Hi,

Just for the record, India played an ODI with Srilanka yesterday and lost. It was a rain interrupted game. Indians made 195 in 29 overs. Rohit Sharma played really well. And then Lankans had to chase 155 in 21 overs. They did it with ease.

That's all.

Yours Sincerely,

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Hi,

Today Indians and Australians played the second ODI at Melbourne. Indians bowled really well. Ishaant, Shreeshanth, Irfan, Bhajji! All of them did a good job and restricted Aussies to 159. This should have been an easy chase but Lee and Co. bowled well and tried to make a match out of it. In the end India won with about 5 overs and 5 wickets. This is really great. We beat them at MCG after 21 years!! It was about time!


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Hi,

This was my reaction when Andrew Symonds made a century with a little help from his friends Bucknor, Benson and Oxenford.





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Hi,

Today India played a T20 match against Australia. And lost. And lost badly. T20 is a circus-gone-wrong and nothing can be predicted. So it does not make any sense to have world cups for T20. There are no champions. Its just a 4 hours show. Sooner or later people are going to realize this and sooner the better.

By the way, I am saying this because I did not watch any T20 world cup match because it was not telecasted where I was when it happened. Apparently people went crazy and it was a huge success.

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Hi,

I am sure if you follow cricket you must have heard about Bhajji-Symonds racist row. It got me all confused. I just did not understand the term "racist". So, as I often do when I am confused, I googled. And surely google gave me some definitions for the word. Here is one of them :

racist

adjective
1. based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks"
2. discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion

noun
1. a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others


Now, Mr. Singh allegedly called Mr. Symonds a "big monkey". If atall it is true, does it mean that Mr. Singh thinks that all the people in Mr. Symond's community are inferior? Is it possible to hate just a person and not the entire community? If a person abuses another person, does it mean that he hates the entire community? Is there a difference between abuse and racial abuse? Is there something like a context to a word or does every word have a fixed, rock-solid meaning? If you call someone a monkey, are you a racist?

These are some of the questions even Google could not answer. If you know the answer, please let me know.

I think what we need here is common sense and not laws. For same reason, dynamically typed programming languages, in the right hands, are almost always more flexible than statically typed programming languages.

Yours Sincerely,

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