Rahul Dravid leads Rajastan Royals

Rahul dravid “The Wall” named captain of Rajastan Royals team in IPL after Australian legend spinner Shane Warne announced his retirement. This year has been amazing for Dravid who scored 1,258 runs in 15tests with the help of 6 centuries and also received ‘Poly Umrigar Award for India’s best cricketer of 2010-2011’ by BCCI. Dravid was congratulated by ex-captain Shane Warne on his appointment. Dravid feels Rajastan Royals squad is full of energetic and talented players who know their roles. Let us congratulate Dravid who proves himself in all formats of game and started hitting sixes often in test cricket too. He is the only cricketer in the world who faced more than 5000 overs in test cricket.

Bushcraft Courses

From ancient days to till date i.e., modern days the physical structure of man does not possess much change but his mind structure and the ways he thinks which ultimately changes the whole setup of the world has found a tremendous change. Even after getting everything to lead sophisticated life, we are still not able to lead a tension-free life style and hence people are so excited to experience our ancestor lifestyle. But straight away we cannot not adapt ourselves to the wildlife moreover as we are not fully aware of the same. But it is not a big issue anymore as we can get the whole details about it from bushcraft courses. First let me brief you what does Bushcraft mean. It can be stated as a range of skills, practices, ethics and even a way of thinking to survive and flourish in the natural environment. It includes Wood craft, Making Bow, Fire craft, Shelter Building, Tracking, Hunting, Woodland Management, Friction Fire Lighting, Wood craft, Knife Making, Bow Making and the list goes on. People feel that that learning traditional techniques and skills like this to live within the natural-world gives them a sense of self-achievement and self-reliance. 

The bushcraft courses starts with introduction to rough-country travel and wilderness survival and then covers the entire skills from camp crafts, knife-handling to star-craft navigation and water harvesting. They also provide bush craft equipments for learning and practice. The equipments are manufactured in a perfect way with which we can easily get our needs for our wild life experience. In ancient days, axe has its unique hypnotic feature and respect which attracts everyone. But now no one knows how to handle it. That is why Ray Mears have manufactured gransfors axe which has the magic quality of weight and length that can be felt only while using. It has the right weight balanced with the right length of handle made up of high standard steel. One good thing about it is there’s no need to sharpen them frequently and also fit the head very well to the helve.

The activities coming under bushcraft courses are not so safe. People are exposed to lot of vulnerabilities during the course and hence first aid courses are mandatory. In the midway if someone met with an accident we can’t wait for someone to help. The courses focus on teaching how to deal with the variety of risks that the natural environment brings with it.

ICC Rankings & Awards – 2011

Alastair Cook is Test Cricketer of the Year 

Jonathan Trott has been named ICC Cricketer of the Year 2011

Bishoo named Emerging Player of the Year

Aleem Dar named best umpire for the third consecutive year

Dhoni leads ODI team of the year

Dhoni wins Spirit of Cricket award

Sangakkara named ODI Cricketer of the Year

Southee wins award for best Twenty20 performance

Stafanie Taylor wins Women's Cricketer award

ten Doeschate wins Associate award again

England dominate ICC Test team of the year

  

ICC TEST Championship:

 

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
England	37	4634	125
South Africa	21	2469	118
India	37	4336	117
Sri Lanka	23	2486	108
Australia	27	2692	100
Pakistan	24	2245	94
West Indies	23	2039	89
New Zealand	19	1485	78
Bangladesh	12	94	8

  

ICC ODI Championship:

Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Australia	30	3894	130
Sri Lanka	28	3327	119
South Africa	19	2197	116
India	33	3743	113
England	29	3220	111
Pakistan	28	2820	101
New Zealand	22	1973	90
West Indies	19	1475	78
Bangladesh	26	1648	63
Zimbabwe	26	1165	45
Ireland	12	492	41
Netherlands	8	87	11
Kenya	6	0	0