sidhu shows he is a sardar after all

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Sidhu canvassing for the BJP party in bengal has tried to strike a cord with the cricket loving Ganguly fans out there.. Moreover he hasn't substantiated his opinion at all.. While such a remark speaks volumes of the influence of cricket it India , it also shows Sidhu in bad light..

EA cricket 2005, changes i would like

All gamers out there who have played cricket 2005 would know, the game is boring to say the least.. Its the same old gameplay that's being adopted since the release of Brian lara 1999.. You fix the position of the batsmen, then he kind of freezes till the bowler bowls and u play your shot.. The problem with this is that you end up playing the same shots to almost all balls.. You have to decide the shot u are going to play even before the ball is bowled, and for god sake how do u find the gap?? The same shot may go straight to the fielder or may find the gap to the boundary.. should'nt the caliber of the batsmen decide which balls are placed well, timed..

I would like the batsmen to be allowed to move after the ball is delivered and the position where the ball is pitched to be hidden... That would allow us to chose the shot during the process of play.. The confidence meter is a good concept, so is the special delivery concept for the bowlers.. Special shots that become available as the confidence rises would also draw lot of appreciation.. Great players, like, Sachin of course, would have these special shots (paddle sweep,lofted flick,cut over the slips...) at their disposal right from the beginning, while the lesser batsmen would have to raise confidence levels to get them... That makes the established batsmen that much more valuable... Also adds interest to batting as you have a wider range of strokes to play..



On the bowling front.. Pitching the ball at good length just a walk in the park.. Yet the batsman may hit u you for a six, u try the same shot when u bat and you'll probably edge it... May be EA can make the cursor move faster in the good length zone to make bowling a bit tougher..Also one always likes to see the wickets cartwheel when someone gets bowled, and that doesn't happen here even if the bowler is of express speed..

Individual styles also need to be realized.. All batsmen and bowlers bat and bowl the same way, makes the game monotonous... Statistics must be recorded for every game played and add on to the players career profile, I have seen that this doesn't happen in cricket 2005..



Fielding as always is horrible to watch.. Throws come directly on top of the stumps everytime.. Diving for the ball allows the Batsman to snatch the extra single rather than saving it!! Have no idea how the fielding can be improved...

Also if instead of the user controlling the entire team, he/she were to be allowed to control a single player and progress through the international career, play match winning innings , get selected for tours, receive ICC rankings based on performance the game would become a hotselling one in no time..

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He's a superstar both as a cricketer and a person.



-"I have more well wishers than the small section of the crowd at the Wankhede Stadium that day. I have to ignore them. I cannot forget the backing I have got from the people all these years just because of this." - Sachin Tendulkar on being booed by his home crowd...

Its a pity how fickle minded indians are.. Every other day some of my friends start contemplating that Sachin is going to retire soon..

-Asked specifically if he was contemplating retirement, he replied, "I am not interested in this question".- You HEARD that..

How could the media even think of such a question, probably they don't know the force that Tendulkar is.. Arguably the most famous cricketer if not the most popular..

PS: Sachin supports his watchman's family after the watchman's tragic death. you say, big deal, he's got the money. but how many of us spare even a rupee or two for the
beggars on the street? More importantly Sachin didn't do all this for gaining popularity in the name of charity..

Have you Heard of this..

take a look at these pics..




doesn't it look simply great.. jus look at its exhausts!!
It has a Mercedes-Benz AMG 12 cylinder V 60° engine, 602 HP.. 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds!! Credited to be the fastest car around the Top gear race track to date.. of course the bugatti Veyron is in a league of its own and hence wasn't considered..But still the Pagani Zonda is faster than a Ferrari or a Mercedes or a Porsche and pretty good looking too, what else do you want..

Traction Control

Yup, this technology has been around for a long time now and its usage is not restricted to race cars alone as many of you would know.. of course you can always google any upcoming technology and familiarise yourself with them, but i felt blogging it would ensure i register the info properly in my memory. I browsed a number of websites and am presenting the gist.. So here we go...

Traction Control created a flutter when it was introduced first, as most automotive techs are, in the F1 circuit.. You'll know why as you read on.. While driving a driver needs grip in three conditions, accelerating, decelerating or braking, and cornering. Three techs which are pretty much inter-related are the Anti lock braking system(ABS), Electronic Stabilization Program(ESP), and Traction Control(ARS,abbreviated to its former german name). Now, we can consider ARS to do something just opposite to ABS.
ABS enables provision of maximum grip during braking, often when braking from high speeds the wheel may begin to skid. Sensors available transmit this to the ECU (Eletronic Control Unit) which keeps wheels rolling to negate skidding. Traction Control is the opposite as mentioned before. It helps to get maximum grip during sudden acceleration and cornering. Imagine an F1 car on the starting grid. when the 5 lights go out it has to accelerate suddenly.. More often than not the wheels lose grip and spin freely. this is where ARS helps. It reduces the wheelspin to get more grip. Remember those black rubber strips down the race track.. All that is a result of more grip , more friction due to ARS..
Moreover it also helps during cornering. While cornering the sensors sense the rate of travel of the road beneath the engine and compare that to the wheelspin.. if the grip is less, the wheel would spin a lot more than it should actually travel..
Confusing? to be more clear, say the the circumference of a wheel is 10 units. It makes 10 rotations in a given interval, and the car travels a distance of say 80 units during the same time.. Theoretically the car should have travelled 10*10=100 units.. but due to less grip it travels just 80 units. this is sensed and the info is sent to the ECU. The ECU reduces the wheelspin lending more grip..

Now do you comprehend why ARS created a flutter when it was introduced in the F1 2002 season.

The reason, it anuls the requirement of any driving skills. The skill lies in balancing the car through the corners with the optimum power..without ARS too much power would lead to wheelspin and crashing into the tyre walls, too less would lead to slower lap times.. With ARS all that differentiated the teams was the Engine and the Aerodynamic Design.. Not suprisingly Ferrari has been winning all along, and the naive fans have been heaping adulations on Schumacher!!

This Sums it all up...

This hindi poem just summarizes Sachin's career... I am strictly against plagiarism, this is not my work, but that of a Mukesh Mushira, a devoted Sachin Fan like me...


Bhakti sandesh:


Hey sachin,hey sachin

Kabhi century mat maarna,

Log use milestone kehte hai

Kabhi 0 pe out mat hona

Log use Failure kehte hai,

30-90 tak maarne ki sochna bhi nahi,

log use Unsatisfctory kehte hai...

Tune naam roshan kia to kya hua

Wo to tera Personal achievment tha,

39 centuries maari to kya hua,

Saamne waala bowler bekaar tha,

Team ko motivate kia to kya hua,

Woh to jagah banane ke liye bahana tha

Dard,peeda sah ke finals leke aaya to kya hua,

Tu to final mein bachpan se hi bekar tha

Akele khelta gaya to kya hua,

Woh to tere jawani ka josh tha!

Jo taali maarte the tere shots pe

Wo aaj tujhe criticise karte hai,

Runs kitne bhi maar le tu

Humesha kam hi padte hai!!

Hey sachin,tu kuch bhi kar le

Teri koi nahi sunega

Dada ko to chada di sooli

Tu bhi chad jayega

Magar yaad rakh bhagwan mere

Tu apni takdeer ka malik hai,waqt tera fir ayega

Agar Ek ungli uthegi tere upar

to bachane ko bhakt tera mutthi bana ke ayega..

Bugatti Veyron, the fastest ever!!

The Bugatti Veyron took the world by storm when it was unveiled at an autoshow in 2004. This monster of a car has an 8 litre W-16 engine that packs 1000 HP!!, and for all of us who thought Formula one was the ultimate in supercars, an F1 car has just about 800HP.


The Bugatti Veyron

But the beauty of the Veyron lies in its Design.. An F1 car seats a lone driver and the driver is just a couple of inches of the ground inside the car. That means the car has a really low centre of gravity, enabling it to take corners at high speed. Also an F1 car weighs about 600kg and it has wings to generate the necessary downforce.

Coming to the Veyron, its designed to look like a passenger car with a seating capacity of two persons. And it stands about 4ft high, and importantly weighs about 2000 kg. To propel such a heavy car, to generate the requisite torque and power, the Veyron has four Turbochargers. And to get the necessary downforce it makes use of a rear spoiler which changes shape with speed and also designs which are as inconspicuous as they get. For example the underside has a venturi shape to generate the downforce.An F1 car needs to last just the length of two races as per the latest rules. on the other hand the Veyron , a passenger car, needs to last about 10 years or so!!

To give you an idea of how fast this car actually is, it blisters from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.5 seconds!! with a top speed of 402 kph or 375 ft/sec.

For a better comparison, if the hitherto fastest passenger car, The Mc Laren F1 LM and the Bugatti Veyron lined up side by side, and the Mc Laren was given a headstart till it reached 120 mph, and then the Veyron was started, the Veyron would still beat the Mc Laren to 200 mph!! And mind you the Mc Laren F1 LM was faster than all the other contemporaries ( that includes the Ferraris , Porche's ,and what not!)


The McLaren F1 LM


But the Veyron was produced at a loss for the company. Check this, the car has a 100 litre fuel tank ,which, at full throttle can be emptied in 12 minutes!!, plus it cost only about 1.2 million$, pretty cheap huh?

So the Veyron is probably the Fastest a passenger car can ever go. With the fuel resources getting depleted i dont feel an attempt would be made to make a faster car, which of course would demand more power and hence more fuel. Thus the Veyron is one of a kind, like a star, only to be admired but never to be possessed... come to think of it, even Bill Gates may get Bankrupt Refueling it every 12 mins or so. So, hail "The Bugatti Veyron", the fastest anyone will get on four wheels...

Why Sachin's Great....

ok ok lots been written and said about him, he has not performed to expectations of late and is being categorised as being a shadow of his past glorius days.

here i would like to give my assessment of Sachin, why i call consider him greater compared to other contemporary cricketers in the game. here lets make a list of the strongest contenders for the best batsman tag, Sachin of course needs no mention, here are the others: Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Inzamam ul Hag, Mathew Hayden,Rahul Dravid

Ricky Ponting has been in great form of late, scoring centuries at will in tests. Brian Lara comes up with a cluster of big hundreds once in a while, Inzamam holds fort when the team needs him most. Mathew hayden a powerful striker, looks like a run machine, Rahul Dravid , the wall, is a carbon copy of the batting manual, so where does sachin stand in terms of accomplishments..

well, his technique is as strong as that of any other batsman.. dont forget , in the 90's he was termed as the batsman with the best defense. of late certain flaws have crept in, such as he plays away from his body at times. He isnt a powerful striker , but a clean one and better so. he has a wider inventory of shots, certain shots he has made up to compensate the shots he had to desist due to injuries.

more than the records he creates it is his ability to be consistent under such pressures which are unimaginable to us mortals

1.the pressure of the indian public who get flustered if he doesn't score a 50 or 100 once every 3 matches or so and still managing to remain consistent.

2.the pressure of fighting the injuries that surface every now and then.

3.making adjustments to his batting style according to the nature of his injury. notice that his stance has changed over the years, and now he uses his bottom hand more and thanks to the tennis elbow , the stalled straight drive is now extinct.

4.remaining such a humble person and not getting carried away with his achievements.

these are the attributes (especially the 3 & 4) that make me rate sachin higher than the others..