Able to
identify this person ~ he toured India and was part of the Team in Test no.
1309 at Chepauk, though did not bat !
K2 better known as Mount Godwin-Austen is the
second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at 8,611 metres
(28,251 ft) above sea level. It is located on the China-Pakistan border between
Baltistan, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, and the
Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. K2 is the highest point
of the Karakoram range and the highest point in both Pakistan and
Xinjiang. K2 is known as the Savage
Mountain due to the extreme difficulty of ascent. It has the second-highest
fatality rate among the eight thousanders. With around 300 successful summits
and 77 fatalities, about one person dies on the mountain for every four who
summit ! It is more difficult and
hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side, so it is usually
climbed from the Pakistani side. K2 has never been climbed during winter. The name K2 is derived from the notation used
by the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India. Thomas Montgomerie made the
first survey of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh, some 210 km (130 miles) to
the south, and sketched the two most prominent peaks, labeling them K1 and K2.
New Zealanders have a
special liking for climbing mountains. The
climber who died on Mt Taranaki this week has been named by police as Morgan
Ross Fraser, from Palmerston North. The 22-year-old failed to return from a
climbing trip on Tuesday and a search and rescue operation was launched the
following day. His body was found on the mountain just after midnight that
night. Mr Fraser's family said they were heartbroken but took comfort from
knowing he was doing something he loved when he died.
This is a story of a
talented cricketer who played in 78 Tests hit 2865 runs had more than 200
victims. In One dayers, he played in 179
aggregating 3314 with close to 150 victims. He is a Maori as well. The Maoris are the indigenous Polynesian
people of New Zealand. Aotearoa is the
widely known Maori name for the Kiwiland and the word is understood to mean the
land of the long white cloud. Maoris
have unique culture, own language, a rich mythology and performing arts.
If you have
guessed it – it is the story of Adam Craig Parore, a stylish wicket keeper who
played for the New Zealand for more than a decade. This man born in 1971 donned various hats. After announcing his retirement, he was a
Mortgage broker, played in ICL for Chennai Superstars. He holds the record for the highest One Day
International innings score without a boundary (96 vs India, in Baroda, 1994].
Edmund Hillary was a kiwi
as well. Parore summitted Mount Everest in 2011. He was guided by
a Queenstown mountain guide Mark Woodward who has stood atop Mt Everest
eight times. On 20th May
2011, Adam Parore, Woodward and their group of 8 clients, 3 guides and 10
sherpas stood atop the 8848 m mountain.
The 40 year old Parore has been preparing for more than a year and has
been in Nepal since March to acclamatise and prepare for fulfillment of his
lifelong dream.
Now he is in news, taking
on one of the toughest climbs in the world. The 46-year-old former Black Cap
has started a mission to scale Mount Godwin-Austen, better known as K2, the second-highest
mountain in the world. Parore, who successfully reached the top of Mt Everest
six years ago, arrived in Skardu, in Pakistan, on June 16. He told the NZ Herald on Sunday the mission was the result
of 18 months' training and preparation. "The attraction is really the
physicality of it. That really is the thing that captured me when I first
started mountaineering five or six years ago - just how physically demanding it
is.
"The other key thing
that I probably missed more than I realised, when I was retired from
professional sport, was just being a part of the team. "I really enjoy
that side of things as well." Parore has been documenting his latest
mission in a series of posts on his blog and via social media. He has a small
team with him, including several Nepalese sherpas.
Earlier this year, he
shared how much he had always wanted to take on the challenge of climbing the
second-highest peak in the world. "Even before I began climbing, it was
always K2 - the ultimate challenge. And for me, anything worth doing is worth
doing as well as you can,'' he wrote on his blog. "As with everything I
do, it begins as an impossible dream - not quite a fantasy, but certainly
worthy of sniggers from those around you, if ever your aspiration was
disclosed.'' The team is expected to be back in early August.
Now getting back to
that Test 1309 – it was fallacious to play a Test at Chepauk in October. Kiwis had been through a shakeup – a newly
appointed coach (Glenn Turner) wanted
someone with proven leadership skills, who had the respect of the players, and
who could maintain discipline both on and off the field by his own example. He
had no hesitation in going for Lee Germon, a player with no previous Test
experience, who debuted at Bangalore
captaining his side. He was a keeper who can bat in the lower-middle order, and
a place was found for him in the team by converting Adam Parore into a
specialist batsman.
In the
Chepauk Test, played two days after a
total eclipse of the sun, which had brought the country to a halt, it was dull
and mundane. . At only 71.1 overs, it
was the shortest Test in terms of actual playing time as India crawled to
144. After the first day, when play began at 2.30
p.m., there was no further play until the fourth day. Sachin Tendulkar made an unbeaten fifty, before bad light and
showers drove the players off the ground for the last time. Prabhakar battled
throughout the 304 minutes of play to score 41, one of the slower innings in
the history of the game. Adam Parore did
not get to bat !
With regards- S.
Sampathkumar
1st July 2017.
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