The Star of Hearts...

He was born in 1972. July 8. No one thought he would be a star. His elder brother introduced him to cricket. Now he is the 5th highest scorer in ODI, 5th person to score 10,000 runs in history. He is none other than the former captain of the Blue Team " Sourav Ganguly".

 I came to know about Ganguly and became a fan of him on watching the match India against Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup. His batting thrashed Srilankan bowlers. He scored 183 runs from 154 balls. India was achieving easy victory with his help. Due to World Cup money scandals, the team was totally down. Many players were out of team. at that time Sachin Tendulkar was the captain. He resigned due to health problems. Finally the board decided to make Sourav Ganguly as the captain of team INDIA.

 There was a time when team India was beaten up by weakest teams Kenya and Bangladesh. Fans of India were really feared on seeing India's each game. There was a time when audience throw bottles on ground as protest when India was near to failure of match.
All those bad times were made history by the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly.
Indians started loving India's match after 1999. Indian team started rising to the top both on ODIs and Tests.
Many modifications were made on the team by Ganguly. The King of offsides Sourav Ganguly started losing concentration on his batting. He scored less runs. But the team India will win.
I still remember the match in which Zaheer Khan was given the last over even if he was too expensive in that match. That was his confidence with his players. That match was also won by India.
Many new and young players found seat in team India. Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj, even the King of Captains Dhoni was also brought to the team by Ganguly. With the help of a good coach Wright, Ganguly made the team reach to 2003 WorldCup Final. But India lost the flow with Australia in the final and lost the World Cup. Usually all captains will resign from the team when the team fails in world cup or board changes the captain. But Ganguly was really appreciated by both board and the Indian cricket fans to bring India back with full recharge.
   All captains including the Worldcup 2003 champions Australia's captain Ricky Pointing feared his captaincy.
  After 2003 Worldcup, Wright resigned as coach of India and Greg Chappel was appointed as the coach. That was the fall of Indian Captain Sourav Ganguly. Problems easily spread within team. Ganguly's ability was  not at all remembered by the team mates or board. The young players whom Ganguly introduced were also against him. Finally Ganguly was out of team for his bad batting. Some of the team members complained that Ganguly was very harsh to them.
   Ganguly appeared in a few matches after a break. Fans were expecting his full return. He couldn't reach. He was avoided from Indian team. He was not ready to retire. He was having full of expectations about his return.
 He was selected to play in World Cup 2007. But he couldn't do much. His bad scores over ruled his good battings at that time.
 Finally IPL , Indian Premiere League was a chance for Ganguly. He was made the captain of his Home Team. KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS. The owner of KKR bought Ganguly, but no other strong players. Still Ganguly managed to get the good out of it. It was really challenging. Finally KKR was out of both IPLs early. The last match of KKR on both IPL witnessed Ganguly's super batting ruling the off sides.
  Finally he was out of KKR. Now in 2011, he was avoided by KKR and other teams. Finally KochiIPL team planned to get Ganguly as captain. But the opposition made by other teams made his way to the IPL closed. Still hi fans expecting him on any cricket.

 You watch India's match and enjoy their victory. The reason behind such a best team is the one and only star Sourav Ganguly. He is still the star on every cricketer's heart.
Salute to the great man from every cricketer.
Hats off...


RAM

THE ESCAPE - A Gift from God !!

This is not a story, but a real life situation in my life happened 5 years ago. ie; when i was doing my 2nd year B.Tech. I was going for maths tuition on all Saturdays and Sundays. It was series exam time. Series starts on Monday. The first exam is maths. I was attending the tuition on Sunday  with 5 of my friends of my batch. Others were studying at home. 5 boys and 1 girl was the batch.
 
 The studies were going on with heat on our heads. At that time students of other college who came for tuition there had a quarrel with one of the local person living there. These boys of other college hurt him entering his house. The tuition class was on the terrace of a rented house. Those boys were enjoying the victory over the local. At that time we heard a great sound coming towards the building. We saw a group of goons coming towards our building. There is only one way for exit. No other way because it was terrace. The goons entered the class and hurt those two boys of other college. And they also hurt one of the faculty. They entered the class and destroyed tables and chairs. We were shocked to see such incidents really for the first time. The goons were attacking all the friends of the boys. They came near us and destroyed the tables and chairs and went back. By Gods grace we escaped. After all the incident, as usual the police came. And we all went home. That shock affected our Maths exam. All our parents were afraid hearing this incident. Many stopped coming to class after that.

This was the incident happened. But today i had a talk unfortunately with one of the neighbors of that building. From his words i understood that its by Gods grace, we all escaped. He said, On that day all the local gangs were attending a marriage that no one could reach there on time. Only a few who didn't attend came to the class. If all the goons were there at the situations, we also could have got hurt very badly. That was a real luck.
  On the day of incident we thought why God is doing this to us disturbing our exam. But the truth was that, we went home early only because a small group of goons attacked. Otherwise we would have faced Medical Aids.
Really God's Grace...

Thank God

RAM