India are to enter World Cup T 20 Finals after South Africa plan to give them a walkover in the Semis
This is historic ! as it has never happened before !…unprecedented!
India as Group 2 Winners were to play Group 1 Second Placed South Africa in the second Semi Finals on April 4,2014
South Africa Team Management has been instructed by their Board to give a walkover to India as the Indian Cricket Board BCCI withdrew their proposal to play the first half of IPL 7 in South Africa in April and May 2014 and which is now scheduled for Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah….this will deprive South Africa of making half a billion dollars in profits
I’ve told you before Honey ! that Cricket’s all about Money !
An Overwhelming Memorable Day Today for Our Family and especially for us Parents as Daughter does us Proud ~ She will now appear for the Std 12 ISC Finals and today,her last day in School, was a Proud Moment for our whole Family as in the School Assembly she was announced as a Prize Winner for leading Awards for the Year 2013-14 :
Honours Prize ~ will receive this from the Chief Guest Dignitary on Speech Day ~ usually held in April before Summer Break
Scholar’s Badge ~ Received for Excellence in Academics
Games Badge ~ Received for Excellence in Sports and for Captaining the School in Football and Excelling at the District,State and India Levels
Talyarkhan Trophy for the Most Outstanding Student in Std 12 in Studies & Physical Education ~ will receive this from the Chief Guest Dignitary on Speech Day ~ usually held in April before Summer Break
Best SportsWoman of the School ~ Football,Basketball,Throwball,Karate,Gymnastics,Cricket ~ will receive this from the Chief Guest Dignitary on Speech Day ~ usually held in April before Summer Break
Student who best embodies the Spirit of Cathedral School ~ will receive this from the Chief Guest Dignitary on Speech Day ~ usually held in April before Summer Break ~ This is a new Award Instituted by the Batch of 1962 and she is the first Recipient
I had gone to school late afternoon to complete some important paperwork and was completely clueless till I met my daughter in School who conveyed all of this ~met some of her teachers ~ as they eulogised her to me I had to turn away lest they see my Moist eyes
Dug up this Collage of hers captures her spirit and achievements and which she had submitted in her Application for Selection for the Sunburn Youth Cultural Camp in Singapore ~ she was selected and represented India at the Camp
KP Collage Capturing her Spirit & Achievements
Also dug up some of the Awards she has received over recent years at the hands of the following Dignitaries on Speech Day
KP receiving Honours from Justice Chandrachud
Kunashni receiving Honours from Chanda Kochar April 21,2012
Kunashni Parikh receiving the Best Allrounder Prize of Senior School from Mrs Chanda Kochar,MD of ICICI Bank
🙄 So did Saina Nehwal win or lose against Minatsu Mitani of Japan in the first round robin league match in the BWF Super Series 21-19,22-24, and was the third deciding game 19-21 or 21-19 ! in favour or against Saina Nehwal
😆 While Mumbai Mirror,a Daily from the Times Group stable itself ,on Page 20 of their Edition Today says she won the last game 21-19 in a hard fought match that lasted 1 hour Eight Minutes! ! ! But till this morning they have they have not provided the link on the net
Cathedral Girls u 19 Football Team after Winning Bronze in Wardha on Sunday December 8,2013 at the Maharashtra State DSO u 19 Girls Football Championships
Cathedral Girls u 19 Football Team Celebrating informally later after Winning Bronze in Wardha on Sunday December 8,2013 at the Maharashtra State DSO u 19 Girls Football Championships
😆 It’s been a Super Sunday as TheCathedral & John Connon Schoolwon the Bronze in Wardha at the Maharashtra State U 19 Girls DSO Football Tournament
This was the School’s First Appearance in this State Championship after having qualified as Mumbai City Champions in October 2013 and then going on to be crowned as Zonal Champions in November 2013 ~ Had blogged on this earlier
Cathedral beat Latur 4-0 ( Goals scored by Simran,Ayushi,Anam and Tara),lost to Buldana 0-2 and then drubbed Aurangabad 5-0( Goals scored by Simran,Kunashni,Maitreyi,Urja and Roshni) to get the Bronze
🙂 Many Thanks to Cathedral Team Girl’s Mom Jankhana who had accompanied the Team to Wardha ~ she set up a Wardha Football Parents Group on Whatsapp and was giving us,Parents live updates during the Matches and even shared somes Pictures.The above Team Photo is courtesy her effort this evening
Surely a Proud Moment for the School and it’s PE Support Department and the Parents and Coach Deepak Narwade of these 18 ‘Never Say Die’ Spirited Cathedral Girls who have made this Team undoubtedly the Best one in the History of the School ~ The Coach calls them ” My Angels!”
It was a Complete Team Effort and I am Proud that this Team was Captained by my Daughter Kunashni Parikh (kneeling extreme right front row in the lone dark blue school jersey) ~She’s a Goalkeeper but played up full time in the Match for Bronze and even scored a Goal heading the Ball in ~ she’s been such an Inspiration to the Girls that some of the Junior Girls paid her a superb Compliment ” Please keep Failing in Std 12 till we reach it so you can be our Football Captain for the next few years !” 😆
Tomorrow they will announce who will represent Maharashtra at the Nationals and a few names should be from this Cathedral Team !
Magnus Carlsen celebrates in his Chennai Hotel Swimming Pool after becoming World Chess Champion
Defending World Champion Anand vs Challenger Carlsen in Chennai battling it out for the World Chess Champion Crown
The 22 year old Norwegian Chess Prodigy,Magnus Carlsen was crowned the new World Chess Champion in Chennai yesterday dethroning twice his age 44 year old Indian,Viswanathan Anand in his own den.Anand was the reigning Champion from 2007 to 2013
Carlsen showed his youthful exuberance by jumping into his Chennai Hotel Swimming Pool to celebrate being crowned as the World Chess Champion ….Cannot imagine Anand ever doing this ! ~ Carlsen is already popular and even idolised within the Younger Generation who play Chess
Clearly it was the Vigour of Youth that played a Vital Part as Carlsen took the World Crown in just 10 games of the scheduled 12 games Championship Match winning three of the Ten Games( Games 5,6 and 9) and drawing the rest and last one to emerge the Victor with a score of 6.5 to 3.5
Anand summed it up best when he admitted “My mistakes didn’t happen just by themselves. Clearly, he managed to provoke them”
Carlsen confirmed on Anand that “The blunders that he made are unusual”
The worry is that this was the first time in Eight World Championship Matches since 1995 that Anand has not won a single game and he may not get another chance to become World Champion ~ he has been Five Times World Champion thus far before Carlsen ended his Era yesterday ~ In fact Carlsen had placed ahead of Anand in the last eight Tournaments where both have played
…and my daughter,a student of Psychology, had been approached by Dev’s Mother to talk to him and motivate and inspire him ~ she has already had a few successful one to one sessions with Dev before he went on to win a Gold and Silver at the u 7 Asian School Championships in Sri Lanka in September ~ and has received appreciation from his Family ~ Dev has a FIDE Rating of 1466 and was rooting for Carlsen who he wants to emulate and even better his record ~ “Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the Age of 13.I want to become a GM at 11” ~ and this is great goal when Dev states this on his Idol Carlsen at the Chennai World Chess Championship ” I want to sit where he is sitting.Maybe when he is 43,I will “read more
Cathedral Girls u 19 Football team ~The DSO u 19 Girls Football Champions 2013 for the first time in 152 Years of the School’s History !
Ecstatic Cathedral Girls u 19 Football team after winning the DSO u 19 Girls Football Championship 2013 for the first time in 152 Years of the School’s History !
DSO u 19 Zonal Champions 2013 Cathedral Girls Football Captain & Coach ,Kunashni Parikh and Deepak Narwade
Std 12 Senior Team Core ~ l to r ~ Niharika Naik,Maitreyi Bhatia,(Ms Ansari of PE Dept),Goalkeeper Captain Kunashni Parikh,Goal Equaliser Roshni Dadachanji,Mallika Razdan and Anam Alwani
Fabulous Friday evening,November 15,2013 as daughter and Goalkeeper Kunashni Parikh Captained Cathedral & John Connon School to their First ever U 19 Girls Football DSO Crown in 152 Years of the School’s History
They Beat the fancied Fr Agnel Team from Vashi who had seven State and one National Player in their Ranks !
Earlier they had won the Mumbai City Trophy and on Friday in the Zonals they were crowned the Mumbai City and Thane Champions ~ They now go to the States Championship for the first time
The Coach,Deepak Narwade was overwhelmed with emotion and was all teary eyed and all the Girls in the Team were ecstatic after having won ,coming from 0-1 down to equalise and then win on penalties in Sudden Death
During the Penalties and Sudden Death, Kunashni ,who has played for India as Vice Captain and Goalkeeper and is also a student of Psychology in Std 12 ISC,psyched out the Fr Agnel Penalty Takers by delaying tactics and going up to them and staring them in the face and pumping herself by screaming “Yes!” in the Goal and was warned by Referee that she would get a Yellow Card but later after they won in Sudden Death he told her “Good Tactics !” ~ Later she told me that once the Match had gone to Penalties she was confident they would win as “it then became a Mind Game”
Kunashni dedicated the Win to the Coach Deepak Narwade and saluted all her Team Members,especially the Goal Scorer Roshni Dadachanji whose brilliant 35 yard Free Kick in the second half equalised for Cathedral after Fr Agnel was 1-0 up early in the First Half,and Simran Sanghvi’s Great Tries that nearly scored for Cathedral and Anam Alwani and Urja Mehta and Niharika Naik who scored in the Penalty Shoot out and her Defender Mallika Razdan
Once again Super Congrats to the Cathedral Girls u 19 Football Team for being fantabulously crowned the DSO u 19 Mumbai City and Zonal Champions for the First time in the School’s 152 year History and now moving to the States Championship
Well done Cathedral Girls ~ The School and Coaches and PE Dept and Teachers and we, the Parents are all Proud of this Historic Victory achieved as a Team
May it motivate and Inspire all of you further and even all the other Football and Other Sports Teams of the School to go out there and play fearlessly and positively and give your best no matter how strong the Opposition is !
You Girls are Fighters and Now should believe more in yourselves ~ Now Go Enjoy and play as fearlessly and positively with great sporting spirit too and as a Team at the State Championshipsread more
