BCCI and its arbitrary ways

The BCCI's arbitrary ways of functioning are well known and is well documented. But still few things are perplexing to say the least and there is no signs of acknowledging the mistakes, leave alone correct it.

To start with let us have a look at the local/state teams associations setup. The constituent members of the BCCI are as follows

• Tamilnadu
• Kerala
• Karnataka
• Hyderabad, Andhrapradesh
• Mumbai, Maharashtra, Vidharbha
• Gujarat, Baroda, Saurashtra
• Punjab,
• Haryana
• Rajasthan
• Himachal Pradesh
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Delhi
• Uttarpradesh
• Orissa,
• Bihar
• Jharkhand
• Madhyapradesh
• Assam
• Tripura
• Railways
• Services

The disparity is obvious in the composition of teams of three states - Andhrapradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat - why more than one teams for the above three states only ? May be it is a colonial Hangover. States like Tamilnadu and Karnataka can easily have two teams in the national circuit - one team comprising of the Metro only and the other team comprising from the districts.

Karnataka state cricket associationhave done a good job of nurturing rural talent by having a KPL. Infact if each state has good league system with good interchange of one-day, T20, three day games it will go in a long way in spreading the benefits of the commercialisation of the cricket.

IPL should have started from bottoms-up and gone up - a.la. Americal Basketball/baseball league rather than the current top-heavy structure.

Cricket debuts

For the cricket aficionado’s – the raw talent of Umar Akmal and Adrian Barath is a treat to watch ….pity that both ended in the losing side ….both are 19 year olds – Sure in the coming days we are going to hear about them more ….

While the Pak vs NZ is a great advertisement of cricket, it is sad to see WI capitulate to Australia within 3 days, inspite of Baraths heroics. Chanderpaul's failure in both the innings is the key moments but I guess Chris Gayles captaincy is uninspiring. May be his doubts on the future of test cricket makes him indifferent to Test cricket. As Ian chappell tells its time WI needs an inspirational captain and who else than the Darren Ganga to do the same ? This can make Chris Gayle focus more on his batting and on his day he may prove to be handful for the Aussie bowlers to handle.

Recommended weight

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On Tamilnadu, an info presentation

A Zoho show presentation on some very basic facts about Tamilnadu. Will expand this later or add more presentations.



You can visit http://www.zoho.com to try out Zoho Show and other online tools of them.

Fake Office ?

One of the Microsoft’s top executives recently mentioned that the competitors (Zoho, Google, Zimbra ......among others) online office application offerings as “fake office”.

The response from Zoho is below :

http://www.fakeoffice.org/

Creative, hilarious and head-on, makes you smile when an underdog fights a Gorilla ….

As one person by the name of M.K.Gandhi mentioned :

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you and then you win ......

New Wave of Tamil Films

Among the new Tamil films released over the past year or so , the following were the good ones -

• Subramaniapuram
• Vennila Kabbadi Kuzhu
• Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum
• Pasanga
• Nadodiagl

offbeat themes, different subjects, decent picturization, bold attempts - which should be applauded and rewarded. Very correctly, the public and the critics are unanimous in applauding these films - though the commercial results were mixed, it is good to note the fresh wave of new directors and experimenting producers.

While the above movies are mostly with new faces or with small actors - the so called big budget films and the Stars failed miserably at the box-office - except for Suriya's Aiyan, none of the hyped up films stood up to their billing - this include Kuruvi, Villu, Sathyam, Thoranai, Vaaranam Aayiram .....et all ...

Oracle buys Sun

Posted on April 21 elsewhere on the news on proposed Oracle's buyout of Sun.

The big news in the techcircle is the Oracles proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. In all probability it will go through.

Its again the signs of consolidation in the big (bad ?!) world of hitech/computing. IBM was the original bidder and as they harangued over few pennies, the ever predatory Larry Ellison snatched the deal. In one sense its good for the market as it can (sun-oracle combination) check the behemoth that IBM is. On the other hand analysts and Industry watchers are worried about the fact that now Java is actually *owned* by Oracle ! And not to mention about the MySQL the open source database that many SMB’s, academics and ISP’s prefer over that of the *commercial* Oracle.

Its a direct conflict of Interest for Oracle. And one will not be surprised if MySQL was given a quite burial, but I hope it will not happen beacuse of the widespread community base of the MySQL users.

And the other issue is Oracle never had experience in HW and with many enterprises using Sun HW they will be watching with crossed fingers on how Oracle’s strategy on this.

Overall, a good buy for Oracle, good competition for IBM, good value for Oracles shareholders, good suitor for Sun …….but for the Industry whether it is good or bad, have to wait and watch ……

Sivakumar