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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
A tale of two matches
The first two matches between India and England have been great. In both the matches, the first day's play almost pushed one team in the corner and the other team dominated the whole match and most of the sessions. The first inning lead proved decisive in the end.
Also, both the matches showed that bowlers which were the weaknesses for both the teams had a much better than expected performance. The batting line up (except Indian first inning in the second test) has been off and on, with most batsman scoring runs but not consistently.
Lets dive in to the details. The first test started of with a sunny first day and after winning the toss English top order made merry of the sunny conditions and some inexperienced Indian bowling to score strong 268-4. The English domination (or I should Vaughan & Strauss domination as no one else score more than 40) of the day is moderated by two late wickets at the end of the day. The next morning overnight rain made the batting difficult and Indian bowlers put the ball in the right places (there goes the greatest cliche of bowling) to reduce England to under 300.
The rest of the match had bowlers dominating the batsman except when Kevin Peterson was batting. It was KP's brilliance in a 119 (25 overs) partnership with Mark Prior that put India against the wall. Had they not scored runs at such a fast pace, the match result would have been different. Just take back 45 runs and England would have not been able to set up and attacking field.
Scoring 380 runs in the 4th innings is always difficult, especially with the rain expected to curtail more than half the final day. So chances of India winning this match was almost nil. Unlike recent results, India held the fort for 96 overs just long enough to earn a last wicket draw albeit with some luck from weather and the umpires.
To be fair to the Indians, few of their top order players got some unlucky decision and who knows what would have happened had Dravid not being given out. I would say the test would still have been a draw, with much more even ending - something like India 320-7 with either team's victory possible rather than 285-9 with just English victory possible. Over all Enlisg team dominated most of the session with India winning some sessions due to bowling.
The second test was also decided by toss and weather. The first day damp playing field and conditions meant that the team batting first would be at a disadvantage. Dravid won the toss and put English in to bat. Indian bowler bowled beautifully to push English to 169-7. As expected this put English on the back foot and they were all out for 198 within the first hour of day 2.
This time Indian batting flourished to take a commanding lead of over the next two days of 280+ runs. With two days of sunny weather expected, this almost batted English out of the game with English win highly unlikely. English batsman (or should I say Vaughan and Strauss or may be Colly) played excellent cricket during the first two sessions of the fourth day.
Indian bowlers came down hard with the second new ball in the restricted English from 270-3 at the time the new ball was taken to 355 all out. A target of 73 would never have been difficult, but excellent bowling from Tremlett (12 for 3 in 7 overs) meant that India lost three wickets on the fifth day morning though they never looked like they would crumble. Before I end, must mention the two well reported non-cricketing issues.
The first test won rave review for the Lord's management for laying new golf quality irrigation and drainage (porous sand:) system as well as excellent efforts by the groundsman in getting almost 350 overs in the worst English rainfall in decades.
The second test won bad reviews for the player behavior. Let me be clear about it. Barging into batsman is foolish and as childish as putting jelly beans on the ground.
In fact, putting jelly beans may be okay in domestic county cricket, but is not warranted in International matches. If you want to put jelly beans on the ground, you deserve to be sent back to the county cricket. No amount of explanation will justify so apologize and move ahead. If the whole teams starts justifying it, you are responsible fo it attracting the attention not the media.
About barging into non-striker batsman, I have no idea what you gain. He is not facing you and would have ample time to get back to normal mind set by the time he faces the ball unlike sledging to the striker. Also, you are sure to earn penalty from the match referee. That is plain stupid.
I am giving Sreesanth some slack about the beamer and run up as his run up and accuracy was bad all through the match. So I accept his explanation that those were unintentional.
About sledging, I can understand occasional sledging before the bowler starts the run up. But continuous sledging shoudl be banned and players penalized by the match referee.
Finally, at the end two hard test matches, India lead by 1-0 and have a chance to wining their first series in England since 1986 and first series win by any team in England since 2001. The third test is important for both the teams and I believe we will see unchanged teams with India going for a draw. I think all three results are possible with the team showing more will to win achieving their objective.
Also, both the matches showed that bowlers which were the weaknesses for both the teams had a much better than expected performance. The batting line up (except Indian first inning in the second test) has been off and on, with most batsman scoring runs but not consistently.
Lets dive in to the details. The first test started of with a sunny first day and after winning the toss English top order made merry of the sunny conditions and some inexperienced Indian bowling to score strong 268-4. The English domination (or I should Vaughan & Strauss domination as no one else score more than 40) of the day is moderated by two late wickets at the end of the day. The next morning overnight rain made the batting difficult and Indian bowlers put the ball in the right places (there goes the greatest cliche of bowling) to reduce England to under 300.
The rest of the match had bowlers dominating the batsman except when Kevin Peterson was batting. It was KP's brilliance in a 119 (25 overs) partnership with Mark Prior that put India against the wall. Had they not scored runs at such a fast pace, the match result would have been different. Just take back 45 runs and England would have not been able to set up and attacking field.
Scoring 380 runs in the 4th innings is always difficult, especially with the rain expected to curtail more than half the final day. So chances of India winning this match was almost nil. Unlike recent results, India held the fort for 96 overs just long enough to earn a last wicket draw albeit with some luck from weather and the umpires.
To be fair to the Indians, few of their top order players got some unlucky decision and who knows what would have happened had Dravid not being given out. I would say the test would still have been a draw, with much more even ending - something like India 320-7 with either team's victory possible rather than 285-9 with just English victory possible. Over all Enlisg team dominated most of the session with India winning some sessions due to bowling.
The second test was also decided by toss and weather. The first day damp playing field and conditions meant that the team batting first would be at a disadvantage. Dravid won the toss and put English in to bat. Indian bowler bowled beautifully to push English to 169-7. As expected this put English on the back foot and they were all out for 198 within the first hour of day 2.
This time Indian batting flourished to take a commanding lead of over the next two days of 280+ runs. With two days of sunny weather expected, this almost batted English out of the game with English win highly unlikely. English batsman (or should I say Vaughan and Strauss or may be Colly) played excellent cricket during the first two sessions of the fourth day.
Indian bowlers came down hard with the second new ball in the restricted English from 270-3 at the time the new ball was taken to 355 all out. A target of 73 would never have been difficult, but excellent bowling from Tremlett (12 for 3 in 7 overs) meant that India lost three wickets on the fifth day morning though they never looked like they would crumble. Before I end, must mention the two well reported non-cricketing issues.
The first test won rave review for the Lord's management for laying new golf quality irrigation and drainage (porous sand:) system as well as excellent efforts by the groundsman in getting almost 350 overs in the worst English rainfall in decades.
The second test won bad reviews for the player behavior. Let me be clear about it. Barging into batsman is foolish and as childish as putting jelly beans on the ground.
In fact, putting jelly beans may be okay in domestic county cricket, but is not warranted in International matches. If you want to put jelly beans on the ground, you deserve to be sent back to the county cricket. No amount of explanation will justify so apologize and move ahead. If the whole teams starts justifying it, you are responsible fo it attracting the attention not the media.
About barging into non-striker batsman, I have no idea what you gain. He is not facing you and would have ample time to get back to normal mind set by the time he faces the ball unlike sledging to the striker. Also, you are sure to earn penalty from the match referee. That is plain stupid.
I am giving Sreesanth some slack about the beamer and run up as his run up and accuracy was bad all through the match. So I accept his explanation that those were unintentional.
About sledging, I can understand occasional sledging before the bowler starts the run up. But continuous sledging shoudl be banned and players penalized by the match referee.
Finally, at the end two hard test matches, India lead by 1-0 and have a chance to wining their first series in England since 1986 and first series win by any team in England since 2001. The third test is important for both the teams and I believe we will see unchanged teams with India going for a draw. I think all three results are possible with the team showing more will to win achieving their objective.
CEO Job Description - Height of Honesty
This was contributed by Puneet Sharma (Peanuts) my wingmate from The great Champs wing at IIT Bombay. Check out the "Additional Information" at the end. It reminded me a comment made by my uncle when he returned back for India (fo just 2-3 years) from USA- " It takes longer to do things here"
► Chief Executive Officer
Jindal Aluminium Limited View all jobs by this Company
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Posted on: 31 July, 2007
Job Id:48628854
Job Function :
Production/Manufacturing/Maintenance/Packaging
Specialization :
Production/Manufacturing/Maintenance
Industry : Manufacturing/Industrial
Qualification : Highest - MBA/PGDM ( Any Management
)
Experience : 5 -6
Level : Chief Officer - CEO, CMO, COO, CIO,
President
Location : Bangalore
Key Skills : Exposure in
foundry/construction/metals/engineering industry as
President/VP/GM level in good medium or large
industrial company (not giants) working at high level
management and also covering areas like marketing,
purchase, imports/ exports, HRD, PR, IT
administration, production/ technical, should be able
to maintain high degree of discipline with firmness as
a hard task master with tremendous leadership ability
and bent for taking responsibilities.
JOB DESCRIPTION :
Responsible for reporting to JMD/CMD of the company
providing a strong commercial and administrative
leadership and overall management of the entire
organization continously monitoring all departments
and taking stem action on employees for shirking duty
inefficiency lapses non performance etc suggesting
cost reduction innovation and new ideas to keep the
organization abreast with time and technology.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION :
Jindal Aluminium Limited Bangalore with an annual
turnover of about Rs . 800 crores employing 1100
persons and having core business of manufacturing
Aluminium Extrusions and wind power generation since
1968. The company hasw the state of the art
manufacturing facility at Bangalore with ultramodern
infrastructure. It stands first in India in terma of
the installed capacity and production. The company has
achieved a production of 45000 MT of aluminium
extrusions in the year 2005-06.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :
Candidate aged around 35 years would stay in
companys colony having all facilities and must be
able to handle senior people executives intellectuals
etc. whose habit is to make excuses followed by
arguments instead of admitting and improving thus
wasting time and energy. Person who is not tough and
able to take strict action (like & live wire) need not
apply.
No softness or looseness and not giving attitude or
supporting employees ignoring the interest of the
company. No side business or further studies will be
allowed.
Attractive salary besides free furnished accommodation
and conveyance offered.
Apply to Jt. Managing Director.
Candidate should be backed by engineering degree.
CONTACT INFORMATION :
Address : Jindal Nagar Tumkur Road Bangalore 560073
► Chief Executive Officer
Jindal Aluminium Limited View all jobs by this Company
Related Links:
Start a new search | View Saved Jobs
Posted on: 31 July, 2007
Job Id:48628854
Job Function :
Production/Manufacturing/Maintenance/Packaging
Specialization :
Production/Manufacturing/Maintenance
Industry : Manufacturing/Industrial
Qualification : Highest - MBA/PGDM ( Any Management
)
Experience : 5 -6
Level : Chief Officer - CEO, CMO, COO, CIO,
President
Location : Bangalore
Key Skills : Exposure in
foundry/construction/metals/engineering industry as
President/VP/GM level in good medium or large
industrial company (not giants) working at high level
management and also covering areas like marketing,
purchase, imports/ exports, HRD, PR, IT
administration, production/ technical, should be able
to maintain high degree of discipline with firmness as
a hard task master with tremendous leadership ability
and bent for taking responsibilities.
JOB DESCRIPTION :
Responsible for reporting to JMD/CMD of the company
providing a strong commercial and administrative
leadership and overall management of the entire
organization continously monitoring all departments
and taking stem action on employees for shirking duty
inefficiency lapses non performance etc suggesting
cost reduction innovation and new ideas to keep the
organization abreast with time and technology.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION :
Jindal Aluminium Limited Bangalore with an annual
turnover of about Rs . 800 crores employing 1100
persons and having core business of manufacturing
Aluminium Extrusions and wind power generation since
1968. The company hasw the state of the art
manufacturing facility at Bangalore with ultramodern
infrastructure. It stands first in India in terma of
the installed capacity and production. The company has
achieved a production of 45000 MT of aluminium
extrusions in the year 2005-06.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :
Candidate aged around 35 years would stay in
companys colony having all facilities and must be
able to handle senior people executives intellectuals
etc. whose habit is to make excuses followed by
arguments instead of admitting and improving thus
wasting time and energy. Person who is not tough and
able to take strict action (like & live wire) need not
apply.
No softness or looseness and not giving attitude or
supporting employees ignoring the interest of the
company. No side business or further studies will be
allowed.
Attractive salary besides free furnished accommodation
and conveyance offered.
Apply to Jt. Managing Director.
Candidate should be backed by engineering degree.
CONTACT INFORMATION :
Address : Jindal Nagar Tumkur Road Bangalore 560073
Friday, July 20, 2007
Cellphone to warn lightening???
Nokia has recently applied for a patent to a technology to detect a imminent lightening strikes!!!
Check more about the article here
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
India England Test series
With the first test at Lords starting in a few days, a lot has been written about the tour result. Without nay information about game day pitches and weather, I can just say that it will be a tough battle between two teams who based on expected players are equal.
Now before you attack me for making that statement, I believe both teams are almost equal and India has a slight edge after Harmison injury. Let me dissect the statement further
1> Bowling: a lot has been said about the Indian bowling being raw. Test for test, England bowling is worse than India. Hoggards (64 tests), Monty (17 tests) Sidebottom (4 tests), Anderson (16 tests) and two debutants compare unfavourably to Kumble (115 Tests), Zaheer (47 Tests), Sreesanth (8 Tests), RP Singh (4 tests) Powar (2 tests) and two debutants. To be fair, local conditions and more first class experience reduce the gap. I would give the Indian bowlers just a slight edge.
2> Middle order: Indian middle quartrant - Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman - is coming back into their form and has more experienced than the English equivalent. On the other hand, though, English middle order - Vaughan, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bell has been in good form recently, but they seem to be fatigued after a tiring schedule. I would India a slight edge over here.
3> Openers: Indian opening pair is inexperienced and is not consistent. On the other hand , English opening pair has been performing well and is more stable than Indian. English openers have a big edge over Indian pair.
4> The two wicket keepers are almost at par. More experience of Dhoni is compensated by Prior's first class experience. Both are attacking strokemakers.
Over all we expect a good tussle matches with relatively high scoring matches. Final results will depend on how Indian new bowl attack negates the English opening advantage and English middle order converts the local advantage to bridge or overcome the middle order gap.
LET THE BATTLE BEGIN
Now before you attack me for making that statement, I believe both teams are almost equal and India has a slight edge after Harmison injury. Let me dissect the statement further
1> Bowling: a lot has been said about the Indian bowling being raw. Test for test, England bowling is worse than India. Hoggards (64 tests), Monty (17 tests) Sidebottom (4 tests), Anderson (16 tests) and two debutants compare unfavourably to Kumble (115 Tests), Zaheer (47 Tests), Sreesanth (8 Tests), RP Singh (4 tests) Powar (2 tests) and two debutants. To be fair, local conditions and more first class experience reduce the gap. I would give the Indian bowlers just a slight edge.
2> Middle order: Indian middle quartrant - Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman - is coming back into their form and has more experienced than the English equivalent. On the other hand, though, English middle order - Vaughan, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bell has been in good form recently, but they seem to be fatigued after a tiring schedule. I would India a slight edge over here.
3> Openers: Indian opening pair is inexperienced and is not consistent. On the other hand , English opening pair has been performing well and is more stable than Indian. English openers have a big edge over Indian pair.
4> The two wicket keepers are almost at par. More experience of Dhoni is compensated by Prior's first class experience. Both are attacking strokemakers.
Over all we expect a good tussle matches with relatively high scoring matches. Final results will depend on how Indian new bowl attack negates the English opening advantage and English middle order converts the local advantage to bridge or overcome the middle order gap.
LET THE BATTLE BEGIN
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Wrong Wrong Wrong
This was one of those days when everything goes against the grain. One of the biggest day in the upset history of Cricket world cup. I was expecting IND BD to be a tough match with India surviving. Actually, it was a close match which was won by BD. The other result was even more astonishing. IRL defeated PAK world cup winner of 1992 and made them the first team to get kicked out of world cup. So, what are the learnings.
In case of IND BD, I still believe that the result would have been different had BD batted first. So I am going to take toss into play. About PAK IRL, it was just a bad performance by PAK over all. Even after getting out for 132, their bowlers could have skittled IRL for under 120. But their bowlers were not disciplined enough.
Now the new predictions, India will come back big time and defeat Bermuda with a vengeance. They will cross 300 if batting first and skittle Bermuda for under 120 if bowling first. I do believe they will have a hard time over coming the margin of 243 that SL had against Bermuda, but win by a difference of 200.
In case of IND BD, I still believe that the result would have been different had BD batted first. So I am going to take toss into play. About PAK IRL, it was just a bad performance by PAK over all. Even after getting out for 132, their bowlers could have skittled IRL for under 120. But their bowlers were not disciplined enough.
Now the new predictions, India will come back big time and defeat Bermuda with a vengeance. They will cross 300 if batting first and skittle Bermuda for under 120 if bowling first. I do believe they will have a hard time over coming the margin of 243 that SL had against Bermuda, but win by a difference of 200.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Results & March 17th Predictions
Okay, My WI Vs PAK prediction was right on target. WI won the game, though it was less competitive than I thought (51-49). Neither Lara nor Inzy were the main stars and the best I predicted the winning total very accurately.
My next prediction for today, India (60-40) and Pakistan (70-30) will win their matches against BD and IRL though IND BD will be a very tight match. Indian bowlers will win the match for India while for Pakistan, it will be their batting. I don't think IRL bowlers will give any difficulty to Pakistan. IRL batsman will give them a scare though, because of their county and Australian domestic league experience.
My next prediction for today, India (60-40) and Pakistan (70-30) will win their matches against BD and IRL though IND BD will be a very tight match. Indian bowlers will win the match for India while for Pakistan, it will be their batting. I don't think IRL bowlers will give any difficulty to Pakistan. IRL batsman will give them a scare though, because of their county and Australian domestic league experience.
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