State of Indian Cricket: MS Dhoni
Its been a week since the news broke out. Amarnath and the gang of selectors wanted to get rid of Dhoni as Test captain. Their Reason: Poor performance.
This decision was over-turned by the President of the BCCI, Mr Srinivas. And controversy followed.
Now lets take a step back, and see how Dhoni has done in Test Cricket. I’d rate him on 3 major criteria:
1. Captaincy:
He’s proven to be the most successful test captain Indian cricket has ever seen. I dug up some stats, and looked at the best win %’s of all Indian test captains who’ve captained the team 5 or more times. The results did shock me, atleast where L. Amarnath (Jimmy’s dad) stood in the list.
2. Wicket keeping performance:
Dhoni is the most successful test Indian keeper. #Fact. He has the highest dismissals per innings of any previous Indian keeper, as well as the most amount of dismissals.
3. Batting performance:
Dhoni’s Test batting average is 38. Again, the most in history of all Indian keepers. Kirmani was 27, Farooq Engineer was 31, Nayan Mongia 24 and Kiran More 25.
Yet, there are calls for his head.
Indian cricket has had great captains in the past. But we’ve never had a leader of Dhoni’s class. And its about time we create a structure to support his vision for Indian cricket.
Leaders are not judged by bad results in 2 series. They are judged by character, vision and of course stats. And Dhoni has it all!
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z
Bing it on…
‘Bing It On‘ is a side-by-side Bing versus Google search-off challenge. The key is, you dont know which one you are choosing when you are doing it. 5 rounds, one winner.
The results are in. And I’m not surprised 
4 Years: zeeshan@google.com
I reached Hyderabad 4 years back with butterflies in my tummy. I was sure, this is what I wanted to do. I was never so sure about anything in my past.
4 years to the day, walking in to the beautiful Hyderabad office, full of colorful people, this was no ordinary job, it was soon going to become a way of being.
My first day - 28th July. I walk in and meet two people who had their first day as well. Mir Rahmat Quadri and Sachin Jain. Read the rest of this entry
Mario. Before and After.
’When I score I don’t celebrate. I just do my work. When the postman delivers your letters, does he celebrate?’ – Mario Balotelli.
Don’t get why Balotelli was crying last night? A postman doesn’t cry when he doesn’t deliver any letters.
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Z
The Facebook Stock Story
So much talk about the Facebook stock decline in the last 2 days.
Facebook shares, launched at $38 each on Friday, fell 11% on Monday and a further 9% on Tuesday. The shares are now worth $31 each.
Ridiculous… and all the bad press is only going to hurt the Valley, which has been producing hundreds of companies build on Facebook.
Top Companies are not build on market speculation. They are built on great products. And surely, FB is the best in the business when it comes to social.
The question is, how can they monetize the traffic?
The solution behind this is not the ads on the right, but the power of Facebook Connect. Over a period of time, I see the platform challenging Adsense for the top publishing houses on the internet.
The Advantages?
- Single login so users dont have duplicate user accounts across publishers (WSJ,NYT etc etc)
- Better Demographics for publishers and advertisers
So for all those who’ve written off Facebook after the stock decline in the last 2 days… hold that thought
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Z
Some Businesses Care
I recently saw this awesome letter written by a 3 year old, and a business responds to it.
One word for it, refreshing.
Some businesses do care, and in a money-driven environment, its refreshing to see that a business can take time out and ‘be nice’ to their customers. A brilliant strategy for customer loyalty.
Well done Sainsbury’s!
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Z
New Year Resolutions
Its time of the year, aint it!
Inspired by the power of 5, here are my new year resolutions for 2012:
1) Speak less, reflect more
2) Worry less, love more
3) Hold less, express more
4) Judge less, forgive more
5) Do less, be more
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z
The Most Useful Piece of Advice Yet
Got this advice quite sometime back, but still holds good in every decision I make in corporate life.
Look around you. If you notice that people around you know more than you, you are at a good place.
Such situations mean only one thing. Learning.
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z
