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A wedding, a final and a semi final

Mar 08 2010, 10:41 AM |     4 Comments
One was watching the finals of the T10 Gully cricket league played between Ludhiana and Jalandhar on the weekend. It says a lot about one’s love for ANY form of cricket but it says even more about one’s extremely interesting and busy social life. The...

Michael Vaughan releases his new Autobiography

Mar 05 2010, 08:34 AM |     2 Comments
You are extremely right Michael . ummm.. Or is it supposed to be extreme right? For the minority of the readers of this blog, which doesn't understand German, My struggles is translated from the German Mein Kampf.

Bharat Ratna for SRT? Not yet.

Mar 02 2010, 10:33 AM |     15 Comments
After his stupendous double ton against the Saffers many politicians including the CM and the deputy CM of Maharashtra have stated that they will recommend Sachin Tendulkar’s name for the highest Indian civilian award – Bharat Ratna, for the champion...
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IPL bid for Pune franchise by Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan Pataudi annulled

Mar 08 2010, 07:36 PM |     0 Comments
Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan Pataudi were among the bidders for the Pune IPL franchise before IPL annulled all bids and postponed the tender for two new franchises. It was reported in the Indian media that Kareena Kapoor and Saif...

Cricketers and their Ferraris!

Mar 04 2010, 07:35 PM |     0 Comments
Cricketers love their Ferraris....can you blame them? The Ferrari 360 appears to be the most prized wheels among cricketers. Scroll down and you will see who owns the 360. Here are two: 1) Sachin Tendulkar and his Ferrari 360 Modena 2) Aravinda De Silva...

Mrs. Bracken steals the show at Allan Border Medal presentation

Feb 18 2010, 06:05 PM |     1 Comments
Sexy WAG and Mrs Australia contestant Haley Bracken wore an eye-catching gown to the Allan Border Medal presentation on Monday, February 15th. So eye-catching that she was adjudged the best dressed WAG for the evening. She may have received a lot of attention...
Around the Wicket Blog

South Africa leaves a job unfinished

Feb 19 2010, 08:32 AM |     0 Comments
By Sangeetha Subramanian South Africa was supposed to play only 1 test in India. But once India gained the no. 1 spot in the ICC Test rankings, the Indian board wasted no time in securing an additional test between the two countries to ensure that a)...
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Lalitaji...

Feb 16 2010, 11:17 AM |     0 Comments
By Sangeetha Subramanian I was doing an all-nighter and watching the 2 nd Test, between India and South Africa being played at Eden Gardens, on willow.tv that was getting its feed from a TV station in India. Watching the telecast brought back long-forgotten...
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Magic in the air

Feb 08 2010, 07:13 PM |     1 Comments
By Sangeetha Subramanian Day 1: Empty stands Day 2: Empty stands. SA amass a massive 558/6. Declare. Day 3: Empty stands. Gambhir and Sehwag briskly walk in. And before you blink, Gambhir is gone. Followed by M Vijay. Then began the collapse which will...
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USA Cricketer Blog

The Tenth MCC Tour of USA - March of 2010

Mar 07 2010, 10:12 AM |     12 Comments
A brief history of MCC Tours In 1859, a team led by George Parr toured America, playing two matches at Hoboken, two in Philadelphia and one match at Rochester. This was the first overseas tour by any English side. The team, a composite English side that...

DreamCricket's Winter Cricket Tournament a Big Hit

Mar 02 2010, 10:44 AM |     0 Comments
DreamCricket.com, USA's cricket destination, is now on Facebook. Please help us popularize cricket in USA by becoming a fan of our Facebook page . After the 1st weekend of DreamCricket’s inaugural Winter Cricket Tournament 2010, the teams assembled...

Interview: Don Lockerbie sits down to talk about the latest announcements in USA cricket (Part 1)

Mar 01 2010, 12:34 PM |     21 Comments
A few days before the start of the ICC World Cricket League Division Five Tournament in Kathmandu, Nepal, Peter Della Penna of DreamCricket.com had the opportunity to sit down with USA Cricket Association CEO Don Lockerbie to ask him about recent developments...
Think it Over Blog

Think it Over - Double of the Century

Mar 11 2010, 06:31 AM |     
Over #2: Double of the Century Note: Go here for answers to and our " leader board " at the end of Over #1 of "Think it Over" . It has already been written, discussed, gushed profusely and waxed elaborately about in the 2 weeks since...

Think it Over - Grand Achievements

Mar 02 2010, 01:00 AM |     1 Comments
Starting today, we at DreamCricket.com will be bringing to you, our weekly - okay, let's call it a - quiz called "Think it Over". Each of these quizzes shall contain 6 questions related to some recently relevant topic. These would be the 6 "balls" of the "over". There are bound to be bouncers, googlies and banana swingers in each over! You can take a shot at each of these 6 balls in the over by emailing us your answers at: FRONTFOOT@DREAMCRICKET.COM. You will have exactly one week to do so.

The theory of natural selection

Dec 17 2008, 10:46 AM |     
Even as Laxman Sivaramakrishnan kept uttering the name of his own home city, supposedly in his mother tongue nonetheless, that hosted the most recent historic Indian test win as "Chenaaai", the victory itself seemed to have come rather naturally...
Cricket Gear and Technology Blog

Detecting that snick takes a ton of technology!

Feb 15 2010, 04:55 PM |     0 Comments
A snickometer or a snicko is a piece of useful technology that plays the video side-by-side with a graphical representation of sound as the ball passes the batsman. Invented by an Englishman Allan Plaskett in the 1990s, it was later developed for use...

Recent innovations in cricket bats

Feb 03 2010, 12:25 PM |     4 Comments
The concept is simple, and one that is tried and tested in other sports such as tennis and golf. Wood is fragile and there are far smarter materials available - ones that are stiff or absorb shock better. In step with these scientific principles, manufacturers...

Cricket Performance Analysis Technology - The main players

Dec 13 2009, 12:54 PM |     7 Comments
The proposed use of video analysis and video scorecards for the forthcoming USA junior cricket tour of Gujarat got me thinking about the main technology players in cricket analysis. Technology is being used in performance analysis and in analysis of skill...
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