Lets mock Sachin

Sachin should retire!
He has become a liability to the team.
He is no longer effective in the one-day format of the game.
He’s not played the attacking game that he’s known for.
He is playing for personal records and milestones.
Sachin is simply staying in the team to boost up his commercial value.
He has not won a single world cup for India.

Many more such statements have been made after India’s T20 world cup victory.

Here are a few answers to the qns and statements put forward by his critics.

1) He was the highest run scorer in One-day internationals from 1990-1999.
2) He is the second highest run getter in the period 2000-2007 only behind Mohammad Yousuf. He has achieved this in spite of the constant injuries that he has suffered in this period.
3) He’s no longer the young kid in the block. He has reduced the element of risks in his shots and is still scoring at a strike rate of 90+ for the past 4 yrs.
4) He has been dismissed in 90’s for seven times this year with three of them due to poor umpiring decisions. In almost all these occasions he had scored these runs before the 30th over. He could have easily got to his 100 if he was interested in personal milestones.
5) Which one of us will say no if offered the commercials and the money? And he’s earned all those because of his talent, the mad fan following and the media. So why blame him alone?
6) Yes he has not been able to win a world cup for us. But is it really his fault? Twice he had single handedly taken us to the semi final and final in 1996 and 2003. The fact that he could not get a world cup for us is going to remain as a scar in his heart forever.

It’s true that the younger generation of players have proved themselves at the T20 World cup. They’ve exhibited the talent that’s hidden in the country.

But spare a thought for the man who has so selflessly served for India for close to 2 decades. He had carried the hopes of a billion people for most part of his career. He would have been knighted had he been born in some other country like Australia or England.
Lets at least give him the respect that he has earned across these years.

Lessons from GMAT

Lessons I learnt from GMAT

Hey Guys! Wait a min..I am not gonna talk about co-ordinate geometry, sentence correction, vocab etc here…

These are lessons I learnt after reading the Instructions and tips for taking up GMAT.

Instructions for taking up GMAT

1) All questions are mandatory. One question at a time will be populated on the screen. You need to answer the question to get to the next one.
2) Once a question is answered you cannot go back and change the answer or re-attempt the question again.
3) The computer provides you with a tougher or an easier question depending on your answer to the previous question.
4) Your final score is computed based on the number of questions answered and the difficulty level reached.

Interpretations in LIFE

1) You need to face all the problems that life throws up against you. The best way to do is to take one problem at a time and concentrate on finding a solution.
2) You cannot go back in time and change the past. Hence once you take a decision do not regret. Accept and move on.
3) The opportunities and challenges that are provided to you will depend on your previous performances. Remember that excellence is not a destination but a habit.
4) Where you reach finally in your life will depend to a large extent on the number of right decisions made and the number of opportunities that you’ve made use of.

TIPS for taking GMAT

1) Answer all the questions. People who attend all the questions get a better score than people who don’t complete the test.
2) Try to eliminate the wrong choices when you have to take a guess. Making random guesses will impact your score.
3) If you answer a question incorrectly by mistake – or correctly by lucky guess – your answers to subsequent questions will lead you back to questions that are at an appropriate level of difficulty for you.

Interpretations in LIFE

1) Take up every opportunity that life throws up. Its better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. When you lose don’t lose the lesson.
2) Never take a decision in haste or anger. It will never be fruitful. And life is not ideal. Hence try to find a path or way out even if its not the best one.
3) Take the luck that comes your way and try to build on it. Remember that luck can take you to a higher level but cannot sustain you there. Only true effort can help you retain that spot.