The SMS conspiracy
A couple of days ago, and all hell broke loose. The reason was as preposterous as a donkey’s tail recreating a Picasso. A cricket journalist from the once serene paradise called Bengalooru (erstwhile Bangalore) had conveniently insinuated to an SMS received from India’s cricket coach, Greg Chappell, who has become by now the Master of Leaky Ceremonies, wherein the latter had bitterly opposed the senior players in the Indian team and the chief selector, Dilip Vengsarkar for their selection prejudices. It was not just the content that was disconcerting. What....
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10 ways to revive Indian cricket
If you saw the Australia versus the South Africa contest the day following India’s abject surrender to Sri Lanka in a survival match, you would not shed tears for India, burn effigies, hurl stones, abuse players, crack nasty SMS jokes, carry a grumpy face and live in a fool’s paradise. India, at least as of now, are nowhere compared to the brilliant genius of their erstwhile rivals (currently our exasperating adversary is at best Bangladesh). Just check the staggering difference! Compare this; India made 1 run....
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10 WAYS TO REVIVE INDIAN CRICKET
If you saw the Australia versus the South Africa contest the day following India’s abject surrender to Sri Lanka in a survival match, you would not shed tears for India, burn effigies, hurl stones, abuse players, crack nasty SMS jokes , carry a grumpy face and live in a fool’s paradise. India , at least as of now, are nowhere compared to the brilliant genius of their erstwhile rivals ( currently our exasperating adversary is at best Bangladesh ). Just check the staggering difference! Compare this; India made 1 run....
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Writing on The Wall
It was a moment of classical supreme irony and historical co-incidence, as a speeding in-swinger from Sri Lankan speedster Dilhara Fernando castled Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar. To use that famous cricketing cliché, Tendulkar was " comprehensively bowled"(forget that slight inside edge). Sachin stayed momentarily glued on the wicket, perhaps realizing that these were his last few seconds on a batting strip in the World Cup arena ever. Like the great Sir Don Bradman in his farewell Test knock, India’s former great had got out for a duck, just when....
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