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A Journey To Overcome Shyness

What is shyness? What it is like to be a shy person? A person who just is not interested in having a conversation? Or someone who just prefers their own company over other people? The textbook definition of ‘shy’ says ‘a person who is frightened to do something or to become involved in something. But how true is this? Let us dig a layer deeper into this topic. Traveling back around 5 years in time, my school days, I used to get comments like ‘he is so shy’, ‘speak up man’, ‘why don’t you participate in class’. Remember those silly parent-teacher meetings? I used to hate them. Tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. ‘He remains quiet most of the time, he should speak up in classes’. That was the time I started wondering if it was really that bad to be a shy person? Am I doing something wrong? I, most of the time, preferred to be with my small group of friends. I never socially interacted with a lot of people in my school. That didn’t make me feel I was doing something wrong
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INDIA'S WINNING LEGACY CONTINUES!

The Indian Cricket team has shown sheer dominance in the past few months. It all started last year when India thrashed Australia at their home. This followed a comeback in the Test series vs England, then the T20I series, and also the ODI format of the game. The scoreline reads: TEST 3-1 T20I 3-2 ODI 2-1 India has definitely swept all the formats, but it certainly wasn't as one-sided as the scoreline suggests. England gave a tough fight to India in every format of the game, but at the end of the day, the best team won. It was great seeing cricket returning to India after the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the challenges, everything was managed very well, and we could witness an amazing and action-packed tour! With the International season coming to an end, Indian fans are preparing themselves for the biggest league in the world, The Indian Premier League which will start from the 9th of April and with the final on the 30th of May. 
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INDIA LEVEL SERIES 1-1. HEAD ON TO AHMEDABAD FOR PINK BALL TEST

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England registered a mammoth victory of 227 runs in the first test against India. Credits to the double hundred by the skipper Joe Root, and the extraordinary English bowling. India didn't stand a chance to get away with the first match.  The Chapter 2 of the series was written 3 days later, on the same ground of Chennai. India comfortably won the second match by 317 runs. Ashwin with a century in the third innings and 8 wickets helped India to cross the line. With the series being leveled at 1-1, India and England head off to Ahmedabad for the third test to played from 24-28 February. The third match will be a day-night match and will be played with a pink ball. India has previously played only 2 pink ball matches, the third one being at Ahmedabad. The Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad is the world's largest cricket stadium with a seating capacity of 1.2 lac. The first international match is to be played in the stadium on 24 Feb. India is currently at 2nd position in the World
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ICC World Test Championship Race: Scenarios For India To Qualify

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After a historic win at the Gabba, The Indian Team is ready for its next challenge, starting 5th February. England will be touring India for 4 Tests, 5 T20Is & 3 ODIs. The schedule (test matches) for which is as follows: 1st Test Date: 05-09 February Time: 09:30 AM (IST) Venue: M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 2nd Test Date: 13-17 February Time: 09:30 AM (IST) Venue: M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 3rd Test (D/N) Date: 24-28 February Time: 02:30 PM (IST) Venue: Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad 4th Test Date: 04-08 March Time: 09:30 AM (IST) Venue: Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad The WTC Final is to be played at the Lord's Cricket Ground in London, from 18-22 June with 23 June as a reserved day. India stands at the top of the World Test Championship Table with a win percentage of 71.7%, followed by New Zealand (70%) and Australia (69.2%) as of 25th January 2021. After the win at Gabba, the race to the WTC final for India has become smoother. Also, the postponem
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India breaches Australia's Gabba Fortress. Retains Border - Gavaskar Trophy.

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India has pulled off something extraordinary today, at The Gabba in Brisbane. Australia had remained unbeaten at the Gabba since 1988, 32 years of sheer dominance at the venue. But this new, disciplined India managed to successfully end their winning streak and retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The 4th and final test, which happened to be the decider with the series hanging at 1-1, started on January 15th. Australia made a giant total of 369 in their 1st innings, to which India replied with a 336, leaving Australia with a not-so-big lead of 33 runs. Australia wishing to put enough runs on board for India to chase, managed 294 in their 2nd innings, giving India a huge target of 328. Just to mention, no team has ever chased a target of more than 250 at the Gabba. India finished Day 4 with 4-0 allowing some rain interruptions, implying they needed 324 more runs before the start of Day 5, with 10 wickets in hand. Day 5 began with India losing Rohit Sharma early. Shubman Gill along with
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