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Sachin Tendulkar’s decision to skip the West Indies tour altogether (he had already opted out of the limited overs leg) to spend time with his family is bizarre, and unprecedented.
He has so far skipped 3 test tours completely becaus...(
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28 years ago, I was rudely woken up by relatives screaming "We have won the World Cup". It is quite likely that Saturday’s final between India & Sri Lanka also ended around the same time as that game in 1983. I was well awake this tim...(
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Mahinda Rajapaksa invites Queen Elizabeth II and John Key to chill out at the World Cup semi-finalSri Lanka’s President (& head of government), Mahinda Rajapaksa, has invited New Zealand’s head of state Queen Elizabeth II and th...(
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A month after taking a shot at the semi-final line up for the 2011 World Cup, it is now obvious that that either India or Australia will make it to the semi-final. That quarter-final will be played 1 day after the 8th anniversary of an inco...(
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Indexed February 21, 2011
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Last week, Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Chief Executive, announced that the 2015 World Cup would feature 10 teams. This almost effectively means that Associates and Affiliate members have no chance of competing (or is it participating?) at the to...(
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If the last couple of weeks were primarily around World Cup selections and omissions, the focus this week is on players being ruled out through injury (Mike Hussey, Nathan Hauritz, Eoin Morgan and Praveen Kumar).
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Similar to India’s 1 surprise pick & Sri Lanka’s 2 surprise omissions in their 2011 World Cup squads, most other teams had at least one selection that was odd.
Australia picked Brett Lee and David Hussey, who hadn’t playe...(
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Around 10 days ago, Sri Lanka announced the 15-member squad for the 2011 World Cup and it contained 2 bizarre omissions - Jayasuriya & Vaas. Now, why would you include these two in the preliminary 30-member squad two weeks earlier and leave...(
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While I had fervently hoped last year that the number of games would come down so that the tournament could be finished soon, that was a pipe dream considering there’s so much money riding on TV rights, etc.
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From November, we’ve been witness to enthralling test cricket action, with the Ashes being followed by India’s tour of South Africa.
I feel an enormous amount of schadenfreude for the position Australia, and especially Ricky Po...(
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It’s very tempting to categorize the News of the World "exposé" as a problem endemic to Pakistan cricket. After all, less than 6 months ago, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced what was essentially a purge of players who were ...(
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Predictably enough, Suraj Randiv’s no-ball to Virender Sehwag, preventing Sehwag from reaching his century with a six, is making the news on the extremely vitriolic TV channels. Did he bowl it deliberately, to ensure that Sehwag didn&...(
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The Indian squad selected for the totally meaningless tri-series in Sri Lanka gives us a good idea of what the BCCI’s plan for the 2011 World Cup is.
There does not seem to be any semblance of planning. The only aspect of the selecti...(
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I’m no fan of Formula-1 racing, but what happened at Hockenheim in the German Grand Prix on Sunday was odd. Felipe Massa seemed to be following instructions to slow down, so that his teammate Fernando Alonso could win and give his tea...(
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Yesterday, it was revealed that Cricket Australia had the latest and greatest plan to revive ODI cricket.
It includes "double gaaji" for a select player, bowlers allowed to bowl 2 bouncers per over, flexibility on leg-side wides, limiting ...(
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The new-found professionalism in the BCCI didn’t last too long, did it?
Last month, it withdrew the Indian team from the Asian Games by declaring that it would be impossible to tweak around with schedules drawn up in advance.
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The first ever test match, in 1877 was not recognized as the inaugural test until a few years later.
The first ever one-day international, in 1971 was not recognized as the inaugural ODI until a few months later.
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Yesterday, in the Bangladesh v Pakistan game at the Asia Cup, Pakistan’s Umar Amin was declared run out by the third umpire for no apparent reason.
He had driven the ball to long-on and taken a single. Since the bowler, Mahmudullah, ...(
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Last week, the BCCI declared that India would not be represented at the Guangzhou Asian Games later this year. It cited a series against New Zealand and the domestic cricket schedule as the reasons.
On the face of it, the reasons are fairl...(
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Sharad Pawar’s daughter claimed a couple of months ago that her family did not financially benefit from the IPL. The bit to note there is that she did not claim her family was not connected to the IPL at all. What she said was that th...(
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