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So, our cricket captain has come up with another gem. No I am not talking about the good innings that he played in the last match against Sri Lanka. I am talking about his new excuse on why we are dropping catches. See here. He claims it is because of the crowd’s wardrobe.
Since Sri Lanka [...]

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Here is another stupid media headline. Here is what the headline says.
SACHIN SCORES ON THE FIELD, YUVI OFF IT—WITH DEEPIKA
This is supposed to be the largest mainstream daily for English news in India. I think we really need a new news paper.

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India won, for once we snatched victory from jaws of defeat. I thought bhajji had almost gifted the match to Pakistan. Anyway, all is well that ends well. Congratulations to all India team supporters, to other who don’t like us winning, go to hell.

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I decided to give a miss to the T20 finals. May be I will go an watch the second innings. Just now checked on rediff.com, Yuvaraj has just departed at 14 off 19 balls. I think irrespective of what happens to the match, this is good for the team in long run, otherwise the [...]

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Here is an interesting comment from McGrath about Tendulkar and Lara. Looking at current scenario, it does sound true though.
“I enjoyed bowling to Sachin and getting him out or changing his gameplan or just tying him up. You tend to lift your game a bit when you are bowling to guys like that and I [...]

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After the end of world cup I was trying to watch something useful on TV that is non-cricket, I came across a program on “Headlines Today” channel, where they were showing Kapil Dev and Sir Richard Hadlee playing a game of golf. On the same day Gaurav Ghei had won Bejing open golf tournament and [...]

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मैं वैसे तो नवजोत सिंह सिद्धू का कोई खास फ़ैन नहीं हूं पर आज उनके एक वक्तव्य को सुन कर मजा आ गया।
बी सी सी आई की नौकरी करना और बंदर नचाना एक ही बात है।

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So finally the cricket world cup is over, for Indian atleast it is. I feel so happy that I did not get sucked into joining the bandwagon of people who wanted to fly to Caribbeans or buy a 52″ plasma TV to watch the world cup or get a satellite connection.
Now what I fail the [...]

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You can’t help talking about cricket. So I again went to our trusty stats guru. How bad is really tendulkar. How bad is he compared to himself and how bad is he compared to his peers. The first chart is the life record of all the Indian players and here you can see that there [...]

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