoni at the helm, we can relax and leave it to his luck or demeanor or talent or whatever you call it. He will take us forward. He is our Captain Cool and we all love him.
He has been named the Man of the Match for the astonishing test match that India played against Australia. This match will be remembered for a lot of reasons. Of which, one of the bigger ones is the solidification of Dhoni on the test scene.
In India, there is no national religion except CRICKET. Yeah, we worship cricket here. And, there is a reason for that. Make that two, if you will. First, we are mad about cricket and second, it is only in Cricket where Indians dominate the world, more often than not, as splendidly as they did in Mohali Test against Australia. Our men in Blue wearing white though, made us extremely proud this last week. What a display of magnificence. Every one just shined and shined on and the Aussies got some bashing alright.
Sachin became the highest run scorer in the whole wide world ( Beat that!! ), Dada showed us why we love him and why he is so formidable, the Captain Cool was cool as usual and wielded his bat marvelously. Zaheer Khan came back with a vengeance, Ishant Sharma stood tall ( literally and figuratively ) and Amit Sharma made himself visible with a bang!! And I should not forget Gautam Gambhir and Bhajji .Super Performance and a knockout for Australia. Wonder what Symonds must be thinking?? Ponting is naturally disappointed. This was Australia’s heaviest Test defeat since April 1991, when West Indies had beaten them by 343 runs in Barbados. It was also only the tenth time in 96 matches since 2000 that Australia were bowled out for less than 200. [ source: cricinfo ]
It is only Team India which can get beaten in worst manner and yet turn around and beat the hell out of others. It was simply world class play at display and the fact that it was against Australia is the cherry on th cake or lets say the cake for the cherry. Oh, that is what makes us mad about cricket. It is the single most phenomena which can transport us Indians to the top of the world and above in a matter of days. Indian cricket makes us taste victory. It makes us feel proud. It makes us raise our heads after defeating the best, arguably.
Dhoni said he has never seen Australia being outplayed so much and he is damn right!! What with all the guns from our squad firing, and theirs a little rusted, Indian team did it. Now we have a lead of 1-0 in the series. Only if this could be maintained and India win the series to wash the stain of being defeated on the home ground by Australia after 20 something years, I would be max happy. But that is another thing with Team India, they are very very unexpected. The next thing we know, they could be miserably beaten in the next match.
However, the men in Blue have won some million more of admirers to the already billion numbered fan club.
Hoo Haa India, Jeetega India.
I love cricket!!
I love Sachin, Dhoni and Dada and others too but not so much. I want to write on them too but later.
Nobel prize for economics for the year 2008 has been awarded to Paul Krugman, an economics professor at Princeton and also a New York Times columnist. I have been reading the columns of Mr. Krugman for sometime now and knew that he was a very famous economist and busily engaged in analyzing the policy decisions of the US government. But, what I did not know was that he was also a professor and a highly regarded academician who has done some great work in the field of international trade and economic geography. I read some of his interviews today after getting the prize and one can tell, he is very very happy. It is nice to see that. He said he had been expecting a Nobel but not just now. Guess, he has a pretty good assessment of himself and the system. He gets an equivalent of $1.4 Million in Swedish Kroans. For a change, after quite long he is the single recipient of the award. For past many years, it was being awarded to more than one person.
In other award news, Arvind Adiga has won the Man Booker prize for his “The White Tiger” defeating Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie among others. Good for Indian fiction, I say. Now, more people will get their works eyeballed at least. I am still to read the book. Since it has won, I will too eyeball it once at least.
How good it must feel to get rewarded for a work which the world respects as high class. I think rewarding is a good practice and a never failing incentive at times. Award and recognition can act as great pushers. It is nice.
It is one heck of an ambitious project. To create a micro Big Bang and see what actually happened when the universe was born. How does antimatter vanish? How many dimensions are there? Where does mass come from? Higgs boson exists or not. Several other questions. I think it is a rare opportunity for all of us to witness such a fundamental research and that too at this grand a scale. I am waiting with bated breath for the conclusions to come forward.
The sheer scale of this project is mid boggling. The audacity shows that how desperate we are to unlock the ways of nature. Then there is THE GRID. The whole project is just awesome not only in entirety but even in its minutiae. Americans are sore about the fact that Europe has taken the lead and left them behind. I say, who cares, really. If you did not do it, fine, now look at what is going to happen and consider that if we could discover how big bang happened, how the world was made, what we live in, it will be enthralling. This is one of those experiments which humbles mankind if it succeeds.
And check out the summary in this fun “Large Hadron Rap song”
I am now creating a new category in my blog. It will be called “Trivia” and will contain posts about fun stuff and general knowledge that I keep learning with time. May be I will learn something so that I get to write some posts at least.
Ponting is naturally disappointed. This was Australia’s heaviest Test defeat since April 1991, when West Indies had beaten them by 
