Insomnia!!

Its kiling me. Cha.

Why Warney, Why??

If Australia really needed me and there was no one else around, and Ricky Ponting thought I could do the job, you would weigh up the options," Warne told the Herald Sun. "If Stuey MacGill fell over and broke his leg, and there were no other spinners around, and Ricky came out and said, 'Mate, can you please help us out for this one-off tour? We need you', that is something I would weigh up.
Mate, DONT DO IT!! We have all seen you haven't lost your sheen from your form in IPL, but Warney, a 38 year old making a comeback into test just seems to be a sure shot method of plunging to nothingness from worship-worthy!!
Please, lets not have the world's craftiest spinner be dropped after playing one test match coming back from retirement. Please dont let the leggy legend be humiliated!!
Stay in Rajasthan (amidst bombs, if you have to). The legend Shane Warne needs to be immortal!!

Great News!!

As the decline in tiger population in the country continues to be a case of concern, a 25 per cent increase in the number of big cats in Tamil Nadu's wildlife sanctuaries has brought smiles on the faces of conservationists in the state.

"The number of tigers have gone up from 62 to 76, thus registering a 25 percent increase," Tamil Nadu Environment and Forests Minister N Selvaraj said. "The tiger population in India has come down from 3,642 in 2001 to 1,411 in 2008," he said, quoting a report by the Wildlife Institute of India while speaking on the grants for his ministry in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday.

Selvaraj said the declaration of the Anamalai Wildlife Sanctuary and Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary as new Project Tiger areas in 2007 helped the population of big cats to pick up. "It proved that the state was a frontrunner in tiger conservation and the priority placed for this cause by the state," he said.

The Centre provided 100 per cent assistance in the areas of tiger habitat conservation, ecological development and protection, forest fire control measures and human-wild conflict resolution in Project Tiger areas. The state would also spend Rs crores on tiger conservation activities in the Kalakkad-Mundathurai, Anamalai and Mudumalai sanctuaries, Selvaraj said.

Source : The Hindu

Lets hope the pride of India and the majesty of the wild keeps growing!!

Hope the royal stripes continue to rule the wild FOREVER!!!!

IPL - What They Say

"The IPL has taken the game to virtually every house in the world."
- Sachin Tendulkar

"What? Six weeks' razzle-dazzle enough to consign over a hundred years of Test cricket to the dump? You must be off your rocker."
- David Gower

"The suggestion that the Indian Premier League is a runaway success has been completely manufactured. Even at this early stage, when the paint is still drying on the grounds, they are already giving away stacks of tickets."
- Geoffrey Boycott

"This is not cricket. This is the greatest divide between the rich and the poor. With that kind of money, you could have built another cement factory."
- Jaswant Singh

"Violence between players? Scantily clad cheerleaders? Toss in a rant by Charles Barkley and three minutes of commercials for every 45 seconds of actual game time and cricket may finally be ready for a mainstream American audience."
- The Los Angeles Times warms to the idea of Twenty20 cricket after hearing about the IPL

"All the organisers are doing by making scantily-clad white women dance in front of huge crowds is to stoke the base voyeuristic and sexual insecurities of the Indian male. It is revolting, appalling and shows the game in very poor light."
- Ramachandra Guha, Cricket historian

"I do not wish Twenty20 well, though I welcome new funds for cricket and cricketers. I think Twenty20 is a decadent, dumbed-down, third-rate formula for sub-prime cricket."
- William Rees-Mogg, Former Times editor

"It's really unusual to come to Bombay, hit a four and see nobody clapping for you."
- Rahul Dravid

Five full days of cricket with batsman stroking balls along the ground and bowlers uprooting stumps after toiling for long hours in white kits is better any day.

- Keshav, jobless blogger :P

All quotes, except the last one taken from cricinfo.