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The Match Referee has been the staunchest supporter of Yuvraj Singh over the years. It doesn’t take a genius to deduce that the kid has raw ability that many current international cricketers would kill for, however, like many of our l...(
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Indexed September 29, 2010
So much has happened in cricket over the past months that a passive peruser of cricket media would be forgiven for thinking the sky has fallen in. But, stop and think for a second. What do you know now that you didn’t know 6 months ag...(
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You can’t blame Ricky Ponting for being stuck in the times of Taylor and Waugh. A man is defined by his experiences and upbringing, and Ponting grew up in an era where brotherly Aussie love within it’s cricket team was the be al...(
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Compare the decks prepared for the SSC Test between Sri Lanka and India to those prepared in the ongoing England v Pakistan series and you have before your eyes ample evidence of a sad and irritating attitude of subcontinental indifference ...(
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In the second instalment of our Dear Diary series we afford ourselves an exclusive sneak peak into the life of a player who has seemingly been in the news for reasons more bad than good in recent times. You do the math:May 10Big game tomorr...(
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He is the preordained second-most-powerful-man-in-Australia. At the very least, one could reasonably expect him to be near the forefront of thought leadership of the patch he prowls. At a bare minimum, he should understand the tactics, temp...(
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The old curse has returned (some may argue that it never actually went away, just that it was shoveled under the carpet for long enough to be "out of sight, out mind"). The rib-tickler may once help in forcing India out of another global co...(
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News is coming through in drips, but the early reports say that 27 cricketers and 1 administrator have been caught match fixing by the Government of India’s income tax department investigators. NDTV is reporting that the allegations o...(
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That bombs went off is a deplorable and unpardonable lapse on the part of the security men. That more bombs remained passive can only be attributed to the grace of God. These events are yet another example of how public security and the san...(
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Given India’s obsession with the world of celebrities, particularly celebrity feuds, it comes as no surprise that the country is currently gripped by the public spat between Shashi Tharoor and the ’commissioner’, Lalit Mod...(
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There are two things in cricket that are dead set certainties, Sreesanth will always be Sreesanth and Pakistan cricket and cricketers will always find a way to earn ridicule and disdain. The PCB must’ve felt overshadowed by the negati...(
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In light of Cricinfo’s Page 2 take on the life and times of one Rahul Dravid in the IPL era, here’s a few days in the life of another top bloke:2 April 20102 overs! 2 measly mofo overs! I was easily the best bowler on show and b...(
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A tad harsh maybe, given that they’re both far better cricketers than I ever was, but the fact remains that Andrew McDonald and Callum Ferguson can consider themselves extremely lucky to receive Cricket Australia contracts ahead of th...(
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It warms the heart to hear the lads supporting their own in times of need, for http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifdraconian BCCI edicts usually ensure that we hear precious little more than the inane voices of daftness. So to read of Gauta...(
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Following the Bangladeshi cricket side can be one challenging experience....Being an Australian, I fall into the extreme minority of my fellow people to have a strong interest in the progress of the Bangladesh national cricket team. Ever si...(
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It’s a well known fact that the English believe themselves to be the rightful keepers of all things good and moral on this planet. The colonialists know best because, well, they did rule the world for centuries on end, no? Is it then ...(
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Did anyone else watch the re-enactment of the Wato-Kats run-out fiasco on the second morning of the Boxing Day test? Wat if Kats should have been the one to put bat-under-arm and done the walk of shame back to the pavilion? During Warney&#...(
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I’ve done my best to resist the temptation to write about this, but I can hold out no more. With all the hypocritical, holier-than-thou and utterly irrelevant commentary doing the rounds of Australia’s tabloids and broadsheets o...(
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The IPL Governing Council’s Lalit Modi’s decision to schedule the opening match of IPL3 in Mumbai, a home match for Hyderabad’s Deccan Chargers, was potentially a bullet in foot move. Through the grace of god, or most prob...(
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Indexed February 24, 2010
The Roebuck’s, Bhogle’s, Panicker’s and Premachandran’s will undoubtedly wax lyrical about the strokes, the temperament and every single gene in Sachin Tendulkar’s body. Not being as talented, nor that way incl...(
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