SRI'S Blog

The India Australia Test Series The Indian team has got itself in to a position, that everyone can have a "Say" on them. No one expected the team to go out to Australia , win the series and come back. What was not expected was the way in which the team has performed. The first test at Melbourne one thought was close. It was not so, as the tests in Sydney and Perth revealed. Aussie won at Melbourne and then set the stage for Sydney and Perth to follow. We were thrashed in Sydney and humiliated at Perth and with the Captain cooling his time at the side lines for the fourth test at Adelaide , one can expect a 4- 0 whitewash and with that we would have maintained our overseas record of loosing all test matches that we play in the recent past , intact. It was disappointing that the team is not putting up a fight of any sort ( read batsmen ) This was coming . The trio that we relied on so heavily in the last decade were the ones who let us down. As we look at the way they were dism

It was a great last week to sign off 2011. It could not have been better . The whole week went as per plan and was a delight and some sort of sadness as the week went off quickly . The holiday plan was to get to Rajasthan but due to late planning , it did not work both in terms of the time available to make the trip and the costs . Rajasthan has to wait …Hopefully , costs come down !! The next best alternative pointed us out to Lonavala -- a tiny hill station closer to Pune and motorable from Mumbai. Why Lonavala ? I promised my wife seventeen years ago that we will go for a holiday to Lonavala as would anyone who works in Mumbai would do . Lonavala is a quick getaway from Mumbai and people do week end trips to relax and recharge batteries and the place is cool and life is easy paced unlike Mumbai. Lonvala gets busy as the monsoon sets in -- it creates many streams and waterfalls . It is fact that I did not honour the promise made till now . So , I told my wife , this time for sure we