Of Confidence that spurt some things

The differences between the newly appointed coach and longtime captain of the Indian cricket team has surfaced at a time when the team has won a test series away from the subcontinent for the first time in sixteen years.The captain of the team,Saurav Ganguly alleged that the coach asked him to step down from his post in the eve of the final test match of the series.While the words exchanged between them is a clandestine matter known only to them,the Indian media and fans of the game seem to be divided in their opinions on whether the captain is fit to lead the team or not.
The coach in question,Greg Chappel comes from a classified sporting nation where under-performance is never tolerated.Not so in India,where stars of the game are supposed to be Gods.Indians tend to forgive lacklustre performances from their stars and revel in their past glory.So the coach might have actually said what he is being alleged of.
The kind of questions being raised on the issue seem to be proliferating,with questions ranging from,"whether it was right for the captain to get vocal against his coach","whether it was right on the coach's part to say so" etc.But there is one question that nobody seem to be interested in getting answered.Would Ganguly have dared to voice what the coach is supposed to have said if he had not scored a century on that particular day?What if the Zimbabweans had dismissed him cheaply?Its hard to imagine that he would have gone public with the matter.He was simply riding piggyback on the confidence he had gained by scoring a century in the match.Otherwise the whole thing would have been swept under the carpet.

The Pit Stop Is Over

After remaining in the shadows of Ferraris and BMWs for the past few years,the team McLaren is showing its true colours this season.Though the chance to claim the constructors title is still hanging by thread its a better performance by the team and its drivers when compared with the results of the past five years.
Undoubtedly the fastest car of the season is none other than the MP4-20 rolled out by McLaren.It could be said that the car did justice to the team's immensely talented and flamboyant driver Kimi Raikkonen when taking into consideration of the fact that his fastest lap in some of the races were done at least two seconds faster than his nearest opponent.But the car gave him enough reasons to grimace too.Like when he had to start the race from the second half of the grid on more than one occasion due to engine failure though he had well qualified as a front runner.Or when he was forced by the car's engine to offer the winner's trophy to his arch rival on a silver platter as he was sailing to a seemingly comfortable win in the closing lap of a race.Such hapless incidents did serious injuries to his hopes of winning the driver's championship title.
Juan Pablo Montoya, less charismatic but no less a fighter than Kimi has had his share of problems too.Part of which could be attributed to the engine and part to the skillful driver himself.He won races for sure but he either failed to make it to the podium or be in the right position at the podium when it really mattered .On more than one occasion he was unable to keep himself at Raikkonen's tail thereby throwing the chance for McLaren to finish 1-2 after six long years.
Even then this is more than an impressive performance from the once mighty team who had a horrible first half in the last season.From the way Fernando Alonso and his team Renault is benefiting from the shortcomings of McLaren ,it might not be difficult for them to scale the heights of championship titles this season.But MP4-20s and the two spearheads who fit into its cockpits like hand in glove give a glimpse of the things that lie ahead in the coming seasons.

Some business model,this is.

Every one is born with some talent or the other,it is
said.whether it is true or not,anything is irrelevant as long
as it is not discovered by someone.While this is an assessment
which could be generalized,in the case of talent,it is
irrelevant until someone or the person himself finds it
out.That is until he discovers his own potential.The world of today works on the buyer-seller business model
with the question raised being 'what you can sell at what
cost'.This is not confined to goods that can be sold.It also
refers to what people have inside their brains or on their
hands in the form of skills.Barring a few exceptions,this has
been stretched to the extend that if a person fails to sell
his or her talent it becomes useless.Some are seen pursuing
and nurturing their talents as hobbies,some as business
though it might not be a bread-winner.Some devote their life
after their retirement from jobs to their talents.To
encapsulate it all i would say that talent never dies no
matter whether you sell it or not.