non sequitur

Ganguly reaches 5,000 runs in test cricket

Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly, when on the score of 51 in the first test match against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, to-day reached the coveted 5000 runs in test cricket. Only a handful of Indian cricketers - to be precise, Ganguly is the eighth Indian - have achieved this landmark.

He achieved the milestone in his 83rd Match (134 innings). In tests, Saurav Ganguly has a batting average of 40.90 with 11 centuries and 26 half-centuries. (With the innings still in progress, it could become 12 centuries and 25 half-centuries). He started his test career with a century at the Cathedral of Cricket, The Lord's. He went on to score another century in the very next match there by making the entire cricketing fraternity sit up at take notice of this stylish south-paw from the City of Joy.

In the on-going match against Zimbabwe, Saurav Ganguly also became the player to lead India in maximum number of tests (48 matches).

Miracle at the Brit Oval on Day 5

Extract from the movie Pulp Fiction

FOURTH MAN:    Die...die...die...die...!

DOLLY INTO Fourth Man, same as before.

He SCREAM until he's dry firing.  Then a look of confusion crosses his face.

TWO SHOT - JULES AND VINCENT standing next to each other, unharmed. Amazing as it seems, none of the Fourth Man's shots appear to have hit anybody. Jules and Vincent exchange looks like, "Are we hit?"  They're as confused at the shooter.  After looking at each other, they bring their looks up to the Fourth Man.

FOURTH MAN
I don't understand --

The Fourth Man is taken out of the scenario by the two men's bullets who, unlike his, HIT their marks.  He drops DEAD. The two men lower their guns.  Jules, obviously shaken, sits down in a chair. Vincent, after a moment of respect, shrugs it off.  Then heads toward Marvin in the corner.

VINCENT: Why the f*** didn't you tell us about that guy in the bathroom? Slip your mind? Forget he was in there with a goddamn hand cannon?

JULES: (to himself) We should be f*****' dead right now. (pause) Did you see that gun he fired at us?  It was bigger than him.

VINCENT: .357.

JULES: We should be f*****' dead!

VINCENT: Yeah, we were lucky.

Jules rises, moving toward Vincent.

JULES: That shit wasn't luck. That shit was somethin' else.

Vincent prepares to leave.

VINCENT: Yeah, maybe.

JULES: That was...divine intervention. You know what divine intervention is?

VINCENT: Yeah, I think so. That means God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.

JULES: Yeah, man, that's what is means.That's exactly what it means! God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets.

VINCENT: I think we should be going now.

JULES: Don't do that!  Don't you f*****' do that! Don't blow this shit off! What just happened was a f*****' miracle!

VINCENT: Chill the f*** out, Jules, this shit happens.

JULES: Wrong, wrong, this shit doesn't just happen.

VINCENT: Do you wanna continue this theological discussion in the car, or at the jailhouse with the cops?

JULES: We should be f*****' dead now, my friend! We just witnessed a miracle, and I want you to f*****' acknowledge it!

VINCENT: Okay man, it was a miracle, can we leave now?

Okay, so from where does the last test of the Ashes being played at Oval fit into the current scheme of things? On the 5th day of the match, when the score was 65 for the loss of 1 wicket in 21.4 overs, the run rate was 3.00 runs per over and the economy rate of all the bowlers also happened to be 3.00. That - here you have to follow me closely, I want you to acknowledge - is a miracle. I insist that God came down from Heaven and made a score look like that. And of all the people in the world, it had to be spotted by me.

Just observe the Scorecard attached (Courtesy: Rediff.com) closely and you will know what I am talking about.