Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno

Over the past few weeks my Facebook page is flooded with comments about RCB (Royal Challengers Bangalore) looking more like GCB ( Gayle Challengers Bangalore), more comments about how RCB is a one man show, more and more comments about how dependent RCB is on Gayle. To say the least I am sick of it, and I am going to set this straight once and for all.

First lets talk about Christopher Gayle. As we all know, he is a big hard hitting batsman from Kingston, who is also a useful part-time off-spinner. This year before the IPL Chris Gayle has not been impressive, his highest score this year has been against the Netherlands where he scored 80 off 100 balls and this was on 28th February 2011. Fast-forward a couple of months, he is smashing the ball left right and center. It makes you wonder, whats with this guy??

It seems just like yesterday when he was struggling to score at more than a run a ball in the same conditions where he is today going at a strike rate of close to 160. What has changed?? The weather in India is pretty much the same. The grounds haven't changed much. So what's changed? The answer is the team.

Let me be honest Gayle for West Indies has sucked but for RCB plays like a man possessed, it makes you wonder how much of the team affects one's performance. Gayle has taken to RCB like a fish to water, he has made some good buddies in Kohli who do the Choo-Choo train together,gets along well with DeVilliers (heard they are booze buddies) and gels along very well with the entire RCB team. But when he plays for West Indies there is controversy after controversy ergo his performance for the West Indies.

Critics of Gayle and RCB, the performance of an individual largely depends on the rapport he shares with his team. RCB as a team have given Gayle the environment he likes to be in and his performances are there for everyone to see.

Go on RCB. Bring the cup to Bangalore.

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno (All for one and one for all)

Asimov is GOD!!!

On this very day in 1992, the world bid farewell to the greatest Sci-Fi writers of all time; Issac Asimov. Now why do I call him the greatest Sci-Fi writer, because he is the BEST.

Look at what he's done; he gave us The Foundation Series, The Laws of Robotics (he actually coined the term Robotics), Psycohistory, the stories of Elijah Baley and R.Daneel Olivaw, the innumerable stories of Susan Calvin, man the list goes on and on and on.

Here's my tribute to Asimov on his 18th death anniversary.

When i was in the 12th standard, I had trouble understanding the 2nd law of thermodynamics. So i was googling and i found this by Issac Asimov. And i was amazed by how the man made something so complex so simple. It is exactly as Albert Einstein said: "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother"

Here's the piece:

"Another way of stating the second law then is, 'The universe is constantly getting more disorderly!' Viewed that way we can see the second law all about us. We have to work hard to straighten a room, but left to itself it becomes a mess again very quickly and very easily. Even if we never enter it, it becomes dusty and musty. How difficult to maintain houses, and machinery, and our own bodies in perfect working order: how easy to let them deteriorate. In fact, all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out, all by itself - and that is what the second law is all about."

Issac Asimov; I salute you.

Djokovic, Mr. Unstoppable??

"The king is dead,

Long live the new king"'

- Novak Djokovic's mother after he beat Federer in the 2008 Australian open Semifinal

Its has taken him three years to actually stamp his authority as the King of tennis and what a dramatic three years it has been for him.

Thrashing a hapless Murray in the Australian Open final, Annihilating the competition in the Dubai Open, taking Serbia to win the Davis cup, Novak has come a long long way. With almost everything from the mega first serve, to the cheesy drop shots, to the ripping ground-strokes in his arsenal I began to wonder if I was actually seeing the next big thing in tennis.

He is 18-0 this year (not including the Davis cup), and he is in SUPER HOT form, but is that enough to become the next Mr.Unstoppable of tennis??

Novak himself doesn't think so "I do have the best period of my life on the tennis court, but nobody is invincible," Djokovic said. "You are just trying to play your best in each match you're playing.

"I am extremely happy with the way I'm playing and with the success that I'm having. But I know that the season is very long, and I don't want to be too euphoric about the win. I need to celebrate a little bit, and then move on."

Djokovic will return to action at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami later this week, where he will bid to continue his unbeaten start to the season, before turning his attentions to the clay-court season.

Can he win his first French open and cement his position as Mr. Unstoppable. Only time will tell..

Amazing Roger Federer trickshot on Gillette ad shoot

Action Speak a lot louder than words. Just watch this.

Just imagine the amount of commitment, the practice it has taken for Federer to do this

Truly a amazing athlete.

Roger Federer is God.

Hope you make it 17 slams this September.