Cricket vs Management

So, all of us witnessed the debacle of Indian cricket team in 2009 T20 world cup. I'll not go for what mostly are saying that M. S. Dhoni was the reason of team's bad performance there in England. There were whole lot of other issues also. It's just that the decisions taken by Dhoni did not went that straight and missed there target. After all it's just a game. Win and loose are just a side of coin. Australia too was out in first round itself. It does not make them an easy side. They are still tough to play. But of' course everytime we fail we should take it as an opportunity to learn things. There are couple of management lessons which we can learn from the cricket story.

Put your best foot first: One of the major reasons of Indian team defeat, which people are discussing about is sending Ravindra Jadeja up in the order in place of in-form Yuvraj Singh. And when Yuvi got a chance to play it was probably little late even for him too. It helps in understanding that everybody has to put his best when working in a team. You do not want to rest when project starts and slog when it seems to miss the deadline.

Be Aggressive: Again it comes to Ravindra Jadeja, he was on the slower side when it came to scoring run in T20 side. Might be he was instructed by Dhoni to keep the wicket. In the process, he might loose the runs. And this was the reason alone due to which they won T200 world cup 2007. What this incident suggest is that it's better to be aggressive when working on any project. If you'll be slow then you might end up in chasing deadlines always.

Don't wait till it comes to the height: One of the major reason of losing matches was the bouncers by West-Indies and England teams. They used it effectively. Similarly don't wait till the work-pressure will come to your head. It's always better to keep work-pressure low. Only then you can keep balance between personal and professional life.

Don't let fatigue grow: When we work we need to rest too. At last people are saying that players were not fit due to long cricket schedule and IPL. So to take rest is one of the most important aspect of keep yourself fit to work and take pressure.

Believe all your team members: I still question the decision of not giving the ball to R. P. Singh, who was in good form and he gave just 13 runs in his earlier 3 overs with one wicket too. Albeit, Dhoni asked Ishant to bowl, which cost him quite handsomely. So, it's better to understand all of your team-members, there strength and weaknesses and ask them to play the part accordingly.

R. P. Singh - A new episode in Indian Cricket Team

So, what is the difference between these two pics. They both led Indian cricket team bowling attack once, out of the team for a while and trying to come back to the side now. But who is selected for this year's T20 world-cup Indian team. It's R. P. Singh. You might have heard almost all the people about Sreeshanth's attitude problem in and out of the cricket ground. Even if he takes a wicket in last over of someone, who has already done enough damage to the Indian team, he dance like he has taken a wicket in first ball of the first over.

Aggression is good, but we must understand that there is a very thin line between being aggressive and being funny. Sreeshanth surely has crossed that line many times and make himself funny. Either it's a dance on the field after hitting six or it's the slap episode of IPL's first season last year. Just to re-iterate the fact that R. P. Singh is the most wicket taker in this year's IPL season. I remember after taking every wicket he used to smile, and did not shout like an animal.

Shreeshant was once a part of Indian cricket team. He has speed but I personally feel that he is overvalued bowler. He has a speed and aggression which is good but as I already mentioned that to be successful you are supposed to learn to contain your aggression and put it in one clear direction. You can not become Zaheer or Glen just by shouting at the opponent batsmen. You need to bowl well and get there wicket. And mind you just getting one wicket does not complete your job. You need to keep doing it regularly.

On the other hand R. P. Singh does not have that much speed as Shreesath's but the swing he got is lethal. And I never saw him getting satisfied with one wicket. That's why he is a purple cap holder of the tournament. He was neither depressed when he got a hit for six nor shouted when he took the wicket at the next ball. This shows the real character and the distance he has covered to reach here. He surely now an exprience bowler and I hope this experience will help him in taking wickets in coming T20 world cup as well as in following series. I believe that he'll do well and get many wins for Indian cricket team in future.

Wish-List

Here is a list of eight-things I want to do in my life:

1. Want to read as many as 100 books at least.
2. Want to write at least 10 books.
3. Want to start my own venture.
4. Get 5 patents.
5. Want to get Ph.D.
6. Want to be a lecturer/professor in an engineering college. I've an experience of 1 year in the field.
7. Want to visit at least 100 places in India. Till now I've seen around 20 I believe.
8. Want to stay with my parents, at least after they reach 60.

New PJ

ZOOZOO - A vodafone's new character

Q: Who is zoozoo's mother?
You might want to take some time to think?

My answers will be in next post. In the mean time if you have some answers then put it as a comment of this post.

The Verdict is Out

More than a month long marathon finally comes to an end. And what an end of The Great Indian Elections? INC came out to be a largest party by thrashing all those 3rd front, 4th front and so on so forth with the high margin. Thanks to a poor regional politics played by Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Lalu Yadav, Paswan and a never ending list of others. And of' course the leftovers oops...I mean the left parties. So, what is the good about this year election. May be we can count couple of them.

From last 15 years everybody was pissed off with these local names. And at last people of India realized that if they want to be on the fast track of development without the hurdles (of local parties with cheap agendas) then they have to go for national party either it can be INC or BJP. These are the only two good option we have. So, are we moving to an era of 2 parties at national level, even the regional parties are still little stronger at regional level?

Moreover, gundaraaj seems to come to an end now in this year election. Many local gundas, bahubalis, bhais have lost there ground in this year's general elections. May be the people are realizing that ultimately the good character should be an eligibility to sit in the Parliament.

Even the next elections are a distant dream as of now, but hopefully this trend will be continue in that too. And yes of'course UPA has to do lot more than expected if they want a good results next time because it will be 2014 then. And the generation of 2014 will be more educated, responsible, and demanding for sure.

The Changing Times

The only constant thing in this world in change. Everything keeps changing, but some fools try to stop the change. They do not remember the very basic thing that change is inevitable.

On a lighter note let me tell you my mobile story.

I bought my first mobile way back in 2003. In my early days of mobile usage I did not like to talk over the mobile. In fact I was not habitual of using mobile. In office I used to keep it at my desk even if I was not there. One of my colleague even commented me that "You use your mobile like a land-line phone. Why don't you carry it with yourself so that you do not miss any call?"

The time come when I got habitual of mobile usage. I enjoyed those voice calls, sending SMSs every day. But even in those days I used to frequently switch-off my mobile for weeks to get myself some time. While traveling I used to switch-off my mobile. Thanks to less salary and high roaming-charges. At-least I used to get some time.

Now the things have been changed. Thankfully, I am still not addicted to the mobile. But I did not switched off my mobile since long. Now I also keep my mobile ON while traveling because of very less roaming charges. But I do not get time for myself now.

But to earn some time I've some rules for myself. One is, I do not take any call between 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM until it is emergency. In fact, all of my family members and close friends know this, so they do not call me during that time until it's very urgent. I do not reply to missed calls. It still helped me in some way, not to get distracted by that "tring-tring" every now and then and of'course finding some time for me, myself.

Cricket Maniac Country

I will not hesitate in calling ourselves a cricket maniac people. And this is the problem with whole country. Whether cricket match is played or not we talk only about cricket. And so called news channels (they claim it) also can not see beyond it. Nowadays every news channel is having a full dedicated 30 minutes program for sports. But those sport news does not look beyond cricket. Aren't any other sports being played over the world.

Why the heck they call it sports news. Better they call it cricket news. I did not see any news about hockey team and team members since long. I do not know where Joginder Singh right now. Where is he participating or how is he doing practice etc. As a matter of fact most of does not know the top 10 players of India in all the games other then cricket team members, because we do not hear any news about them.

The bottom line is even the news channel does not show the news. It's only business now. They are oblivious to what news channel mean and what should it show to the people. They sell only what is hot currently in market. I do not see any difference in news channel and Bollywood movies or television shows.