- Don Bradman played test cricket ONLY against 4 countries - England, India, South Africa and West Indies. He did not play a test against New Zealand (the only Australia v New Zealand test match during his career was in 1946).
- Bradman captained Australia 24 times, winning 15 matches and losing 3.
- Don Bradman was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931.
- Against India, Don Bradman averaged 178.75 in 6 innings. Bradman scored 4 centuries and 1 half century in 6 innings. Phew!
- Don Bradman averaged 201.50 in 5 tests against South Africa.
- Although he made his highest test score (334) in the 3rd test of the 1930 series in England, Bradman considered his 254 in the second test of the series to be his best innings technically.
- Don Bradman described himself as "predominately a back foot player".
- When he first saw the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1921, Don Bradman said to his father "I shall never be happy until I play at this ground" - in 1930, he scored a record 452 not out at that ground.
- Don Bradman's batting average over his career in test matches against all countries was 99.94 - if he had scored 4 more runs, he would have averaged 100 per innings.
- Don Bradman scored his first century (115 not out) for Bowral High School against Mittagong when he was 12 years old.
- Bradman’s fastest century was against South Africa in 1931-32. He took just 98 minutes to reach 100 runs mark, however it is unknown that how many balls he faced.
- Don Bradman converted seven consecutive centuries into a score of 150 or more. Our Veeru (Sehwag) has done better.
- Bradman’s dismal score in his first Test (18 and 1) and his last Test (0) is well known but very few know that he holds the record for the scoring the highest runs by any Austrailan in his second Test (79 and 112) and second last Test (33 and 173 n.o.).
- Bradman is said to have had more than one nickname. Braddles, Goldie, The babe Ruth of Cricket, The Little Fella are a few of them.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Don Bradman : Stats
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Warner back with Hostage Movie
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Beckham goes to AC Milan
The former Manchester United and Real Madrid star, who needs two more appearances to eclipse Bobby Moore as England's most-capped outfield player with 108, is eager to stay in contention for his country during the MLS close season. However, England coach Fabio Capello has made it clear he will only select players who are active and in form.
India goes to Moon
The launch is regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia. Indian PM Manmohan Singh hailed the launch as the "first step" in a historic milestone in the country's space programme. "Our scientific community has once again done the country proud and the entire nation salutes them," Mr Singh said in a message.
The launch was greeted with applause by scientists gathered at the site. The chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Madhavan Nair, said it was a "historic moment" for the country. "Today what we have charted is a remarkable journey for an Indian spacecraft to go to the moon and try to unravel the mysteries of the Earth's closest celestial body and its only natural satellite," Mr Nair said.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Is Kumble in the trap?
Can Barrack Obama stop IT Outsourcing???
Friday, October 17, 2008
is training for joining airways is safe?
Dont Forget the journey
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Is Actress forced for money in India?
She says ‘right in my childhood, my father left us and never turned onto our side and it was my uncle who saved from the deep troubles and lifted to certain level. Then as I started acting in films, my father got back again and we were there showering our love for us. But then, he started grabbing the money I earned through films. Also he forced me to act in films of obscenity and even he spoke the worst about me in public’.
She asked for the support from the media and the public not just for her but for her mother, Shaali as well.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Something inside the Glass??? Hmmm!!!
Be careful Guys!!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
A comeback for Hirwani
The talented Leggie had burst into the test scene with a record breaking performance against the west Indies in chennai in 1987.He picked up 16 wicktes as a bespectacled 19 year old and kept up his good form for the next few games.But yet his career failed to pick up pace and hirwanu played only 17 tests for India.picking up 66 wicktes.He last layed for India in November 1996 against South Africa.Many say the talented but moody leg spinner was not nurtured properply by the Indian cricketing establishment,Thus cutting his International careershort.But hirwani went on plying his trade tirelessly inthe domestic circuit till 2006.Accommodated asa national selector only 2 years after his retirement.Hirwani's experience and hard work in the domestic circuit will give hope to the fringe players.He is expected to be sympathetic to players who have toiled hard in the domestic circuit.
Chika on a mission
The chairman of selectors has et out with an agenda to build a winning team for the 2011 world cup but has made itc learthat it is not ability alone that makes a cricketer but also his mental fortitude.He has also gone on record and said :"An eye for the future is equally important.Hard decisions might have to be taken.The current test team is one of the best India Has ever had and it will not be easy replacing them".Having played his cricket with no nonsense approach,Srikkanth has always been a vocal critic of board politics that have often pushed cricket to the backbenches and as a selector we expect him to follow that line and select a team based on its abilities and not regional colours.
Aegan goes US
Marmayogi gets a setback
After the fall of the movie Kuselan at the box office Pyramid Saimira has given layoff to many of its professionals from the management level. It seems that improper function was taking place in the management level. Pyramid Saimira is one of the co-producers of Kamal Hassan’s Marmayogi and now they are confused to stay or to dropout of the project.
Boxing a boon to maintain your fitness level
An Advancement in technology to fight the nature
A German-Indonesian radio project tries to make forest conservation more popularBy Anett KellerIndonesia, the host of the climate summit in December, has a poor environmental record. An area of forest the size of five football fields is destroyed every minute in the country. The slashing and burning of its rainforests places the country among the world’s biggest carbon dioxide polluters.The United Nations could not have found a more fitting place for the climate summit than Indonesia. In this land of more than 13,000 islands, tropical rainforest is disappearing faster than anywhere else on Earth. Indonesia has lost four million hectares of forest in the past 25 years – that is 60 percent of the country’s total.The trees are used to make cheap plywood, weatherproof garden furniture, glossy magazines and toilet paper. Increasingly more of the land is converted into plantations to feed the growing hunger for bio-fuels made from palm oil. The slashing and burning of Indonesia’s jungles has dramatic consequences for the world climate: their layers of humus –many meters thick – bind carbon.For Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and its Indonesian language radio department, that was a good reason to raise awareness of the problem in the country itself. “The whole world is watching the big event in Bali,” said Hendra Pasuhuk, the program director. “But for many Indonesians, the destruction of the forests and the consequences for the environment are not the least bit important.”Radio was the ideal medium with which to draw attention to the problem, as it is the most popular form of media in Indonesia. Along with the Indonesian partner station Radio KBR68H, and with support from the German Development Ministry, the forest conservation project went into action.First, Indonesian radio journalists were called upon to work out an abstract on the subject of conservation. “It was important to us to get people who (themselves) came from the affected regions and were not reporting from the distant capital,” Pasuhuk said. Ten journalists from five provinces took part in a weeklong workshop in Jakarta at the end of October. They gained valuable input from environmentalists and forestry ministry officials. At the same time, they were supposed to turn their ideas into plans, which they could use as a basis for about 10 days ofresearch in their regions – accompanied by a colleague from Deutsche Welle. The aim of the project was to make a feature series of 10-minute reports to broadcast on about 400 local radio stations during the climate summit.For the journalists involved, it was a rare opportunity to do some solid on-the-spot research – something their limited resources usually don’t allow, says Ade Wahyudi, program manager at KBR68H. “In the provinces in particular, journalists don’t have the technical or the financialcapacity for fact-finding trips,” he said, adding that the complex topic of forest conservation can best be communicated to listeners when presented in a lively way and told from the perspective of those affected.The project yielded some interesting results. Some of the journalists went to the island of Kalimantan, looking for Sebuku elephants. Only a few dozen of them have survived the destruction of their habitat in the forests of East Kalimantan. In eastern Java, project members found a village where every single resident earns a living from illegal logging. Not even the police dare to go there.Another team went to Poso and Palu in central Sulawesi, places famous for the black wood of the ebony tree. Officially, ebony is protected and the trees must not be felled. But the violent conflict in the region makes the rules hard to enforce and prevents reforestation programs.The decades-long conflict in Papua between the local population and the central government with its huge army presence has also had an impact on the environment. The military, foreign companies, local officials – there are many different parties earning money in the timber trade.Journalists dealing with the subject must navigate murky waters. “I received some phone calls where I felt threatened,” said Edith Koesoemawiria, a Deutsche Welle journalist. “And one time a man no one knew turned up and made it clear to me that I was not to report on logging.” She and her two local colleagues were investigating the situation in Papua. They reported on the problems in implementing reforestation programs. They visited villagers who cut down the hugetrees in their forests and sell the trunks to logging companies, just to feed their families – even though their area has been declared a nature reserve.Although she was shocked by the degree of environmental destruction she found, Koesoemawiria is enthusiastic about the project. She says far too little is known in Indonesia about the long-term effects of cutting down the rainforests. “People do know that there are mudslides when the treeshave been cut down,” she said. “But hardly anyone realizes that the destruction of the forests has a negative impact on the climate.” She admits it is difficult to bring about a sustained new awareness. But for that very reason, she says, you can’t report on the dangers of destroying the rainforest too often.The reports have been airing since Nov. 26. Partner stations across Indonesia have been broadcasting them. And the reports are even going out beyond the national borders. The “Asia Calling” program on KBR68H is rebroadcast by many stations in other Asian countries, in English and the national languages.
Stock Market
A stock market index is a method of measuring a stock market as a whole. The market can be Canadian stocks, American stocks, Bio-tech stocks, small-cap stocks, growth stocks, or any other market of interest. Many indices are compiled by news or financial services firms and are used to benchmark the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds.
Addressing inflation
Measuring inflation requires finding objective ways of separating out changes in nominal prices from other influences related to real activity. In the simplest possible case, if the price of a 10 oz. can of corn changes from $0.90 to $1.00 over the course of a year, with no change in quality, then this price change represents inflation. But we are usually more interested in knowing how the overall cost of living changes, and therefore instead of looking at the change in price of one good, we want to know how the price of a large 'basket' of goods and services changes. This is the purpose of looking at a price index, which is a weighted average of many prices. The weights in the Consumer Price Index, for example, represent the fraction of spending that typical consumers spend on each type of goods (using data collected by surveying households).Inflation measures are often modified over time, either for the relative weight of goods in the basket, or in the way in which goods from the present are compared with goods from the past. This includes hedonic adjustments and “reweighing” as well as using chained measures of inflation. As with many economic numbers, inflation numbers are often seasonally adjusted in order to differentiate expected cyclical cost increases, versus changes in the economy. Inflation numbers are averaged or otherwise subjected to statistical techniques in order to remove statistical noise and volatility of individual prices. Finally, when looking at inflation, economic institutions sometimes only look at subsets or special indices. One common set is inflation excluding food and energy, which is often called “core inflation”.
The 2nd Worlds most popular Currency
The euro is currently the second most commonly held reserve currency, being approximately a quarter of allocated holdings. After World War II and the rebuilding of the German economy (see the Wirtschaftswunder), the German Deutsche Mark gained the status of the second most important reserve currency after the US dollar. When the euro was launched on January 1 1999, replacing the Mark, French Franc and nine other European currencies, it inherited the status of a major reserve currency from the Mark. Since then its contribution to official reserves has risen continually as banks seek to diversify their reserves and trade in the eurozone continues to expand. The New York Times Book Review also referred to the euro as the "Deutsch-Mark by another name".
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in September 2007 that the euro could replace the U.S. dollar as the world's primary reserve currency. It is "absolutely conceivable that the euro will replace the dollar as reserve currency, or will be traded as an equally important reserve currency." Econometrical analysis suggests, the euro may replace the U.S. dollar as the major reserve currency by 2020 if: (1) the remaining EU members, including the UK, adopt the Euro by 2020 or (2) the recent depreciation trend of the dollar persists into the future
Evolution of Coinage
What is Financing
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Oil on Demand!!!
Can Money give you everything in Life???
Ages after ages it was drilled that we must remain happy and contended with what we have. But today's generation like me and just about everyone in this competitive world are running after one sole thing: money and creation of wealth. But there are different ways in which different human beings think. For some wealth creation is abundance of money while for some others it could be just living joyfully. Money or the creation of wealth can give you pleasures of life and help you realise your fantasies. To say that money and subsequent creation of wealth can buy everything is a misnomer. The true fact is money cannot buy everything. Here is a list of what money cannot buy but things that can be cherished over a period of your life perhaps.
1. Vision and mission of your life
2. Nurtured relationships and true Love
3. Values
4. Personal development
5. Genius
6. Mentor and guide
7. Team spirit
8. Humility
9. Developing
10. Adaptability and acceptability
Soccer - A game to be played
Secret of Success
Start with confidence
Reach through experience
Win through winsome
Save Planet "Earth"
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Tips to keep your Bike in a good condition
2. Now coming into technical aspect. Regular change gear oil is mandatory.
3. Frequent oiling of chains makes the ride much smoother.
4. Cleaning of air filter is very important. The supply of air is taken in that chamber so lots of dust particles will be deposited. If this continues possible of knocking may occur.
5. Then cleaning of the exhaust portion is vital. Coal formation along the sides of the blades makes a horrible noise and reduces the millage of the bike too. This can be prevented by heating the silencer. While heating the scales coal looses it rigidity and falls down.
6. Apart from cleaning works it is much important the way we drive our bike. Proper changing of gears at regular speeds makes the transmission liable.
7. Maintain of correct air pressure in tyres makes the suspension feel good and because of this performance is maintained.
8. Usage of breaks can be avoided as much as possible. See if we keep this in mind rash driving can be avoided
9. The speed in which we drive the bike is important. Keep it same all the time i.e. the average speed must be the same all time where we go. The makes the engine to get nicely tuned to our style of driving.
10. Just after getting a new bike take a long distance drive at good speed in an empty road so that regulation of engine as well as tuning of engine begins there itself.