Would
like a peaceful calm ordinary life or a flamboyant uprising challenging
rewarding life ? - No answer is right or wrong !! Flight is today’s subject matter.
In 1980s
this Sardar was thought to be the future Star of Indian Cricket, everyone was
talking about his composure, class, guile and flight in his bowling but sadly,
he faded sooner !!
An aircraft is a
vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the
force of gravity by using either static lift or the dynamic lift of an airfoil,
or, in a few cases, direct downward thrust from its engines. The concept of human flight through the air—as by a hot air
balloon, for instance—takes flight in the 18th century—though people were
figuratively experiencing "flights" of imagination and fancy since
the latter half of the 17th and were considered "flighty" slightly
before modern aviation.
The hottest news
was IPL Auctions and the way some hit the roof.
Chennai Super Kings secured Afghanistan's teenage spin sensation Noor
Ahmad for a record-breaking Rs 10 crore at the IPL 2025 mega auction. Gujarat
Titans attempted to match the initial bid of Rs 5 crore, but CSK ultimately
outbid them. CSK also acquired key players like Ravichandran Ashwin and Devon
Conway, leaving them with seven roster spots to fill. CSK
strategy most likely would be ‘spin-diet’ – flight and lure with Ashwin, Jadeja
and Noor – with support of Rachin !!
Have
heard the words ‘spin, flight, loop’ and the like when referring to spin
bowlers. Bishan Bedi had a classy action – his loop and flight was great. Every spinner needs to have
control over the flight, the parabola. Flight does not mean just throwing the
ball in the air. Flight means how the bowlers impart spin in a manner that
gives revolutions to the ball with the
idea of breaking the ball to exhibit the parabola or dip.
Flight
is daily routine of birds and - one
without which they cannot survive. Birds
come in all shapes and sizes and occupy almost all of the earth's habitats.
Some birds are lucky enough to hold the upper levels of the food chain, but
most species have at least one major predator to worry about. These predators
include mammals, reptiles, fish, and even other birds. Most birds have little
in the way of protection in a head-to-head fight, so how do they keep safe?
Birds rely on
avoidance as their primary means of defense. Flight is
a highly efficient way of escaping chasing predators. Escaping danger in time is only possible if
the bird is able to notice and identify the threat, however, and this is where
the birds' keen senses of sight and hearing come into play. Birds have a wide
variety of strategies for avoiding predators, ranging from outright speed to
displays of intimidation and even trickery. Birds also protect each other by
using alarm calls which alert the other birds in the area to the presence of
danger.
In most birds,
flight is the most important means of escape from predators. Impaired flight
abilities due to increased wing loading may increase vulnerability to
predation. To compensate for an increase in wing loading, birds are able to
independently decrease body mass (BM) or increase pectoral muscle mass (PMM).
The man at the
start - Maninder Singh was a prodigy. He was 15 when his hero Bishan Singh
Bedi handed him his first-class debut in a Ranji Trophy knockout match. In
1982, against Pakistan, he became India's youngest ever Test player at the
time, at 17 years and 193 days. There we some ODIs when one felt that Maninder
was bowling so well and another over or two would bundle the opposition. There
was a period in the mid-1980s when it indeed looked like he might emulate Bedi
at the highest level of the game, but then Maninder lost his bowling action and
the wickets dried up.
If success was
difficult to handle at a tender age, failure proved to be devastating. Maninder
trained hard but his troubles were more mental. He became a recluse, and
developed some bad habits. At 30, when spinners usually reach their peak, his
cricket career came to an end. Life brought further challenges after
retirement, including an arrest for allegedly possessing cocaine.
Flight,
is an escape mechanism !
Regards
– S Sampathkumar
25.11.2024
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