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all good things must pass

November 7, 2008 – 1:43 pm

A blog by Donthaveaclue Border-Gavaskar Series. 3 matches down, 1 to go. India leads 1-0. One test has been dominated by Australia, one by India and the third was an even affair with Australia ahead on points, having stayed in the contest in spite of conceding a huge first innings total. Seems like a finale [...]

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inching towards the lip of a crater …

November 2, 2008 – 8:00 pm

A blog by ©hinaman   with two down and three more to go, Indian cricket, like the rover on Mars, has reached the lip of a crater uncharted … Kumble’s retirement looms large … Times of India | 2 Nov 2008, 2343 hrs IST, Shashank Shekhar, TNN NEW DELHI: The adage that cricket is a [...]

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nothing personal, Mr Kumble. it is just …

October 15, 2008 – 10:37 pm

… business as usual A blog by Â(c)hinaman   Who needs foreign media to criticise our players, when we have our desi (homegrown) pundits. Unfit Kumble letting team down: Vengsarkar Press Trust Of India | Posted on Oct 13, 2008 at 00:56 | New Delhi: Former selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar has lashed out at [...]

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where were you for 16 years, Mr Gavaskar?

October 9, 2008 – 4:42 pm

A blog by Â(c)hinaman   Why speak up now? Ganguly outburst should have come after the series: Gavaskar New Delhi, Oct 9 (Press Trust of India) The legendary Sunil Gavaskar today said Sourav Ganguly’s outburst against the selectors was “understandable” but he should have waited till the end of the series against Australia to maintain [...]

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luck – and the art of captaining India

September 11, 2008 – 11:29 pm

Yesterday MSDhoni was awarded the ICC ODI Player of the Year 2008 Once again I find we are on the wrong side of the general consensus. I present this article by our member – that I fully agreed with just a few days ago. A blog by donthaveaclue Causality. The relating of causes to the [...]

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of clouds and silver linings

August 7, 2008 – 9:50 am

A blog by donthaveaclue Iâ?(tm)m a cricket fan, have been one for a large part of my life. So anytime there was some form of international cricket on, acquaintances would raise their eyebrows in surprise when, let alone the ball-by-ball score, I expressed ingnorance about which team was batting. The reason – All cricket is [...]

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so what’s new? only the margin got bigger

July 26, 2008 – 11:04 pm

A blog by Â(c)hinaman   The margin of defeat then was an innings and 90 runs. Today it is an innings and 239 runs. Am I surprised? Not a bit. I had said the writing had been on the wall for a while, but the self-professed indian pundits on 606 had ridiculed my article. This [...]

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india in srilanka – series preview

July 23, 2008 – 8:39 am

A blog by Incredible Shoaib When these two teams met in the finals of the Asia Cup, that game was billed as a match between Sri Lankaâ?(tm)s experience and Indiaâ?(tm)s youth. The Test series however, is all set to be a battle between Indiaâ?(tm)s experience and Sri Lankaâ?(tm)s youth. Pre-series hype Much of the pre-series [...]

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lesson 1: do not blame your team

June 15, 2008 – 3:04 pm

A blog by Â(c)hinaman: In a tournament considered of little significance an outcome of the final match was too obviously predictable. Or was it? A team, so convincingly beaten less than a week ago, put all their problems, all their criticisms behind them and played the traditional 50 over cricket; to win in style, to [...]

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