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| Happy Deepavali | |
| It is the Diwali/Deepavali time which is the biggest Hindu Festival in a calendar full of festivals. Literally translated in means the festival of lights and at a spiritual level it is the celebration of the victory of good over evil in each human being. Tradition traces the origins of the festival to different events in the Hindu folklore. In many...
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| 09:08 | 4/Jun/2007 |
| 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 |
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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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| lucille iaco... | 09:07 | 27/Oct/2008 |
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| Diwali Sweets |
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| While baking Christmas cookies last year, I wanted to send something special to a friend from India. I had been collecting decorative tins for months, picking them up at tag sales and thrift shops especially for packing my sweets. I found a lovely peacock tin from Harrod's. I forget what sort of sweets it held originally, but put this aside to hold...
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| Krishna Prasad | 14:45 | 26/Oct/2008 |
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| HAPPY DIWALI |
| Dear Friends,I take this opportunity to wish you all a PROSPEROUS & HAPPYDIWALI The festival of Diwali has been celebrated for ages and the history of Diwali celebrations is as old as the history of India. Everyone on this festival enjoys the delicious Diwali sweets, the brightly lit Diwali Lamps and Diwali diyas, and the ...
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| Manu Nair | 20:40 | 25/Oct/2008 |
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| Anybody's Guess |
| Should elections be held early? What’s your opinion on this front? This is quite a highly debatable question. Looking at Gujarat alone the Bharatiya Janata Party has done well as its economy is booming still and calling the Tatas to their home has also added a Feather in the cap of the Party! Therefore we can see that the BJP is a step ahead than a...
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| RAGHUPAT | 10:58 | 20/Oct/2008 |
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| I NEED U SWEETHEART |
| Likea dessert needs the water,Like a flower needs the rain,My soul is thristy for yourlove,My heart screams out yourname.Like a ship needs a sailor,Like the stars need the sky,You brighten up my world,Like the moon lights up thenight.Like a movie star loves fame,Like a poor man needs money,I need and long for your love,For your as sweet as honey.Wh...
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 14:05 | 25/Oct/2008 |
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| Happy Deepawali friends !! |
| Deepawali is just round the corner as our markets / sensex continue to tumble. However, through this post I wish all my friends & readers a very happy & prosperous Deepawali & really hope that this Diwali reinstates a lot of hope, confidence & sense of security in you & your family.I also call upon all the regular readers of my blogs to excercise r...
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| Current Boll... | 18:20 | 24/Apr/2008 |
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| How Kareena Kapoor toiled for 'Tashan'! |
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| For the first time in her acting career Kareena Kapoor had to train for eight to nine months for her role in a movie.And that movie is Yashraj Films presentation Tashan which is set to hit the theatres on coming Friday.The film has Kareena in a full-on action role for the first time. Before the shooting began, producer Aditya Chopra , director Vija...
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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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| Ever You Wonder ………(Some stray thoughts…... |
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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 | 09:31 | 26/Apr/2008 |
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| Who Decides |
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| Who decides who gets love in life? Is it pure luck? Accident? F ortune? Why everybody is not fortunate to get such trivial but yet such auspicious/beautiful/aw thing in life Why? After all Who decides who will get love in life?
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| Annapoorna C... | 11:14 | 27/Oct/2008 |
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| HAPPY DIWALI !! |
| In the South, Diwali festival often commemorates the conquering of the Asura Naraka, a powerful king of Assam, who imprisoned tens of thousands of inhabitants. It was Krishna who finally subdued Naraka and freed the prisoners. Diwali Festival in the south is celebrated in the Tamil month of aipasi (thula month) 'naraka chaturdasi' thithi, preced...
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| Teddy Bear | 08:36 | 11/Oct/2008 |
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| TAGGED |
| 1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATRE: Kung Fu Panda. I am an animation movie buff. And now I am waiting for Madagascar II.2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?The Gods and Godmen of India…3.FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?Table Tennis if I can consider that a board game.4.FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?I do follow a few.. but for now let us keep to Harvard Biz Review, Men’s Health...
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| Alex Gomes | 15:56 | 16/Oct/2008 |
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| Hello My Name Is GOD |
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| A Movie of Salman Khan named "Hello" has been released andin that movie a call comes from GOD in the call centre ...Does God really speak, and if He does, what does He sound like? God is always speaking. There are many recorded instances of God speaking fromthe beginning of time until the present day. Yet hearing God is something thatmost people st...
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| hindu icon | 01:26 | 22/Sep/2008 |
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| An Intellectual debate |
| The intellectual scene in Post-independence IndiaA speech of S. Gurumurthy given to IIT Chennai... Defeat and anger go together. Abuse and defeat go together. So, it is in this norm and with this understanding of what an intellectual debate means, I would like to place before you some of my thoughts today. Some of may find it provocative. I am conf...
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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 | 23:24 | 5/Oct/2008 |
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| NEW LOOK OF MAINAKSWORLD |
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| Dear All, This is to announce that the website on Disaster Management and Climate Change ( www.mainaksworld.com ) have new looks. Kindly have a look into it and place your feedback. Thanks and Regards, Mr. Mainak Mazumder Founder www.mainaksworld.com
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| pooja verma | 12:31 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| Expect we must |
| Expect nothing,Expect nothingSo many times wetell ourselves as well as others these words but do we realize that we nevercan become a person who expects nothing from anyone.We expect love, weexpect respect, we expect attention and lot more things…. The list is endless.We expect allpossible things from all the surrounding.When we feel hot weexpect r...
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| dinesh niduvani | 16:19 | 6/Sep/2008 |
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| Is India Secular? |
| Yes,We Can say so because by giving money you can convert peoples from one religion to another religion.and even some mens of minority people can kill a swamiji of majority people.muslim terrorists will not be hanged even if they attack on parliment! reason for all these incidents is that we have great politicians?Some MP/MLA' s Are sold here.Polit...
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| suresh sugav... | 15:33 | 4/Oct/2008 |
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| ANYBODY TO HELP ME ON TOPIC ESSAY WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY200 WORDS
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 22:23 | 9/Jan/2008 |
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| 'Away From Her' - A Review |
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| An aged wife tells her husband,“You could have just driven away without a care in the worldfor me, and forsaken me”With a pause pregnant with unsaid emotions he whispers,“Not a chance.”Inthese two lines which appear to be so unambiguously banal in content at first glance there might lay the ultimate test and triumph of an alliance forged over a li...
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| AdityaDas Menon | 10:57 | 1/Oct/2008 |
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| Some one tagged me..... |
| Joining the crowd......in the Tag Iland....Konfessioner, many thanks to the developer............ I express my sincere gratitude to Mrs Shyama Menon, who took so much pain in helping me to understand the principles of Tagging. 1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER ? I really doonot remb… coz I seldom watch films in theatre….. 2.WHAT BOOK ARE YOU ...
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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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| Now this is one howlarious mail I recd...enjaay...
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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 | 09:35 | 20/Oct/2008 |
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| Yeh kaisa intezaar haiShiddat sey aankhein dhoondti hain tumhey apney khwaaboan meinkhayaaloan mein apni palkoan ki chaaon mein…har ek parchain main har hawa key jhaunkey meinleharoan ki shayari mein phool ki mehak mein..raat key andherey mein din key saverey mein…yeh kaisa intezaar hai…kaisi betaabi kaiseya junoon kaisa hai yeh pagalpan…shaguft h...
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| amit khanna | 11:26 | 16/Oct/2008 |
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| It is so unfair |
| The current shakedown in the Financial sector has made one thing crystal clear. No Sovereign is safe from the domino like effect of free falling economy, specially if it's origins lies an economy as huge as the economy of the USA. A little ripple somewhere can easily gather force like a tsunamic wave, sweeping everything in its wake. The reigns o...
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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 | 20:48 | 1/Oct/2008 |
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| India made a tryst with destiny in 2008 |
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| Jawaharlal Nehru : Speech On the Granting of Indian Independence, August 14, 1947Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes,...
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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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| One of the comman sites in Delhi is a small child on a crossing asking for a rupee or two, it really touches me and i wonder what could be the possible solution to this long lasting social problem in India. But i have never been able to think of a solution for this. Although i strongly feel that we should not promote this and fight out this evil, b...
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| santosh singh | 17:50 | 12/Oct/2008 |
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| Your Networ, Your Net Worth |
| Sometime back I was discussing recruitment processes with my friends/colleagues and some professors; the discussion started getting focused on the key skill sets/attributes/features playing critical role in selection. Though we are quite aware of most of the skill sets and attributes affecting selection decision, an interesting attribute was th...
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| Kanchan Bhat... | 18:19 | 25/Oct/2008 |
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| Meet My Mummy |
| Meet My Mummy Now don’t stare at meThis is my storyWhat?A mummy without a mummyWhat a dummy!Packed in a golden caseLost, with cotton on his faceAnd hands and trunk,And drunk with fumes of arsenic!The mummy dreamsWhen I thought of you Ms Dixit,I landed me in very big-shitNow I have to look for Mr. FixitI am scared and totally lost my witI am wrapped...
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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 o | | |
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