Top Ten news of 2011

Now that the year 2011 is coming to an end lets look back at the top news that made up the year with the India perspective...

1. Anna Hazare's fast against corruption in the highest office of India.
2. Gold prices running over the roof making it not affordable to most people.
3. India wins the cricket world cup.
4. Tragic death of Steve Jobs the brain behind Apple Ipod, Iphone.
5. why this kolaveri di goes viral
6. 100th 100 eludes sachin tendulkar
7. Rupee dips by over 20% in the year
8. Parliament fails to pass the lokpal bills with every party blaming the other for the debacle.
9. Ramdev's fight aganist black money and ramlila maidan.
10. Inflation sky rockets...

Did I miss something...

Paul predicts india to win 2026 World cup football

 Octopus paul predicts india to win 2026 World cup :-)

cricket

In the recent world cup you have seen gilchrist using a sqash ball in his gloves. This was considered unethical by a few people but most of the people thought it was perfectly legal. My view about this is that it wasnt right on the part of gilchrist to use such methods which makes it easier to bat. That would only give the batsmen an unfair advantage.

Even earlier whenever such unfair methods were used it was disgarded and were not allowed to be used after the first such incident. Take the case of using a steel bat or using advise of the coach with an earphone. Now only because its an australian using such methods it need not be considered ethical.

Lets say gilchrist is given a clean chit (which is most likely to happen) let us think about what would happen to the future of cricket. You will have springs in the boots for you to help running and also fielding. You can design a helmet that will bounce of it and go for a six, as runs are also counted if you take some evasive action. Basically you will be having an invasion of technology into cricket. The game wont be testing criketing skills instead it tests how well they adapt to new technologies.