Sampras Vs Federer

There is still a lot of debate on who is the greatest is it Sampras ,or the current world champion Federer.

Sampras during his days had strong rivalry players like Agassi, Ivansevic,Edberg,Becker,Chang to name a few;but Federer does not have that kind of competition which sampras faced.Only stiff challenge that federer has got till now is from current french champion Nadal.

So the recently concluded Pete Sampras vs Roger Federer exhibition matches was a keen interest to all tennis followers.Well, i was unable to see any of those matches , but predicted Federer winning all the matches against Sampras ; that did not happen ,it was really suprising and happy to see Pete getting one back by winning the last of the three exhibition matches.

This shows that Federer been in his prime is still the best but Sampras who has passed his prime is still a player that can challenge the top seed players.

An small adventure while travelling to office.

Well well i am back after a very very long break... the last post was about India's world cup.

Well times have changed and i have settled with my office- home routine , daily life has become monotonous with home-office-home syndrome.

My office is nearly 50kms from my home , so travelling takes a lot of time daily , it is like an adventure almost daily.

In India, especially my hometown the transport system is better than other parts of India , since it been a metro city, so a direct train is a boon for travelling to and fro daily i.e on weekdays.

Now in case u miss the train then either u have to wait for next direct train which comes only after 1 hr or take 2 journeys one by train and other by bus to reach the destination.

One day i had missed the direct train , so as usual instead of waiting for one hour, boarded the train reached the intermediate place , then boarded the bus , so while travelling on the bus , there was a heavy traffic jam, with no movement seen of vehicles , i along with of of my two collegues got down.

Now the scene is u r in the middle of the highway with heavy traffic jam still need to travel an other 22-25 kms , not knowing whether to go forward or go backward and wait for next train?.

We met a passerby who told us that the next station was not all that far, so we went ahead hoping that the next station is not all that far, we walked for nearly 10 - 15mins, then almost we were on the gate of the railway station , u see a train coming towards the coming station , the train went and almost was about to reach the station. On seeing this we ran behind the train on the middle of the tracks for about 200 metres(now this is an adventure right !!) , and finally when it was about to leave , caught the train at the last moment.:).

Finally reached the destination station . So this time it was train - bus- train journey. :)

India's world cup squad

Well Cricket world cup is around the corner in WestIndies , and the buze in India is who will make up the final 15. After all the expermentation , now the time has come to choose the final 15, it is expected the BCCI will decide it by next couple of weeks.
Anyway , i have come with my own list of 15 individuals , lets see how much it matches to that of BCCI's.
The order is shown below
1:Virendar Sehwag
2:Robin Uthappa
3:Sourav Ganguly
4:Rahul Dravid(C)
5:Sachin Tendulkar
6:Yuvraj Singh
7:Mahendar Singh Dhoni(WC)
8:Anil Kumble
9:Harbhajan Singh
10:Zaheer Khan
11:Ajit Agarkar
12:Irfan Pathan
13:Dinesh Karthick
14: Romesh Powar
15:SreeSanth

Munaf Patel might just make it ,by replacing Irfan Pathan or SreeSanth ,but i think it's case of 50:50.Mohamed Kaif might just be instead of Dinesh Karthick , but it 's again 50:50.

Another world cup

Italy wins world cup of programming

Its Cricket Again

The Indians are back again after a temporary break , and now taking on the not so mighty WestIndies. They landed in carribean islands , But ,just as you thought the series will be rollercoaster ride for Indians, after a certain amount of games ,you see something different. The not so mighty WestIndies win the series quite comprehensively.

Well ,well that's cricket for you the game of glorious uncertainties. !!!

The Indians as usual , remain unpredictable ,and their series of recent one day tournaments wins have finally come to a halt. So, the debate continues , is the Indian team peaked too early?, can they win the world cup?. You never know, suddenly you find the westindies in contention as well .

The westIndies played brilliantly , challenged the Indians in all aspects and came truimph.Well done Brain Lara and well done WestIndies .