Slinging scribbles

Well,  I lost a badminton match in the college tournament between the juniors and the seniors. It was a bad defeat, but then, all defeats are supposed to be bad. I was supposed to win as the number one seed from the seniors but losing was all I could afford.  It shouldn't be as depressing obviously. 'Shit happens', they say. 'Losing is a part and parcel that the game brings. He won only because you lost. Its only a game', and so it follows. But, this is certainly not the first time I have been confronted with this problem. Every time, its the loss that drives me crazy and if i remember distinctly, my childhood sets up a pretty good example of how sore a loser can be. Why is it so hard for me to lose? Or is it just the same for everybody? Perhaps, its peculiar to me for I have been more often than not, on a golden spot. It simply means, even when, we as a team have screwed up, I have performed well so there have been very few and far-off chances of me sharing th...

In one of the most bizarre cricketing instances the world has ever seen, England's  Ian Bell was allowed to resume his innings after tea on Sunday in the second Test against India at Trent Bridge after India decided to withdraw a successful appeal for a run out on the second day of the match. It all began when Morgan flicked the last ball of the 66th over to Praveen Kumar who tumbled over trying to field. In between, the two batsmen thought it is a boundary and by the time the ball came back, Bell left his crease and was jogging carelessly, thinking it's end of the session but Abhinav Mukund took the bails off and appealed. Confusion prevailed when the umpires upheld the appeal and Bell was declared out. The English crowd, apparently furious at the ‘tactics’ of the Indians jeered at them. The jeering, it seems, bothered Dhoni to the extent that he asked Ian Bell to come back to the field, much to the amusement of the ones for whom the dismissal was valid. ...

Saina Nehwal, India’s golden girl has been busy making badminton a fairly well used word in Indian households. There has been a sudden spurt in the number of people taking up badminton as a serious course for the future, thanks to the marvelous success that Saina has enjoyed. For a girl who started playing as early as the age of 9, Saina won her first tournament in 2006 in Philippines and became the first Indian girl to win the four star badminton event. The 21-year-old girl from Hyderabad has been going from strength to strength, shaking Chinese domination by notching three titles at Open grand Prix Gold, Singapore Super Series and Indonesian Super Series finals last year. Climbing to her best career international ranking of no.2, she won the Commonwealth Games Gold medal and the Hong-Kong super series. If words of former badminton ace, Mr. Xiong Guabao are to be believed, then Saina Nehwal could be the one that brings down the reign of the Chinese and the manifestation of the ...