His humility evident

in this interview

A cricket rant

to illustrate the differences/similarities among a bunch of India's greatest match winners in my generation (of cricket watching).... I
agree statistics don't tell the full story... but still Kumble is never mentioned in the same level as a Sachin or a Dravid.... but his performance in Indian victories clearly highlights what a great match winner he is !!... hopefully he will get his due .. may be now that he is the captain.....


Anil Kumble

                     Mat  Runs  HS   BatAv 100  50   W    BB  BowlAv 5w  Ct St

All                   118  2212 110*  18.13   1   4 566 10/74   28.73 33  53  0
Victories              40   687  45   20.20*  0   0 272 10/74   18.50 20  23  0

*Kumble's batting average also improves in victories :P

Rahul Dravid

All                  112  9492 270   56.50  24  48   1  1/18   39.00  0 153  0
Victories             36  3674 270   76.54  10  18   -   -       -    -  70  0

Sachin Tendulkar

All                  140 11150 248*  54.92  37  45  42  3/10   50.83  0  93  0

Victories             44  3736 248*  64.41  13  13  13  3/31   41.76* 0  33  0
*Sachin's bowling average too improves in victores

WebCam

Finally the internet at home worked. I could chat with my parents with a webcam. The looks of happiness in their faces made my day.
Its great that I can talk to them more often this way!!

Funny ain't it?

From one of the cricinfo blogs
"What always used to amaze me, knowing Courtney Walsh's propensity for ducks, was that he used to bat at number TEN in the order, ahead of Pat Patterson.

And then I saw Patterson bat. And realised just why it was that he
was possibly the only person on the planet to bat lower than Walsh...

Happy Diwali

Well, another festival comes by. Happy Diwali to all the people in India and everywhere else.
Time moves very fast. It is my 4th Diwali in the US!!

Today

One of my friends recently pointed out I write every small detail of my life (for example brushing my teeth) on the blog.Well, I write my blog as a recollection for my sake. So nothing will change.

Today after 3 months of swimming I finally swam a lap - yes 50 yards. Until today I used to swim 8 lengths of 25 yards. But today I managed to swim for 50 yards in one go :P I just have to increase the number of laps to 10 soon !!

Indian Cricket

After playing for 118 tests and in my view, never ever considered a potential captain, now becomes one. Anil Radhakrishna Kumble will lead India against our arch-rivals Pakistan. I wish him all the best.

Well, I never thought he was captaincy material. But may be he is. I hope he will prove me wrong. But he is for sure the greatest competitor India has ever produced.