What a match it turned out to be between the proteas and the aussies yesterday - 872 runs in a single day - mind boggling and dizzying to put it midly. What gumption and what guts by the south africans. Not the actual win itself but the belief that they can have a go at that mammoth score without being daunted and intimidated is something really great. Gibbs went on the rampage after smith savaged and blunted the vaunted auzzie attack and them boucher sliced through the bowling like a hot knife would slice through butter. The guys who were there in the stadium would have never dreamt that they would see such a contest and probably would never stop talking about it I guess.

Back home the indians routed the english with munaf patel the great kumble skittling out the barmy army and then marching home without much fuss and this in a truncated test match. Anil the indomitable fighter has gone past 500 wickets. What a man, what determination and what endurance especially being dropped in the ODI's and always getting the stick of the so called critics who endlessly churn out the same old stale and plebian and sickening stuff of kumble not spinning the ball , not turning enough and so on. Well what did those who turned do? did they take 500 wickets. A great salute for Anil Kumble.

Time and agian the judges have come down heavily on soft targets. They will sentence a man who mixed water with milk for 3 months after 15 years, now zaheera but they will not put jayalalitha or kps gill or any ias/ips criminal in jail. They will order all car drivers to wear seat belts but auto drivers, lorry and bus drivers can go on without that. They will order euro II or III or even euro 7777 for cars ( the least polluting amongst vehicles) but will not do so for state buses literrally spewing the most toxic gases nor for the autos who go about adulterting petrol with even furnace oil. They will send to jail the owners of any private building in case of fire or building collapse but no govt offical will be sent to jail even if thousands die due to crass negligence of the officials - Did we see any arests in the recent stampede in thamil nadu where scores died? did we see any arrest when an army ammunition dump exploded, do we see any arrest when hundreds due to floods, storms, etc. But let one guy die in a hospital the judges will never let the doctor in bail for months to gether. A judge refused bail to a guy who was jailed for 37 years for a flimsy reason that the police could not trace his records. Why refuse bail? why not send the DGP, commisioner and the station head to jail for not producing records. What kind of judges do we have. Judicial activism - nay judicial tyranny..god save this country.