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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Boyz in Blue
The by-now famous Nawab of Najafgarh showed no commiseration for Pakistani bowlers, who were made to look as innocuous as pink-eyed rabbits frolicking on green grass. Virender Sehwag has an almost kinky penchant for his neighbours from the other side of the fence. Two triple hundreds are a sufficient manifestation of his cocky contempt for Umar Gul & co, besides several brutal assaults. But what made Sehwag's trademark punchy century at Karachi against Pakistan in the Asia Cup truly epic was the fact that he was chasing a known target.....
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