Backroom boy

It’s nothing but M.S.Dhoni…who captained India for the second and 4th tests in the border-gavaskar trophy Against the Australians..One of the best series ever i would say..Beating the world champs that too 2-0 is really excellent though there were some big faults made By the OZ captain pontingduring the last teat by letting the par time bowlers to bowl since they were running out of overs,i mean slow over rate,Indians were 166/6 during that time,Ponting letting those bowlers to bowl things made easy for Dhoni and Bhajji who had a excellent partnership of 106 for the 7th wicket was realy a match winning knock by both the batsmans….Bhajji was quite excellent with the ball too by picking 4 wickets and Ishant declared man of the series….

India lost the first one day international against sri lanka. Once again it was a poor display from the Indians. First they thought that the openers showed bad start but then it was proved that it was a team effort to loose the match. The carom ball striker mendis once again took three wickets and then snatched the man of the match award. This situation is continuing from the test series. Still four matches to go, lets see what is going to happen.

Quite for sometime Tennis has turned out into a race. Race for No. 1 ranking and Federer and Nadal are the ones running in it. Federer quite for a long time was clinging into that postion and it seemed inevitable for anyone to get there or even go near it. But this so long hold of Federer can be shattered by none other the “King of clay” Rafael Nadal. Since 1980, he is only the next man to Sir Bjorn Borg to win consecutive Lawn and Clay titles. Its drought season for Freddy and its raining Gold cups for Rafa. He has claimed Wimbledon and French Open titles in the same year. A feat achieved only by Borg and after winning the first two sets of the Wimbledon he succumbed to the third and fourth. It was a Battle of wills for 4 hours and 48 minutes and Rafa was the champion at last playing his way to victory and toward Rank 1.

A new buzz in the cricketing arena which has been introduced for evaluating the usefulness of the system. This method gives opportunity for the players to question the umpires decision and refer it to the third umpire if they think the umpire’s decision is false.In case of Leg before decisions or faint edges, the probability of umpires erring is high. In case when someone is batting and when the bowler appeals for an edge and say the umpire gives him out but the batsman thinks he has not nicked the ball then he can go in for a third umpire call to evaluate the correctness of the umpire’s decision. Though this system has got a lot of good and perfect approach in it, it has its own limitations. Each side can only claim a maximum of three reviews in an innings. Also it has been the talk of the critics that this system might make umpires lazy in giving out decisions. The worth and greatness of umpiring may be at loss due to this system. Lets see what Mahela and Kumble have to say about it.