Sunday, January 17, 2010

"Ordinary" bowling attack?

What a day for the Bangladesh team , they in real terms stunned the Indian imposing Indian batting lineup in deep, deep trouble at 213/8 on Day 1 of the Chittagong test. Great bowling by Shahadat Hossain combined with captain Shakib Al Hasan to pick up four Indian wickets each.

Sachin Tendulkar saved India the blushes as Bangladesh, derided as an 'ordinary' team by rival captain Virender Sehwag, walked away with the opening day honours in the first Test here on Sunday. During the course of his 55th Test half-century, Tendulkar also crossed the 13,000 runs mark in the longer format of the game.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

My climb at Vashno Devi


Finally we come down......to climb up and down 15 Km is challenging.

We started our journey from Jaladhar in a bus 9.30 pm and reached Katra at 4:30 am in the morning. We got a shock to see a 2 km line of people standing to get the pass from the Shrine board and start their journey. We were told that first we will have to take a waiting ticket and the next day a confirm ticket will be issued to us to start out climb.

Then a miracle happened, we had member in our group who made few calls and in a matter of 4 hours we had 6 VIP passes. So finally we started our climb at 11:30am with the sun blazing on our head

At 5:30pm we reached the Temple and because we had VIP passes we got direct entry to the temple. After that we climbed another 2km to reach Bharavnath Mandir. At 5200 feets you can’t even see the foot of the mountain.

Till now thing where smooth, on the way back we took a route known as Hatti Matha. We soon realized that it had a difficult angle to walk down. This took a loot of stress on the body and we came down at 5:30am.

This experience was amazing and any one visiting should go in off-season and have VIP passes