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The ICC has compromised again on the Zimbabwe question. In terms of the internal voting bloc logic the decision certainly makes sense. From the BCCI's point of view, that is. Here's Kevin Mitchell for the Guardian on the moral argument : While...
Lots of articles on the IPL of course, usually pushing the "IPL = Bollywood + cricket" angle. The BBC News article includes all the little incidents during the tournament , the Hindustan Times pushes "cricketainment." Rahul Bhattacharya...
Scorpicity argues that the IPL is really already over. The Royals won : Seriously they have! Because how meaningless in context are these so-called knockout rounds in the name of Semi-finals and finals are in the IPL! Why? Because a six league team just...
Q writes his 4th quarter report with not much time left for the start of the first semi-final. Shaun Marsh and Sohail Tanvir stand out with the bat and ball respectively, and Q picks out Piyush Chawla's excellent bowling too: One man hasn't made...
What are the consequences of the IPL for selection to the Indian ODI side? Dileep writes about the battle between youth and age in the IPL : It's interesting to note that only Rohit Sharma of the youth brigade has scored more IPL runs [404] than Ganguly...
Sean points out that Chanderpaul's record over the last year puts him in Bradman territory . He was pretty unorthodox too, of course. Vir Sanghvi writes about the European Cup Final, club loyalties, and what's inevitably in store for cricket,...
Amit Varma pursues a favourite theme on the IPL. That big money brings accountability : What the IPL setup guarantees is that it isn't just Vijay Mallya's players who are accountable to him - Mallya himself is accountable to the market. If Mallya...
Allegations of racism in the IPL surface again. This time two black cheerleaders from Britain say that a marketing official tried to prevent them from performing because they're black. Here's rediffs coverage : Newton and Sherinne Anderson, who...
Mohan is a little disenchanted with the IPL , worrying about its length and ability to generate fan following, while Richard wants to rethink the league format of county cricket to make it more competitive. Continuing in the rethinking mode but this time...
Q puts together his Third Quarter report on the IPL : Some people questioned that the length of the tournament, 45 days to be exact, would be taxing on the viewers who would lose interest. Nothing like that has happened and Q3 was witnessed with the same...
Homer reports that England's players are not happy about playing in a winner-takes-all care of Stanford. From the Daily Mail article Homer links to: The players are keen to take part in the annual big-money match at Stanford's private ground in...
Sanath Jayasuriya strikes again . Ottayan reports that Kevin Pietersen will sign up for next year's IPL for as much as 2 million pounds! The article Ottayan linked to suggests: An ECB insider told Sportsmail that the final decision on all centrally...
Will playing the IPL effect how Test match cricket is played. King Cricket writes about McCullum's innings in the first New Zealand/England Test match: He’s a batsman on the up and maybe yesterday’s 97 was a sign that he’s starting to think he can...
Vijay Mallya is still in the news for his sacking of Charu Sharma. Good business or bad cricket. Or both? Ankit highlights one of his reader's comments : Dr VM he is behaving like the typical spoilt middle aged kid. Know him since school “he had to...
Tarun writes about Vijay Mallya's sacking of Charu Sharma from a labour law perspective : But the point is that corporatization is rearing its very ugly head in cricket and an out of form player is now under the same kind of threat as any other employee...
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