Category Archive: Sports

Dec
31
2011

Bicycling summary for last 3 months

Bicycling - 3 months summary

Time to take a look at the progress of my bicycling in the last 3 months. This month, I crossed the 250km mark. Its not much, but its a good progress in the right direction. My average bicycling speed has increased. The approximate time recorded includes a few minutes of warming up before the actual …

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Nov
28
2011

NetEnrich at Hyderabad 10k Run 2011

Our participation in Hyderabad 10K run increased from last year. We made 40+ registrations this year. We collected the kits and distributed them on Friday itself. The day started very cloudy on Sunday. I ended up staying awake the whole night and made an airport trip at 4.30am, returning home only around 7.00am. I made …

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Oct
16
2011

Sunday evening short bike ride

Sunday evening short ride on 2011 11 16

Sunday evening’s short (about 5km) bike ride, to test my recently bought used bike.

Oct
16
2011

Switchover to bicycle with gears

So far, I have been using bicycles without gears in my whole life. In the last one month, I started taking my bicycle out quite regularly. For more than two weeks, I am doing 6+ kilometers on my bicycle. Based on the positive effect of taking out my bicycle regularly, I started looking at what …

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Aug
10
2011

Vaughan, Vaseline and the game of cricket

There are very few things that bring a smile on your face while you are reading a newspaper early in the morning. Especially with global economic fallout to riots in Britain to senseless political statements back home in Andhra Pradesh, we have very few reasons to smile. However, today’s print advertisement by Vaseline (facebook page …

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May
18
2011

IPL

The fight for spots two, three and four is intensifying in IPL-2011. The equations are changing by the day. Last night, I got a glimpse of the way Gilchrist and Marsh played in their match. Amazing strokeplay! Hope this level of entertainment continues in future matches.

Apr
13
2011

Ambati Rayudu @ Mumbai Indians

I have seen one of the best innings yet by Ambati Rayudu in the most recent IPL match. I am glad I went home late and ate my dinner while watching Mumbai Indians’ innings. His first boundary, a pull off a short ball that is well outside the offstump that eventually reached the legside boundary, …

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Apr
09
2011

Laxman@Kochi

Laxman opening for Kochi in Kochi’s first ever IPL match is a good thing to watch. His scoring rate is impressive in today’s match. Hope he continues this trend during the series. I personally feel that Chargers lost a good player.  

Apr
02
2011

For whom the cup hangs

Writing this post an hour before the cricket world cup final match between India and Sri Lanka starts. During the month long battle between several teams that are eligible, two teams finally bubbled up to play the final. Both teams are strong in batting and spin lineups; they fare almost equal in pace and captaincy. …

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Mar
26
2011

SA’s exit

South Africa’s exit form world cup is stunning, but not unusual. Right from 1992, we have been seeing this as a pattern. They emerge as a strong team and one fine day, they crash out of the tournament. And New Zealand’s commendable efforts to stay put paid off.

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