Interesting Medley!

Quite a couple of interesting things going on in the world.First was the shocking ball tampering incident in the Eng-Pak Test match at the Oval.It was rather amusing too with the 2 candiadates involved having pretty tardy reputations.On one side Daryl Hair who along with Bucknor must be the most controvertial and unfair umpire and on the other side the Pakistan cricket team with a history of chuckers,ball tamperers and cheats.The incident soon snowballed into a rollicking controversy with both sides refusing to budge and Pak ending up forfeiting the test match.The ICC hearing is yet to take place and already lot of dirty politics is happening behind the scenes.Inzy alleges that there is no evidence of ball tampering and Hair is adamant that there was foul play involved.

Its actually difficult to believe either,Hair with a history of unfair umpiring against sub-continent teams and the pak players who themselves are far from the honest card they seem to be playing to the media. All in all its not good for the game.

The other intersting thing I saw on the news today was Pluto booted out its planet status.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html
This is quite ironic to me as Pluto was my favourite planet...no specific reasons..just felt that way since its so far far away and sounds so small!...I hope this does not lessen the popularity of Disney character Pluto-another favourite of mine.

I am currently reading Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake".Its been quite some time I last read a good work of fiction and I am impressed by Lahiri's ability to tell a story effusively.It has made me interested in her other work "Interpreter of Maladies" a collection of short stories which won her the Pulitzer in 2000.