Wednesday, March 30, 2011

भारत बनाम पाकिस्तान मैच पर मेरे फेसबुक स्टेटस...

Status Seven (सातवां स्टेटस):
Sachin has so far scored 48 centuries in the ODIs... 13 of them were scored in lost matches, and a couple of tons were hit in the tied or abandoned matches... 33 of his tons helped India win... So, I am confused if it will be good for India that he could not complete the century today... 

Status Six (छठा स्टेटस):
विश्वकप में भारत बनाम पाकिस्तान : 4-0 (भारत); मोहाली में भारत बनाम पाकिस्तान : 2-0 (पाकिस्तान); अब देखना यह है कि कौन-सा इतिहास दोहराया जाएगा... 

Status Five (पांचवां स्टेटस):
आसमान की तरफ उठे हुए एक हाथ में बल्ला, दूसरे में हेल्मेट... आसमान की ही तरफ ताकता पसीने से लथपथ चेहरा... मोहाली के पीसीए स्टेडियम में कानों के पर्दे फाड़ देने लायक शोर... एक सपना यह भी है आज के लिए... 

Status Four (चौथा स्टेटस):
"The boys in Green did an awesome job, and we thought we have given Team India a formidable total, but really, Sachin and Sehwag stole the match from us, unbelieveably..." I want to hear this from Afridi in the post-match presser... 

Status Three (तीसरा स्टेटस):
Copied from my friend Salil Kumar's status: Rs 100K for a 10k ticket... 17 lakhs for a 10-sec ad... 22K for a one-way ticket to Chandigarh... Richest men in Asia fighting for jet parking space at Chandigarh airport... A billion hearts synchronised at the same level... 75% productivity of the most upcoming nation stopped on the final day of the financial year... Is this just a cricket match...? 

Status Two (दूसरा स्टेटस):
टीम इंडिया, खेलो... खुले दिल के साथ खेलो... ठंडे दिमाग के साथ खेलो... जागते ईमान के साथ खेलो... एक-एक हिन्दुस्तानी तुम्हारा साथ देगा... :-) 

Status One (पहला स्टेटस):
Official seating capacity of PCA stadium: 40-45K... Security personnel deployed: 48K...

Friday, March 25, 2011

India versus Pakistan @ World Cups...

2011 - ICC World Cup (in Bangladesh / India / Sri Lanka) 
Semi Final

Result: Ind beat Pak by 29 runs...

India: Sachin Tendulkar 85 (115), Virender Sehwag 38 (25), Suresh Raina 36* (39); 260 for 9 wickets (Wahab Riaz 10-0-46-5, Saeed Ajmal 10-0-44-2, Mohammad Hafeez 10-0-34-1)

Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq 56 (76), Mohammad Hafeez 43 (59), Asad Shafiq 30 (39); 231 all out in 49.5 overs (Zaheer Khan 9.5-0-58-2, Ashish Nehra 10-0-33-2, Munaf Patel 10-1-40-2, Harbhajan Singh 10-0-43-2, Yuvraj Singh 10-1-57-2)

Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar
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2007 - ICC World Cup (in West Indies)
They did not meet at any stage...
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March 1, 2003 - Centurion - ICC World Cup (in Kenya / South Africa / Zimbabwe)
League Match - Neutral Venue

Result: Ind beat Pak by six wickets...

Pakistan: Saeed Anwar 101 (126), Younis Khan 32 (36), Rashid Latif 29* (25); 273 for 7 wickets (Zaheer Khan 10-0-46-2, Ashish Nehra 10-0-74-2, Javagal Srinath 10-0-41-1, Dinesh Mongia 3-0-19-1)

India: Sachin Tendulkar 98 (75), Yuvraj Singh 50* (53), Rahul Dravid 44* (76); 276 for 4 wickets (Waqar Younis 8.4-0-71-2, Shoaib Akhtar 10-0-72-1, Shahid Afridi 9-0-45-1)

Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar
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June 8, 1999 - Manchester - ICC World Cup (in England / Ireland / Netherlands / Scotland) 
Super Sixes - Neutral Venue

Result: Ind beat Pak by 47 runs...

India: Rahul Dravid 61 (89), Mohammad Azharuddin 59 (77), Sachin Tendulkar 45 (65); 227 for 6 wickets (Wasim Akram 10-0-27-2, Azhar Mahmood 10-0-35-2, Shoaib Akhtar 10-0-54-1, Abdul Razzaq 10-0-40-1)

Pakistan: Inzamam-ul-Haq 41 (93), Saeed Anwar 36 (44), Moin Khan 34 (37); 180 all out in 45.3 overs (Venkatesh Prasad 9.3-2-27-5, Javagal Srinath 8-1-37-3, Anil Kumble 10-0-43-2)

Man of the Match: Venkatesh Prasad
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March 9, 1996 - Bangalore - Wills World Cup (in India / Pakistan / Sri Lanka) 
Quarter Final

Result: Ind beat Pak by 39 runs...

India: Navjot Singh Sidhu 93 (115), Ajay Jadeja 45 (25); 287 for 8 wickets (Waqar Younis 10-1-67-2, Mushtaq Ahmed 10-0-56-2, Aqib Javed 10-0-67-1, Ata-ur-Rehman 10-0-40-1, Aamer Sohail 5-0-29-1)

Pakistan: Aamer Sohail 55 (46), Saeed Anwar 48 (32), Javed Miandad 38 (64), Saleem Malik 38 (50); 248 for 9 wickets (Venkatesh Prasad 10-0-45-3, Anil Kumble 10-0-48-3, Javagal Srinath 9-0-61-1, Venkatapathy Raju 10-0-46-1)

Man of the Match: Navjot Singh Sidhu
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March 4, 1992 - Sydney - Benson and Hedges World Cup (in Australia / New Zealand) 
League Match - Neutral Venue

Result: Ind beat Pak by 43 runs...

India: Sachin Tendulkar 54 (62), Ajay Jadeja 46 (77), Kapil Dev 35 (26); 216 for 7 wickets (Mushtaq Ahmed 10-0-59-3, Aqib Javed 8-2-28-2, Wasim Haider 10-1-36-1)

Pakistan: Aamer Sohail 62 (95), Javed Miandad 40 (110); 173 all out in 48.1 overs (Kapil Dev 10-0-30-2, Manoj Prabhakar 10-1-22-2, Javagal Srinath 8.1-0-37-2, Sachin Tendulkar 10-0-37-1, Venkatapathy Raju 10-1-41-1)

Man of the Match: Sachin Tendulkar
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1987 - Reliance World Cup (in India / Pakistan)
They did not meet at any stage...
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1983 - Prudential World Cup (in England)
They did not meet at any stage...
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1979 - Prudential World Cup (in England)
They did not meet at any stage...
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1975 - Prudential World Cup (in England)
They did not meet at any stage...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

What is a marriage...?

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you...
She sat down and ate quietly...
Again I observed the hurt in her eyes...
Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth, but I had to let her know what I was thinking...
I want a divorce...
I raised the topic calmly...
She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why...?
I avoided her question...
This made her angry...
She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, you are not a man...
That night, we didn't talk to each other...
She was weeping...
I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage, but I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Jane...
I didn't love her anymore...
I just pitied her...
With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30 per cent stake of my company...
She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces...
The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger...
I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Jane so dearly...
Finally, she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see...
To me, her cry was actually a kind of release...
The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now...
The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table...
I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Jane...
When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing...
I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again...
In the morning she presented her divorce conditions: She didn't want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce...
She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible...
Her reasons were simple: Our son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage...
This was agreeable to me, but she had something more, she asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day...
She requested that every day for the month's duration, I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door every morning...
I thought she was going crazy...
Just to make our last days together bearable, I accepted her odd request...
I told Jane about my wife's divorce conditions...
She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd...
No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully...
My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed, so, when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy...
Our son clapped behind us, daddy is holding mommy in his arms...
His words brought me a sense of pain...
From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms...
She closed her eyes and said softly; don't tell our son about the divorce...
I nodded, feeling somewhat upset...
I put her down outside the door...
She went to wait for the bus to work...
I drove alone to the office...
On the second day, both of us acted much more easily...
She leaned on my chest...
I could smell the fragrance of her blouse...
I realised that I hadn't looked at this woman carefully for a long time...
I realised she was not young any more...
There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying...
Our marriage had taken its toll on her...
For a minute, I wondered what I had done to her...
On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning...
This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me...
On the fifth and sixth day, I realised that our sense of intimacy was growing again...
I didn't tell Jane about this...
It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by...
Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger...
She was choosing what to wear one morning...
She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one...
Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger...
I suddenly realised that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily...
Suddenly it hit me...
She had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart...
Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head...
Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it's time to carry mom out...
To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life...
My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly...
I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute...
I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway...
Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally...
I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day...
But her much lighter weight made me sad...
On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step...
Our son had gone to school...
I held her tightly and said, I hadn't noticed that our life lacked intimacy...
I drove to office...
jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door...
I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind...
I walked upstairs...
Jane opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Jane, I do not want the divorce anymore...
She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead...
Do you have a fever, she said...
I moved her hand off my head, Sorry, Jane, I said, I won't divorce... My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn't value the details of our lives, not because we didn't love each other anymore... Now I realise that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart...
Jane seemed to suddenly wake up...
She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears...
I walked downstairs and drove away...
At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife...
The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card...
I smiled and wrote, I'll carry you out every morning until death do us apart...
That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed - dead...
My wife had been fighting cancer for months and I was so busy with Jane to even notice...
She knew that she would die soon and she wanted to save me from the whatever negative reaction from our son, in case we push through with the divorce...
At least, in the eyes of our son, I'm a loving husband...

The small details of your lives are what really matter in a relationship...
It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank...
These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves...
So find time to be your spouse's friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy...
Do have a real happy marriage...

Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up...

शायद आप यह भी पसंद करें...

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