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| We Are A Fan | |
| We are a fan! A wrong sentence certainly, one that my grammar teacher would have a fit over, but precisely the sentiment. We don’t care if you have spent a decade and a half giving to cricket what no one before you have done. We don’t care because we have given you in return even more than that. We gave you sleepless nights watching you play at al...
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| 14:16 | 12/Mar/2006 |
| Chullu bhar paani... | |
| I can't seem to post a comment on your blog Prem. But right, that was some look. Had Kumble been in the dressing he would have enjoyed capturing it with his camera.Once again! Is there a record of some sort for this? The last five wickets managed more than the first five. 153 for 5 and 338 all out.My wife who doesn't really appreciate the nuances o...
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| 09:51 | 12/Mar/2006 |
| The Two P's | |
| VVS and the Two P’s VVS is gone. And as much as we liked him in full flow, as much we knew he was the magician with a bat, we also could sense that his time had come. He was living the past season on borrowed time, he was a shadow of player he had been. There is a little ruthlessness to the words: And as a lover of the cricket team and the sport, I...
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| 09:14 | 12/Mar/2006 |
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| Yesterday I sat enthralled as Kumble bowled ball after ball. I have watched him for a long time, missing out on his exploits before 1999. That’s when Malaysia started broadcasting cricket with regularity. In May 2001 I became his fan for life. Watching him bowl with the broken jaw, we – my friends and I – stood up to salute the soldier. We sang the...
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| 09:27 | 6/Mar/2006 |
| A tame draw? | |
| It was a draw, but it was not a tame draw. Prem has said some fine words in his wrap up report. A fan in him spoke out. I have been unfortunately following the game thru Circinfo’s radio commentary. Have tried the video feed earlier but it is ,more exasperating than not. At least the radio commentary si relayed with the interminal delays of bufferi...
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| 20:27 | 16/Feb/2006 |
| A Loss. A Win. A Win. A Win. | |
| I feel for Zainub. I really do. I was wishing, if not a win for Pakistan but at least a decent fight-back. I know she feels, I have been there myself. But, man, not being there does feel great, better than the supreme dominance over Sri Lanka at home. A funny newsbyte caught my attention, trying to flit from website to website, soak in the afterglo...
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| 14:05 | 15/Feb/2006 |
| Flexibility | |
| The mantra of "Flexibility" seems to be taking hold. Woolmer spoke of flexibility, Vaughan now says so. Well, after a long wait, fate has thrown two brilliant minds together, RD and GC and we at last seem to be taking the leadership position in world cricket.Leadership, after all, begins with ideas. Ideas that catch on and are subscribed to.For lon...
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| 08:18 | 8/Feb/2006 |
| Why Chawla? Why Not? | |
| I received quite a few mails and a couple in comment box about letting Piyush Chawla be.He is too young to be given the mantle of representing India.Sometimes, you get a rare talent, a rare young fella you just feel you need to take a chance with. We did with Sachin and reaped rich rewards and there are many instances when player made their debut w...
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| 08:05 | 7/Feb/2006 |
| The Enigma-Mystery | |
| There is a cliche that holds true for Murali Karthik, he is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. For long his domestic record has been exemplary, he was in the squad and never really trusted by Ganguly. Then came a captain who laid his trust on him. But his performance has been shoddy most of the time, with patches of brilliance now and far between then...
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| 14:19 | 3/Feb/2006 |
| Questions marks galore | |
| Almost 48 hours later.After having said something innocuous and finding my wife pouting I asked: "What did I say?""Its not what you said, it is the way you said it." There can be no pleasing sometimes. And certainly so for a fickle cricket fan. For all said and done, it is not that we lost but the manner in which we did. Manish put is quite succinc...
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| Ehtesham Khan | 01:03 | 12/Aug/2006 |
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| Men are like ....Placemats.They only show up when there"s food on the table. Men are like .....Mascara.They usually run at the first sign of emotion. Men are like .....Bike helmets.Handy in an emergency, but otherwise they just look silly.Men are like .....Government bonds.They take so long to mature. Men are like .....Copiers.You need them for rep...
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
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| Gag, gag, gag! |
| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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| Fasih Baig | 00:09 | 3/Mar/2006 |
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| The enigma of Jaffer's arrival |
| Dileep Premachandran posted a nice article on Cricinfo.com about the return of Wasim Jaffer.....enjoy. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current /story/239329.html
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| Gautham K | 07:55 | 6/Feb/2006 |
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| Dravid warns of Tendulkar's backlash |
| Indian captain Rahul Dravid has backed Sachin Tendulkar to bounce back from his form slump and also expressed confidence in his side to rise to the challenge of facing Pakistan in the One-Day series beginning from Monday.Seeking to put up a bold face, the Indian captain said there was no "extra pressure" on his team to perform well in One-Dayers in...
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| Ruchir Joshi | 19:04 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Daily Roundup (June-07-2007) |
| Vaughan and Flint. That the hot news in English cricket, it seems. Vaughan said that Fredalo wrecked English World Cup plans by his drinking."We arrived at the World Cup in a positive frame of mind," Vaughan told The Guardian. "But unfortunately incidents happened which affected the team. You have to be honest, the 'Fredalo' incident did affect the...
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| | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Transition |
| While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .
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