China and Cricket ?????

When you would think about China you would conjure up visions of the Great Wall, Shanghai Bund and Tsingtao, but How about China and cricket??

It seems China has taken some brisk and steady steps towards the sport of cricket...They even have a former Pakistani fast bowler as the coach for their cricket teams cutting across age groups and even the sexes...

The Chinese women’s team even reached the semifinal of the Asian women’s cricket tournament in Kuala Lumpur recently.

The current goal of the Chinese is to play well in the Asian Games at home in 2010.

Well.. Now I want to see how a HK Vs China match is played out!! hehehe

Leadership Legacy!!!

I read this in FT.. an example of amazingly powerful & moving example of leadership legacy in a well.. lets say different place...

I refer to the February concert of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, in Pyongyang, when music director Loren Maazel, himself a long-standing superstar, stepped off of the stage, at a moment of immense personal achievement, when the whole world was watching, and invited Leonard Bernstein, dead for 19 years, to "conduct" the piece. Here is how the Financial Times reported it ["Ovation in Pyongyang is music to US ears"Anna Fifield in Pyongyang, FT.com sitePublished: Feb 26, 2008] :

For the encore, the orchestra played Leonard Bernstein's Candide, after which Mr. Maazel explained the orchestra's special attachment to its former conductor. "Imagine Maestro Bernstein coming back and conducting once more," Mr. Maazel almost whispered. "Maestro, do me a favour," he said in Korean, backing off the stage to leave the orchestra to play Bizet's Farandole without him. The sight of the empty green dais was spine-tingling....

Bill Fischer sums it up perfectly.."Thinking about this moment, now, I believe it must be one of the most moving and powerful expressions of gratitude, from one leader to his/her mentor, imaginable. As leaders, we can only admire, and envy, Bernstein's legacy, for Maazel to honor him in this way. It proves, that strong and effective leaders can generate admiration and affection that lasts for decades."

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