It was a comprehensive win over Pakistan with all-round performance by India. Initially the bowlers and then the batsmen made sure that Pakistan was not in competition any more.
Tendulkar batting today in the backdrop of 18 years of his illustrious Test Cricket career that he embarked upon on this very day against Pakistan. Tendulkar is bent upon making another record for himself that no one can break, that of getting out most times in the nineties. It is sixth time this year, second time in this series and 16 times overall for him. A world record!! Being Tendulkar, you of course deserve them all.
India have now attained the unassailable 3-1 lead before the last ODI. They then go into the Test Matches with their heads high and noses ahead!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Nirula's Ice Cream Museum
The melting ice cream has now got its first museum in India.
Housed in the country's oldest fast-food outlet, Nirula's Ice Cream Factory, New Delhi , India, the museum is all set to give scoops on the swirls' history and trivia.
A recent study done by Nirula's has revealed that those whose favourite flavour is chocolate are naughty, full of energy and usually smile through all their troubles. But if Vanilla - the highest-selling flavour in the world - gets your taste-buds tingling, then you are quiet and sincere.
The museum also shows how ice creams are made and visitors can even try and make one.
There is no entry fee because, for Nirula's, this venture is not about revenues but about brands.
For now, the the museum will throw its doors open only to children and that too, once a week. But as nearly half the ice cream produced in India is consumed by adults, it won't be long before Nirula's will give all ice cream addicts a chance to spoon in.
Housed in the country's oldest fast-food outlet, Nirula's Ice Cream Factory, New Delhi , India, the museum is all set to give scoops on the swirls' history and trivia.
A recent study done by Nirula's has revealed that those whose favourite flavour is chocolate are naughty, full of energy and usually smile through all their troubles. But if Vanilla - the highest-selling flavour in the world - gets your taste-buds tingling, then you are quiet and sincere.
The museum also shows how ice creams are made and visitors can even try and make one.
There is no entry fee because, for Nirula's, this venture is not about revenues but about brands.
For now, the the museum will throw its doors open only to children and that too, once a week. But as nearly half the ice cream produced in India is consumed by adults, it won't be long before Nirula's will give all ice cream addicts a chance to spoon in.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Reincarnation Odds -- Beat This If You Can!!
In an instant last May, Chris and Lori Coble lost their three young children in a horrific traffic accident not far from the family’s California, USA home.
The couple was devastated by the sudden and profound loss of their two daughters and a son, but knew even through their grief they were meant to be parents and would be again.
If all goes well, the Cobles told a US magagize reporter on Tuesday, they’ll have two new baby girls and a baby boy next spring.
The couple can’t help but think that it’s all connected-- Reincarnation angle.
“We both knew we wanted more kids,” Lori Coble said. “We’re parents right now without kids. The kids are what made us so happy in life. We knew that if we were still living that we wanted to have more kids.”
Chris Coble said he can’t help but think, from a spiritual perspective, that the children he lost somehow had a hand in his wife’s pregnancy. He believes firmly they are in a better place, and watching over their mom and dad.
“Your mind can’t even think otherwise. If you feel they’re somewhere watching over you, protecting you, and something like this happens, it’s hard to think that somehow they weren’t involved in crafting this,” he said.
The triplets Lori Coble is carrying — two girls and a boy — were conceived through in-vitro fertilization. In the procedure, 10 of Lori Coble’s eggs had been fertilized and three became viable embryos.
Chris Coble, 36, said there was just a 10 percent chance that three of the 10 eggs would be viable. The doctors wanted to implant just two of the embryos, but the couple had lost two girls and a boy and asked for all three embryos to be transferred to Lori Coble’s womb.
This certainly beats Om Shanti Om hands down!
The couple was devastated by the sudden and profound loss of their two daughters and a son, but knew even through their grief they were meant to be parents and would be again.
If all goes well, the Cobles told a US magagize reporter on Tuesday, they’ll have two new baby girls and a baby boy next spring.
The couple can’t help but think that it’s all connected-- Reincarnation angle.
“We both knew we wanted more kids,” Lori Coble said. “We’re parents right now without kids. The kids are what made us so happy in life. We knew that if we were still living that we wanted to have more kids.”
Chris Coble said he can’t help but think, from a spiritual perspective, that the children he lost somehow had a hand in his wife’s pregnancy. He believes firmly they are in a better place, and watching over their mom and dad.
“Your mind can’t even think otherwise. If you feel they’re somewhere watching over you, protecting you, and something like this happens, it’s hard to think that somehow they weren’t involved in crafting this,” he said.
The triplets Lori Coble is carrying — two girls and a boy — were conceived through in-vitro fertilization. In the procedure, 10 of Lori Coble’s eggs had been fertilized and three became viable embryos.
Chris Coble, 36, said there was just a 10 percent chance that three of the 10 eggs would be viable. The doctors wanted to implant just two of the embryos, but the couple had lost two girls and a boy and asked for all three embryos to be transferred to Lori Coble’s womb.
This certainly beats Om Shanti Om hands down!
Made In India -- Tata's SuperComp in Top 10
A supercomputer developed by the Tata Group has been adjudged the fastest in Asia and fourth fastest in the world.
The supercomputer, called EKA, has been built at Tata's Pune, India facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.
"High performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over," Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, said in a statement.
The rankings have been given by the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list announced at the prestigious SC07 Conference held in the US last night.
India made it to the top 10 for the first time.
Cheers India and Cheers Tata!!
The supercomputer, called EKA, has been built at Tata's Pune, India facility. It uses nearly 1,800 computing nodes and has a peak performance of 170 trillion floating-point operations per second.
"High performance computing solutions have an ever-increasing role in the scientific and new technological space the world over," Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Group, said in a statement.
The rankings have been given by the Top500 Supercomputer Sites list announced at the prestigious SC07 Conference held in the US last night.
India made it to the top 10 for the first time.
Cheers India and Cheers Tata!!
Be Polite to the Dictator, Please !!
The offending word is ‘‘sonofabitch’’(sonovabit..... to be less offending).
Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a British daily twice referred the country’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a ‘‘sonofabitch’’, sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook, and the limits of editorial expression.
The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial in Daily Telegraph, innocuously headlined ‘‘Bankrupt Relationship’’. ‘‘In the old parlance, General Pervez Musharraf is our sonofabitch,’’ the paper wrote. ‘‘He has failed to stamp out extremist groups and close the madrassas that inspire them. He has allowed the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to fall into the hands of assorted jihadis.’’ It then went on to add: ‘‘An alternative... seems neither imminent nor especially enticing. But that should not blind Britain and America to the fact that their sonofabitch in Pakistan is a spent force.’’ The ‘‘old parlance’’ the paper referred to appears to be an oft-quoted remark attributed to various American leaders about their preference for some dictators — ‘‘He’s a bastard, but he’s our bastard.’’ That quote has also been used by some columnists and bloggers to refer to Washington’s kidglove treatment of Musharraf compared with its hardline stand on leaders of Venezuela and Iran. The quote is variously attributed to US presidents FDR, Truman, Nixon, and even strategic guru Henry Kissinger, and is believed to have originated in the context of US support to Nicaragua’s Somoza line of dictatorship.
The use of the word “sonofabitch’’ to describe Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf by three British reporters has cooked up quite a storm. Some media style books and manuals allow words such as bastard, but “sonofabitch’’ falls in the grey zone, partly because it is composite of words and does not even make the cut in some dictionaries. The online Urban Dictionary lists four definitions for “sonofabitch’’, including one that reads: George W Bush, president of the USA.
In recent months, the media has struggled with words such as “f**k’’ and “s**t’’. Some American newspapers broke new ground by using the F-word when vice-president Cheney was heard telling a lawmaker to “go f*** yourself.’’ Pakistan, though, was in no doubt that “sonofabitch’’ breached the military regime’s style book. “The language used for the president of Pakistan in your leading article (“Bankrupt Relationship’’, November 9) is offensive and flouts the norms of decent journalism,’’ Imran Gardezi, minister (press), Pakistan high commission, wrote to the paper. “For a newspaper of the Daily Telegraph’s reputation to resort to such derogatory language is highly regrettable. This deserves an apology.’’ None was forthcoming.
Instead, bloggers unearthed other expletives Musharraf has been subjected to. He has been frequently called a “thug’’ by columnists and even by one lawmaker. At a hearing last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman called him a “thug’’ who did not deserve US support. Pakistani political discourse itself isn’t pretty. Nawaz Sharif in his book quotes Musharraf as saying (about him), “I will sort the bastard out.’’ But much more than personal abuse of Musharraf, Pakistan itself has also been shamed in the western press, variously described in recent months as “most dangerous place on earth’’, “a terrorist grand central’’, “a failed state’’ and “disaster waiting to happen’’.
“Whether rattling nuclear rockets at a much more powerful India or allowing terrorist networks to use Pakistani territory to mount plots against Afghan, US and British targets, the country’s leaders have raised political blackmail to a national and international art form,’’ Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland wrote in a column on Sunday, the latest in a series of withering commentary that has savaged Pakistan.
Pakistan has expelled three British reporters after a British daily twice referred the country’s military dictator Pervez Musharraf as a ‘‘sonofabitch’’, sparking off a yet another fervent debate about language, stylebook, and the limits of editorial expression.
The comment, deemed offensive by the Pakistani government, appeared in a November 9 editorial in Daily Telegraph, innocuously headlined ‘‘Bankrupt Relationship’’. ‘‘In the old parlance, General Pervez Musharraf is our sonofabitch,’’ the paper wrote. ‘‘He has failed to stamp out extremist groups and close the madrassas that inspire them. He has allowed the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to fall into the hands of assorted jihadis.’’ It then went on to add: ‘‘An alternative... seems neither imminent nor especially enticing. But that should not blind Britain and America to the fact that their sonofabitch in Pakistan is a spent force.’’ The ‘‘old parlance’’ the paper referred to appears to be an oft-quoted remark attributed to various American leaders about their preference for some dictators — ‘‘He’s a bastard, but he’s our bastard.’’ That quote has also been used by some columnists and bloggers to refer to Washington’s kidglove treatment of Musharraf compared with its hardline stand on leaders of Venezuela and Iran. The quote is variously attributed to US presidents FDR, Truman, Nixon, and even strategic guru Henry Kissinger, and is believed to have originated in the context of US support to Nicaragua’s Somoza line of dictatorship.
The use of the word “sonofabitch’’ to describe Pakistan’s president Pervez Musharraf by three British reporters has cooked up quite a storm. Some media style books and manuals allow words such as bastard, but “sonofabitch’’ falls in the grey zone, partly because it is composite of words and does not even make the cut in some dictionaries. The online Urban Dictionary lists four definitions for “sonofabitch’’, including one that reads: George W Bush, president of the USA.
In recent months, the media has struggled with words such as “f**k’’ and “s**t’’. Some American newspapers broke new ground by using the F-word when vice-president Cheney was heard telling a lawmaker to “go f*** yourself.’’ Pakistan, though, was in no doubt that “sonofabitch’’ breached the military regime’s style book. “The language used for the president of Pakistan in your leading article (“Bankrupt Relationship’’, November 9) is offensive and flouts the norms of decent journalism,’’ Imran Gardezi, minister (press), Pakistan high commission, wrote to the paper. “For a newspaper of the Daily Telegraph’s reputation to resort to such derogatory language is highly regrettable. This deserves an apology.’’ None was forthcoming.
Instead, bloggers unearthed other expletives Musharraf has been subjected to. He has been frequently called a “thug’’ by columnists and even by one lawmaker. At a hearing last week, New York Congressman Gary Ackerman called him a “thug’’ who did not deserve US support. Pakistani political discourse itself isn’t pretty. Nawaz Sharif in his book quotes Musharraf as saying (about him), “I will sort the bastard out.’’ But much more than personal abuse of Musharraf, Pakistan itself has also been shamed in the western press, variously described in recent months as “most dangerous place on earth’’, “a terrorist grand central’’, “a failed state’’ and “disaster waiting to happen’’.
“Whether rattling nuclear rockets at a much more powerful India or allowing terrorist networks to use Pakistani territory to mount plots against Afghan, US and British targets, the country’s leaders have raised political blackmail to a national and international art form,’’ Washington Post’s Jim Hoagland wrote in a column on Sunday, the latest in a series of withering commentary that has savaged Pakistan.
Monday, November 12, 2007
LOVE
"I love the way you hold me in your arms when I am drifting asleep. I love the way you gently tuck my hair when you think I do not notice. I love the way you give me butterfly kisses so that it wouldn't disturb my sleep. Most of all, I love the way I feel secure and loved in your arms."
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Writers Guild of America Strike Enters Second Week
Members of the Writers Guild of America have been striking in Los Angeles and New York this past week over details of a basic contract between writers and producers - one of the biggest sticking points is the amount of residuals writers get from DVD and new media distribution.
The strike means that late night talk shows are likely to continue their airing of re-runs (since Jay Leno has refused to cross the picket line, some workers have been told they will be laid off soon; the Tonight Show is also toying with the idea of guest hosts) while the networks may get pilot shows ready. The actors have been showing their support of striking writers here in the city. The likes of Holly Hunter, Robin Williams, and Julianne Moore and actors who are also writers - Roseanne Barr, Tim Robbins and David Duchovny are very much supporting the writers guild demands.
Let's wait and watch what happens to the daily talk shows..either they fail or the strike does
The strike means that late night talk shows are likely to continue their airing of re-runs (since Jay Leno has refused to cross the picket line, some workers have been told they will be laid off soon; the Tonight Show is also toying with the idea of guest hosts) while the networks may get pilot shows ready. The actors have been showing their support of striking writers here in the city. The likes of Holly Hunter, Robin Williams, and Julianne Moore and actors who are also writers - Roseanne Barr, Tim Robbins and David Duchovny are very much supporting the writers guild demands.
Let's wait and watch what happens to the daily talk shows..either they fail or the strike does
Google Analytics- Site Search
Google has released first of the many new features for its Google analytics suite. All Google Analytics accounts now have access to Site Search. It's currently only available if your language preference is set to English and shall be available in all languages soon.
Google Analytics has always shown webmasters how people use search engines to find their site. With Site Search, the webmasters can now see how people search within their site once they are already on it.
This is a goldmine of information because every time visitors search, they literally tell you in their own words what they are looking for. You'll not only see their initial searches, but how they attempted to refine searches when they didn't find what they were looking for. You'll see which pages they searched from and where they ended up. And you'll see how site search co-relates to conversions and sales.
However, to be able to use Site Search, you need to have a search box on your web site.
We have always been appreciative of Google's products but it is becoming too much to handle for the webmasters ;-)
Google Analytics has always shown webmasters how people use search engines to find their site. With Site Search, the webmasters can now see how people search within their site once they are already on it.
This is a goldmine of information because every time visitors search, they literally tell you in their own words what they are looking for. You'll not only see their initial searches, but how they attempted to refine searches when they didn't find what they were looking for. You'll see which pages they searched from and where they ended up. And you'll see how site search co-relates to conversions and sales.
However, to be able to use Site Search, you need to have a search box on your web site.
We have always been appreciative of Google's products but it is becoming too much to handle for the webmasters ;-)
Video Resumes -- Over to India
After Monster India, the international job portal, launched video resumes service on its job portal in India this July, we now have another job portal, http://www.eyemany.com that has come out specifically targeting employees to upload their video resumes. It then provides a platform to the employers to interview the candidate via the video conferencing as well.
Video Resumes are the latest fad amongst the new job seekers. It gives them a platform to showcase their skills to the potential employer. The job seeker can easily upload a home made video to this job portal and the recruiters can then search for the skills through the regular text resumes and can further use the video resume to shortlist the candidate.
It gives recruiters a chance to do primary screening, for which they probably had to earlier call the candidate and then interview him. Video resumes give the recruiters a peek at the energy, the communication and other skills of the job seeker.
Let's see how this fad catches on..
Video Resumes are the latest fad amongst the new job seekers. It gives them a platform to showcase their skills to the potential employer. The job seeker can easily upload a home made video to this job portal and the recruiters can then search for the skills through the regular text resumes and can further use the video resume to shortlist the candidate.
It gives recruiters a chance to do primary screening, for which they probably had to earlier call the candidate and then interview him. Video resumes give the recruiters a peek at the energy, the communication and other skills of the job seeker.
Let's see how this fad catches on..
Facebook's strategy: Word of Mouth Marketing
Don't compare Facebook's new ad system to anything you've seen on Google, television, or any other advertising medium you can think of. That's because, while advertising as we know it today may very well be a good profit engine for the social networking company, its new Facebook Ads program is also about e-commerce -- that is, selling.
Take the user reviews on Amazon. They're often useful when making a purchase, yet we don't know much, if anything, about the people recommending a product. Facebook aims to fix this by adding what it calls its "social graph" on top of such a rating system. In effect, your friends -- not strangers -- will be giving you the thumbs up or down on products you might buy.
According to David Kirkpatrick of the Fortune: "Facebook's strategy is based on a relatively new concept known as word-of-mouth marketing." But isn't it the oldest of all the selling concepts, the word-of-mouth publicity. Ironical that we are turning to the oldest means of advertising and selling.
It makes sense, however. And now Facebook is automating that process -- combining e-commerce with word-of-mouth marketing. When a Facebook user buys something, the seller will ask for permission to promote that fact to his or her social network and may pay a fee as well.
The flip side to all this: social networking grows more than 50, you do not know that person personally. It is just that he is a open-social networker like you are and it hardly makes a difference than as to who is adding whom. How will a person know that the person actually publicising a product or giving thumbs-up to the product is not a company-sponsored shopper. The reality is that after your network on any
How many of us actually know each person in their social network by name or how many can swear they know the occupation of the other person??
The social networking companies need to refine their data and make sure that the person being added and the credentials that he is adding are vetted.
Till then it is just data..not something that I would trust on!!
Take the user reviews on Amazon. They're often useful when making a purchase, yet we don't know much, if anything, about the people recommending a product. Facebook aims to fix this by adding what it calls its "social graph" on top of such a rating system. In effect, your friends -- not strangers -- will be giving you the thumbs up or down on products you might buy.
According to David Kirkpatrick of the Fortune: "Facebook's strategy is based on a relatively new concept known as word-of-mouth marketing." But isn't it the oldest of all the selling concepts, the word-of-mouth publicity. Ironical that we are turning to the oldest means of advertising and selling.
It makes sense, however. And now Facebook is automating that process -- combining e-commerce with word-of-mouth marketing. When a Facebook user buys something, the seller will ask for permission to promote that fact to his or her social network and may pay a fee as well.
The flip side to all this: social networking grows more than 50, you do not know that person personally. It is just that he is a open-social networker like you are and it hardly makes a difference than as to who is adding whom. How will a person know that the person actually publicising a product or giving thumbs-up to the product is not a company-sponsored shopper. The reality is that after your network on any
How many of us actually know each person in their social network by name or how many can swear they know the occupation of the other person??
The social networking companies need to refine their data and make sure that the person being added and the credentials that he is adding are vetted.
Till then it is just data..not something that I would trust on!!
3rd ODI-The Result
And India has won the match by 46-run with Yuvraj being declared the Man of the Match for his quickfire 77 run which took India to a competitive score of 294 which ultimately turned out to be a winning proposition for India.
India now leads the series 2-1 with 4th ODI scheduled for Nov 15, 2007.
Let's hope for best. Way to go Men in Blue!
India now leads the series 2-1 with 4th ODI scheduled for Nov 15, 2007.
Let's hope for best. Way to go Men in Blue!
India vs Pakistan - Third ODI Cricket Match - In Progress
The third in the series of 5 is currently on... India got to a flyer of a start than gave in on the advantage and then it was up to MY(Mahendra and Yuvraj) to steer India clear of any danger. India stands pretty at 294 and Pakistan is yet to start with its run chase.
The best Indian opening pair ever, gave a good start once again and then the onus was onto the younger players to carry the momentum, which they did with elan.
Mahi and Yuvi did well to take India to a very competitive score, tough nothing is out of reach on the Green Park pitch.
Let's hope for the best... Cheers Men In Blue
The best Indian opening pair ever, gave a good start once again and then the onus was onto the younger players to carry the momentum, which they did with elan.
Mahi and Yuvi did well to take India to a very competitive score, tough nothing is out of reach on the Green Park pitch.
Let's hope for the best... Cheers Men In Blue
Email- Marketing Tool or Spamming
It's 8:30 AM.. you have just reached your work place and have connected to your email server when ..viola..as a genie out of a lamp...here comes your daily supply of Viagras and Cialis, that too in bundles of 100's. On a serious note spam mails!!
Emails have emerged as one of the largest and least expensive way marketing. It does not uses paper, no printing costs, no envelopes to send it into and certainly no postage. At a simple click of a button, an email can be sent over to thousands of people worldwide. The ease of sending makes it one of the most potent tools of invading unsuspecting people's lives.
Many companies use email marketing to communicate with existing customers, but many other companies send unsolicited bulk email, also known as spam. In certain cases they use an opt-out option, wherein if the recipient does not want to receive the future emails, he will have to opt-out by clicking on a certain link. However, to clear past the legal hurdles, good companies use the opt-in option wherein emails are only sent to people who have opted beforehand to receive such emails.
The problem still continues despite the anti-spamming legislation in US. Stricter measures are required to identify and then control these spammers in order to reap the benefits of well-targeted emails.
India lags far behind in an effective anti-spamming legislation. In spite of the Internet proliferation in large parts of India and IT knowledge, the legislators do not seem to have been awakened to the need of such a legislation.
Wake up legislators..now is the right time to get a law in place before the situation gets out of hand as in some other parts of the world.
Emails have emerged as one of the largest and least expensive way marketing. It does not uses paper, no printing costs, no envelopes to send it into and certainly no postage. At a simple click of a button, an email can be sent over to thousands of people worldwide. The ease of sending makes it one of the most potent tools of invading unsuspecting people's lives.
Many companies use email marketing to communicate with existing customers, but many other companies send unsolicited bulk email, also known as spam. In certain cases they use an opt-out option, wherein if the recipient does not want to receive the future emails, he will have to opt-out by clicking on a certain link. However, to clear past the legal hurdles, good companies use the opt-in option wherein emails are only sent to people who have opted beforehand to receive such emails.
The problem still continues despite the anti-spamming legislation in US. Stricter measures are required to identify and then control these spammers in order to reap the benefits of well-targeted emails.
India lags far behind in an effective anti-spamming legislation. In spite of the Internet proliferation in large parts of India and IT knowledge, the legislators do not seem to have been awakened to the need of such a legislation.
Wake up legislators..now is the right time to get a law in place before the situation gets out of hand as in some other parts of the world.
Kumble, a new innings
Finally, after so many years of hard work and toil on and off the field, the selectors for the Indian national cricket team have realized the importance of a man named Anil Kumble. Whether or not it is a stop-gap arrangement might be a point of debate, but nonetheless, it does nothing to undermine the important place this Karnataka leg-spinner has in Indian cricket.
Anil Kumble is a legend in his own right. He is only the second player besides legendary Jim Laker to have taken 10-wickets in a single test match innings. Furthermore, he achieved this feat against the arch-rivals Pakistan.
Many people who watch and follow Indian cricket understand what it is like to have Kumble at the helm of 'The Team'. The cricket analysts, including Gundappa Viswanath, the former India captain, who had backed Mahendra Singh Dhoni aka MSD for the job, said Kumble should have got the position earlier. "I have been watching Anil for a long time and he is a shrewd thinker of the game," Viswanath told the Hindu. "This is an honour that could have been bestowed on him earlier. He deserves it and I always thought that he had it in him to lead the Indian side, but yes to be honest I never thought he would get the honour so late in his career."
Anil has been around in Indian cricket for the past 17 years now and his statistics speak for himself. Being the third highest test wicket taker, he is one of the most experienced in the world in this format of the game.
Well, the national cricket team selectors have done their bit, albeit quite late, but now is a chance to see Kumble and his cerebral approach to the game.
Bravo Kumble---Lead the team!! We wish you all the best.
Anil Kumble is a legend in his own right. He is only the second player besides legendary Jim Laker to have taken 10-wickets in a single test match innings. Furthermore, he achieved this feat against the arch-rivals Pakistan.
Many people who watch and follow Indian cricket understand what it is like to have Kumble at the helm of 'The Team'. The cricket analysts, including Gundappa Viswanath, the former India captain, who had backed Mahendra Singh Dhoni aka MSD for the job, said Kumble should have got the position earlier. "I have been watching Anil for a long time and he is a shrewd thinker of the game," Viswanath told the Hindu. "This is an honour that could have been bestowed on him earlier. He deserves it and I always thought that he had it in him to lead the Indian side, but yes to be honest I never thought he would get the honour so late in his career."
Anil has been around in Indian cricket for the past 17 years now and his statistics speak for himself. Being the third highest test wicket taker, he is one of the most experienced in the world in this format of the game.
Well, the national cricket team selectors have done their bit, albeit quite late, but now is a chance to see Kumble and his cerebral approach to the game.
Bravo Kumble---Lead the team!! We wish you all the best.
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