Check it out!

With one of the greatest ever Test series having just ended, I guess the statistics about this series should be fresh in all our minds. Well, then, check yourself out in this quiz over at BBC's webpage. For the record, I scored a paltry 6 out of 10! :-(

Also, check out this page in The Times where readers have listed out how they helped England win the Ashes. One of the readers says this:

Firstly I must apologise to Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan and Ian Bell. Unfortunately I must travel through one of the Mersey tunnels to and from work. As it is impossible to listen to the radio whilst journeying through them, I am forced to break my otherwise uninterrupted listening. Each time I emerged from the other side I found a wicket had gone down. This was the cause of Strauss's dismissal in the first innings. Due to a slow moving bus I was delayed in the tunnel on Monday morning and, when I did emerge, Vaughan and Bell had fallen victim to this tunnel of dismissal. Sorry guys.

:)) I myself do this often - making bets with myself that "In the next 5 seconds, if something does not happen, then something good will happen". I was especially guilty of doing this during my JEE days. I used to make such ridiculous bets! For example, if someone I was going out with was kick-starting a scooter, I used to say to myself that if the scooter started within 3 kicks, then I would make it through JEE, else not. And obviously, whenever my bets failed, I used to switch to the best-of-three mode and bet on two other ridiculously high probability events soon after. If several bets failed on a day, that day would go by in a particularly glum mood. It's good to see that there are other psychologically impaired people out there :)

Cheers,
Harsha