People who changed the way cricket is played

I have been a very big fan of Cricket in all its form. Cricket is not only a game played with bat and ball but most importantly its played with mind. I have seen so many cricketers struggling hard to make their best but can’t do it, whereas some players have habbit of remaining on top. These are the people who take challenges and win the matches and heart of the people.

You will find example of many such people in game of cricket but here I would like to talk about two people the first one being “John Buchanan” earlier Australian Cricket Coach. He changed the way cricket is played, under his leadership Australia won Three World Cups in a row. Buchanan along with captain Ricky Ponting, led the Australian side to numerous successes, including a world-record 16 consecutive Test match victories and 23 ODI victories in world cup tournaments.

Ricky Ponting has always credited Buchnan for Austalia’s success, in his own words “It’s not easy to make a very good team still strive to better itself and while a fair credit is due to players, much of it should go to John Buchanan. He has really pushed us into trying to better ourselves and that would be one of his long-standing legacy.”(Quoted from Source: http://coachcyrus.wordpress.com/2007/04/29/ricky-ponting-thanks-coach-for-success).

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a name that has changed all that was requied for Indian Cricket team to win a Big Series and under his captainship we have won the ICC Twenty20 World Cup which is a very big victory after a long time. He is an agressive batsman and wicketkeeper of Indian team. Dhoni has scored highest of 183* against Sri Lanka.

He is a powerful hitter of ball, he has also shown matuarity to maintain his cool and play responsible innings whenever required by the team. Due to his aggressive batting, success on field and his personality he has become one of the most marketable cricketers of India.

Since Dhoni is now the captain of Indian Cricket Team, we can surely see a high rising graph of the whole team and we might win the next ODI world cup also.

Salute to these cricketing Legends.

Top 10 Ways to Raise Your Consciousness (Courtsey:TOI)

Whole night I was suffering from slight fever and body ache and was hence able to sleep only at 4 am. Got up at 10 am. Body is still paining and still having severe headache.

Normally I don’t get much time to glance through the daily newspaper. Today coincidently while getting ready for office my eyes spotted today’s “The Speaking Tree” Corner in TOI (Times of India). Its heading was “Top 10 ways to Raise Your Consciousness“. They might seem very simple to you, but I found them to be very interesting and at least we can give it a try. So here are those 10 points (I will be giving only main points so that you don’t get bored, if you want detailed article you can read the TOI or send me a mail and I will send you the full article):

1. Forgive yourself and others.

2. Practice Gratitude and appreciation.

3. Live each day as though it were your last.

4. Meditate or Pray.

5. Suspend Judgment: One judges another to feel less guilty about one’s own misgivings. Judgment energy is dense, dark and heavy. ON the other hand, unconditional acceptance is light, free and accepting.

6. View every experience as a gift.

7. Stay consciously aware of all your thoughts and feelings: It is easy to fall into negative patterns of complaining and feeling like a victim of society and your life. When you catch yourself in th negative zone, don’t feel badly about it and beat yourself up. Simply choose to switch your consciousness to one of gratitude and positive thinking.

8. Treat your physical body as your temple: Your body is the only vehicle you’ve been given for this ride called life. The better you care for your body by eating a healthy, balanced die, and by implementing a regular exercise routine, and by giving your body the rest it requires, the more you will experience increased energy, vitality, joy and freedom.

9. View the world through the eyes of a child.

10. give love, love, love from your heart.

These are the very basic points and the original article elaborates on the same. Due to shortage of time I am posting only main points, Maybe in my next post I will post whole article.

Source: “The Speaking Tree” article by Ronya Banks, Times of India, Ahmadabad Edition, Dt. Aug 04, 2007

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