SRI'S Blog

The Cricket World Cup Action so far The matches have gone on predictable form so far. The minnows have been generally outplayed and questions will be raised on their participation in the future world cups . The ICC has already trimmed the teams from the current 14 to 10 for the next One Day Series World Cup. Seemed the right thing to do with teams like Kenya and Canada out of depth at this level. New Zealand and Pakistan thrashed Kenya while Srilanka did the same to Canada. The Dutch gave the run for the money to the English but the English prevailed due to their experience at the end over's. India played out Bangladesh -- Bangladesh ran up more runs than they should have but at no point they threatened to win after India had put up a winning score. Sehwag and Kohli sizzled and that was good enough irrespective of how you bowled. All this set up the weekend matches between Lanka and Pakis and India and the English. The Pak SL match , although it went to the wire , I had no worries ...

The World cup is back in to the Indian subcontinent and there can be no other place than the sub continent to get the crowds in. Which part of the world would you see a packed stadium for a practice match ? The India Australia practice match played at Bangalore on Sunday had a good turnout and the match was watched with intensity and with India running out winners, what more can you want from a Indian fan perspective ?! With 14 teams and 49 matches to be played to decide the eventual winner , cricket fans all over the world will be talking nothing else but obviously cricket and their favourites. While the West Indians dominated the first three editions ( 75 & 79 ) and were the favourites to win the third time ( 83 ) , till Kapil's Devil's turned it on , with Kapil's catch to get rid of Viv Richards and Sandhu's in swinger to Greenidge being the talk of the town even today. Kris Srikkanth hit only 38 runs in that final match but he can still be proud that it was the ...

Over this week end there was an interesting get together. It was a strange one to me . I will tell you why I felt strange but very happy to be part of the gathering. I have heard of many Alumni gatherings .. School batch mates gathering , College batch mates , Some Club members gathering etc., This get together was a meeting of people who once worked for a Company ( majority of them have moved on ) and a few who are still working with the same company. It was a well planned and well attended get together. Although close to 100 signed up , around 56 of them turned up to meet each other. Most of us worked with this organisation in the early 1990's and had lot of bonding for each other. We all worked in Chennai or through Tamilnadu and later in major metros and the Company Headquarters in Mumbai. It was very nostalgic. Some of us were seeing each other after nearly 15- 18 years. Appearances changed. Hair loss , Weight gain being very prominent. People have moved on , some have very su...