November 14, 2008 at 2:03 am (Sports)
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Four days after M. S. Dhoni’s men did the victory run at Nagpur, India takes on England in a seven-match One-Day International series.
The first ODI commences at the Madhavrao Scindia Stadium here on Friday.
The build-up has been amiable unlike the India-Australia skirmishes that preceded the Test series.
Andrew Flintoff recently said that India was ‘possibly the best team in the World’.
England skipper Kevin Pietersen lauded M.S. Dhoni and the Indian captain reciprocated with a word of thanks in Thursday’s press conference.
The lack of heat in the run-up to the match forced the media to query about the big-hits that cannoned from one rival net to the other.
Was a statement being made? Dhoni said, “Not really. Just that both teams were practising nearby.”
Pietersen said, “If a guy is practising a shot, he is practising a shot. Nothing more.”
Dhoni leads a young squad with Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Virat Kohli and Yusuf Pathan. Add to it M. Vijay.
Vijay, however, will have to wait for his ODI debut as there are no slots with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir at the top of the batting line-up and a middle order that is packed.
Yuvraj Singh’s poor form during the Sri Lankan tour will be a cause for worry. A century while leading the Board President’s XI against the Aussies has been his only feel-good moment.
Ishant Sharma, down with an ankle sprain, will be missed but in the experienced duo of Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh, Dhoni has bowlers used to the run-belters that are dished out as pitches for limited-over cricket.
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November 14, 2008 at 1:49 am (News)
Tags: breaking news, fall in inflation, graduall reduce in inflation, inflation for this week, inflation rate, inflation reduces, News, Sharp fall in inflation rate
Contrary to the expectations of both economic analysts and policy planners, the rate of inflation dipped sharply to 8.98 per cent for the week ended November 1 from 10.72 per cent in the previous week, thanks mainly to lower prices of non-administered petroleum products, certain food items and other commodities such as metals.
The earlier-than-expected slide in the wholesale price index-based inflation to a single digit after a gap of 21 weeks should bring comfort to authorities. For, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) can now take further steps to ease money supply so as to catalyse growth in the economy, which is experiencing a severe slowdown in the wake of the financial crisis the world over.
The fall has come as a pleasant surprise to many top economists who projected that the inflation rate would slide below double digits only by early next year.
Apart from others who had voiced similar views in the recent past, it was only earlier this week that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman, Suresh Tendulkar, said: “Inflation seems to be on the decline as international commodity prices are coming down and the domestic harvest is good. Early next year, inflation would be in single digit.”
What aided the sharpest-ever fall in WPI inflation in over five months was the slump in the prices of various petroleum-based fuels such as naphtha, aviation turbine fuel (ATF), furnace oil and light diesel oil as global crude prices plummeted from $145 a barrel in July to $56-60 a barrel.
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