Ghambir vs Kholi for Skipper Position

It’s a testing time for the Indian cricket team. Tensions fill the air as the environment becomes ripe with strife. Situation is so bad that an explosion of sort is inevitable. Change is imminent and of the utmost importance. Something has to give, things have to be shifted around, plans have to be rethought but the problem lies in the fact that no one has a clue as to what should be done. Any way you go, egos are going to be bruised and sentiments going to be hurt. But what has to be done has to be done. We are talking about the future of the Indian cricket after all.

The first thing to be changed would be the leadership or the management. Since the management is the one making the alterations, it is natural that the captain would be the first person to go. No matter what the fault, the captain is usually at the receiving end of all the blame. He is the one who is supposed to have everything under control, so it is natural that one looks up to him to make the right decisions and lead the team to victory. In the wake of an unexpected and unfortunate outcome, the captain gets a lot of flak.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been an outstanding Captain to date. He has conducted himself gracefully, morally and sensibly, without leaving room for criticism. He has been a beacon of light to the whole of Indian cricket-dom even during the darkest periods of cricket. But since the Indian tour of Australian in 2012, people are beginning to question his role as a skipper. India’s performance during the tour was absolutely shameful but how much the captain had to do with it, one can only estimate. And it is based on these assumptions that he is being hogtied and burned at a stake. Now that his position might open up in the near future, two of the team’s best are caught in a race to be the next captain- Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli.

These are two players who have shown impressive statistics over the years and also has considerable experience with the team. Virat Kohli has been a steady performer in the cricket match, showing consistency in all variations of cricket. But Gautam Gambhir profile has not been up to the standards these days with a subtle decline in form. It is yet to be seen who will fill Dhoni position, considering it is some pretty big shoes to fill.

Blue Eyed Boy of Billiards

To look at his lanky frame with a mop full of hair flopping around his head, one would not guess this teenage looking fellow is in fact a twenty seven year old Billiards champion and snooker player. I am talking about none other than Pankaj Advani, the ace billiards player and not the Bollywood movie director. Snooker and billiards are indoor sports that are just making its way into the world. As a matter of fact, the first ever united World Billiards Championship was held on 17th October 2012, where nearly 65 of the world’s best players gathered together to battle it out at the green baize.

The winner of the tournament was our own Pankaj Advani who beat the world defending champion Mike Russell in the finals to clinch the World Billiards title. Incidentally this was his eighth world title and seventh in billiards. It just proves to you that he is by no means a novice in this field of games but has been around for more than a decade, just biding his time and slowly but effectually working his way to the top.

Advani won his very first title at the tender age of twelve and has gone on to reap many more plaudits at state and national level since then. He won his first national Junior Billiards Championship in 2000 and proceeded to defend his title in 2001. The year 2003 reaped manifold benefits as he not only won the Junior Billiards Championship but also the Junior Snooker Championship, at the age of eighteen. His international debut came in the year of 2002 at the Asian Billiards Championship. Though he ended up as the runner up, it was a huge confidence booster for Advani. The next tournament he was victorious at was the 2005 International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Billiards Championship held at Qawra, Malta. He proceeded to win the same tile in 2008 at the championship held in Bangalore, India. The following year, he was victorious at the World Professional Billiards title (WPBSA) held at Leeds. He took Mike Russell to the cleaners that day with his 800 point lead.

The year 2012 saw an even better performance in Pankaj Advani profile. Not only did he win the Asian Billiards Championship in Goa to become the first player in Billiards history to secure 5 Asian Titles but he also won his seventh billiards title at the World Billiards championship.

Facts About Annuity Settlement

This is mainly an agreement in which the firm pays a certain amount of money to the beneficiary for a particular period of time, this payment is made to the beneficiary in the form of installation, the documents that are needed for this transaction includes; annuity application and policy, also assignment and agreement form. Payment that is made from annuity settlement is free from tax, there are four provisions related to annuity that you need to consider before you get started with these financial settlements. An annuity settlement or a structured settlement uses annuities as a mode of compensation. However they have a basic difference. A regular annuity is a result of an investment or retirement option, whereas a settlement is a result of an injury or insurance settlement.

The first thing is straight life, there are various facilities you can enjoy with the help of this program such as lifetime income, large payment related to various settlement options, receiving particular payment throughout your life, also we have Straight Life with certain period; this is mainly for a particular period in which the provider provides a particular payment to the beneficiary, You can easily make payment throughout your life with the help of annuity settlement. It simply provides extra security to the beneficiary. The only disadvantage that is associated with the annuity settlement is that it offers a low periodic payment. We also have a refund straight life; this simply means that the benefits are completely associated between the amount and the purchase price of the annuity. Lastly we have joint and last survivor; this simply means that the joint payments are simply provided on the basis of any two persons. If any one party passes away, then the other survivor can simply receive the annuity settlement.