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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...
The complete and utter absence of a single bid for any of the 11 Pakistani players, who were available at the IPL auction, was greeted with a stunned silence, in the period immediately following the bidding process. This situation of a muted universe...
A couple of weeks back one visited a campus of a reputed Management school in the country to hire summer recruits. Having gone through a similar process a decade back in its southern brethren, one expected it to be a rather tame affair. A couple of companies...
199 (that's one delivery short of 200 for the mathematically challenged) legitimate balls were all that were needed to wipe out England on the first day of the 4th Ashes Test. And it all boils down to the power hungry IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and...
One has started witnessing the unintended fallouts of the entire BCCI- GOI political gamesmanship. The repurcussions of the ugly spat were felt by Hewitt and company. Promptly they realised that the Australian Davis Cup team was a prime candidate to be...
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/video/video.aspx?id=59318 This was the original Chidambaram interview and the way it got splashed in the media by NDTV and the screaming headlines it generated, will one be wrong in saying that Barkha Dutt can claim...
A self proclaimed high brow news channel's top presenter was interviewing Mr. Dr. Vijay Mallya on his bid for Kevin Pietersen at the 2nd edition of the IPL auction. The first statement which was made was something to the tune of 'Everyone always...
The latest Warne interview reinforces one's view about how people are so secure, tucked in their own cocoons. One has nothing to say about; " I was never scared of Tendulkar:" Maybe he wasn't. Ten years later, coming out of the closet...
Let one start by admitting that this is not going to be the standard match summary/ report that one reads on haloed cricket sites. This is a fan’s account of the celebration, torture, hope, despair and sweat, which was the IPL semi final between the Rajasthan...
This was what James Sutherland had to say about the IPL less than a month back http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/cricket-australia-ceo-questions-ipl-future-sustainability_10041527.html and today one reads a report of how Cricket Australia is...
XYZ Newswire: May XX 20xx Doctor Vijay Mallya hit the nail on its head, pierced the bull’s eye and put his finger on the problem all at once when he commented, “At the end of the day people need to understand that the IPL has a corporate side to it, and...
Well, the inaugural piece of this blog is going to be a very short but not sweet one. One was watching the IPL T20 Match between Chennai Super kings and Jaipur Royals on a lazy sunday evening. Suddenly one is introduced (?) to a new addition to the already...