Audience : For those who love cricket in any form and with broadband connectivity.
ICL has started with a bang. They have gone online too.
Visit the ICL homepage and click on the VIDEO link. The link will be available only during the game. The video streaming is powered by Microsoft’s SilverLight technology and you need to download the ActiveX control if you don’t have one. (Don’t worry, IE will take care of that…)
I managed to embed the player here (Donno if this is legal…). Click the link below to watch ICL matches right here…
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BCCI also can follow this and telecast their matches online. But they are money minded people and would definitely charge for that. On the contrary, ticket rates to ICL matches are as cheap as 100 Rs. and they definitely deserve more attention.
சிலர் செல்பேசி ஒலித்தாலும், எடுக்க ரொம்ப நேரம் ஆக்குவார்கள். தான் ரொம்ப பிசின்னு எல்லோருக்கும் காட்றதுக்கு தான். அவர்களை சீக்கிரம் எடுக்க வைப்பதுக்குண்ணே ஒரு ring tone இருக்கு. இந்த விடியோவில், இதை கேட்கலாம்.
கவனம் தேவை!!!, இந்த ring tone -ல் சில கெட்ட வார்த்தைகளும் வருகின்றன. Headphone -ல் கேட்பது நலம்.
இதை caller tone ஆகவும் பயன்படுத்தி கொள்ளலாம். ஆனால் என்ன, உங்கள் எண்ணை விளிபவர்களுக்குத் தான் கூச்சமாக இருக்கும்.இதன் வெவேறு பார்மட்டுகளை இங்கே தரையிறைக்கி கொள்ளலாம்,
We all are aware that bodies fall at same rate irrespective of their weights. Well, let’s see how our geniuses have arrived at this in the days where there was no definition for velocity or acceleration. While reading Stephen Hawking’s A Briefer History of Time, I stumbled upon the explanation given for bodies falling at same rate. This snippet taken from Google Book Search shows,
(continuing…) forces cancel out and a body will always fall at the same rate irrespective of its weight.
How a layman would understand this? There comes the giant Galileo, who gave a simpler explanation long back in 16th Century. Here is the excerpt taken from the book “On Giants’ shoulders“. Here is the excerpt,
He (Galileo) imagined a light and a heavy body tied together and asked the question ‘Does the presence of the light body help or hinder the fall of the heavy body?’. Now if, as Aristotle had maintained and, as intuition may tell us, light body would impede the fall of the heavy body, because it would lag behind and restrain it. But Galileo reasoned that if we consider the entire assemblage of heavy plus light body together, well, that is heavier than the heavy body on its own, so the assemblage should fall faster, and so we arrive at the contradiction that the presence of the light body should both speed up and slow down the fall of the heavy body. That is obviously nonsense, and so the only way we can reconcile it is to suppose that both heavy and the light body fall at the same speed.
What a wonderful example of Galileo’s reasoning? The former explanation using Newton’s laws can be commonly found in our text books. But Galileo’s reasoning makes more sense and our education system doesn’t induce such a reasoning power into us.
This video below shows the Hammer-Feather drop experiment performed by the astronaut David Scott on moon during Apollo 15 mission. Since there was no atmosphere, a feather and a hammer fell at the same rate and the entire world witnessed this historic proof for Galileo’s findings.
விசய் தொலைக்காட்சியில் வரும் லொள்ளு சபாவின் தீவிர ரசிகன் நான். நீண்ட இடைவெளிக்குப் பின்னர் கடந்த பிப்ரவரி மாதத்திலிருந்து, மீண்டும் லொள்ளு சபா ஒளிபரப்பாகிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறது (வெள்ளி இரவு 9 மணி). முதல் வாரமே கலக்கி விட்டார்கள். புதுபேட்டை படத்தை அருமையாக கலாய்த்தார்கள். இந்த முறை வித்தியாசமான நகைச்சுவையை கையாண்டிருகிறார்கள். ஒரே மாதிரி உச்சரிக்கும்
சொற்களையும், வசனங்களையும் கோர்த்து டைமிங் காமெடிப் பண்ணியிருக்கிறார்கள். சந்தானம் இல்லாத குறையை அவரைப் போலவே இருக்கும் புதிய நடிகர் தீர்த்திருக்கிறார். வழக்கம் போல மனோகருக்கு அப்பாவித்தனம் நன்றாக வருகிறது.
பிடித்த வசனங்கள் சில,
நாயகன் : என் பேரு குமாரு
ஒருவர் : கொஞ்சம் நீ சும்மாரு
நாயகன் : என் பேரு கொக்கி குமாரு. கொக்கின்னா என்னா? யாருக்கு தெரியும்
மனோகர் : நான் சொல்றேன். அது கரண் நடிச்ச படம். சுமாராப் போச்சு.
நாயகன் : அண்ணே இட்லி கொடுங்கண்ணே
கடைக்காரர் : காசு?
நாயகன் : காசெல்லாம் வேணாண்ணே. இட்லி மட்டும் கொடுங்க, போதும்
நாயகன் : எதாச்சும் வேல கொடுங்க சார்
ரவுடித் தலைவன் : வேல இல்ல
நாயகன் : அப்ப எல்லாரும் வெட்டியாத் தான் இருக்கீங்களா?
ரவுடித் தலைவன் : டே. ஒனக்கு வேல இல்லன்னு சொன்னேன்
நாயகன் : எனக்கு வேல இல்லேன்னு தான ஒங்க கிட்ட வேல கேட்டு வந்திருக்கிறேன்
ஒருவன் : டே, என் தம்ளர்ல ஊத்து.
மனோகர் : என்னாது. உன் தம்ளர்ல ஊத்தா? அம்பது அடி தோண்டினாலே தண்ணி இல்ல. உன் தம்ளர்ல ஊத்துன்ரே
Here are some of the best quotes, I have come across on cricinfo.
“There must be two Justin Langers in the world, I think.” Ricky Ponting can’t believe that Justin Langer, never shy of a word or two himself, wants sledging stopped in county cricket.
“Before the game we said ‘Let’s make history today.’ Well, we made history.” Dutch captain Luuk van Troost on Herschelle Gibbs’s six sixes against them.
“They might need one by the time we’ve finished with them.”Shane Warne approves of South Africa’s plans to fly a psychologist from Johannesburg to motivate the players before the first Test at Perth
“I always viewed him as a once-in-20 games bowler.”Arjuna Ranatunga offers his frank views on Ajit Agarkar
“Most teams, you know, only the next player to bat puts pads on. With Zimbabwe, everyone puts pads on.” A Zimbabwe supporter half-jokingly comments on his national team
“Chris Cairns’s mother is probably a very good cricketer.”Brett Lee comments on Chris Cairns’s statement about how even his mother could lead this great Australian side
“My dad is 70, my mother is 60. The chances of another Kapil are close to zero.”Kapil Dev on being asked when India will see another Kapil Dev
“I got some pretty funny text messages from him after every one of the games - ‘how are you … are you on the next flight over?’ and ‘you can have your job back, I don’t want it any more’.”Ricky Ponting jokes about the text messages he had been receiving from his stand-in captain, Mike Hussey, during the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy
“My theory is that every time a batsman plays and misses he should be asked to take off one piece of protective clothing of the bowler’s choice.”Michael Kasprowicz takes a novel approach in the plan to contain batsmen
“No. Nayan Mongia should keep the wickets.”
Nayan Mongia, when asked if Rahul Dravid should continue keeping wicket in one-day internationals
The immortal quote. Steve Waugh’s statement to Herschelle Gibbs. In a crucial world cup match, the pugnacious Steve Waugh, who was battling bravely to keep Australia in the World Cup, hit a ball in the air to Herschelle Gibbs, who in his anxiety to celebrate the catch, dropped the ball to the mortification of his team mates and the anguish of the South Africans in the crowd and at home. Steve Waugh is supposed to have made his since immortalised statement: “You’ve just dropped the World Cup, son.”
Mcgrath to Sarwan during the West Indian innings, “What does Brian Lara’s d*#k taste like?”. Sarwan slammed back, “I dont know, ask your wife”.
“How anyone can spin a ball the width of Gatting boggles the mind.” Martin Johnson, in The Independent, on Shane Warne’s ball of the century which bowled Mike Gatting in 1993.
“If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him.” Graham Gooch joins the fun.
“A fart competing with thunder.” England in Australia in 1990-91, as assessed by their captain Graham Gooch
“Tufnell! Can I borrow your brain? I’m building an idiot.” One of the funnier Australian barrackers as Phil Tufnell was pilloried by the crowd in Newcastle, Ashes series, 1994-5
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