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| My Favourite Things (Re-Revised) | |
| JULIE ANDREWS TURNS 69 To commemorate her 69th birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattan's RadioCity Music Hall for the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers she performed was "My Favorite Things" from the legendary movie, "Sound Of Music". Here are the lyrics she used: Maalox and nose drops and ...
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| 08:57 | 15/May/2007 |
| Education, Obscenity and the Moral Polic... | |
| Much has been said and written about how the moral police across the country are attaining a Talibanistic hue. The latest case in point is the attack on the exhibition at an Arts College in Vadodara. It is outrageous that a political party has been allowed to barge in and also politicize what was essentially an internal assessment within the colleg...
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| 19:03 | 9/May/2007 |
| The Indian Cricket Drama | |
| CAST OF CHARACTERS:The ICC:A group of uniquely demented morons who run the game at an international level. They have still not been able to decide when a game is actually over. (The Darrel Hair episode in a test match and the joint Fiasco in the world cup final). Once they are able to finalize this important guideline, they will perhaps devote thei...
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| 02:13 | 6/Feb/2007 |
| More Amazing Facts | |
| "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?) No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?) ...
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| 20:29 | 31/Dec/2006 |
| Sunset, Sunrise and the New year | |
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| The sun sets on one year and prepares to rise on another… Always a time for introspection, self evaluation and resolution… This year I have decided to take this a little further. Since I have crossed the halfway mark of my mortal life, it is a good time to see where I am and where I wanted to be! Well I am in a software project in Angola, thousands...
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| 02:01 | 23/Nov/2006 |
| LIFE is not a Race take it SLOWER | |
| A remarkably beautiful poem which teaches us to enjoy the wondefrul journey that is life and ensure that we take time to enjoy all the gorgeous sights en route our destination. The person who forwarded this to me advised that the poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. Very tragic, poignant and moving SLOW DA...
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| 11:17 | 11/Nov/2006 |
| Truly Amazing Facts | |
| Here is an amazing collection of facts I received in the mail. I found them very interesting. I hope you do too.In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was allowed to beat hiswife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the ruleof thumb".Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled "Gentlemen Only...Ladies F...
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| 13:27 | 8/Nov/2006 |
| That is Life Sometimes | |
| Here are a few anecdotes which I liked. You may enjoy them if you have not seen them beforeSituation ...1A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Honey, pack your bags. I won the damn lottery!" The husband said, "Oh my God! What should I pack, beach s...
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| 22:42 | 4/Nov/2006 |
| Why are we Stressed | |
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| Here is a nice anecdote I received which tries to explain the reasons for stress. A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer. The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some p...
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| 22:14 | 6/Oct/2006 |
| More One liners | |
| There are two ways to live life, One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle.----- Albert Einstein Things that matter the most, must never be at the mercy of things that matter the least.-----Goethe We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ---- Albert Einstein The t...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| Sharanyaa | 14:11 | 21/May/2007 |
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| A very touching love story |
| Very Heart Touching Love Story A certain rich businessman had a beautiful daughter, who fell in love with a guy who was a cleaner. When the girl's father came to know about their love, he did notlike it at all, and so began to protest about it. Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homesfor a happy future. The girl's father sta...
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| Shree Sharma | 21:37 | 27/Aug/2007 |
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| In India we think of very high of those people who are living or working abroad !!! As a student or as a professional we grow up with a dream of studying or working abroad.I feel nothing in the world is like India. We leave behind our families and the place where we were brought up, once we leave then we realize what we have missed.I have seen a bl...
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| lalitha kris... | 09:04 | 14/Oct/2007 |
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| The road to her Begins where all roads to his past endTorrid deeds, craving needsBurning bright yet to be extinguished. The road to her Begins when all roads to his past endFollies committed, sins buriedStill fluttering yet to be unwinged. The road to her Begins where all roads to his past endTarnished heart, unkempt soulShining white yet to be ame...
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| Annapoorna C... | 11:18 | 11/Nov/2007 |
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| Teacher :What happened in 1869?Student:Gandhi ji was born.Teacher :What happened in 1873?Student:Gandhiji was four years old. Question:What is the fullform of maths.Anwser: Mentaly affected teachers harrasing students Teacher :Because of Gandhiji's hard work what do we get on 15th August.Student:A holiday Teacher:"Can anyone give me an example of C...
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| Teddy Bear | 09:54 | 9/Nov/2007 |
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| Raju : “Abey Panda.. Rasgullaa”! (Hey Panda.. “Rasgullaa”) Panda : “Muh mey hai be”! (I have them in my mouth) Rourkela had always been a cosmopolitan town; pardon me for using this word more in a national sense than international. Probably you wont associate cosmopolitanism with an Indian town, it has always been more of a “city” term. But ...
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| Alex Gomes | 09:56 | 23/Dec/2006 |
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| India Watch Out….Male Society Ahead!!! |
| (Hye folks…..I could not blog for considerable time as I was out surfing for a genuine business on net….found couple of them but still skeptical as I have already lost thousands of rupees trying them out….)About ten million female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection over the past 20 years because of a conventional first...
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| hindu icon | 09:58 | 25/Aug/2007 |
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| HAPPY ONAM AT TN RAILWAY STATIONS |
| ON ONAM eve we get snubbed by Tamil Nadu by its regional satraps, we as Malayalees need to evaluate the causes of total lack of respect for the state in the national political scene.Wat astonishes me more is the fact that this is in the backdrop of the great respect that Malayaless get as individuals across any spectrum. I can personaly vouch for ...
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| Kunjal Bharat | 21:11 | 31/Dec/2006 |
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| New Year Wish |
| Happy New Year to all my blogger family May every day of new year be better than previous best day May you find more true friends on blog then u expected May you find health, wealth & character May all your wishes gets fulfilled May our friendship grow May god bless you Luv Kunjal
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| Mainak Mazumder | 01:36 | 9/Dec/2007 |
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| CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY |
| Climate Change and Its Impacts Our personal perception of Climate Change is largely developed through experience and interpretation of records compiled by our ancestors. People who grow up in the warmer temperate regions and tropics are in awe at the first sight of snow, no matter what they have read or visualized from film and television. It is al...
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| dinesh niduvani | 12:53 | 27/Apr/2007 |
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| OSHO THOUGHTS |
| Osho Thoughts is taken from the website woopit .comMoment to Moment The past is no more and the future is not yet;Both are unnecesarily moving in directions which dont exist.One used to exist,but no longer exists,and one has not even started to exist.The only right person is one who lives moment to moment ,who is always arrow is directed to...
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| suresh sugav... | 12:04 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| http://www.clixsense.com/?2176683 anybody interested can join above programme regards suresh
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| Malini Laskar | 14:23 | 26/Nov/2007 |
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| Doston, Bahut dino tak aap logo ka sath raha, bahut izzat aur bahut pyaar mila aap logo se, par ab kuch karno se aap sabhi se izazat leti hu.... is vade ke sath ki wapas aaoungi ek din.... ek nayee jindagi ki shuruat ki khabar liye.... Aap sabhi ko mera bahut bahut shukriya.... Love Shailey
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 00:51 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| The corner shop that serves us teaAnd houses all furore.From rising price to falling starsIn voices shrill and sore.A pair of eyes does follow themLook askance at their dinWhen closing shop with little handsOr washing strainers clean.A simple riddle troubles her,At times, does make her smileHow grown up men have silly fightsKnowing all the whileTha...
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| AdityaDas Menon | 15:57 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| " THE PRINCESS" ....Part One........... |
| "The Princess".......... Part One... Dear Reader, My Blog “ The Princess “ is nothing but simple scribblings of my wandering thoughts based on a story describing Panchali’s secret fascination towards the Star of Mahabharata – Karna ……Infact I read that few months back in a weekly.As per them, it was described in Puranamanjari.I don’t know whether i...
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| Udayan Roy | 09:45 | 24/Aug/2007 |
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| Loose to gain |
| It's better to loose your EGO to the one you LOVE, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO . -------- John Keats.
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| Arshii I | 15:15 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| A person live life and love life for the sake of all lovely things in the world.and what if the loveliest thing is life is misplaced or lost.What if Life itself puts him in this situation where"woh saamne hote hain or nahin bhi"Agar haein malum hota gham kya haito yaara hum muhabbat hi kyon karte?woh nazar aatte hain or nahin bhiagar hamein malum h...
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| arvind kunday | 16:21 | 11/Nov/2006 |
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| New Indian Order |
| Before reading this post, you have an question to answer yourself. The question is "How many of you think that the government is not maintaining the roads or buses or trains clean?" Have the answer ready to yourself. When I was traveling by day train last week, I had an opportunity to look into the present situation of India. Those who have travel...
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| nita thakur | 19:00 | 22/Jan/2007 |
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| alpana | 22:10 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| its a plea! please respect and love ur elders always! Aaj shaam thi ajeeb si na thi chiyoan ki chehak na thi phooloan mey mehak aisa laga ki pavan ney dhoond ki chaadarchaaroan aur li thi lapet! na tha mausam garmi ka na hua sardi ka ehsaasbas lag raha tha kuch rokh raha hai mera saansaaj shaam thi ajeeb siaur mein thi shayad bheetar mann key thod...
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| amit khanna | 14:03 | 2/Sep/2007 |
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| The journey back home |
| The more I travel the more I get to know myself. If given an opportunity I would readily exchange my unearthly work hours with a life of a nomad.Of course that is not possible, taking into consideration my financial status which is nothing to crow about. Maybe later, when I have some money in the bank I will take a year off and go train spotting. A...
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| AMBY | 20:32 | 19/May/2007 |
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| Mayawati-Our Nation's Future ??????? |
| The Recent elections of UP clearly proved that we must now think about granting the voting powers to the educated alone.The huge mandate that Mayawati got clearly proves that we will continue to be ruled by those who lack the intllect, the acumen ad ethics. It is a no win situation for us to choose between Mulayam & Mayawati, both of them who like ...
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| gaurav atri | 16:05 | 13/Apr/2007 |
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| Its not a laughing matter, after all we are standing at the highest point in Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra).
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| Sudipta Sarkar | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007 |
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| Separation and Travel |
| Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...
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| Shiv Khatri | 18:26 | 25/Sep/2006 |
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| santosh singh | 10:12 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| I am back on RediffIland |
| So I am back on Rediff Iland (almost after a year for blogging). I realized that instead of using it as a mirror blog or just an id to put comments on Rediff Iland blogs and I should use it better. So I am going to write a series of posts on Relationship. Yup. You are right. Blog about relationship and its different dimensions. I am not cross posti...
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| Kanchan Bhat... | 23:49 | 12/Dec/2007 |
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| Randomized You women lie Kneeling and praying Dancing in endgames Praying as life ebbs To the Goddess of stupid things, Just nothingness Rejoicing in my death Forever A blindfold through The stakes Kill me Would you Or rather, Wont you? © kanchan 12 Dec 2007
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| TestCricket ... | 03:08 | 27/Jun/2007 |
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| Test #1836 Records : Chanderpaul remains... |
| Test #1836 West Indies in England 2007 ( 4 th Test ) at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street The latest test series between West Indies and England resulted in the same manner as did the every series in the new millennium. After winning the first test of the new millennium played at Edgbaston from June 15 th to 17 th inside three days by a huge margin of an innings and 93 runs, they are yet to register a test victory against England . West Indies went on to surrender The John Wisden Trophy in 2000 series by losing three of the next four tests with the rain ruined third test played at Old Trafford ending in a draw. Thus they ended their supremacy of last 27 years of 20 th century during which they never lost a test series to England . Odds were never in their favor to regain the John Wisden Trophy even before they started the 2007 series. Yes, not even before Brian Lara announced his retirement from the international Cricket immediately after the World Cup debacle. However they did put up a good show in the first test at Lord’s though weather ruined the proceedings and helped West Indies in escaping the test match with a draw. If Chanderpaul’s absence in the 2 nd test was itself a major blow for the West Indies , they took another crushing blow when their captain Ramnaresh Sarwan suffered a series ending injury in the second test before even taking a batting stance. There after things went from bad to worse with Chris Gayle not being able to take off at all and their stop-gap skipper Daren Ganga having a horrible existence at the crease since taking over the captaincy with scores of 5 & 9, 5 & 0 , 0 & 6. The Brilliance of Bravo and Resilience of Chanderpaul could not stop West Indies from losing last three tests even though it looked as if West Indies might avoid a defeat while Chanderpaul and Bravo were batting in last two tests. So England extends their streak of not losing a test match to West Indies to sixteen and West Indies requires a tremendous amount of reversal in their cricketing fortunes even to dream of regaining the John Wisden trophy when they host England in 2009. Following are some of the statistical highlights of the fourth test of the 2007 series: Though England dominated the test series from every imaginable angle, one batsman they could not corner was Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Chanderpaul topped the batting averages for both sides but ended up on the losing side as he did in 2004 notching up plethora of test records in the process. He batted for more than 1000 minutes without getting dismissed while making 116* in the 2 nd innings of the 3 rd test at Old Trafford and 136* & 70 in the 4 th test at Chester-le-Street . This is the third time he recorded this feat in his test career. Only five other batsmen achieved this record in test history and none of them had done it more than once. Following is the list of all such occasions. Player Vs Venue Series Inns Score C.Runs Mts T.Mts B/F T. B/F TEST# Shoaib Mohammad NZ Karachi 1990/91 1st *203 203 656 656 411 411 1151 NZ Lahore 1990/91 1st 105 308 351 1007 223 634 1152 Nasser Hussain SA Port Elizabeth 1999/00 2nd *70 70 303 303 211 211 1475 SA Durban 1999/00 1st *146 216 635 938 463 674 1480 SA Cape Town 1999/00 1st 15 231 85 1023 70 744 1482 Rahul Dravid BD Dhaka 2000/01 2nd *41 41 50 50 49 49 1512 Zim New Delhi 2000/01 1st *200 241 551 601 350 399 1515 2nd *70 311 152 753 91 490 Zim Nagpur 2000/01 1st 162 473 408 1161 301 791 1517 Jacques Kallis Zim Harare 2001/02 1st *157 157 381 381 272 272 1562 2nd *42 199 65 446 54 326 Zim Bulawayo 2001/02 1st *189 388 581 1027 443 769 1563 Ind Bloemfontein 2001/02 1st 68 456 219 1246 138 907 1564 Shivnarine ChanderPaul Ind Port of Spain 2001/02 2nd *67 67 260 260 162 162 1599 Ind Bridgetown 2001/02 1st *101 168 365 625 231 393 1601 Ind St. John's 2001/02 1st *136 304 675 1300 510 903 1602 Ind Kingston 2001/02 1st 58 362 213 1513 148 1051 1604 Sachin Tendulkar Aus Sydney 2003/04 1st *241 241 613 613 436 436 1680 2nd *60 301 108 721 89 525 Pak Multan 2003/04 1st *194 495 493 1214 348 873 1693 Pak Lahore 2003/04 1st 2 497 10 1224 6 879 1695 Shivnarine ChanderPaul BD Kingston 2003/04 1st *101 101 271 271 190 190 1703 Eng Lord's 2004 1st *128 229 383 654 270 460 1707 2nd *97 306 231 885 152 612 Eng Edgbaston 2004 1st 45 351 146 1031 86 698 1708 Shivnarine ChanderPaul Eng Old Trafford 2007 2nd *116 116 413 413 257 257 1835 Eng Chester-le-Street 2007 1st *136 252 406 819 257 514 1836 2nd 70 322 255 1074 163 677 Just for the record : Hanif Mohammad of Pakistan holds the record for batting for longest period in a single test match with his marathon knock of 337 in 970 minutes against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1957/58 whereas Aussie Opener Mark Taylor with 334* (720 mts) & 92 (218 mts) against Pakistan at Peshawar 1998/99 is close second with 938 mts of batting before getting dismissed. However Stephen Fleming of New Zealand holds the record for batting longest period of 956 minutes without getting dismissed in a single test with the scores of 274* (653) & 69* (303) against Sri Lanka at Colombo (PSS) in 2003. Fleming however was dismissed for a duck in the next match after batting for just 5 mts thus missing the 1000 mts mark. Chanderpaul’s latest 1000+ minutes batting between dismissals also makes him the owner of another interesting record. For the second time in his career he now has witnessed 20 or more wickets falling consecutively at the other end while he himself remained not out. In the third test at Old Trafford he came into bat at 88 for 3 and remained unbeaten at the close of West Indian innings, thus seeing seven of his teammates losing their wickets. In the fourth test at Chester-le-Street , Chanderpaul came into bat at 34 for 3 and remained not out again for 136 witnessing seven more wickets falling at the other end. In the second innings of the same test he stepped in at 38 for 3 and saw six wickets falling at the other end before becoming the last batsman out in the innings for 70. However Chanderpaul's unbeaten tenure at the crease which made him saw 20 of his side’s dismissals is still one dismissal short of his record 21 dismissals he witnessed during his record 1513 minutes of unbeaten batting against India in 2001-02 as he saw 6 wickets falling during his 2 nd innings knock of 67* at Port of Spain, 6 wickets during 101* at Bridgetown, 6 wickets during 136* at St. John’s and 3 wickets during his 1 st innings knock of 58 at Kingston. No other batsmen in the history of test cricket batted with such patience and perseverance to endure so many wickets falling at the opposite end. The closest to Chanderpaul’s record is 18 dismissals shared by Jacques Rudolph of South Africa and Kumara Sangakkara of Sri Lanka . Rudolph made 154* at Auckalnd and 93* & 0 at Wellington in 2003-04 series against New Zealand whereas Sangakkara made 100* at Christchurch and 156* & 8 at Wellington against the same opposition in 2006-07. They both came at the fall of first wicket in their unbeaten innings. When the West Indian skipper Daren Ganga was out lbw to the first ball of the test match bowled by Ryan Sidebottom, he not only became the 26 th player to be dismissed by the first ball of a Test Match but also just the third captain to have suffered the ignominy. At Headingley in 1926, acting as a stop-gap captain in the absence of the appointed captain Herbie Collins just like Darren Ganga, Warren Bardsley of Australia became the first captain to have suffered the fate of getting out to the first ball of a test match.. Seventy three years later Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya fell to the first ball of the match, bowled by Australia 's Glenn McGrath at Galle in 1999-00. For the entire list of batsmen who were out to the first legitimate delivery of a test match refer to the table in my posting on Test #1832 which saw India’s opener Wasim Jaffer shouldering his arms to an incoming delivery from Bangladesh’s Mashrafe Mortaza to lose his stumps to the first ball of a test match and provide 25 th such instance. For the Trivia buffs : When AC MacLaren of Australia was out to the first ball of the Melbourne test in 1894/95 of the bowling of Arthur Conningham, he provided first such instance. It was also Arthur Conningham’s first delivery in his test career . Mohsin Khan’s dismissal with the first ball of 1983/84 test at Jalandhar by Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar’s first ball dismissal by Imran Khan at Jaipur provides the only two instances in test cricket a wicket falling to the first ever ball bowled at a particular venue. Sunil Gavaskar of India and Hannan Sarkar of Bangladesh are the only batsmen to have suffered fate of losing their wicket to the first ball of a test match on three separate occasions whereas Geoff Arnold of England (2), Richard Hadlee of New Zealand (2) , Kapil Dev of India (2) and Pedro Collins of West Indies (3) are the only bowlers to have taken a wicket with the first delivery bowled in a test match on more than one occasion. Hannan Sarkar also holds the record for getting out to the first delivery of a test match in three consecutive tests, which as of today are his last three matches of his test career. Keith Stackpole of Australia in 1973/74 at Auckland against New Zealand and Wasim Jaffer against Bangladesh at Chittagong followed up their first ball dismissal of a test match with another duck in their second innings. SJ Cook of South Africa and LV Garrick of New Zealand were out to the first ball of a test match while making their test debut. Except Zimbabwe batsmen of all test playing nations have at least one batsmen or bowler involved in a first ball dismissal in a test match. During his first innings knock of 136* Chanderpaul crossed the ’s 7000 test runs milestone and became the 7 th West Indian and 30 th test cricketer to have done so. Following is the list of all players with 7000 or more test runs. Player Country Tests Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg S/R Lara, B C West Indies 131 232 6 11953 *400 34 48 52.89 60.52 Border, A R Australia 156 265 44 11174 205 27 63 50.56 40.98 Waugh, S R Australia 168 260 46 10927 200 32 50 51.06 48.65 Tendulkar, S R* India 137 220 23 10922 *248 37 43 55.44 Gavaskar, S M India 125 214 16 10122 *236 34 45 51.12 Ponting, R T* Australia 110 183 25 9368 257 33 36 59.29 58.95 Dravid, R * India 109 185 22 9366 270 24 47 57.46 42.50 Gooch, G A England 118 215 6 8900 333 20 46 42.58 49.20 Javed Miandad Pakistan 124 189 21 8832 *280 23 43 52.57 Inzamam-ul-Haq* Pakistan 119 198 22 8813 329 25 46 50.07 54.04 Richards, I V A West Indies 121 182 12 8540 291 24 45 50.24 Stewart, A J England 133 235 21 8463 190 15 45 39.55 48.67 Kallis, J H* South Africa 107 182 29 8430 *189 24 44 55.10 42.76 Gower, D I England 117 204 18 8231 215 18 39 44.25 50.60 Boycott, G England 108 193 23 8114 *246 22 42 47.73 Sobers, G S A West Indies 93 160 21 8032 *365 26 30 57.78 Waugh, M E Australia 128 209 17 8029 *153 20 47 41.82 52.27 Hayden, M L* Australia 89 159 13 7739 380 27 27 53.01 60.08 Atherton, M A England 115 212 7 7728 *185 16 46 37.70 37.32 Langer, J L Australia 105 182 12 7696 250 23 30 45.27 54.23 Cowdrey, M C England 114 188 15 7624 182 22 38 44.07 Greenidge, C G West Indies 108 185 16 7558 226 19 34 44.72 Taylor, M A Australia 104 186 13 7525 *334 19 40 43.50 41.61 Lloyd, C H West Indies 110 175 14 7515 *242 19 39 46.68 Haynes, D L West Indies 116 202 25 7487 184 18 39 42.30 Boon, D C Australia 107 190 20 7422 200 21 32 43.66 40.97 Kirsten, G South Africa 101 176 15 7289 275 21 34 45.27 43.35 Hammond, W R England 85 140 16 7249 *336 22 24 58.46 Chanderpaul, S* West Indies 104 178 24 7182 *203 16 43 46.64 43.32 Chappell, G S Australia 87 151 19 7110 *247 24 31 53.86 Finally England ’s Andrew Strauss stuck some batting form and made a fine 77 in the first innings. In the second innings he completed 3000 runs in Test Cricket and became the 143 cricketer to do so and 34 th from England . Following is the list of all English cricketers who aggregated 3000 or more runs in a test career: Player Country Tests Inns NO Runs HS 100s 50s Avg S/R Gooch, G A England 118 215 6 8900 333 20 46 42.58 49.20 Stewart, A J England 133 235 21 8463 190 15 45 39.55 48.67 Gower, D I England 117 204 18 8231 215 18 39 44.25 50.60 Boycott, G England 108 193 23 8114 *246 22 42 47.73 Atherton, M A England 115 212 7 7728 *185 16 46 37.70 37.32 Cowdrey, M C England 114 188 15 7624 182 22 38 44.07 Hammond, W R England 85 140 16 7249 *336 22 24 58.46 Hutton, L England 79 138 15 6971 364 19 33 56.67 Barrington, K F England 82 131 15 6806 256 20 35 58.67 Thorpe, G P England 100 179 28 6744 *200 16 39 44.66 45.90 Trescothick, M E* England 76 143 10 5825 219 14 29 43.80 54.52 Compton, D C S England 78 131 15 5807 278 17 28 50.06 Hussain, N England 96 171 16 5764 207 14 33 37.19 40.39 Hobbs, J B England 61 102 7 5410 211 15 28 56.95 Botham, I T England 102 161 6 5200 208 14 22 33.55 60.71 Edrich, J H England 77 127 9 5138 *310 12 24 43.54 Graveney, T W England 79 123 13 4882 258 11 20 44.38 Vaughan, M P* England 67 120 9 4846 197 16 14 43.66 52.47 Lamb, A J England 79 139 10 4656 142 14 18 36.09 51.40 Sutcliffe, H England 54 84 9 4555 194 16 23 60.73 May, P B H England 66 106 9 4537 *285 13 22 46.77 Dexter, E R England 62 102 8 4502 205 9 27 47.89 Gatting, M W England 79 138 14 4409 207 10 21 35.56 45.16 Knott, A P E England 95 149 15 4389 135 5 30 32.75 Butcher, M A England 71 131 7 4288 *173 8 23 34.58 42.02 Smith, R A England 62 112 15 4236 175 9 28 43.67 45.65 Amiss, D L England 50 88 10 3612 *262 11 11 46.31 Greig, A W England 58 93 4 3599 148 8 20 40.44 Hendren, E H England 51 83 9 3525 *205 7 21 47.64 Hick, G A England 65 114 6 3383 178 6 18 31.32 48.89 Flintoff, A* England 67 110 6 3381 167 5 24 | | |
