History rewritten

Dhoni & co have rewritten history in New Zealand against them in their own backyard. Indians were known as "paper tigers" on overseas tours. That label seems to have disappeared of late. It took 41 years for the indians to register a test series win against New Zealand.

As DHONI rightly attributed this series win to team's efforts. The days of depending on single batsman are gone. Now, every player is chipping in for the team's victory.

A paradigm shift has taken place in India's win, as we were always dependent on spin,but, these days our pace bowlers played a crucial role in this tour. Zaheer Khan after his short stint in county cricket, made a world of good for him which really helped him to improve his bowling style. He was well supported by delhi pacer Ishant Sharma at the other end.

The Man of the match and man of the series Gautam Gambhir has cemented his place for the opener slot.

On a whole, this was an all round performance by the Team India.

IPL fever II has started

In India, nothing unites the people like the game cricket. When the British left India only two things had been bequeathed to the future generations of India. 1. English 2.cricket. Both are Backfiring the Britishers. When the one dayers were introduced the purists cried fowl over the dilution of test cricket----which they considered as the purest form of cricket. Then came, Kerry Packer version of the game-----day/night game. Who could forget the famous tag line "big boys play at night" on players shirt. Actually, that was the stage set for the commercialization of cricket. Till such time, people were watching the game without any "spice" being added to it. After a period of almost 30 years even this version was found to be a little drab. Then came, the 20/20 game ironically, this too, was invented in ENGLAND the land which gave the test cricket.

The advent of IPL has revolutionized the way of entertainment among the indian mass. The first edition of IPL was a runaway hit. The TRP's of several channels nosedived as every household was glued tomatches in the evening. What really clicked the IPL was mixture of bollywood and cricket. The "two" most happening things of India. The association of glamour with the sport made the ad world to watch the proceedings closely. The human trafficking is prohibited. who said so? In IPL , the foreign players are auctioned(a la gladiator style) The first edition of the IPL did generate controversiers like match-fixing , doping charges etc. No longer the cricket is seen as a sport it is more like a entertainment many blokbusters had been post poned because IPL kept the crowd away from cinemahouses. Another significant thing, timing of launch of IPL i.e. summer holidays for the kids so the organisers had encashed the circustances available to them..

The season two has just begun. This time players from pakistan will be missing the event . Another interesting feature is players from England would take part in the event. Kevin petersen, former Englend captain could become the second highest paid player after the indian captain, M.S.Dhoni. He is assured of a minimum fee of $1.35 m.

The bollywood association has become thicker and thicker . This time, shilpa shetty bought 12% stake in Rajasthan royals (the winners of the first edition) This time you would see a lot of hot and cold winds blowing in the Indan summer.

Sun shines at Indian tennis

In the end of 2008, somdev dewarman reached the finals of Chennai open beating bigwigs of the tennis circuit. The year 2009 have not belied the hopes of Indian tennis fans. YES! Hesh-sania pair won the mixes double championship at the Australian open tennis. The first indian woman ever to win a grand slam. Another intersting thing happened to indian tennis was yuki bhambri won the junior title at australian open. He became the fourth Indian to win grand slam title.Previous winners were Ramanathan krishnan, Ramesh krishnan and Leander Paes. At the junior circuit, this title came after almost 19 years after Leander paes won the junior wimbeldon title in 1990.

Every then and now, Indian Players made their presence felt in the major tournaments.It is always known fact that Indians rules the tennis in the Asian region. The matter of concern is it should not be treated as a flash in the pan consistency is very important.If further impetus is given to this game we could be a world beater one day. Now, its up to the system to decide what needs to be done to reach the highest point of the game. JAI HO! Indian Tennis