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Thiruvallur defeated Salem by 8 wickets to clinch the under - 19 inter-district title
Thiruvallur registered an eight-wicket win over Salem with a day to spare in their three-day final of the
TNCA under - 19 inter-district cricket tournament on 6th May2019. Resuming at 175 for 5, Thiruvallur scored 223, a first innings lead of 148. R.Raja Guru (63) was the top-scorer. Salem's L.Sonu Singh took four wickets. Salem, in its second essay, made 196 for nine in the allotted 40 overs. Needing 49 to win, Thiruvallur knocked off the required runs in 13 overs, losing two wickets. The Scores (Final): Salem 75 & 96 for nine in 40 overs (Sanjay Thirugnanasambandam 30, J.Gowri Sankar 66, S.J.Krithick 48, sumesh Ashok Kumar three for 37, S.Aravind three for 64) lost to Thiruvallur 223 in 76.5 overs ( R.Ram Arvindh 61, R.Raja Guru 63, L.Sonu Singh four for 50, Sanjay Thirugnanasambandam three for 59) & 49 for two, 13 over.
Federation of Valasaravakkam Civic Welfare Associations founded
Federation of Valasaravakkam Civic Welfare Associations' have been founded on 5th May 2019, as per the resolutions passed at the meeting of all residents Welfare Associations pertaining to Wards 149 & 152 at Valasaravakkam. The meeting was convened by the President, ad-hoc Committee on 5th May 2019 at 3rd street, Chowdhary Nagar at 3 p.m. The logo of the Federation was also decided at the meeting. Sarvashri Jagannathan and Hariharan, senior members of the associations were elected as Election Officers and Conducted the elections of Office Bearers of the Association. S.Ganapathy, President, VicePresidents: T.K. Mohanasamy, S.Nagarajan and S.Raghunathan, General Secretary: S.Periasamy, Jt.Secretaries: K.Bhaskaran, E.Money and G.Ravishankar, Treasurer: Vignesh Kumar R.Vyas. It was resolved at the meeting to work ceaselessly for the overall development of Wards 149 & 152 in Zone11, Valasaravakkam. President, Federation of Valasarawakkam Civic Welfare Associations, 180, Brahmaputhra street, Palaniappa Nagar, Valasaravakkam, Chennai - 600 087. Cell: 7358768630
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The Grand Alumni Meet 2019, conducted by the old students of 1993 - 94 Batch, Lamech High Secondary School, Valasaravakkam on 28th April 2019 at Le Palace, Porur. They honoured their old teachers from Ist Std to 12th Std. The School Secretary, School Trustees and retired teachers and present teachers were participated and blessed all the students and expressed their gratitude for the grandeur of the convene.
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IPL 2019: Expectations and glaring deficiencies weighing down CSK’s performances
Weak and meek Election Commission It is unprecedentant in the history, in the 2019 elections, the Election Commission is in the dock, fared very badly by opposition parties, the public, the judiciary and the media. There is a drift, trust deficit and loss of credibility to the E.C which should be a most trusted institution in the country as well as constitutionally a strong and protective body. It is very sad that in the present electiions, there is a lot of hate speeches and statements over religion also a bad precedent and phenomenon which is not a healthy sign of democracy which can not be tolerated. It is expected that every political party should spell out their programmes and policies which should be development oriented and good for the country. What is the use of hate speeches one another on their personality? People are very much fed up. When a case was filed in the Supreme Court on hate speeches, The E.C said that they are powerless and toothless and could not take any punitive actions under the law and they can only issue notices to the concerned when they violate any electoral code of
conduct. On hearing their submissions, the Judges fumed and were angry and said that you have enormous powers under Art 329 of the constitution to take any punitive action upon the erring persons and party. They gave 24 hours to take action and then E.C took a decisive and firm action of banning some days from electoral campaigning. The S.C said noit to be cowards and should be firm and execute their enormous powers independently and see that the elections are conducted in a peaceful atmosphere and free and fair manner without any prejudice and acrimony. The Election Commission must arrange face to face debates in front of the public among political parties as in the vogue in USA and take valued steps in strengthening the democratic platform. The debate should be of highest standards without any malice and slanderous remarks about anybody. They are allowed to spell out their policies and people have to judge of their own. The political parties should be trained in such a manner which should be a good augury in future. At present, the Election
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Commissioners are political pick ups which should be avoided and they should be elected through a collegium method only more to avoid political bickerings. The matter has been referred to the constitution bench to settle the matter. The S.C has to take up this case on an urgent priority basis in national interest and come out with a fair judgment.. Moreover, already there are 40 important electoral reforms which are pending years together without taking any action which is suicidal to the country. The E.C should be very firm and assertive to deal with electoral matters with a firm hand as they are constitutionally well protected. The Supreme court is also very supportive in any firm decisions taken by the E.C in national interests. The E.C should maintain their reputation as enunciated in the constitution and be supreme in all their deeds to save democracy.This is the expectation by everybody.
A t the end of the Eliminator stage, the three best teams of this year’s IPL have reached the final stages of the tournament. Out of the three teams, the best team of the tournament Mumbai Indians is already in the finals and just a match away from lifting the trophy. Delhi and Chennai are not far behind with two matches away from attaining glory.While there were no doubts over the superior performances of MI and DC this year, there were a series of criticisms about the inadequate performance of Chennai Super Kings this year. Most of the pundits were of the opinion that CSK, a team with innumerable glaring weaknesses, didn’t deserve to be in the playoffs but somehow managed to reach the Qualifiers. In this article, let us analyze whether CSK’ s performance this year was that bad compared to the earlier years. Let us also find out whether CSK’s track record in IPL has created a situation of over expectation from the team which has weighed down on their performance along with the apparent weaknesses of the team this year. It would be a boring repetition to mention here that CSK is the only team to reach the playoffs in all the 10 IPL seasons in which they participated. They became the champions thrice and made it to the finals on 4 other occasions when they ended up runners. A remarkable performance by any yardstick. Their track record goes before them in every season and the fans expect them to achieve the impossible every time. To be fair to the CSK players, they have lived up to the expectations with their scintillating performances year after year. Their unprecedented success has reached a stage where the players can’t take any more of the pressure in performing consistently right through the season. Looking back at this season, CSK hasn’t done that badly to invoke that many criticisms. To start with, CSK did qualify for the playoffs with 18 points at the end of the league stages and not with 12 points. Incidentally, they secured the same number of points last year. But in last year ’s IPL, a bundle of emotions was going around due to CSK’s return to IPL
after a gap of 2 years which had dramatized every CSK win. Their dramatic win against MI in the opening match last year had set the tone for the season which culminated into CSK becoming the champions for the third time in 9 years. This time around CSK won 7 of their first 8 matches and couldn’t sustain the momentum and faded away thereafter. But that didn’t prevent them from qualifying for the playoffs. In fact, they became the first team to qualify for the playoffs this year. CSK did lose to MI in qualifier 1 at Chennai, their third loss of the season against the same opponent. But last year too they very nearly lost the Qualifier 1 against SRH before Faf du Plessis single-handedly took them to an unexpected win. As far as the total points secured at the end of the league stages of different IPL seasons are concerned, as against this year’s 18 points, CSK managed to reach the playoffs of IPL 2010 with a mere 14 points and then went onto becoming the champions for the first time. Having said that, there are a lot of glaring deficiencies in this CSK team. For starters, except MS Dhoni, none of the other batsmen managed to make any meaningful contribution. It was Dhoni, Imran Tahir and Deepak Chahar who made a huge contribution to CSK’s success this year. The bowlers did a terrific job right through the season only to be let down by the batsmen. In the past, CSK has produced different heroes for different occasions. Unfortunately, this season that never happened. In batting, it was all Dhoni or nothing. Apart from Dhoni none of the CSK batsmen came to the party. Star batsmen like Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, and Watson were guilty of playing injudicious strokes at crucial
stages of the game. But they simply refused to learn from their repeated mistakes. Another glaring weakness is the fielding standards of the CSK team. Much of that could be attributed to the average age factor of the team. Even a good fielder like a Raina is found wanting on the field. The energy level often associated with Raina on the field is somehow missing which necessitated Dhoni to position him in the 30 yards circle all the time. Even a normally safe fielder like Dwayne Bravo is not in his elements this year. As a result, the crowd never got to witness his famous dances. The only saving grace for CSK has been the presence of Faf du Plessis and Ravindra Jadeja to man the boundary. This season CSK has been deprived of a tearaway fast bowler like Lungi Ngidi to bowl in the power play. Dhoni’s tactic of managing the power play overs with Chahar and Harbhajan Singh backfired when CSK was defending totals. At times, the third over bowled by Chahar and Harbhajan in the powerplay became the game changer as it happened in the Qualifier 1 against MI. Even a shrewd Captain like Dhoni had no answers to such conspicuous paucity. Again, as always, CSK has been too rigid with their team selection and batting order. Raina has been permanently occupying the No. 3 position despite his poor form and his tendency to head back to the pavilion at the earliest possible time. In the end, the batting prowess of Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo were left untouched. The shuffling of batting order might have produced new heroes for CSK. To sum up, in spite of all these shortcomings, CSK still managed to reach the playoff stages. But the shortcomings are very much there for everyone to see. Their track record in IPL and the huge expectation associated with that hasn’t helped their cause either. But CSK is not yet out of the tournament and all these failings will be brushed under the carpet if they still manage to win the next 2 matches. Not impossible but highly improbable.
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