Sun Pharma chief hopes the worst is over for Ranbaxy

Sun Pharma chief hopes the worst is over for Ranbaxy

NEW DELHI: Sun Pharma would have to do a lot of work to get USFDA to revoke the ban on Ranbaxy facilities but it has not put any time-frame for this, company chairman Israel Makov said on Wednesday. 

Sun Pharma's experience dealing with the US health regulator in the past would help it solve Ranbaxy's problems with the regulator, he said in an interview to TV channel CNBC-TV18. 

"We hope to do it as soon as possible. We won't put a specific time-line, we have to discuss it with the FDA, we have to do a lot in the field to satisfy its requirements and once we do it, we will have the ban revoked," Makov said. Sun had a similar situation once in US in its plant and the company got the ban revoked earlier than anybody expected, he added. 

Sun Pharma on Monday had announced that it would fully acquire Ranbaxy in a transaction with a total equity value of $3.2 billion, along with debt of $800 million. 

Makov said Ranbaxy has a serious problem but Sun has proven its ability to remedy any problem that it had encountered in the past. 

"We are confident that we can do the same with the current problems," he added. 

When asked if the company would need just a couple of quarters to resolve the issue, Makov said: "No. The closing of this transaction is going to be somewhere towards the end of this year. Only then we can come in and do whatever needs to do. 

"So it will take time, it is not a matter of a quarter or two. It will take longer but it is not going to be many years." 

Makov expressed hope that worst is over for Ranbaxy. "We hope that the worst is over. I think so. We look forward to remedy whatever needs there to remedied and to fix the company and then bring it back to where it should be," he added. 

When asked about company' acquisition plans in the US, Makov said: "We have bought a number of small companies in the US. But it depends on an opportunity. We don't set an objective that we have to buy a company in the US." 

The objective is to grow globally and to have a sustainable profitable growth and to become a more significant player in the industry, he added. 

The combination of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy creates the fifth-largest specialty generics company in the world and the largest pharmaceutical company in India. 

At present, all the four plants of Ranbaxy in India have been banned from exporting drugs to the US market. 

USFDA had banned imports from Ranbaxy's Toansa plant in January this month for violating current good manufacturing norms. 

In September last year, the USFDA imposed an import alert on Ranbaxy's Mohali plant in Punjab for violating current good manufacturing norms. 

Ranbaxy's key facilities at Paonta Sahib in Himachal Pradesh and Dewas in Madhya Pradesh have been under a US import alert since 2008.

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Rohan Murty shows way to optimize spectrum use

Rohan Murty

BANGALORE: When he is not helping his father at Infosys, he is writing academic papers. And the latest from Rohan Murty, son of Infosys co-founder and chairman N R Narayana Murthy and a junior fellow at Society of Fellows at Harvard University, is about a software algorithm that he and two colleagues have developed. The algorithm allows spectrum owners to sell or sub-lease unused or under-utilized spectrum in a seamless way, ensuring there is no interference to the owner's own operation. 

The system also persuades participants to bid optimally, instead of strategically, and Murty and colleagues have therefore named the algorithm 'Satya'. "It is strategy-proof, that is, truthful bidding is optimal. Hence, our emphasis on 'truth'. "Also, Harvard's motto is Veritas, Latin for truth, and we chose to instead find a Sanskrit word," Murty said in an email interaction with TOI. Murty is currently on leave from Harvard and serves as executive assistant to his father. 

Murty and his fellow researchers — David Parkes, a Harvard professor, and Ian Kash, a researcher from Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK — have co-authored the paper 'Enabling Spectrum Sharing in Secondary Market Auctions' that lays down the details of their solution. The paper was published last month in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, a peer-reviewed scientific journal sponsored by the Computer Society at IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, based in New York). 

Currently, spectrum auctions tend to be monolithic allocations where the winner takes it all. Satya, on the contrary, creates a secondary market for spectrum. Spectrum owners can lease spectrum to many small users. 

"It has the potential to raise more revenue for spectrum owners by enabling a secondary market for potentially unused or under-utilized spectrum while ensuring there is no interference to the owner's own operation," Murty said. 

The system, Murty says, lowers entry barriers for small spectrum buyers to compete with the big boys. 

Murty's paper is closely linked to the work he did for his PhD thesis on Systems on Dynamic Spectrum Access. His thesis focused on how spectrum efficiency could be improved by building the next generation of wireless systems. He believes there is an increasing realization in the US, UK and other countries about the need for new paradigms of spectrum allocations. 

"I worked on building systems and algorithms that demonstrated how this can be done well, the challenges and potential solutions. This was the core part of my thesis work. My work on Satya built on this further to see how we can design for dynamic spectrum access in secondary market," Murty said. 

In India, the latest round of telecom spectrum auctions was seen as a success with the government mopping up over Rs 60,000 crore. But companies paid huge amounts that could raise costs for customers. Asked if Satya, with its sub-leasing option, could address this problem, Murty said, "The answer to this question is not entirely straightforward. There are several other factors including network costs and quality of service factors one needs to consider as well. This is a well-studied and debated area. You can make the argument run both ways. It depends on the context and I am not (yet) qualified to comment on the Indian context."
 

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Apple vs Samsung trial: Phone calls in court exasperate judge

US District Judge Lucy Koh has become increasingly frustrated during the first few days of the trial pitting Apple against Samsung.

AN JOSE: So far one of the biggest problems for the federal judge overseeing a patent battle between the world's largest smartphone makers isn't about stolen ideas. It's getting the roomful of smartphone devotees to turn off their devices.

US District Judge Lucy Koh has become increasingly frustrated during the first few days of the trial pitting Apple against Samsung because the many personal Wi-Fi signals interfere with a network the judge relies on for a real—time transcript of the proceedings.

The phones also ring, buzz and jingle, and can be used to take photos, a serious violation of court rules.

In the first five days of trial, Koh has interrupted testimony with a sharp "Phones off!" She's warned that she might force everyone to hand over their phones. She's threatened to send everyone, except a select few, into an overflow room. And she's shamed those with phones turned on to "Stand up!" — which a few sheepishly did.

The disturbances are unusual for a federal court, which is typically a quiet space with respect for tradition and decorum.

"Everyone make sure your cellphones are off so we don't have the same real—time issue we've been having," courtroom deputy Martha Parker—Brown warned on Tuesday.

Already that morning, before the judge or jury had entered the courtroom, unusual shouts of "hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" rang out as Apple attorney William Lee pointed at Wharton School marketing professor David Reibstein, who was taking photos from the spectator rows. Reibstein was escorted out, questioned by a marshal and required to erase the photos.

"I've never been in a federal trial before," Reibstein said after he was allowed to return. "I just didn't know the court rules."

Smartphone controversies were obviously expected when the fiercest rivalry in the world of phone makers returned to court in the heart of Silicon Valley. Just not this way.

Apple and Samsung Electronics are accusing each other, once again, of ripping off designs and features. The trial marks the latest round in a long—running series of lawsuits between the two tech giants, and is being tried less than two years after a federal jury found Samsung was infringing on Apple patents.

Samsung was ordered to pay about $900 million but is appealing. This time Apple is accusing Samsung of infringing on five patents on newer devices. At stake is more than $2 billion if Samsung loses, about $6 million if Apple loses.

The high—profile case has packed the courtroom, with dozens of black—suited attorneys backed by rows of reporters and experts. Executives and staff members from the two companies sit on opposite sides of the courtroom and whip out their respective iPhones and Galaxy devices in the hallways during breaks.

"It's a case of connection addiction," Columbia University religious studies professor Robert A.F. Thurman said when he was told about the drama. "They're afraid to be on their own, without some sort of artificial assistance. It needs to be treated by some kind of contemplative therapy."

Problems with smartphones surfaced almost immediately after the trial started, despite a sign asking people to turn off cell phones taped to the heavy courtroom doors.

As a jury was being picked, Koh ordered all phones off — several times. Nonetheless, some were occasionally heard ringing.

"Please turn your phones off. We don't want an angry judge," Parker—Brown said the next day before opening statements.

The judge and attorneys use the live transcript feed from a court reporter to review testimony and rulings when attorneys raise objections. But with so many computers, tablets and phones in the room, the feed often doesn't work.

Breaking for lunch on day five, Koh's tone was more subdued but her aggravation was apparent.

"Unfortunately the transcript died again this morning," she said. "Please if you're going to come in, keep your cellphones off. If you need your phone on, please go to the overflow room."

That didn't happen. Instead, when the trial resumed, she caught someone using a phone in court, threatened to bring in security, and then, irritated, asked why so many lawyers are using Wi-Fi at all.

"I don't know what all of you do," Koh said, noting all the online activity during court.

The trial is expected to last until the end of this month
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Experts find a door ajar in internet security through safe

A flaw has been discovered in one of the internet’s key security methods by a  team of Finnish security experts and at Google.

A flaw has been discovered in one of the internet's key security methods, potentially forcing a wide swath of websites to make changes to protect the security of consumers. 

The problem was first discovered by a team of Finnish security experts and researchers at Google last week and disclosed Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, a number of large websites, including Yahoo, Facebook, Google, and Amazon Web Services, said they were fixing the problem or had already fixed it. 

Researchers were still looking at the impact on consumers but warned it could be significant. Users' most sensitive information - like passwords, stored files, bank details, even Social Security numbers - could be vulnerable because of the flaw. 

The most immediate advice from security experts to consumers was to wait or at least be cautious before changing passwords. Change a password on a site that hasn't been fixed could simply hand the new password over to hackers. Experts recommended that, before making any changes, users check a site for an announcement that it has dealt with the issue. 

"This is a good reminder that there are many risks online and it's important to keep a watchful eye around what you're doing, just as you would in the physical world," said Zulfikar Ramzan, the chief technology officer of Elastica, a security company. 

The extent of the vulnerability was unclear. Up to two-thirds of websites rely on the affected technology, called OpenSSL. But some organizations appeared to have had advance notice of the issue and had already fixed the problem by Tuesday afternoon. Many others were still working on restoring security. 

Because attackers can use the bug to steal information unnoticed, it is unclear how widely the bug has been exploited - although it has existed for about two years. On Github, a website where developers gather to share code, some were posting ways to use the bug to dump information from servers.The Finnish security researchers, working for Codenomicon, a security company in Saratoga, Calif., and security researchers at Google found the bug in a portion of the OpenSSL protocol - the basic security that encrypts sessions between consumer devices and websites - called the "heartbeat" because it pings messages back and forth. The researchers called the bug "Heartbleed." 

"It's a serious bug in that it doesn't leave any trace," said David Chartier, chief executive at Codenomicon. "Bad guys can access the memory on a machine and take encryption keys, usernames, passwords, valuable intellectual property, and there's no trace they've been there." 

Organizations were advised to download immediately the newest version of the OpenSSL protocol, which includes a fix, and quickly swap out their encryption keys. It also meant organizations needed to change their corporate passwords, log out users and advise them to change their own passwords. 

Then companies began taking inventory of what they may have lost. But because the flaw would allow attackers to surreptitiously steal the keys that protect communication, user passwords and anything stored in the memory of a vulnerable Web server, it was virtually impossible to assess whether damage had been done. 

Security researchers say they found evidence that suggests attackers were aware of the bug. Researchers monitoring various "honey pots" - stashes of fake data on the Web aimed at luring hackers so researchers can learn more about their tools and techniques - found evidence that attackers had used the Heartbleed bug to access the fake data. 

Actual victims may be out of luck. "Unless an attacker blackmails you, or publishes your information online, or steals a trade secret and uses it, you won't know if you've been compromised," Chartier said. "That's what makes it so vicious." 

Chartier advised users to consider their passwords gone and urged companies to deal with the issue quickly. "Companies need to get new encryption keys and users need to get new passwords," he said. 

Security researchers say it is most important for people to change passwords to sensitive accounts like their online banking, email, file storage and e-commerce accounts, after first making sure that the website involved has addressed the security gap. 

By Tuesday afternoon, many organizations were heeding the warning. Companies across the web, including Yahoo, Amazon and PayPal began notifying users of the bug and what was being done to mitigate it. Tumblr, the social network owned by Yahoo, said it had issued fixes and warned users to immediately swap out their passwords. 

"This still means that the little lock icon (https) we all trusted to keep our passwords, personal emails and credit cards safe was actually making all that private information accessible to anyone who knew about the exploit," the security team at Tumblr, which is part of Yahoo, wrote on their site. "This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere - especially your high-security services like email, file storage and banking, which may have been compromised by this bug.
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Here's how Facebook protects your privacy

Facebook said it runs 80 trillion checks every day to ensure any data isn't being wrongly exposed to the world.

Facebook is once again seeking to cleanse its mucky reputation when it comes to privacy, this time by furnishing the world with new information regarding how it looks after user content and data. 

In a briefing with reporters, the social network said it runs a rather sizeable 80 trillion checks every day to ensure any data isn't being wrongly exposed to the world. 

The firm also said it conducts 4,000 surveys a day (in 27 languages, no less) directly relating to privacy. Among other things, those results prompted it to start showing on-screen explanations for privacy controls. 

Quelling the confusion
Facebook now plans on introducing a host of more explanations, which it hopes will lessen the confusion and misconceptions experienced by users when the company changes tact, as it often has in recent times. 

Users will be informed they can change the visibility of old cover photos and it will also offer clarification that when a friend shares content it will only be visible to the person's mutual friends. 

The company also plans to introduce an in-line box to explain the differences between public status updates and those meant only for friends. 

Two-pronged attack
Along with word of the privacy checks and surveys, Facebook revealed the logistics behind its privacy efforts. 

Responsibilities are split into two teams: the Privacy Product Engineering squad, which builds the consumer-facing settings; and the Privacy Infrastructure Engineering team which works to ensure any unassigned data is locked down. 

So, according to Facebook, it does work really, really hard when it comes to protecting its members from the accidental over-sharing of content, despite their desire to have users share with 'everybody'
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LG G Watch launch date, pricing revealed

It looks like LG’s new Android Wear based smartwatch, G Watch, will be available by the end of the second quarter.

NEW DELHI: It looks like LG's new Android Wear based smartwatch, G Watch, will be available by the end of the second quarter.

The South Korean giant has told online publication Pocket-Lint that the G Watch will be available before July and will be priced less than £180 (Rs 18,000 approximately) in the UK. 

The website also got access to a non-functional prototype of the watch and mentioned that the square shaped watch will come with interchangeable straps. It noted that the watch features a solid, seamless build and feels lightweight, yet premium.
LG has been teasing the watch via its social media accounts. The company has not revealed the specifications or features of the watch. It is worth pointing out that Evleaks, a Twitter account run by a former technology blogger, had said that a Google smartwatch made by LG, will be released at the Google I/O event which is scheduled to be held in June. Evleaks had also posted purported specifications of the LG smartwatch that included a 1.65-inch IPS LCD display(280x280p), 512MB RAM, and 4GB internal storage. He tweeted the specs before LG made the G watch public in March.
Another report by Taiwanese publication ePrice informs that LG is working on a second smartwatch which will be released after the launch of the G Watch. LG is also expected to release its Lifeband Touch fitness band in the first half of the year. 
Motorola's Moto 360 and LG's G Watch are the first smartwatches to feature Google's Android Wear software platform made for wearable devices. Motorola has also hinted at a summer release for its round smartwatch.

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Panic on web as Heartbleed bug leaves millions of users vulnerable

The bug, dubbed Heartbleed, “allows anyone on the internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software”.

NEW DELHI: Web administrators and computer security researchers on Tuesday scrambled to fix a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL encryption used by thousands of web servers, including those run by email and web chat providers. The bug, dubbed Heartbleed, "allows anyone on the internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software". 

In other words hackers or cyber criminals can use the Heartbleed bug to steal private encryption keys from a server that is using OpenSSL protocols of SSL/TLS encryption and then snoop on the user data, including passwords. There are reports that servers of Yahoo, Imgur and Flickr have been affected. However, this is around two-year-old bug and hence no one knows for sure how many people have exploited it at how many servers have been compromised. 

The bug is so serious and widespread that Tor Project, which manages the anonymous Tor network, has advised web users to go offline for a while. "If you need strong anonymity or privacy on the internet, you might want to stay away from the internet entirely for the next few days while things settle," it said in a blog post. 

OpenSSL Project has created a website called www.heartbleed.com to inform web users and web masters about the bug."The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users," explained a note posted on the website. 

In a separate note OpenSSL Project said that the bug was discovered by Neel Mehta, a security researcher working with Google. It also said the "affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g". The key bit to note here is that by users OpenSSL doesn't mean the web users but web server administrators who use OpenSSL protocols. 
The reason why the Heartbleed bug has caused panic among server administrators and security researchers is because how it affects servers. "This bug has left large amount of private keys and other secrets exposed to the internet. Considering the long exposure, ease of exploitation and attacks leaving no trace this exposure should be taken seriously," explained the Heartbleed website. "Leaked (private) secret keys allow the attacker to decrypt any past and future traffic to the protected services and to impersonate the service at will." 

In an answer to a question — Am I affected by the bug? — the OpenSSL website notes, "you are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly". 

"OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your company's site, commerce site, hobby site, site you install software from or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL. Many of online services use TLS to both to identify themselves to you and to protect your privacy and transactions. You might have networked appliances with logins secured by this buggy implementation of the TLS," noted the website.

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Samsung, Apple's big smartphone dilemma

As the smartphone action shifts to the mass market, leaders Samsung and Apple are under pressure to make their high-end phones more affordable to revive sales

SEOUL: As the smartphone action shifts to the mass market, leaders Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc are under pressure to make their high-end phones more affordable to revive sales. And that may spell trouble for already-softening margins.

Samsung, which said on Tuesday it would likely post a second straight quarterly profit decline, has knocked around a tenth off the price of its Galaxy S5 in South Korea, in the first such move for a marquee smartphone launch — the S5 rolls out globally on Friday. And it's throwing in a free gift pack of media subscriptions and web apps worth 600,000 won ($570).

The mass market — where a smartphone can be had for as little as $25 — is the new mobile device battleground, as high-end growth eases off with sales slowing in mature markets. Japan, for example, may see smartphone shipments shrink this year, according to researcher IDC.

Samsung's flagship S5 price cut suggests the South Korean firm wants to encourage users to trade up to a fancier phone — at a potential cost to its margins. Samsung's mobile business operating margin dipped to 16% in October-December from 18% over the whole of 2013.

"It reflects how much Samsung is agonizing to secure margins. They're now offering premium models at lower prices as the demand outlook for high-end phones remains uncertain," said Lee Seung-woo, an analyst at IBK Securities.

Premium smartphones tend to be priced at above $300 and pack in more features, such as more powerful processing power, high-resolution display, better cameras and fingerprint reading. With the S5, which has few hardware improvements from its S4 predecessor, industry watchers reckon Samsung is aiming more at a broad mass market than tech savvy users.

To be sure, Samsung has a far broader product line-up than rival Apple, and it has some leeway to trim prices given that manufacturing costs have fallen. Lee Min-hee, an analyst at IM Investment, reckons the total cost of production materials for the S5 — from the battery and screen to the processor and sensors —will be 10-15% lower than for the S4.

While this allows vendors to make quality phones for less, it makes it tougher for them to maintain a premium brand image.

"Samsung needs to be very clear about the market segment it's pursuing," said Clement Teo, analyst at Forrester Research in Singapore. "Take Apple — it didn't drop prices on its iPhones, even with the new models. This helps it maintain a margin premium and attracts a certain loyal user base."

But Cupertino, California-based Apple is also taking note of the growing potential of the mass market. Internal documents revealed during an ongoing US patent trial against Samsung indicates some at Apple felt the company priced itself too high.

Less pricing change at Apple
According to an April 2013 presentation filed to a US court, executives had debated plans for Apple's 2014 fiscal year and concluded that consumers wanted what it wasn't offering: cheaper phones — for less than $300 — and bigger screens.

It's unclear how representative that presentation is of Apple's mindset. Nor are there signs that Apple, which thrives on its premium positioning and plays down suggestions that it go mass-market, intends to deviate from its path.

Apple did not respond to requests for comment.

An 'economy' model may wedge Apple more firmly in emerging markets — a segment still seeing strong growth. Apple now relies on discounted older generation phones to reach cost-conscious buyers, but buyers in markets like Brazil and China increasingly want the latest gadget.

IPhone shipments grew just 8% in Apple's 2013 fiscal third quarter, a far cry from five years ago when shipments more than doubled.

"They are foregoing incremental revenue opportunities by not having a product that addresses that market," said BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk, adding that the main hope of investors now is that Apple produce a new product — a wearable device, say — to galvanize revenue growth.

The iPhone 5C, a colorful plastic model priced just $100 cheaper than its premium cousin, was aimed at emerging markets and marked a departure from Apple's focus on premium phones last year. But it's not been a spectacular success. Some analysts theorize that an unwillingness to sacrifice profitability meant the device wasn't priced cheaply enough.

A thinner slice
Apple's iPhone margins have crept south as the company packs more features into its gadgets, trying to stand out in an increasingly crowded field. As its market share dwindles, the company enjoys less leverage to squeeze suppliers. And margins may fall further if Apple introduces bigger screens as expected.

Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates that making the screen just 30% larger could wipe 4-5 percentage points off gross margins. IPhone margins are now in the mid-40% range, down from 50-60% a few years ago, analysts estimate.

"With the iPhone 6, Apple is likely to stick to premium pricing as it's widely expected to come with a bigger screen and some innovative design tweaks," said Doh Hyun-woo, an analyst at Mirae Asset Securities. "They are unlikely to make as much change in pricing policy as Samsung does."

The average selling price of a smartphone globally is seen dropping by more than a fifth by 2018, to $260, according to IDC, as more buyers, especially in emerging markets, opt for price over brand, and as manufacturing costs continue to drop.

The iPhone remains the most expensive smartphone, with an estimated average selling price this year of $649, more than double the average price of $247 for Android phones, Samsung's mainstay products, according to IDC. Average selling prices of iPhones will drop only 6 percent to $610 by 2018, while Android prices will decline 18 percent to $202, according to those IDC forecasts.

"Apple has a clear strategy - to be the best in the market segment it competes in, and it has performed well," said Forrester's Teo. "Regardless of 5C sales, the bigger picture is that Apple is relevant to users in their moment of need - through an iPhone, iPad, iPod or its App store."

China chips away
All the while, competition from cheaper smartphone brands is getting fiercer. The share of smartphone shipments by vendors outside the top five — Samsung, Apple, Huawei, LG Electronics Inc and Lenovo Group — rose to 39.3% last year from 27.4% in 2011.

From Nokia to BlackBerry Ltd and a host of Chinese vendors, manufacturers are bringing out cheaper, stripped-down smartphones aimed at hundreds of millions of potential users in emerging markets such as China, India and Indonesia.

Chinese manufacturers — from global names such as Huawei and Lenovo to the less well known Gionee, Oppo and CorePad — are picking up market share as they acquire technical and design expertise to add to their low production costs.

"The winners in the current market conditions will be those who show the best cost-efficiency, and in that sense Chinese players will be in a better position," said IBK's Lee.

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Yuvraj did not deserve this unwarranted criticism: Pietersen

Pietersen loves to be a "realist" and that's the reason he is not feeling stressed ahead of IPL. (TOI Photo)

NEW DELHI: Once labelled a 'pie-chucker' by Kevin Pietersen, beleaguered Yuvraj Singh has found support from the maverick batsman, who says the India left-hander is at the receiving end of "unwarranted criticism" following his scratchy knock in the World T20 final.

Yuvraj's 21-ball 11 sucked the momentum out of India's innings on Sunday and some unruly fans pelted stones at the all-rounder's residence in Chandigarh. India lost the title clash to Sri Lanka by six wickets.

Standing behind Yuvraj, who is now a friend, Pietersen said: "I haven't read the newspapers here but what I have seen on twitter is that he has got a bit of stick. I think that it was unwarranted and he did not deserve this."

Former India players such as Kris Srikkanth and Ravi Shastri had critical of Yuvraj's batting, prompting Pietersen to say that it's "very easy to say things" when one is not an active international cricketer.

"You can't always be good. It's very easy to say things when you stop playing. I see a lot of players talking who don't even play international cricket and wished they were playing, have a lot of things to say. Because criticising is the easiest thing to do," he said.

Set to lead Delhi Daredevils in the upcoming seventh edition of Indian Premier league, Pietersen is happy that he will have to face a selection dilemma when it comes to having his pick between 'Million Dollar Man' Dinesh Karthik and the new South African sensation Quinton de Kock when they kickstart their campaign.

While De Kock has made grand entry into international cricket, Karthik's Rs 12.5 crore bidding makes him slightly favourite to get the nod.

"Of course, it is good to have selection dilemmas as it is quite a good thing to have. I kind of enjoy having selection dilemmas. You have got to hate the fact that you can only choose from only 11 players.

"You should be wanting that your squad of 16 is ready to have a go. Yes, it will be a difficult pick for the first match but we would certainly settle down with time," he said.

Life without international cricket is not something that Pietersen would have ideally imagined but then he has been a non-conformist in many ways.

Pietersen loves to be a "realist" and that's the reason he is not feeling stressed ahead of IPL.

"I don't see any pressure. In fact, I enjoy pressure. As an individual, all you can do is to give your best. In the next six weeks, I will give my everything to Delhi Daredevils. I am a firm believer in 'what will be will be'. So people can't demand things. People can be happy if things happen and be disappointed when things don't happen. I am a realist in every sense," Pietersen said matter-of-factly.

The batsman is upbeat about his team's chances as he believed that the team has got good depth.

"We do have a lot of expectations as we have picked up a player that can do real good things. The strength is good as we have quality Indian players and experienced overseas players. In Gary Kirsten, we have a great coach. I think we have the ability to go all the way. Having said that, I can tell you that there are no guarantees as such," he said.

Talking about DD coach Gary Kirsten, K P said that both are on the same page regarding team's common goal.

"I think my interactions with Gary has been very, very good. We kind of sing from similar hymn sheet. Gary is a very relaxed man and a great man manager. I just can't wait to start working with him."

When Pietersen speaks, the reassuring tone makes even worrying factors look like non issues.

Delhi's spin bowling is an issue but Pietersen brushed it aside.

"We have leg-spinner Rahul Sharma apart from Shahbaz Nadeem. He's played for India and he will be good.'' He also feels that there is no big deal about adaptability as some of the younger Indian players will be playing in UAE for the first time.

"If you talk about me, I have done that for 10 years of international cricket playing in different countries in different conditions. As far as the younger players are concerned, it will be a good experience for them.
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