No match for INDIA in T20

Gautam Gambhir's blazing knock of 63 helped India crush Australia by seven wickets in the one-off Twenty20 international at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.

Gambhir smashed six boundaries and a six in his 52-ball knock as India coasted to the victory target of 167, with 11 balls to spare.

India lost an early wicket in the form of Virender Sehwag for 5, but Gambhir and Robin Uthappa (35) entertained the crowd with delightful strokeplay. The youngsters put on a quick 82-run partnership to put India on course to victory.

Yuvraj Singh finished unbeaten on 35, inclusive of three sixes, while captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit a huge six to score the winning runs.

Earlier, Ricky Ponting mashed 76 off 53 deliveries to guide Australia to a healthy 166 for 5 in their 20 overs.

Harbhajan Singh was instrumental in restricting the Australians in the middle over, as he took one wicket for 17 runs in his four.

Murali Kartik, making his Twenty20 debut, also impressed giving away 27 runs in his four overs.

India are the reigning Twenty20 World champions, having won the inaugural tournament in South Africa last month.

This is the first every Twenty20 international on Indian soil.

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Smoke all the way

Smoking has become a common sight now a days.. any time u can see boys n girls smoking in the streets or any coffee shop. In the last 2 - 3 years there has been a considerable increase in the number of people who smoke and the best part is most of them are educated and are well aware of the consequences of smoking. After the boom of IT youngsters have started to rely a lot on cigarette's to relieve their stress but actually they are affecting themselves more.. an important fact failed to be realized.

People who smoke can also be called as blind cause they never read the warning. The companies have been asked to print it big so tat seeing that at least some quit the habit but nothing of that sort has happened :-). Many NGO's are carrying out workshops and awareness programs so that people don't become a prey to a disease like CANCER!!! but their rate of success is minimal.

Latest to the addition of warnings is the governments order of printing photographs of people who are affected by CANCER but believe me i had a chance of seeing on of the photos and i immediately felt like puking!!!! man i cant imagine how any person who is not blind go and buy a cigarette knowing that some thing of that sort is on the pack, and how is a person going to sell this kind of stuff knowing that customer might just look like the one in the photograph if he continues smoking. But am not sure whether this is going to create any impact on our INDIAN brothers and sisters who are thick skinned.

This is not the first time a country is putting visual warnings on cigarette packet. Countries like CANADA are already practicing this and have attained good results.

Hope people realize that there is no pleasure in smoking and its nothing but a filthy stick reducing your lifespan. Quit it and live a happy life.


cheers..!!!

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A visit to the hills of Kodai.....

When ever me and my friends go on a trip we make sure we have a gr8 time. It was no different this time wen we went to KODAIKANAL. i was a surprise guest in this trip. I was doing an Internship because of which i had opted out of the trip, i went to the station to sent them off and wished them bon voyage. The next i went to the company as usual i gave my final report the same day and it got approved. I left the company quickly went and booked my ticket to kodaikanal for an night bus. All this while my friends had no clue of wat i was upto. I reached there the next morning. I had been keeping track of wat they were upto and where they were going. They were at the lake (which is a beautiful one) i called them and said i had come and they didn't believe me cause they thought i was playing a prank.. :-) I went straight at them and caught them by surprise. That was it celebrations started that instant. Wat ever happened aftr that ve to be censored...!!!!

But one thing we had one of our best times out there. i know most of u guys would ve experienced something like this in ur own life, if not pls do !!!!

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Our banglore trip

This is one trip that ll always be close to my heart. It was in our second yr of college me and my friends went to banglore to celebrate the new yr(2006). It was awesome fun. With nobody to watch over us , we were enjoying to the core. We used to be wandering here and there in our friends car till late nite and sleep the whole morning of the subsequent day. On 31st nite we were at Mg road celebrating the new yr with loads of other ppl whom we didn't even know. Certain things cannot be explained with words and this feeling of mine is like that too. It is beyond expression. !!!

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Champions

India clinched the inaugural Twenty20 cricket World Cup after a thrilling five-run victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the final in Johannesburg on Monday.

In a match that saw fortunes fluctuate till the dying moments, the young Indian team scored 157 for five and then held its nerve to dismiss Pakistan for 152 with just three balls to spare.

It was India's first major triumph since winning the 60 overs-a-side World Cup in 1983.

It was an incredible display by the Indians who relied on superb team work to not only maintain their all-win record against their bitter foes in World Cup matches but also complete a series of giant-killing acts in the blaze glory.

The stunning victory not only added a glorious chapter to India's cricketing history but also made amends for the team's inglorious exit from the ODI World Cup in the West Indies six months ago.

The large flag-waving gathering of Indians at the Wanderers burst into celebration when S Sreesanth caught the dangerous Misbah-ul Haq off Joginder Sharma to bring an end to Pakistan's challenge.

The contest seemed to go out of India's hands in the 17th over when Misbah clobbered Harbhajan Singh for three sixes, but Mahendra Singh Dhoni's band of young warriors roared back in great style to come out trumps and claim the winners' purse of US $49,000.

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Reservation

For long all the political parties that has come to power has used reservations as a medium to sustain their vote bank. they always proclaim of doing this and tat and manage to succeed in the polls. I sternly believe all these reservation and promises given by these people in power are just to please the people who are capable of turning the picture during the elections.


The start of cast ism i would call is way back after the independence when the reservations actually started or thought of by these politicians.. they had given these reservations bases on the census of 1931.

Last year when the students of IIT Delhi university AIMS started stagging demonstration & protest against reservation the supreme court had asked the government to hand over a copy of the census with which they provide reservation and our most perfect govt provided the court what they wanted, u have any clue which years census the govt gave to the supreme court? 1931 yup the same one tat i ve mentioned earlier this clearly depicts how ignorant our govt is and how bad their functioning is.

For long experts have asked the govt to drop the cast based reservations and have reservation based on economic background, the help must be rendered to the needy & not for one who is well capable of backing up himself without anyones help. This does not mean that people at higher level must not be helped but it is just that all these must not be done at the cost of poor they must not be the sufferer in the end.

Thanks to our country proceeding with any idea has a great amount of difficulty. At this juncture where many are advising for a economic based reservation there is a big Question to be answered how will the govt come to know about the income of every citizen this will remain to be a really tough job because of most of the ppl in our country don't pay their tax properly & do not show their complete income when these type of problems are yet to be explored students getting proper justice is rather a far dream than a reality.

 As long as these worthless people remain in power i don't see India becoming a super power or the 2020 vision of our previous president being achieved. God knows when our country will be gifted with proper leaders who take decision by thinking in a wide angle and do things for the benefit of the citizens than for themselves

TO QUOTE : during a recent interview done by the popular news channels & during pblic meetings politicians have not shown any sign of changing their stand when Mr. V.P. SINGH former prime minister of our country was asked a question whether he ll give reservation to a rich OBC or a poor forward cast person he said he ll give t for a OBC only... since he was a backward cast person when he got screwed later in the interview he corrected what he said as to he ll give for both of them this shows how adamant these ppl are.

The present HRD MINISTER ARJUN SINGH in his meeting publicly announced that he will surely bring back reservation as it previously was this happened only a few days after the supreme court stayed the reservation for OBC

Until these ppl change their attitude or new people with non partisan attitude be in power.. No big valuable change can be expected. And we shall always live under their mercy. THIS REMAINS THE BITTER TRUTH.

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