VVS Lakshman bids adieu ....... Age doesnt matter in Sports

Its ironical that after he was named for the 2 tests against New Zealand at Home and he has been training hard for the test, VVS Lakshman suddenly announces his retirement from International Cricket. There is something amiss here and we need to read between the lines.

He has been one of the most reliable cricketer. "Cometh the hour, cometh the man." "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going".

How many matches has he saved or won for India and yet he has perenially been on the chopper block with a democales sword hanging on him always. Our selectors have been grossly unfair to him and have hastened his end. No doubt Saurav Ganguly rightly said "age shouldnt matter, only performance should matter".

There has been an undue haste to dissolve the Fab Four by Dhoni and his cronies. Saurav, Rahul and VVS could have played for some more time and could have had a graceful exit. Saurav was in the peak of his form in the last year of his career and yet he was forced to wind up.

Mary Kom, Rogerer Federrer, Andre Agassi have all shown that age doesnt matter and people can maintain peak performance well beyond their age............

Tyranny of Justice

Wonder if Anna Hazare is so naive that he doesnt realise that he is fighting a losing battle or is he also an astute politician in the making, by riding the popular wave of "anti-corruption". The key for behaviour modification is "consequences of behavior or detterance". There is no consequence of behaviour or detterance for misconduct in India.

There was so much hue & cry with the media baying for his blood - DGP Rathore goes scot free and it was funny reading that his pension has been restored.  Similarly all the furore over Suresh Kalmadi has gone in vain, with CBI litterally exhonerating him by not chargesheeting him in the CWG Scam. The media knows the where abouts of Kanda , he manages to fix an appointment for his surrender but the police arent able to trace him.

Isnt it a tyranny of justice that "justice delayed is justice denied". Its time that our Judiciary woke up and stood up..........