Contrary to popular belief India has been performing better in Tests than in ODIs. By far 2008 has been India's best year in both forms, as India has finished with its best rank of 4 in ODI and joint top of rank of 2 in Tests.
ICC Test Rankings for India
2001: 7
2002: 8
2003: 6
2004: 5
2005: 3
2006: 2
2007: 5
2008: 2
ICC ODI Rankings for India
2002: 5
2003: 5
2004: 5
2005: 8
2006: 5
2007: 6
2008: 4
Best Indian Test Team based on ICC rankings:
10 G. Gambhir
13 V. Sehwag
18 S.R. Tendulkar
18 V.V.S. Laxman
28 R. Dravid
34 M.S. Dhoni
46 Yuvraj Singh
08 Harbhajan Singh
12 Zaheer Khan
25 Ishant Sharma
28 Irfan Pathan
6 Top Batsmen, 1 Wicket-Keeper and 4 Top Bowlers and their batting & bowling rankings
Best Indian ODI Team based on ICC rankings:
1 M.S. Dhoni
6 Yuvraj Singh
12 S.R. Tendulkar
21 V. Sehwag
23 G. Gambhir
39 S. Raina
11 Zaheer Khan
20 Harbhajan Singh
29 Munaf Patel
45 Praveen Kumar
50 Ishant Sharma
5 Top Batsmen, 1 Wicket-Keeper and 5 Top Bowlers and their batting & bowling rankings
December 27, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald's Test team 2008
Sydney Morning Herald's Test team 2008
- Graeme Smith (South Africa)
- Gautam Gambhir (India)
- Hashim Amla (South Africa)
- Kevin Pietersen (England)
- AB de Villiers (South Africa)
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies)
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain and Wicket-Keeper)
- Dale Steyn (South Africa)
- Mitchell Johnson (Australia)
- Ryan Sidebottom (England)
- Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
December 10, 2008
Wall Street
I just happened to see the movie "Wall Street", only recently. Since the current happenings went well with the plot, it made an interesting viewing.
It has been some time since I saw a movie that had some powerful and interesting dialogues. I thought Michalel Douglas's performance was terrific, and only later found that he took the Oscar for this role; not bad!
Since I couldnt write down the dialogues, I went to IMDB and their collection had some of the dailagues I too liked. Here they are:
Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Bud Fox: How much is enough?
Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.
Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.
Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
Darien Taylor: When you've had money and lost it, it can be much worse than never having had it at all!
Gordon Gekko: Greed is good.
Gordon Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.
Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
Carl Fox: I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.
Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.
Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done.
Carl Fox: He's using you, kid. He's got your prick in his back pocket, but you're too blind to see it.
Bud Fox: No. What I see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact that his son has become more successful than he has!
Carl Fox: What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his WALLET!
Bud Fox: That's because you never had the GUTS to go out into the world and stake your own claim!
[Long Pause]
Carl Fox: Boy, if that's the way you feel, I must have done a really lousy job as a father.
Lou Mannheim: Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.
Gordon Gekko: Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die!
It has been some time since I saw a movie that had some powerful and interesting dialogues. I thought Michalel Douglas's performance was terrific, and only later found that he took the Oscar for this role; not bad!
Since I couldnt write down the dialogues, I went to IMDB and their collection had some of the dailagues I too liked. Here they are:
Gordon Gekko: You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Bud Fox: How much is enough?
Gordon Gekko: It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.
Bud Fox: Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate.
Lou Mannheim: Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Lou: The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.
Darien Taylor: When you've had money and lost it, it can be much worse than never having had it at all!
Gordon Gekko: Greed is good.
Gordon Gekko: What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
Gordon Gekko: I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.
Gordon Gekko: If you need a friend, get a dog.
Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
Carl Fox: I don't go to bed with no whore, and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself. I don't know how you do it.
Gordon Gekko: This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.
Gordon Gekko: It's not always the most popular person who gets the job done.
Carl Fox: He's using you, kid. He's got your prick in his back pocket, but you're too blind to see it.
Bud Fox: No. What I see is a jealous old machinist who can't stand the fact that his son has become more successful than he has!
Carl Fox: What you see is a guy who never measured a man's success by the size of his WALLET!
Bud Fox: That's because you never had the GUTS to go out into the world and stake your own claim!
[Long Pause]
Carl Fox: Boy, if that's the way you feel, I must have done a really lousy job as a father.
Lou Mannheim: Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.
Gordon Gekko: Jesus, if this guy owned a funeral parlor nobody would die!
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