Cricket's trust vote
The world of cricket clearly needs a trust vote. Let me explain. With just a few weeks left, people are as clueless as punters on the stock market or media prophets on the fate of the government about where the next Champions Trophy ODI cricket tournament will be held. Incidentally, this bi-annual extravaganza is supposed to be a mini-World Cup, no less. So you can very well fathom the extreme confusion reigning in cricket circles, like the self-styled ravaging feudalistic monopoly of Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh. There is literally....
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An open letter to ICC General Manager
A Blueprint for creating a World Cup Test Championships By Sanjay Jha 14th July 2008 Mr Dave Richardson General Manager International Cricket Council Al Thuraya Tower 1, 11th Floor Dubai Media City Dubai United Arab Emirates Dear Mr Richardson, Further to my recommendation for having a Two Innings per side ODI cricket, I am enclosing a blue-print for creating a World Cup Test Championships, for the perusal of ICC. I believe it addresses all the critical challenges....
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Thakela Dhoni: IPL's first victim
Will that rare declining species of honest journalism please surface from their deep slumber , deliberate pretensions of ignorance or paroxysms of amnesia and kindly troop to the most famous Indian face of this year ( sorry Aamir Khan , SRK, Salman Khan, Big B, Sachin Tendulkar, PM Manmohan Singh) so far; Lalit Modi, BCCI Vice-President. He has even overshadowed the silver-haired Prakash Karat of CPM who gets phenomenal media space for pouring the same threats over the last 18 months. Let's ask India's self-labeled creative cricket wunderkid , by....
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When fixing is legitimate
India virtually cat-walked into the final of the Asia Cup on Thursday with apposite casual swagger befitting a fashion-show, thumping a strangely lackluster and unusually phlegmatic Sri Lankan team, that belied the latter's celebrated "tigers" status. In fact, at the end Dilhara Fernando sported such a horizontal smile, it could have accommodated the whole of the Great Wall of China! I have never seen our southern neighbors look so spiritually calm in defeat earlier. In what should ideally have been deep anguish bordering on migraine after failing to defend....
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