Böcker av Ravi Chaturvedi

I have been handed the new ball and asked to bowl the opening spell in this book of Cricket Commentary and Commentators. It was always my ambition to play Test cricket for India, but I was allergic to grass. A pity because I would have been the silliest mid-on to have played Test cricket. My long leg would have been a sensation. There have never been swingers to match mine. I used to be such an agile fielder that a piece of music 'Third Man Theme' was composed as a tributeOn the serious side, as a commentator, I was always fascinated by how cricket commentary began. While the journey of cricket commentary is fairly well-recorded in Australia and England, the information on the subject in other eight Test playing countries is scanty. This book - Cricket Commentary & Commentators - is a humble attempt to weave together threads scattered in different areas and diverse directions. The scope of the book has been enlarged to include not just commentators but even anchors, presenters, scorers and statisticians while making it a compendium on commentary. With these opening remarks, I urge you, the reader, to move forward.

Plant functional traits (PFTs) are thecharacteristics of plant species which respond to thedominant ecosystem processes of the habitat.Information on PFTs related to morphological andphysiological traits are lacking for the drydeciduous woody species of Vindhyan highlands. In conclusion, present study indicates that drydeciduous forests of India contain considerablediversity of functional traits which are highlyinfluenced by soil moisture conditions. Functionaltraits examined were strongly affected by site,season and their interaction, which might be due tophenotypic plasticity helping to adjust to thecomposition of their communities, thereby promotingcoexistence and community diversity. Species areadapted to maximize growth by tolerating water stressfor the maximum possible duration and when stressreaches the threshold they shed their leavesrapidly.Photosynthetic rate of species is prominentlyinfluenced by specific leaf area (SLA), leafchlorophyll content and intrinsic water useefficiency and modulations in all these traits governvariations in the relative growth rate (RGR) of thedry tropical forest species.