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This is very cheerful to the Indian cricket crazy fans ! Sehwag back to form ! He scored a brilliant 153 two days back ! The Indian team needs Sehwag. If you play Sehwag, you have an extra bowler and if you play Pathan, you have an extra batsman, said Sastri. India's performance has not been bad, Down Under. Against the formidable Aussies, India did fairly well and emerged as the No 2 Test team in the world ! It is not easy for any team to defeat Australia !

A glorious 153 by Sachin, his 39th hundred, his 80th international hundred and a defiant 87 by Kumble and India scores over 500, for the second time in the series. Aussies reply - 62/0. The day belonged to India, as Harbhajan with a 50 plus and Kumble with 87 defies the formidable Aussie pace attack ! India has gone in with 2 spinners and 3 swing bowlers. Indian spinners will have a lead role to play, if India is to win this Test match !

What a glorious innings ! His 39th hundred and with his 41 ODI hundreds, he has scored 80 hundreds in international cricket, an enviable record indeed ! He remained as the rock of Gibralter, taking on the might of the Aussie pace attack. Assuming the role of sheet anchor, he saw India finish at a respectable 309/5. Sehwag and Laxman scored half centuries, while Dravid and Ganguly did not impress. The Senior players need not lament that they are dropped. We saw a lot of criticism directed at the selectors. They simply opted for youth. The ODI and 20/20 team is different totally from a Test team.

Jupiter is the significator of Astrology, as he is the Veda Karaka or indicator of Knowledge. Knowledge, both worldly and divine, is the prerogative of Jupiter. He rules all arts and sciences ( Prayonu koola sa kalascha deva ). If Jupiter is angular, a good astrologer is born Other combinations are Moon in Cancer Cancer rising Moon and Jupiter, angular and well posited Venus in the 11th Mercury in the 11th

This is glorious ! India as the second best team in the world, after their sterling performance at Perth ! None of their bowlers rank in the first five, but they did havoc with the Aussie batsmen, skittling them out for 212 & 340 ! They swung the ball more than the Aussies ! Dravid, Laxman and Ganguly has been dropped for the ODI series. The ODI team is different from the Test team, as these three are good for Tests. Maybe age must have been the factor and the selectors wanted a younger side ! It is learnt that Dhoni wanted the T20 winning side. Suresh Raina is back, after an year !

India deserved to win, said Ponting. It is true that the Indian swing bowlers swung the ball more than their Aussie counterparts ! Young Ishant Sharma's bowling to Ponting was a revealation. Wasim Akram gave some fantastic tips to Pathan, just before the match. Aussies were reduced to 61/5 at their den, from which they never truly recovered. Aussies were at a tremendous advanatage playing at their favourite ground, the fastest in the world. They had not lost any Test there ( except to an England side, when top Aussie players were not there ). So India has created history at Perth, being the first subcontinental side, to shock the Aussies !

Incredible ! The Indian team beat Australia at Perth, considered to be the best home ground for the Kangaroos. All Indian bowlers did well and Aussies were bowled out ! Pathan took 3 wickets, RP Singh 2 and I Sharma 1. Kumble and Sehwag, the spinners, got 2 each. Set 413 to win, Aussie fell short by 72 runs. Beating Australia in Australia is no mean task and congrats to India for good team work !

Indian seamers R P Singh with 4 wickets and Sharma, Pathan and Kumble with 2 wickets each, dismiss formidable Australia for 212 ! Singh bowled magnificently, moving the ball in the air and off the wicket. Ishant Sharma took the prize wicket of Ponting and the Kangaroos nosedived to 212. In the second innings, Sehwag looks in ominous form, out of a total of 57/1. Hope tomorrow, there will be consolidation by India, who seems to be on the driver's seat

India, from a position of strength, nosedives to 297/6. They were 275/4, when disaster struck. Rahul Dravid, who had played so well, got out for 93, just 10 minutes before stumps. This is the tenth time he is getting out in the nineties ! Sachin batted well for his 71. None of the other Indian batsmen could impress. Brett Lee grabbed 3 wickets and M Johnson two. Let us hope Dhoni and Pathan will prosper in a good partnership.

by Vaughn Paul Manley, MA Discuss This on Vaughn Paul's Message Board Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved. The Two Zodiacs – The Great Sidereal vs. Tropical Debate It’s important to clearly understand the difference between the two zodiacs, the Vedic/Sidereal and the Western/Tropical, and their perspective places in the world of astrology. Without this understanding it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking one system is superior or inferior to the other and disregard their relative strengths. The Two Zodiacs So why two zodiacs anyway? Isn’t one enough? After all, one sky seems to have worked out quite well - thank you very much. God made no mistakes there. One zodiac belt, about 16 degrees wide, with the 12 zodiac signs ranging from Aries to Pisces rising in the eastern horizon - no problems there. It’s just astronomical fact. The stars shine equally on everyone, whether they’re standing in New Delhi or downtown L.A., so why one “Sidereal” zodiac popular in the East and one “Tr...

Three centuries ! By Greame Smith, A B De Villiers and Prince saw RSA cruise along to 556/4. WI are 23/0. Hope WI will give a good fight in the second innings. Kallis scored 74 and gave excellent support to the three centurions. Down Under ACT scored 292/8. Rogers was out for 98 while Ishant Sharma took 3/26.

Jaffer scored 92, Dravid 62 in a total of 325/9. ACT XI were 45/2. In the other match, Graeme Smith scored 122 not out and West Indies were skittled out for 139. Shaun Pollock took 4/35 and WI innings were all over in just 4 hours. Malcolm Speed of ICC says ICC will not buckle under Indian pressure. India had threatened to call off the tour, if the ban on Bajji is not lifted. Hope the Indian batsmen will come into form and in the next Tests against Aussies, will assert themselves !

Western Sidereal Astrology 23 October, 2007 12:16:00 astrologer Based on Tropical and Sidereal astrology, there are two different opinions among western astrologers about the starting point Aries, in the zodiac. According to the Sidereal astrology, the starting point is at a particular fixed position in the background of stars. But according to the tropical astrology which is adopted by the majority of Western astrologers, the starting point is when the position of the Sun against the background of stars coincides with the Northern hemisphere vernal equinox. As the Earth spins on its axis, it wobbles and causes the precession of the equinoxes where the vernal equinox moves gradually backwards against the star background. This occurs at the rate of about 30 degrees which is one Zodiacal sign length every 2,160 years. Hence, the two zodiacs are aligned only once every 26,000 years, with the most recent alignment being about 2,000 years ago when the zodiac was principally established. Thi...

By: Ella Wilson The game of cricket interests one and all. People idolize their favourite cricketers. It is a game of passion, mania and divine. People go crazy about cricket. Whenever, there is any cricket game, people schedule their daily work according to the time schedule of the game. They love to see their favourite players hit fours and sixes. Cricket fans stick to their TV sets from the beginning to the end of the game. Everything comes to standstill when any cricket match is being played. Cricket freaks cancel all their appointments to enjoy the match. Earlier, a person has to rely on radio and TV to know the cricket score. However, today, mediums like mobile phone and internet gives them all the up to date information regarding cricket. In early days, if someone was out of station, they got to know the score only through radio or newspaper. However, today the scenario has been changed. Even if you are not in station, you will get to know about the cricket score via mobile phon...

It was unfortunate that controversial umpiring decisions had marred the Sydney Test. Umpiring by Bucknor and Bensor was not even club standard ! BCCI has appealed to the ICC against the 3 match ban imposed on Bajji. No racist remarks were made, they said. It is unfortunate that a gentleman's game is plagued by controversies and the gentlemanly Indian players are subjected to pressure. Australian players have been playing a psychological game all the time. When others resort to the same measures, they object !

Sachin created history by scoring 154 no, his 38th Test hundred. He was involved in a 129 run partnership with Harbhajan Singh, who scored 63. This is a batting revival with both Laxman and Sachin scoring centuries. India finished with 532. In the other Test, Ashwell Prince scored 98 and along with Boucher ( 59) gave RSA the first innings lead. Both Tests seems to be well balanced and may prove thrilling at the end.

History repeats itself. The same duo who shone during the last Australian tour, Laxman and Dravid, shone today. Laxman scored 109 and Dravid 53. Their partnership of 175 put India back into the game. India was 216/3 in reply to Australia's 463. India was reeling at 8/1, when Jaffer was removed by Brett Lee. Then this wonderful partnership came into being, Laxman scoring his 12th hundred in Test cricket. Ganguly with 21 and Tendulkar with 9 were at the crease. Let us hope they continue the good work !

Andrew Symonds was given not out at 30 against the bowling of Ishant Sharma. TV replays showed that he is out. Now Australia is 427/8, with Symonds on a 150. All these controversies add problems to India's woes. Gavaskar has opined that those with Test experience should be made umpires. He has a point there. India began well yesterday, gettting two early wickets. But this umpiring decision proved to be detrimental to India. All marks to Symonds for a superb feat !

Longevity can be ascertained by the placements of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus, the natural benefics, in angles. Angular Jupiter can destroy 100,000 afflictions or doshas. Angular Venus can destroy 50,000 doshas and angular Mercury can destroy 25,000 doshas ( Laksham Doshan hanti devendra poojya ). If Jupiter is placed in the 8th, it indicates longevity ( Amitha Jeevitha ). The 8th lordship of Jupiter or placement in the 8th is considered to be a Raja Yoga. Randhradheeswara Ashtamasthithir api syath yoga krith dehinam Saturn in the 8th is also good for longevity ( Ashtamasthe sani ishta thasyal ). Also aspect on the 8th is also longevity generating. Mercury and Venus in the 8th is also good for longevity. So also Jupiter in the 6th. In the 6th Jove destroys enemies, confers longevity, despite giving disease !