SYMA Medical Centre ~ in Vannam magazine Triplicane

2 ரூபா மருத்துவமனை : இணையற்ற சேவை

சைமாவின் (ஸ்ரீநிவாஸ் இளைஞர்கள் நற்பணி சங்கம்)

Srinivas Youngmens’ Association (SYMA) founded in 1977, runs a free Medical Centre for the past 29 years -  this medical centre is popularly known as Rs. 2 hospital .. .. here is an article that has appeared in “Vannam” ~ Triplicane tabloid. **

"நோயற்ற வாழ்வே குறைவற்ற செல்வம்" ~ என்ற தொடர் உடல் ஆரோக்கியம் பேணுவதன் அவசியத்தை வலியுறுத்துகிறது.

நாம் வாழும் சமுதாயத்தில் அனைவரும், முக்கியமாக பொருளாதாரத்தில் பின்தங்கியவரும் கூட  தம் உடலின் ஆரோக்கியம் பேணிட திருவல்லிக்கேணியில் "சைமா" தம் ஆதரவுக் கரத்தை நீட்டி இருபத்தியொன்பது ஆண்டுகள் முடிந்து, முகமலர்ச்சியோடு முப்பதாம் ஆண்டில் அடிப்பதிக்கிறது. தான் ஆற்றும் சமுதாயப் பணிகளில் மருத்துவப் பணிக்கு சைமா மிகுந்த முக்கியத்துவம் அளிக்கிறது. மருத்துவப் பணியில் மட்டுமே முப்பதாண்டுகள் சேவை என்பதற்கு வண்ணத்தின் த்ரீ சியர்ஸ் டு  சைமா!

பொருளாதாரத்தில் பின்தங்கியவர்களின் நலனில் அக்கறைகொண்டு சைமா ஆரம்பித்ததே இம் மருத்துவச் சேவை. பொருள் முடை - உடல் ஆரோக்கியம் பேணுவதற்கு தடையாக இருக்கக்கூடாது என்பதே சைமாவின் நோக்கம். அதனை நன்குணர்ந்ததால் தான், மெடிக்கல் சென்டரை தற்கால மருத்துவ உபகரணங்கள் மற்றும் நவீன கட்டமைப்பு வசதியோடு சைமா அமைத்து,  தரமான மருத்துவச் சேவையை, இலவசமாக,  மனமார வழங்கிவருகிறது.

கட்டணமில்லாச் சேவை அலட்சியத்தை ஏற்படுத்தும் என்பதால், மிக மிகக் குறைந்த கட்டணமாக 2 ரூபாய் மட்டுமே மருத்துவ ஆலோசனைக்குப் பெறப்படுகிறது. சென்டர் தொடங்கப்பட்ட 1989 ஆண்டுமுதல் இன்றுவரை, என்றென்றும் இதே 2 ரூபாய் கட்டணம் மட்டுமே தொடரும் என்பது,  விளிம்பு நிலை மனிதர்கள் மீதான சைமாவின் பரந்த மனத்தைக் காட்டுகிறது.

Silver Jubilee celebrations of SYMA Medical Centre

From ® Dr J Radhakrishnan, IAS (Health Secy, Govt of Tamilnadu;  Mrs Pankajam Sridhar (Subha Sridhar lighting kuthuvilakku, Dr K Sridhar, Sr. Vice President - Medical & Director - Plastic Surgery, TA Sampathkumar, President & S. Sampathkumar, Secretary)

கட்டணம் மட்டும்தான் குறைவு; பயனாளிகளுக்கு தரப்படும் மரியாதை, சேவை நோக்கத்துடன் கவனித்தல், பண்புடன் பேசுதல் மிக மிக நிறைவு! இதன் காராணமாகவே, பயனாளிகள் மன மகிழ்ச்சி மற்றும் மன நிறைவோடு “ரெண்டு ரூவா ஆஸ்பத்தரி” என்று அழைத்து மகிழ்கின்றனர். இந்த சேவை சைமாவினரால்  ஸ்ரீ காஞ்சி காமகோடி  மெடிக்கல் டிரஸ்ட் உடன் சேர்ந்து ஆரம்பிக்கப்பட்டது. இம்மையம் நடத்துவதில் பிரபல மருத்துவ நிபுணர் திரு கே ஸ்ரீதர் ஆரம்ப  நாள் முதல்  நல்ல ஆலோசனை வழங்கிவருகிறார்.

நோயாளிகளுக்கு அளிக்கப்படும் சிகிச்சை மீது மிகுந்த அக்கறை கொண்ட சைமா மெடிக்கல் சென்டர் பயனாளிகளின் மருத்துவ விவரங்களை,  மருத்துவ அட்டையில் பதிவு செய்து,  மருத்துவம் பார்க்கும் டாக்டருக்கு கடந்தகால மருத்துவ சரித்திரத்தை மனத்தில் கொண்டு மருந்து மாற்றித் தரவும் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டிருப்பது மிகச் சிறந்த நடைமுறை.

மன நலம் மற்றும் புறச்சூழல் நோயாளியின் மனத்தை மேம்படுத்தும் வகையில் இனிய வகையில் சென்டர் அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஒரே மருத்துவர் நோயாளிகளை தொடர்ந்து கவனித்தால், டாக்டர் மற்றும் நோயாளிக்குமிடையே நல்லுறவு, புரிதல், நம்பிக்கை மூலமாக மருத்துவ கண்காணிப்பு சிறப்பு பெறும், என்ற கொள்கையில் மருத்துவ ஆலோசனை வழங்கப்படுகிறது. தவிர, புதன் கிழமைகளில் -  கண், சர்க்கரை நோய் , இரத்த அழுத்தம், நரம்பியல், போன்ற பல துறைகளில் சிறப்பு மருத்துவம், பல்துறை சார்ந்த மருத்துவ நிபுணர்களின் மூலம் வழங்கப்படுகிறது. வாரத்தில் இரண்டு நாட்களில் (திங்கள் மற்றும் வியாழன்) காலையில் 'மகப்பேறு நிபுணர்' பெண்களுக்கு சிறப்பு ஆலோசனை என மருத்துவ சேவை விரிகிறது.

Past Presidents of SYMA on stage at 25^th year celebrations

மருத்துவ ஆலோசனையும் மருந்துகளும் முற்றிலும்  இலவசமே ! ~ தொடக்கத்தில் மருந்துகள் இங்கேயே தரப்பட்டன.  மருந்தின் தரத்தையும், மக்களின் மன எண்ணத்தையும் வலுப்படுத்தும் வகையில், தற்சமயம்,   இரண்டு மருந்துக் கடைகளுடன் முன்னேற்பாடு செய்துகொண்டு, சைமா மருத்துவச் சீட்டிருந்தால் இலவசமாக மருந்து என்ற  வழிமுறை பின்பற்றப்படுகிறது. இந்த மருத்துவ மையம் ஞாயிற்றுக் கிழமை தவிர வாரத்தின் 6 நாள்களில் மாலை 5 மணி முதல் 7 மணி வரை  செயல்படுகிறது.

2007ல் திருமதி சுகந்தவல்லி என். ராம ஐயங்கார் நினைவாக இரத்த பரிசோதனை நிலையமும் ஞாயிற்றுக் கிழமை தவிர இதர நாள்களில் காலை 7 மணி முதல் பகல் 12 மணி வரை செயல்படுகிறது. இங்கே பல்வேறு இரத்த பரிசோதனைகள் மிக குறைந்த விலையில் செய்யப்படுகின்றன.  இரத்தத்தில் சக்கரை அளவு பரிசோதனை செய்ய ரூ 20/- மட்டுமே என்பது உதாரணம். நமது நிலையத்தில் செய்யப்படும் பரிசோதனைகள், நாம் இணைந்துள்ளமிக பிரபல நிறுவனமான மெடால்  லேப்பில்பரிசோதனை செய்யப்பட்டு - மருத்துவ விவரங்கள்வெளி வருவதால், மிக்க நம்பிக்கைத்தன்மைவாய்ந்ததாக மருத்துவர்களால் போற்றப்படுகின்றன.

ஈடில்லா மருத்துவச் சேவையாற்றும் சைமாவின் மக்கள் நலத் திட்டங்களைப் பொது மக்கள் அறிந்து அதனைப் பயன்படுத்திக்கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்பதே சைமா நிர்வாகிகளின் ஒற்றைக் கோரிக்கையாக இருக்கிறது. அனைவரும் வருக, பயன் பெறுக என்று சைமா அன்போடு அழைக்கிறது.

மருத்துவ சேவை தவிர சைமா பலபல சேவைகள் செய்து வருகிறது.  சைமாவின் கல்வி மையம் நல்ல தரமான கல்வியை இலவசமாக வழங்கி வருகிறது.  இரத்த தானம் செய்ய விரும்பும் நல்லுள்ளங்கள் சைமா மெடிக்கல் சென்டரில் பதிவு செய்து கொண்டு இரத்த தானம் செய்து நவீன பிரம்மா ஆகலாம்! நமது இணைய தளத்தில் (www.syma.in) இரத்ததானம் செய்ய விருப்பம் உள்ளோர் விவரங்கள் உள்ளன.

மண் மூடிச் சாகும் முன்னே கண் தானம் செய்து மறைந்தும் மற்றவர்களுக்கு விழிகள் தானம் அளிப்பதன் மூலம் இவ்வுலகை கண்டு ரசிக்க முயல்வோம்.  கண் தானம் செய்ய விரும்புவோர் சைமாவை அணுகினால், அதற்கான வழிமுறைகளைக் காட்ட சைமா தயாராக இருக்கிறது.

மழைநீர்ச் சேமிப்பு - :  மழை நீரை வீணாகாமல் நிலத்தடியில் தேக்கி சேமிப்பது மிகமிக அவசியமானது.  ஸ்ரீ பார்த்தசாரதி சுவாமி திருக்குளத்தில் இத்தகைய மழை நீர் சேகரிப்பதில், சைமா பெரும்பங்கு வகித்துள்ளது.  வீடு மற்றும் அலுவலகங்களில் மழைநீர்ச் சேகரிப்பு திட்டம் செய்தவர்கள் அதனை புனரமைத்தும், இதுவரை செயல்படுத்தாதவர்கள் உடனடியாக ஏற்படுத்தியும் நிலத்தடி நீர் மட்டம் குறையாதிருக்க விழிப்போடு இருங்கள் என்ற விழிப்புணர்வையும் சைமா விதைக்கிறது. இதற்காகவும், சைமாவை அணுகினால் ஆலோசனைகள் வழங்கிட சைமா தயாராக உள்ளது. 

நமது சமுதாயத்தை சிறப்பிக்க, நமது சுற்றுப்புற சூழலை மேம்படுத்த, சமுதாய பணிகளில் பங்குபெற விருப்பமுள்ள அனைவரையும் எங்களோடு சேர்ந்து பணி செய்ய - சைமா அன்புடன் அழைக்கிறது. மேலும் விவரங்களுக்கு  :  ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ் இளைஞர்கள் நற்பணி சங்கம், 29 துளசிங்க தெரு, திருவல்லிக்கேணி சென்னை 5 (பாரதியார் இல்லம் எதிரில்); தொலைபேசி : 28445050; மின் அஞ்சல்: srinivasyoungmensassociation@yahoo.co.in  இணையம்: www.syma.in  - தொடர்பு கொள்ளவும்.

SYMA and its social services have been highlighted in many media - “Vannam” ~ is a local magazine ‘ Triplicane tabloid’ – and the article is a subsidized promo.  This issue of Vannam is Deepavali Special and its Editor (Satyan Layout, VR Pillai 2^nd lane) is printing 10000 copies.  This is an attempt of SYMA to reach out to more no. of people, trying to make more deserving people utilize our medical services.

Varun Aaron fights back injuries ! ~ list of Indian medium fast bowlers

Sharadul Thakur is the latest entrant .. .. .. Kapil Dev was the crowning glory ~ there were talks that Yograj Singh and Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar were much faster ! ~ when Umesh Yadav took 10 wickets in a home test, thoughts meandered to the way, India handled new ball – in 1970s – when the spin quartet dominated, Eknath Solkar would bowl a couple of overs, even sunil Gavaskar bowled a couple – ball would be rolled from third man and fineleg and then Bishan Bedi would take over (the quartet could consistently wrap the opponents below 200 is another aspect !)

There were times when we read about camps before Overseas tours, when Barun Burman, Jyoti Prasad .. .. came close to selection and a young lad Kapil Dev was denied extra rotis, stating that there are no pace bowlers in India.  Life has changed .. .. remember that in Chennai 1^st division league there were young lads bowling fast – not only locals like Rajamannar, Bharathkumar, Arunkumar, Kalyanasundaram, TA Sekhar, Arun – but from MRF - Vivek Razdan, Subroto Banerjee and Ashish Winston Zaidi.

1980s was the tale of pace battery of West Indies – they kept coming – fearsome Holder, Roberts,  Holding, Daniel, Crofts, Garner, Marshall, Bishop, Ambrose, Patterson, Walsh .. ..  all could hurtle at great pace and make the ball climb awkwardly not only from a short length but at times coil it up from close to good length, making the life miserable for batsmen. Aussies had their own Thompson, Lillie, Pascoe, Mcdermoot, Bret Lee, Kiwis had some like Bond, Pak keep producing some genuine quickies like Akhthar, Mohd Aamir, Wasim Akram, Waqar and more.

MRF did provide a good platform and trained some Indian aspirants which include   Vivek Razdan, Javagal Srinath, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, Venkatesh Prasad, R. P. Singh, Zaheer Khan and Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.   Sachin Tendulkar in his school days trained in the MRF Pace Foundation to become a fast bowler !  Khaleel Ahmed becomes the latest name, who joined the Indian Cricket Team for the Asia Cup coming  from MRF pace Foundation.  The MRF Pace foundation was set up in Chennai in 1987 – Dennis Lillee was the head coach, later the tall TA Sekhar, later Glen McGrath.   

This is about a real pacer who has since played 9 tests taking 18 wickets and equal no. of one dayers with 11 wickets – struggling because of nagging injuries.

In Chepauk nets, we liked watching Karsan Devraj Ghavri bowl [in Buchibabu too] ~ unfortunately, for long he had the ignominy of being the most expensive Indian bowler in Onedayers for that 83 off 11 overs in the inaugural match of Prudential World Cup 1975.  Lewis now has the dubious distinction of the most expensive ODI bowler with figures of 10-0-113-0 in that multiple record-breaking 5th One Day International between South Africa and Australia.

In Asia Cup 2014, at Fatullah, Varun Aaron was fast and furious but not fearsome… for once an Indian bowler was seen bursting out genuine speed. At  Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, he maintained an average speed of 88.2mph, and his fastest delivery clocked 93.2mph on the speedgun. That's 149.99kph. I was excited at his speed; as also that of Umesh Yadav – and both went for runs………

In a country starved of genuinely quick bowlers, Varun Aaron grabbed the headlines when he hit 153 kph during the 2010-11 Vijay Hazare Trophy final against Gujarat. Hailing from Jharkhand, Aaron has been part of the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai since he was spotted by a talent scout at the age of 15. However, his career has been marred with frequent injuries. Read in Cricinfo - Seven stress fractures have slowed down Varun Aaron's career, but he still retains the "madness" to bowl fast and hopes to work his way back into national reckoning or at least the A team. "The madness to bowl fast is still there even after seven stress fractures," Aaron told ESPNcricinfo. "If I wanted to cut down on pace or go by the safer route, I'd have done it by now. Fast bowling in India isn't easy because of the wickets and conditions too, but it's fun at the end of the day when you see the ball thudding into the keeper's gloves." India's fast-bowling resources are well-stacked now, but the desire to get back to doing what he did in Bengaluru in 2015 still exists.

Aaron last played for India in the Bengaluru Test against South Africa in 2015, when he bowled an absolute beauty that straightened late and hit the top of Hashim Amla's off stump. He has now returned to Bengaluru as one of Jharkhand's senior players for the 2018-19 Vijay Hazare knockouts. He had played a vital role in Jharkhand topping Group B with seven wins in nine games (the other two were washed out), taking at least three wickets in each of his last four matches in the enervating Chennai heat. Aaron attributed his improved fitness and rhythm to his county stint with Leicestershire, after "surprisingly" finding no takers at the 2018 IPL auction.

Aaron has added an inswinger and cutters to his repertoire, which is serving him well in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. One such slower cutter tricked Tamil Nadu captain B Indrajith and tipped a thriller Jharkhand's way in the Chennai leg of the tournament. Jharkhand had lost won the Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2010-11, when Aaron cranked upto 153kph. Can they regain the title this season? Aaron, certainly, believes so.

Here is the list of fast /medium fast bowlers who have represented India, (though a long list, some names could have been missed out !) : Amar Singh; Nazir Ali; Mohammad Nissar; Rusi Modi; Dattu Phadkar; C. R. Rangachari; Gundibail Sunderam; Subrata Guha; Abid Ali; Umesh Kulkarni; Eknath Solkar; Mohinder Amarnath; Madan Lal; Karsan Ghavri; Kapil Dev; Roger Binny; Yograj Singh; Balwinder Sandhu; T. A. Sekhar; Chetan Sharma; Manoj Prabhakar; Raju Kulkarni; Bharat Arun; Rashid Patel; Sanjeev Sharma; Salil Ankola; Vivek Razdan; Atul Wassan; Javagal Srinath; Subroto Banerjee; Paras Mhambrey; David Johnson; Dodda Ganesh; Abey Kuruvilla; Debashish Mohanty; Harvinder Singh; Ajit Agarkar; Robin Singh; Ashish Nehra; Zaheer Khan; Iqbal Siddiqui; Tinu Yohannan; Lakshmipathy Balaji; Irfan Pathan; Rudra Pratap Singh; S. Sreesanth; Munaf Patel; Vikram Raj Vir Singh; Ishant Sharma; Abhimanyu Mithun; Jaydev Unadkat; Praveen Kumar; Umesh Yadav; Varun Aaron; Vinay Kumar; Bhuvneshwar Kumar; Mohammed Shami; Stuart Binny; Pankaj Singh; Hardik Pandya; Jasprit Bumrah  .. .. .. Shardul Thakur

Interesting

With regards – S. Sampathkumar

16^th Oct 2018.

Plane hits compound - flies for 3 hours ~ another was about to land where 4 were waiting !

A few decades ago, one could see scores of people waiting near the compound wall at Meenambakkam, excited to see aeroplane taking off and landing .. no longer these days, as there is so much of air traffic in all major airports.

By any standard, this is unimaginable, knowing this to be underbelly of aircraft that flew with passengers.  According to officials, a car passenger, who passed by road on way to Thanjavur reportedly  was injured as a piece of debris of the wall, which was damaged in the incident, hit her. The passenger has been identified as Manimala of Tiruvarur district. A piece of fence mesh was seen trapped near the tyre of the plane and its bottom was found slashed in the impact, officials said.

It was an air accident - the Dubai-bound Air India Express plane was flying at a speed of 250 km and possibly overloaded when its tyre hit an equipment used to guide a pilot to land a flight and then brushed the compound wall during take-off at the International Airport here early on 12.10.2018, officials said.  This is not a new airport –  the one at Trichy was established by the British during World War II and was primarily used by the British Airforce during the world wars. Warplanes were brought to the airport and taken to a workshop in Ponmalai, 2 km away for repair and maintenance.  The first known history of flight landing at the airport dates back to 1936 when the first airmail for Colombo from India was carried by the TATA's "Goodwill Flight", piloted by H.D. Barucha on 23 December 1936, which took off from Bombay for Colombo after stopping at Hyderabad, Madras and Trichinopoly.

On Friday, it was reported that a Dubai-bound Air India Express flight with 133 people on-board brushed against a wall at the airport – fortunately all  passengers were safe. The plane lost contact with air traffic control officials and landed in Mumbai after around four hours, they said.  The  Dubai-bound Air India plane flew for three hours with extensive damage to its body.  The  pilots, apparently unaware of the damage to the Boeing 737 aircraft, reported that "all systems were functioning normally", but the flight was diverted to Mumbai anyway as precaution. It turned out to be a "very, very close shave" for with 136 passengers and crew members. It was only when the plane landed in Mumbai early morning that it was found that its fuselage or body was practically "shredded". The plane could even be a write-off. "The pilot in command reportedly has a flying experience on the B 737 aircraft of 3600 hours, including about 500 hours as commander.

Miles away, a near miss involving an Air Canada plane which almost landed on a crowded taxiway instead of a runway at San Francisco airport last year could have been the 'worst aviation accident in history,' according to an official report. The Air Canada Airbus A320 carrying 140 people was cleared to land on Runway 28-Right at San Francisco International Airport shortly before midnight on July 7, 2017. But inadvertently, the pilot lined up for Taxiway C, where four planes were waiting to take off. 'Only a few feet of separation prevented this from possibly becoming the worst aviation accident in history,' said Bruce Landsberg, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board while announcing the agency's report issued Friday.

'The incident airplane descended to an altitude of 100 ft (30 meters) above ground level and overflew the first airplane on the taxiway,' the report said. 'The incident flight crew initiated a go-around, and the airplane reached a minimum altitude of about 60 ft and overflew the second airplane on the taxiway before starting to climb,' it added, noting none of the five flight crewmembers or 135 passengers aboard the Air Canada plane were injured.   According to reports, over  1,000 people were at imminent risk of serious injury or death.

Other contributing factors were 'the flight crew's failure to tune the instrument landing system frequency for backup lateral guidance, expectation bias, fatigue due to circadian disruption and length of continued wakefulness, and breakdowns in crew resource management.'  Just moments after receiving permission to land on the designated runway, the Air Canada pilot returned to the radio sensing that something was amiss. 'Uh, Tower, I just want to confirm - this is Air Canada 759 - we see some lights on the runway there, across the runway, can you confirm we're clear to land?' The tower responded: 'Air Canada 759 confirmed clear to land Runway 28-Right. There is no one on 28-Right but you.' An unidentified man's voice then broke in - presumably a pilot in one of the aircraft waiting to take off. 'Where's this guy going? He's on the taxiway,' he said. Air traffic control immediately told the Air Canada pilot not to land. The pilot of a United Airlines plane on the ground told the tower meanwhile that 'Air Canada flew directly over us.'

Scary to say the least !

With regards- S. Sampathkumar

14^th Oct 2018.

WI falter again ... Umesh Yadav's remarkable feat

Umesh Yadav achieved something great today ~ a 10 wicket haul.. .. he has played 40 tests – has taken 117 wickets – in ODIs 73 matches 105 wickets – statistics will never reveal the true greatness of this speedster .. read more !

Another West Indian capitulation, as expected from a team, which is pale shadow of what Clive Lloyd led to India those decades.  But, then lot has changed .. .. actually they did well this morning restricting Indian lead but .. another display of poor batting doomed them.  There have been many chaos ..

Even before the tour started came the news of Chris Gayle opting out of West Indies duty to play in T20 - and this time even T10 - leagues. Even odder considering the 2019 World Cup is only eight months away. But Jason Holder didn't find this turn of events surprising. The West Indies captain felt the opener was "tapering off" and hoped that in his absence, some of the younger players seized the opportunity.  The team is shaken – Windies are about to lose their head coach Stuart Law at the end of the year. Before that, in 2016, they lost Phil Simmons. And before that, in 2014, they lost Ottis Gibson.

Today, at Hyderabad, another  West Indies Test in India, another three-day finish. By the end of it, it seems scarcely believable that West Indies had at one point put India under such pressure that they risked a serious injury to Shardul Thakur for a few extra runs. That was when West Indies' talismanic leader Jason Holder had dragged West Indies back into the contest, but India somehow managed to eke out a 56-run lead, which proved decisive thanks to another batting failure.  With this win India has 10  consecutive Test series wins at home including the two one-off Test series against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It is the joint-longest streak for any team at home. Australia had two such streaks ending in 2000 and 2008. No other team has more than eight home series victories in a row.

Today, the mercurial Umesh Yadav was on a hat-trick twice; he didn't get it, but became only the third Indian fast bowler to take a 10-for at home, paving the way for India's 10th straight series win at home with only the fourth Man-of-the-Match award for a fast bowler in India this decade. It is staggering the match ended when it did. Only 14 wickets had fallen in the first two days. West Indies had managed to stay competitive, and had at one point put India under pressure on the second afternoon with four wickets down for 162. Rishabh Pant and Ajinkya Rahane then bailed India out, and began the day only three behind West Indies' 311.

This morning it was Jason Holder show – his 5 for 56 is the first five-wicket haul by a West Indies fast bowler in India since Kenny Benjamin's five for during the Mohali Test in 1994. The only other two overseas fast bowlers to have taken five-fors in the last two years are Josh Hazlewood and Ben Stokes.  He is the first West Indies fast bowler since Courtney Walsh (in 2000) to take four five-wicket hauls in a calendar year.  He is on a real high 33 wickets in six matches at an outstanding average of 11.87 - the best for any fast bowler with a minimum of 30 wickets in a calendar year in the last 100 years.

An Indian pace bowler taking 10 wickets in a Test is a real rarity.  The great Kapil Dev did that in Pongal Test 1980 at Chepauk, Chennai taking 11/146 against Pakistan and winning the man of the match; again against the mighty WI at Ahmedabad Kapil had figures of 10/135 (in that Test Kapil took 9/83 in the 2^nd innings – in the first Maninder 4 and Roger Binny 3 had restricted the Windies).  Back in Feb 1999 against Pak at Koklata, Javagal Srinath took 13/132 and now Umesh Yadav has 6&4 finishing at 10/133 .. .. no mean achievement that !

One will understand its significance, when they extrapolate this statistics : at Rajkot against Windies in 1^st Test, Umesh bowled 11 & 3 overs; against Afghanistan 6 & 7; against Srilanka at Nagpur 2017 – 16 & 29; at Kolkata 20 & 5; in a match at Galle, he bowled 14 & 9 .. .. ..no doubt – he has great stamina, delivering speed consistently, but in home conditions, when the spinners come on too early and with India playing 3 spinners – the pacers of Umesh Yadav ilk are neglected lot and end up throwing from the deep – and he has a good flat throw at that.  With the Captain not trusting and with so limited opportunities, Umesh Yadav has really done well.  Kudos to him.

The Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) has asked the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri to "submit his explanation within a week" a day after he was named in an anonymous #MeToo post. An allegation made by a woman claiming to be a former colleague of Johri was posted on Twitter on Friday night. ESPNcricinfo has also seen communication that shows that the BCCI had been alerted as long ago as January 2017 to a harassment case allegedly involving Johri in his previous employment. It is not clear if the allegation made on Friday, to which Johri has to answer, is the same case the BCCI was alerted to in January 2017. Johri has not made any public comment; calls and messages to him remained unanswered. The allegations have appeared as a part of the 'me too' movement. Though, the said allegations do not pertain to his employment with the BCCI, the Committee of Administrators of the BCCI has deemed it appropriate to seek an explanation from Mr Johri in relation to the allegations. He has been asked to submit his explanation within a week. Future course of action will be considered on receipt of his explanation."

The woman behind the Twitter allegation claims to have been a colleague of Johri before he had moved to working with a "niche satellite channel". It was posted by a verified Twitter account of a person who has published several such anonymous allegations on behalf of others. This is the first high-profile person involved in Indian cricket administration to be named in the #MeToo exposes.

With regards – S. Sampathkumar

14^th Oct 2018.