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 12:30 | 9/May/2007 |
| Revisiting: Sachin Tendulkar is V/C? | |
| I had posted this before the announcement of the team to the world cup - Sachin Tendulkar is Vice-Captain?I was questioning the sinister move by Vengsarkar to name Tendulkar as the V/C and I wondered whether it was to place a check on Dravid as the captain. I now feel that it was probably also to assuage the captaincy ambitions of our one-time capt...
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| 10:22 | 7/May/2007 |
| Shastri's comments on expected lines | |
| What else do you think one can expect from the current Indian coach, er.. manager. This is all that he could come up with on the team's prospects in Bangladesh From The Hindu: Shastri, who took charge of the Indian team only for the ensuing series, said the tour would be a challenge. "It will be a challenging tour especially after the World Cup de...
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| 10:00 | 26/Apr/2007 |
| We must thank Bangladesh | |
| And I mean it. The defeat to a lowly ranked team, the minnows, still rankles. And it hurts that India despite all the pre-tournament hype could get nowhere close to the semi-finals or the finals that Dravid and Greg Chappell were alluding to before the team left to the West Indies.However, I feel that the defeat to Bangladesh helped us in two way...
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| 11:05 | 13/Apr/2007 |
| All in the timing says Nirmal Shekar | |
| http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/13/stories/200704130196200 0.htmOf course, a lot of sportsmen will want to go out with the proverbial bang. But, the bang has little to do with what the player does in his/her last appearance. Greg Chappell went out with a commanding 182 against Pakistan in his last Test appearance in 1984. Yet, more people will remember...
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| 11:16 | 12/Apr/2007 |
| Finally - A bad PR from Infosys | |
| As they say, if something goes up, it has to come down finally. And it has happened in the case of Infosys. There was a time when I used to be amazed and sometimes even envied the PR hype that Infosys could generate with nothing much to back the hype about. I remember that once the media made a song and dance about some x% growth that Infy repor...
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| 15:28 | 28/Mar/2007 |
| Chappell, the World Cup and the aftermat... | |
| When we look back to the days when Chappell took over as the coach of the team, one of his very first statements was to say that Tendulkar was past his glory days. The media created a hue and cry over that specific statement and probably there was some internal admonishment too from the BCCI not to touch the legend. Then Chappell turned his eyes ...
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| 11:26 | 27/Mar/2007 |
| A load of gibberish from Waqar | |
| I was watching a CNN-IBN discussion on the faliure of the Indian team in the world cup and Srikkanth and Waqar were the invited guests to this show. The host (forget his name) made a sweeping statement that Indians play poorly abroad and asked Waqar whether his team fancied playing India outside India. And Waqar was gracious enough to admit that ...
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| 15:36 | 23/Mar/2007 |
| Politics, politics | |
| Any organization will involve people playing politics. I am not denying that. Nor am I even remotely suggesting that playing politics is a negative trait. Sometimes it becomes essential to be able to do that for the benefit of the organization. CEOs play politics by pitting a senior pro against a junior person in order to either kick the rear o...
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| 16:14 | 20/Mar/2007 |
| India should lose the game against Sri L... | |
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| The image here (sent by someone by email to me - source unknown) has the conversation in Tamil and it shortly translates to Dravid asking Inzamam (who bids bye to Dravid) to wait for the Indian to team to join them on their trip back home. I believe that this may come true come March 23.I may sound cynical but that is how I feel after having watch...
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| 12:05 | 20/Feb/2007 |
| Australia's woes | |
| Australia has been showing signs of weaknesses for sometime now. However, we need to credit them with being able to hide the blemishes with some clinical performance during the Champion’s Trophy and during the initial phase of the World Series. Also, no team can be immune to set backs due to injury as it happened recently with Symonds, Clarke an...
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| DV Bhartiya | 12:37 | 10/Oct/2007 |
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| PDS Godowns Loot In West Bengal |
| I am watching a news on TV since last two days that in some districts of West Bengal people have started to loot the godowns of PDS grain holders. All these people seems to be the general pubic. I was trying to understand the reasons prompting the people to take such horrible steps despite the presence of police behind them and legal punishment. On...
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| Desh Bandhu | 11:33 | 23/Sep/2007 |
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| Off My Head- Vinashkale Vipreet Budhe |
| There is a small but very significant saying in Sanskrit. Vinashkale Vipreet budhe. Meaning that when one's end is near, his mind or the power of thinking takes a U turn. Ravana was almost invincible , very much like our current rulers, an interseting amalgamation of corrupt Congress men and the lethargic comrades. In spite of his havin...
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| Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Muck raking |
| It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...
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| Sandil Srini... | 11:24 | 30/Apr/2007 |
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| Finito |
| F inally, done, isn't it? Got so much to write about, curses to be flushed, the horrible ICC that's murdered my sweet little game. But then, why bother, when Sambit Bal and Sir Richard Hadlee took the words outa my mouth and pasted them all over the internet?
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| Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Transition |
| While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .
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