A Classic Rendezvous

The Swiss Master meets the Little Master of Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin was impressed with the humility of Fedex. Federer's Facebook status read " Today was a special day, played a good match and had a chance to catch up with the great indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar".  We know that Sachin Tendulkar is fan of Rf, but Roger being so knowledgeable about cricket and Sachin is quite outstanding.

We know that both are exceptional athletes with unscalable achievements in their respective fields, but their mutual respect shows how great they are.

Let us hope that the " Young Turks" of Indian Cricket learn from these humble superstars rather than dwelling in their premature stardom.

My World Cup moments.

Kapil Dev’s incredible catch

The final of 1983 can be likened to a confrontation between David and Goliath. Indians were worthy underdogs. Odds were stacked up against the Indians. India’s paltry first innings score further amplified the odds. Under the circumstances, Kapil’s incredible catch to dismiss Sir Vivian Richards, who could have single handedly put the Indian attack to the sword.

Steven Waugh being dropped by Gibbs.

Gibbs was so eager to celebrate the catch that he dropped it. Gibbs premature celebration doomed the Proteas. Waugh said to Gibbs, Mate, you just dropped the World Cup. Steve was right. Gibbs has been bestowed with the ignominy of dropping the 1999 world cup.

 Aamir Sohail given marching orders by Venkatesh Prasad.

Prasad is a perennially underrated bowler. Aamir sohail, after scoring a boundary point his bat towards the boundary indicating  his superiority over the bowler. The next ball the bowler came back with vengeance and rattled the timber work with a slower one.

Proteas exit from 1992 World Cup

The Proteas made their debut at the 1992 World Cup, having been recently reinstated to the international cricket after more than two decades isolation.

It was the first time the cricketing world has been able to witness the talents of Allan Donald, Andrew Hudson, Brian McMillan and Dave Richardson.

But, with England standing between them and a place in the final, they were denied by a bizarre ruling that saw Sotuh Africa set an impossible revised target, given their allocated overs.

Ajay Jadeja’s cameo

My history teacher promised us that we all would get chocolates if India wins its quarterfinal match against Pakistan. Thanks to Ajay.

Sachin upper cutting Shoaib Akhtar for a Six

Sachin Tendulkar, well, I can’t say anything which is unsaid about him. Sachin is arguably the best batsman of the modern era. Sachin’s batting is based on the purest principles perfect balance, economy of movement.

India may win the World Cup or not, but it should win its match against their arch rivals and they still maintain an unbeaten record against them. Thanks to Sachin for playing a blitzkrieg and deflate the Pakistanis the record stayed for the day. During the innings, he upper cut Shoiab for a Six over point. That shot is indeed legendary as the man who played it himself.

Mobile Number Portability leading to Moral Hazard?

                                                                        


The long awaited Mobile number portability has been launched on Jan 20. The purpose of this facility is very apparent. It is for the users to change providers change providers without changing the number. It is for customers with genuine problems. What is the deal for those loyal customers with no complaints with their existing service providers? They use their negotiating skills to earn freebies, I guess this culminates into  a Moral hazard on the part of users.

One of my friends has been using Reliance for 2 years. He had one genuine complaint with regards to the connectivity and with that he managed to negotiate a 6 month rental free plan. In fact I negotiated a 10% discount on the bill amount for the next 6 months. So, loyal users send PORT (your mobile number) to 1900 to carve out any deals.

It was thought that MNP would lead to a lot of churn. In order to avoid that the mobile service providers would strive to improve their deficiencies. On the contrary, surveys show that the churn as a result of MNP has been negligible. The biggest gainer in terms of net additions so far has been Idea. Idea Cellular has managed to woo around 12,000 customers. But these numbers are so meagre to warrant any drastic actions. So quality of services rendered by the service providers would remain the same for now.