Free Cricket Telecast on the Internet

Finally, a treat for cricket lovers! – the 1st cricket test match between India and England at Nagpur can be seen live over the Internet for FREE, courtesy of cricketontv website which is offering a promotion. Check this out https://cricketon.tv/India-England.asp and enjoy a great game of cricket.

Cheers,

Thyaga

India England series begins today

The India England series kicks off today with the 1st test match at Nagpur. Although India lost the Test series to Pakistan in Pakistan, they bounced back convincingly in the 1-dayers to win it 4-1. Also, they have a lot of fresh faces in the Test team – Sree Santh, VRV Singh, Suresh Raina along with the regular faces must be all waiting to make their mark. On the other hand, England have been beseiged with injury problems – Vaughan and Simon Jones have already gone back to England, Trescothik has withdrawn on personal reasons and both Pieterson and Collingwood have back problems. Captaincy Tips?

That leaves Flintoff with the not-so-envious task of leading the side for the first time, being the talismanic cricketer, one of their main bowlers and their ever dependent batsmen all in one. That is one huge task asking from him. But as Nasser Hussain pointed out, all this might actually work out in their favor and put the pressure back on India. What will happen – will the Indians fire, will Sachin blaze, will Harmison and co knock out the Indians etc – all these questions will soon be answered when the battle begins tonight.

Cheers,
Thyaga

Elevator Pitch Business Plan Contest

On Friday, I participated in an Elevator Pitch Business Plan contest at Santa Clara University. Basically, the idea is to pitch a Business Plan within 2 minutes i.e. the time it takes you to go from 1 floor to another in an elevator. You need to pitch your idea in front of a class-room of people and in front of some esteemed judges. After that you will be grilled for 5 minutes by the judges on the viability of the plan and what the future plans are for the business.

I pitched the idea of a Mobility Kiosk – Mobile Utility Kiosks for the Mobile User. Specificially, this will give the user (a). ability to recharge his mobile devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, handhelds etc and (b). ability to print photographs directly from the mobile devices. I feel that there is a huge potential for such a Kiosk, especially with the battery life being such a huge problem in the industry nowadays.

Anyway, there were around 20 teams that pitched in their business ideas. Some of them were cool, some I didn’t understand and some were not very well presented. All in all, it was a great learning experience – hopefully, this will help us in future someday :).

Cheers,

Thyaga

Help Save Ashish

I got an email today from a friend of mine about an Asian Indian child Ashish who needs bone-marrow transplants. See, if you can help. More details are at http://www.helpsaveashish.com

Regards,

Thyaga

Future Stars of Cricket

Pakistan won the Under-19 World Cup recently with a thrilling win over India in the finals. That disappointment apart, this tournament has brought into prominence some of the promising stars of Indian cricket today such as Gaurav Dhiman, C.Pujara and Piyush Chawla. There is a nice article at CricInfo on the complete list of players from this World Cup who would go on to represent their countries soon.

Cheers,

Thyaga