Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ishant Sharma Cracks The SA openers - 2 Wicket Maiden - SA vs India 2013

Yes that is true, so if you are thinking of fast bowler Ishant Sharma as a failed one, think again. Today has been the day for the bowler as he made a maiden over with two wickets and has made SA in a shaky stage of 40/3 in 10 overs.

India Today says :
"7.1 overs: OUT!! Ishant Sharma has got Henry Davids out caught at second slip. Davids was looking to defend but the extra bounce forced an outside edge that went straight to Suresh Raina at the second slip. Henry Davids departs after scoring just one run. Another BLOW for Proteas!!"

"7.4 overs: That's OUT!! Ishant Sharma has got JP Duminy out caught at second slip. Duminy was squared up by the in-swinging delivery and knicks it towards Suresh Raina at the second slip. JP Duminy departs for a golden duck. Ishant Sharma is ON A ROLL here!!"

So that should settle the critics. Watch out the latest updates on score at:

Live Score Card

Another surprise was Hashim Amla going out in the first 10 overs of an ODI- as a tweet says there is got to be something with "11/12/13"!!

Image Courtesy: Indiatoday

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Monday, July 22, 2013

News : Joe Biden's Visit - visions and expectations

United States Vice President Joe Biden will be arriving in New Delhi on Monday evening for probably the first-ever structured and substantive bilateral visit (22-25 July) as he is set to unveil a decades-long vision of close Indo-US strategic partnership and discuss measures of taking bilateral trade from the current $100 billion to $500 billion.

But before we get down to examining the purpose of Biden’s India visit, the agenda and the expected outcome, here are a few fact checks.

American Vice Presidents have rarely visited the Indian sub-continent. Since India’s independence, only two Vice Presidents of the United States have visited India. The first one was way back in 1966 when Hubert Humphrey visited New Delhi and that visit was followed by George HW Bush who visited India as Vice President in 1984.

Neither of the two visits created waves for bilateral reasons. Humphrey’s India visit took place more out of diplomatic protocol to attend the funeral of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. However, Humphrey’s brief visit triggered international news headlines as he was closeted with the then Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin who was representing the Soviet Union at the funeral.

Joe Biden will be correcting an important anomaly in Indo-US bilateral relations by embarking on a major visit to India and discussing core policy issues covering a wide gamut of bilateral, regional and international subjects of mutual interest.

This vice-presidential visit promises to be the most important event in Indo-US bilateral engagement since President Barack Obama came to India in November 2010 and announced a major policy shift of American support to India’s candidature for permanent membership of the United Nations.

This conclusion can safely be drawn from a very extensive background teleconference call organized by the White House on 19 July, announcing Biden’s visit to India and Singapore. Interestingly, all the questions were India-specific and not a single question was asked about the Singapore leg of Biden’s two-nation tour, prompting a senior Obama administration official to provide information about his engagements in Singapore suo moto...