Gambhir had invited Scorchers to take first strike keeping an eye on the overcast sky and while proceedings went on
interrupted for a major part of the innings, the heavens did
open up eventually.
Knight Riders brought in Lee for Shakib Al Hasan and made up
for the left-arm spinning all-rounder's absence by including
Abdulla.
Debabrata Das came in for Rajat Bhatia. Scorchers played
Nathan Coulter-Nile in place of Ben Edmondson. KOZHIKODE: The
indomitable spirit of India has made possible the impossible
whenever the country was denied key technology, said A
Sivathanu Pillai, chief of BrahMos Aerospace, here on
Wednesday.
Delivering the convocation address at the National Institute
of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C), he said the development of the
re-entry structure for Agni missile, the multi-function radar
and the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile, reflected India's
never-say-die attitude.
Though he lauded the contributions of young engineers from
various national institutes, he lamented the trend of young
minds migrating to foreign shores after completing their
education in the country.
The IITs in the country has been getting an annual funding of
Rs 900-Rs 1,300 crores. Despite investing much money on
students, almost all them have been migrating to developed
countries, he said.
"It means the knowledge gained by them is being used for the
development of countries other than India at our cost," he
said, adding that students passing out from the NITs have
become the major brain resource for the nation's important
programmes.
