GUJARAT LAW SOCIETY Date of publication : 7th of every month. News for students, staff, alumni and friends Gujarat Law Society, Opp Law Garden, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad 380006 ■ Ph 079 26440532, 079 26468513 ■ email: [email protected] ■ Price Rs.2/- INSIDE Volume 11 Issue 6 Editor: Dr. Bhalchandra H Joshi JUNE 2019 GLS UNIVERSITy’S ADMISSION FAIR Pg : 2 DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT THE INDIAN Women’S CRICKET TEAM? By Dipalee Atre admissions in the year 2019- given a space at this fair to put out their application forms. This Pg : 3 or the second year in the 2020 began on May 24, 2019 up their banners, posters and a attention to details and the four years of its existence, and was inaugurated by the TV for running films and overall arrangements have been GLSU HAS INITIATED Fthe management of GLS President of the University, Mr presentations. Spaces are also very much appreciated by the HOSTEL FACILITIES FOR University decided to have a Sudhir Nanavati. After lighting marked for the counselling area visitors. GIRLS centralized location from where the ceremonial lamp, Mr with visible areas for displaying This systemised process all the institutes under its Nanavati walked around the brochures. The entire area proves helpful to students who umbrella would carry on their fair, chatting with the staff above the H H Auditorium has enter the arena of higher respective admissions. Thus, members and going through been enclosed and air education after school, and the idea of a centralized their brochures. He conditioned for the comfort of gives them a platter of different admission fair was mooted. The congratulated all institutes for the visitors. Tables have been courses they could take up, first such fair was held in May- the quality of their displays. thoughtfully placed at the sides without getting confused and June 2017. The fair for Each affiliated college is where visitors can stand and fill CONTINUED ON PAGE-3 Pg : 6-7 GET READY FOR THE NEW CRICKET CRICKET: PLAYING WITH THE MIND CHAMPIONS! By Jean Dsouza calculations, emotional control, an one live in India and leadership and obedience, and not get affected by the utmost concentration for the Clove-wave of cricket? Of entire game – however long it course, India has many different takes – are the important sports. Some of them, psychological qualities that exclusively Indian, and some great cricketers develop. In fact, originated in India. But there is not only does the game demand no question today about the coaches and trainers for the most popular game in India. team, but the role of a new type Pg : 8 We often hear people say of expert is now emerging: the þw¼ Mkw¾ [iLkfe çkhMkk çkhMku... that Cricket is not a sport, it is a sports psychologist. LkuíkkSLkwt hküÙøkeík game. This implies that more Cricket, and all sports, thus than physical, external strength, emerge as psychological mind Cricket calls for mental prowess. games where there is always Former Australian cricketer, more to the game than meets the Glenn McGrath, states: “I think eye. ability is a 10 to 20 per cent As we prepare ourselves for requirement, you need 80 to 90 who combine to form an their own individual the culmination of the ICC per cent mental strength.” This effective fielding unit, where performance. At the same time, Cricket World Cup this year, let is so true, because cricketing thinking and acting as one is the though, cricket is also a contest us also learn to use these skills themselves all come from ultimate aim (similar to sports between two individuals where psychological qualities not only Pg : 9 the power of the mind and from such as football, and basketball). the batter and bowler attack and in the field, but also in the game HACC PRINCIPAL AND the way the head calculates the On the other hand, cricket is an defend, to try and get the upper of life. different aspects of the game. individual sport with the hand in an attempt to land the (The writer is Associate FACULTY MEMBER VISIT On the one hand it is a team batsman/batswoman playing, in knockout blow. Professor of English at NJCU, USA game played by 11 individuals some senses, for themselves and Thus, confidence, HACC) JUNE 2019 2 DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT THE INDIAN Women’S CRICKET TEAM? 1. Jhulan Goswami has Jhulan Goswami Punam Raut the most ODI wickets in Women’s Cricket. She has 185 ODI wickets. 2. The Indian women’s cricket team has never lost an ODI against Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands or Denmark. 3. Mithali Raj is only the 2nd women to score over 5000 ODI runs. She scored 5898 runs Mithali Raj Volume: 11, Issue: VI © 2009 All rights reserved. President, GLS Deepak Navnitlal Parikh Honorary Secretary, GLS Devang Nanavati Publisher & Editor-in-chief Dr Bhalchandra Joshi (Registrar, GLS) Managing Editor Dr. Avani Desai Editorial Board Aashal Bhatt Dr. Dharini Patel Indian women’s cricket team Dipalee Atre Dr. Jean Dsouza in ODIs. Kaur had to undergo a dope test sent her for the trials to test her Kalpesh Jani 4. Jhulan Goswami has too, as the authorities were skills among boys. Dr. Kavita Patel Dr. Kruti Paritosh taken the 2nd highest number of suspicious of the amount of 9. Women’s cricket in Dr. Marzun Jokhi outfield ODI catches in power with which she hit that India was founded by a man! Dr. Nirja Vasavada women’s cricket. She has taken six. Lucknow’s Mahendra Kumar Dr. Jayesh Mandanka 53 outfield ODI catches in her 7. Diana Edulji, current Sharma formed the Women’s GLS Voice is published monthly by Gujarat career so far. CoA member and former India Cricket Association of India Law Society, Law Garden, Ellisbridge, 5. The Indian with most captain, broke four front teeth (WCAI) in 1973. WCAI ran the Ahmedabad. The opinions expressed by others in GLS number of T20 international while playing colony cricket as women’s game in India till 2006 Voice do not necessarily reflect those of runs is Mithali Raj. She was a teenager. But the experience when it merged with the BCCI Gujarat Law Society or its members. Letters also the first Indian to reach the didn’t deter her from becoming after an ICC ruling. to the Editorial Board and other correspond- 2000-run milestone. a cricketer! ence should be sent to The Editorial Board, 6. During the 2009 ICC 8. Opener Punam Raut (Compiled from the internet: GLS Voice, Gujarat Law Society, Law Garden, Diana Edulji Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad or e-mailed to World Cup in Australia, almost got picked for Mumbai’s https://www.thequint.com/ [email protected] Harmanpreet Kaur hit such a hosts, that her bat had to be sent U-14 Boys’ team when she was sports/cricket/indian-women- huge six in the game against the to a laboratory for checking. 12 years old. Raut’s coach had cricket-unknown-facts ) JUNE 2019 3 GLS UNIVERSITy’S ADMISSION FAIR CONTINUED FROM PAGE-1 May to 7 June, 2019. chaotic. (The writer is a faculty of GLS University’s Second management at GLSU’s Admission Fair was on from 24 NRBBA With tender loving care, GLSU has initiated hostel facilities for girls, beginning this year! Look further to glimpse into this unique space. JUNE 2019 4 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CRICKET 1. Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar’s bat to hit the fastest ever ODI century: the 20-over Cricket World Cups. After winning the last 60-over World Cup under Kapil Dev’s leadership in 1983, India won the 20-over and 50-over World Cups under MS Dhoni’s captaincy in 2007 and 2011 respectively. 6. All four innings of a test on the same day: Shahid Afridi was flown in to play for the Pakistan team from West Indies to Nairobi in 1996 and didn’t have a proper bat. That’s when Waqar Younis gave ‘Young Afridi’ Sachin Tendulkar’s bat. Afridi hit 11 sixes and six boundaries with the bat and scored a 37-ball century against Sri Lanka which was the then Vinod Kambli played only 17 Test matches which fastest ODI century. included two back to back double tons. Kambli’s Test average is 54.20 while his childhood friend Sachin 2. Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the Tendulkar averages 53.78 after 200 Tests The 2000 Lord’s Test between England and West first ball of a Test match: Indies saw all the four innings being played on the same 4. The only cricketer to play Test cricket for India day. This feat was repeated 11 years later in the famous and England is Saif Ali Khan’s grandfather, Iftikhar Cape Town Test where South Africa bowled out Ali Khan Pataudi: Australia for 47. 7. On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11: This coincidence occurred during the first Test between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town. At 11:11, on 11/11/11, South Africa were 125 for 1 needing a further 111 runs for a win. Compiled from https://www.indiatimes.com/news/ sports/25-amazing-cricket-facts-thatll-blow-your- mind-228436.html Nawab Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Siddiqui Pataudi, or I. A. K. Pataudi (16 March 1910 – 5 January 1952) was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and the captain of the India national cricket team for the tour to England in 1946. He also played Test cricket for the England team in 1932 and 1934, making him one of the few cricketers to have played Test cricket for two countries In the 137 years of Test cricket no cricketer has ever and the only Test cricketer to have played for both India hit a six off the first ball of a Test match.